Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman | Dream Mot

August 4-September 29, 2023

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, August 4, 7pm: Opening Reception

Friday, August 18, 7pm: Artist Talk

September 23, 2pm: Youth and Family Workshop

E-mail [email protected] for information or to sign up.

Dream Motif is a series of dream synchronicities. Each dream has a logic and theme that corresponds to leitmotifs created by local musicians, visuals of the collective unconscious, and soundscapes that make vivid the fragile distinction between waking and dream life.

Jack Straw Writers Program

Jack Straw Writers at Elliott Bay Books

Wednesday, August 9, 7pm

Elliott Bay Book Co., 1521 10th Ave, Seattle

Curator Priscilla Long hosts a reading featuring 2023 Jack Straw Writing Fellows Hana Choi, Geri Gale, Garfield Hillson, Sumu Tasib, and Kaitlyn Teer. The 2023 Jack Straw Writers Anthology will be available for sale.

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

D.A. Navoti | O'otham Rhapsode

Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

O'otham Rhapsode is a multimedia work by Jack Straw resident artist D.A. Navoti that depicts the lives and homelands of the Akimel O'otham, whose ancestral lands—named the Gila River Indian Community—are located south of Phoenix, Arizona. The word "O'otham" translates to people; the term "rhapsode" comes from Ancient Greece to describe an orator of epic poems. What orates these visual "poems"—a collection of three short videos—is atmospheric and symphonic music composed between 2022-2023.

Jack Straw Fall Audio Workshops

Jack Straw's audio workshops with engineer Tom Stiles are the perfect opportunity to improve your studio skills or get that first introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.

To sign up or for more information, email [email protected].

Intro to Podcasting: Wednesday, October 11, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basics of creating and maintaining a podcast, from concept to planning, production, and distribution.

Intro to Digital Audio Editing: Thursday, October 12, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

Learn the basic skills of recording and editing sound with audio editing software.

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We recently posted this poem by Concord Elementary student Nasreen, written with help from teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

My hope is like joy and water

mixing together to make a rainbow,

and then my joy goes up

and makes my love

spread through the world!

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week
The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is an excerpt from Leanna Keith's improvised performance at our fall 2022 Jack Straw Artist showcase.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts. 

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast
Sasha Petrenko talks with Jack Straw's producer Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation FOREST TIME WATER.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series concludes with a conversation between Ruth Schemmel and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer, and a recording of Ruth's live reading at Jack Straw.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Gratitude to the First People of Seattle

The staff, board, and artists of Jack Straw Cultural Center acknowledge that we are living, creating, working, and playing on the traditional land of the first people of Seattle and the Salish Sea - the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Muckleshoot nations and other Coast Salish peoples, past and present. We honor them and the land itself with deep gratitude.

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