Artist of the Week
The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created through the Artist Residency Programs at Jack Straw Cultural Center.-
Gabriela Denise Frank - ( yubəč / chinook )
Gabriela Denise Frank‘s “( yubəč / chinook )” are paired concrete poems in the shape of salmon, one heading downstream to the ocean, the other heading upstream to spawn. They were published in the I Sing the Salmon Home anthology (Empty Bowl Press) edited by former Washington state poet laureate Rena Priest. They were written to honor the cultural and biological significance of salmon, a keystone species upon whose wellbeing numerous plant and animal species—including humans!—depend. Yubəč is the Lushootseed word for chinook salmon.
Gabriela produced this recording through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. Applications for 2024’s Artist Support Program and our other artist residencies are open now!
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Medejin - Sea Stacking
“Sea Stacking” is the newest single from Medejin‘s album The Garden, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The Garden will be released October 20th, and is available for pre-order now on Bandcamp: https://medejin-music.bandcamp.com/album/the-garden
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Artscape: Juan Barco
This Artscapes radio piece was produced at Jack Straw in 1996 as part of a series highlighting the work of resident artists in Jack Straw’s Traditional Artist Support Program. Singer and songwriter Juan Barco talks about the stories behind his songs and his deep love for his home state of Texas.
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Peter Colclasure: My Lai II. Hugh Thompson, Jr.
Peter Colclasure‘s My Lai, a new work for piano and string quartet based on the My Lai Massacre, was produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and performed by Peter and Skyros Quartet. “Hugh Thompson, Jr.” is the piece’s second movement. The recording is available for purchase at https://petercolclasure.bandcamp.com/album/my-lai
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Roger Nelson - Vexations
In May of 2010, Jack Straw presented a performance by a rotating cast of 30 pianists, playing through Erik Satie’s infamous “Vexations” theme 840 times, as suggested by the composer’s vexatiously enigmatic note on the original manuscript. The performance started at 4:00pm on Saturday, May 15th, and ended the following day at 11:20am, after the piece had been played exactly 840 times. To our knowledge, this was the first time this had been done in Seattle.
Pianist and composer Roger Nelson performed the eighth hour, from 11pm to midnight.
Read more about this project on our website: https://www.jackstraw.org/program/art-heritage-partnerships/vexations-live-at-jack-straw/
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Whitney Lynn and Till the Teeth New Media Gallery Podcast
Jack Straw artists Whitney Lynn and Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation TIME KILLS.
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Last of the RedHot Mamas - P-Pop Blues
“P-Pop Blues” is the first single from Last of the RedHot Mamas’ forthcoming album Magick Black Woman, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
Last of the RedHot Mamas is a blues band built around the jazz-inspired, country-sauced songs of Amber Flame. Singing about queer Black life, Flame brings raunchy wordplay, constant hustle, and heartbreaking love of the blues to contemporary issues of self-care, racial injustice, apocalypse survival, ethical non-monogamy, and post-church spirituality. Last of the RedHot Mamas features Roma Raye Everly on bass, guitar, ukulele and cabasa, Gabby Rivera on cajón, and Kristen Millares Young on vocals and tambourine. The band will release their first ensemble album, Magick Black Woman, this fall.
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Leanna Keith Live at Jack Straw
Leanna Keith performed this piece at Jack Straw’s 2022 Fall Artist Showcase as part of a freely improvised set featuring the flute family and a looper pedal.
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Sasha Petrenko New Media Gallery Interview
Jack Straw artist Sasha Petrenko talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation FOREST TIME WATER.
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EarthtoneSkytone - Two Sides, One Reflection
“Two Sides, One Reflection” is the first single from EarthtoneSkytone‘s forthcoming album, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, and due to be released in late summer 2023.
