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New Media Gallery
May Maylisa Cat: Karmic II July 30 - September 10, 2021 Visits by appointment only, M-F, 10am-5:30pm Live-streaming events Virtual Opening: Friday, July 30, 7pm Artist Talk: Friday, August 13, 7pm |
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Karmic II examines the symbolism of ghosts in media through sonic elements and performance. Inspired by Southeast Asian horror movies and '90s TV drama of the ghost Phi Krasue, the artist investigates what exactly creates “a monster,” and what psychological and social control they enforce. Karmic II is a continuation of a New Media Fellowship project and an immersive installation, Karmic I, exhibited at Open Signal in 2019 in Portland, OR. This exhibit is supported in part by funds from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Visit our New Media Gallery page for more information.
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Sonolocations: A Sound Works Series
Online now! Sonolocations 2: Chenoa Egawa's Enduring Rhythms: Seven Songs from the Skagit Valley The Henry Art Gallery and Jack Straw Cultural Center have partnered to commission a three-part series of audio artworks, to be released free and online throughout the summer of 2021. The participating artists - Byron Au Yong, Chenoa Egawa, and Bill and Naima Lowe - were invited to consider the theme of place, and its unique resonance throughout the pandemic, to offer directed sonic experiences for listeners wherever they might find themselves. Audio artworks will be available via Soundcloud and on the Jack Straw and Henry web sites. You can also subscribe to Sonolocations as a podcast to receive each piece when it launches. |
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Jack Straw Writers Program
The Jack Straw May Reading Series Three readings featuring the 2021 Jack Straw Writing Fellows, hosted by Curator E. J. Koh Streaming Live via Jack Straw on Facebook Friday, May 7 (archived recording): Abi Pollokoff, C. R. Glasgow, Paulette Perhach, Patrycja Humienik Friday, May 14 (archived recording): Kristie Song, S. Erin Batiste, José Luis Montero, Greg November Friday, May 21, 7pm (archived recording): Tochukwu Okafor, Grace Jahng Lee, Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Michael Overa |
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The Jack Straw Reading Series continues for the 25th year, with a series of live-streamed events featuring new poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from the 2021 Jack Straw Writers. Program curator E. J. Koh hosts three readings with the writers, streamed live via Jack Straw's Facebook page.
These readings are free, but we invite you to purchase a copy of the 2021 Jack Straw Writers Anthology, which is available for purchase online from our friends at Open Books.
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New Podcast from Jack Straw and SCAC
Opening Doors Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, brought to you by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. For our first season, we aim to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with disabilities, and to learn how race and disability impact their access to arts and culture. |
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This season consists of four interviews as follows:
1. Kameko Thomas: The Invisible Disability
2. Troy Coalman: How THEY see US / How WE see ourselves
3. King Khazm: Where Art, Racism & Disability Intersect
4. ChrisTiana Obeysumner: Intersectionality
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Jack Straw Youth and Artists on Social Media
Visit us on Facebook and YouTube to watch archived performances, talks, and readings!
Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and enjoy selections of poetry and more from our Jack Straw Writers and youth poets from our educational programs.
Jack Straw Cultural Center gratefully acknowledges the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Seattle Foundation, ArtsFund, Adobe Foundation, Harvest Foundation, Jubilation Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Robert Chinn Foundation, Lester and Phyllis Epstein Foundation, Tulalip Charitable Fund, Humanities Washington and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020. and individual contributors for their support of our programs. Special thanks to our friends at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, ORA (Owen Richards Architects), and Forma Construction for their support.
Copyright 2020 ~ Jack Straw Cultural Center
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98105
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Happy Birthday ADA! A story and song produced with students in the 2015 Blind Youth Audio Project. ~~~
Blind Youth Audio Project In 2020 our summer program for blind and visually impaired youth took place online. The theme was "Telling Our Stories." ~~~
SoundPages features interviews and readings by Jack Straw Writers such as Daemond Arrindell, Laura Da', EJ Koh, Robert Lashley, Claudia Castro Luna, and Jane Wong. Click here to listen. ~~~
Every two weeks we will make a new audio piece created through our artist residencies available for free download. This week: Tekla Waterfield Subscribe at jackstraw.org/artistoftheweek, via itunes, or listen right here: ~~~
Foster High School Stories of Arrival Stories of Arrival: Youth Voices is a community partnership project between Foster High School, Jack Straw Cultural Center, the Institute for Poetic Medicine in Palo Alto, CA, and KBCS 91.3 FM.
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Immigration Portraits at Seattle World School The Seattle World School is a Seattle public school for newcomers to the United States. Students from three Washington State history classes created Immigration Portraits, a series of audio stories based on interviews the students conducted with each other about leaving their home countries to come to America
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