Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Sasha Petrenko | FOREST TIME WATE

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.

Jack Straw Winter 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, February 22, 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.

Tom Stiles sitting at a studio computer, with monitor and speakers visible.

Intro to Digital Audio Editing: Monday, February 27, 6:30-9:30pm
Fee: $50 (held on Zoom

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

Microphone Workshop: Thursday, March 2, 6-10pm
Fee: $75 (In person class, masks and COVID vaccination required)

A detailed look at microphone types, pickup patterns, placement and use, both for live and studio applications.

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

Athr | DODEEZY TRILOGY

February 25-March 31, 2023
Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit
Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 25, 7pm
FREE! RSVP to attend at partiful.com/e/qejcskvxl1dJaIGeNYIa

DODEEZY TRILOGY (pronounced the odyssey) is an audio-visual extended reality art exhibit created by multimedia artist Athr (pronounced ah-ther), including music produced with support from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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: Nic Masangkay and Ally Ang
October 5: Emily Persha and Katharine Strange
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
January 18: Lucas Van Linden and Vincent Rendoni

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

We recently shared this poem by Roxhill Elementary School student Max, written with help from poet and teaching artist Vicky Edmond

If people were math symbols,
you would be
the multiplication sign
and I would be
the plus sign,
but we could both help solve
the problems of the world

Jack Straw Podcast

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcas

The 2022 Jack Straw Writers SoundPages series opens with a conversation between Ally Ang and 2022 Writers Program Curator Michael Schmeltzer and a recording of Ally's live reading at Jack Straw

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

Jack Straw Artist of the Wee

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 Podcas

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.

Support Jack Straw Cultural Center

Jack Straw Cultural Center relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs. Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us at 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

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