Jack Straw Writers Program

This year's Writers Program Curator, 2009 Jack Straw Writer Priscilla Long, has selected the 2023 Jack Straw Writers! We're thrilled to welcome our new writing fellows: James Cantu, Hana Choi, Brian Dang, Geri Gale, Stephen Griggs, Garfield Hillson, Nancy Mburu, David Rea, Carla Shafer, Sumu Tasib, Kaitlyn Teer, and Julene Tripp Weaver.

Our writing fellows will be hard at work for the next few months writing and training at Jack Straw. Join us on the first three Fridays in May for their public debut as Jack Straw Writers!

Photo of Priscilla Long, smiling, in front of shelves of books.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Ching-In Chen & Cassie Mira | Breathing in a Time of Disaster

Extended! Open through January 13, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Watch/Listen parties at Jack Straw:

January 6 or 13, 3-5pm

FREE! RSVP to attend at https://bit.ly/bitd123

Join artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira to experience the multimedia installation Breathing in a Time of Disaster. We will listen and watch audio, video, and written projections. Selections will be based on the zip codes of those who RSVP and those who arrive.

Ching-In Chen stands in a gallery looking at projections on two perpendicular walls. Text on the left, abstract image on the right.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Sasha Petrenko | FOREST TIME WATER

January 27-March 10, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 7pm

In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center

Artist Talk: Friday, March 3, 7pm

In person and streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live

Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, March 4

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

In this interactive installation, visitors can trigger sound and video to remix the story of an ecofeminist paleodendrologist expelled from her time, using tree rings, vinyl records, and radio to stop the elites from selling the future.

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Thank you for your support!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated in December to help us keep art, culture, and heritage vital through sound in 2023. We could not do this without you.

If you haven't given yet, it's not too late!

Give now to help our programs thrive!

Grid of four images: karinyo, a student in the studio with engineer Daniel Guenther, Reggie Garrett, and Vincent Rendoni.

Jack Straw Writers and Bushwick Book Club Seattle

Jack Straw and the Bushwick Book Club Seattle are once again teaming up to create new music inspired by the work of the Jack Straw Writers!

The Bushwick Book Club and Jack Straw will share a new video every couple weeks featuring a reading and song. Follow along on YouTube or social media!

September 21: Ally Ang and Nic Masangkay

October 5: Katharine Strange and Emily Persha

October19: Bjørn Watkins and Jory Mickelson

November2: Christiana Crabbe and Danielle Hayden

December 7: Kristin Chambers and Helen Anderson

December 14: Aleyanna Grae and Julie Feng

December 21: Kate Olson and Jessica Gigot

January 4: Brittany Danielle and Emily Parzybok

Join us on Social Media!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to get regular doses of writing, art, and music from Jack Straw artists of all ages.

We recently shared this poem by Genesee Hill Elementary School student Indio, written with help from poet and teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

When I'm away from you,
it feels like I'm a toy with no kids,
I feel lonely and dark.
But when I get to be with you,
it feels like I can hug you,
my family . . .

Black text on a white background. Text is an excerpt of a poem from Genesee Hill Elementary School student, Indio. Text is “when I get to be with you, it feels like I can hug you.”

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is a track from arx duo's album Ambient Resonances, available now from Origin Classical.

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

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Chanee Choi talks with Whitney Lynn about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Remembrance: Magma.

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

Opening Doors

Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, from Jack Straw and the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium. Our second season continues to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.

Listen and subscribe at soundcloud.com/OpeningDoorsPod - or wherever you get your podcasts.

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