Rasheena Fountain – The Blues Woman Touches Down in the Pacific Northwest
Rasheena Fountain’s Jack Straw Artist Support Program project Dropped Down Blues is on view in the “How to Carry Water” exhibit at The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Dropped Down Blues is a speculative blues fiction and poetry audio-visual project set in Pipers Creek, a 1.4-mile stream located in Carkeek Park in Seattle. The project includes nature field recordings, speculative fiction, poetry, and guitar riffs based on fieldnotes, observations, research, and guitar performances during the November 2022 visits to the creek during salmon run.
In the summer, Fountain spent time in the studio with a Jack Straw engineer to hone the audio (poetry, speculative fiction, field recordings, and guitar performance) for the project as part of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. If you are in Corvallis, Oregon or nearby, check it out, along with the other artists who are in the exhibit. The “How to Carry Water” exhibit is the vision of curators Ashley Stull Meyers and Kelly Bosworth and will be on display at PRAx until December 21.
