Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Zack Bent | The Charity Stripe

Closing tomorrow!

Open hours with the artist Saturday, July 22nd, 10am-12p

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

In The Charity Stripe, the audience is invited to honor 3 hapless mascots (brothers) performing rituals of celebration and camaraderie on the basketball court. Dance routines and confetti pours collide with crowd cheers and court sounds in an homage to the spectacle of the sport.

A person in a dog head mask stands ona ladder dumping confetti on a person in a tiget  mask, both wearing basketball shorts and jerseys.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman | Dream Motif

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.

Portraits of Hana Choi, Geri Gale, Garfield Hillson, Sumu Tasib, Kaitlyn Teer, and Priscilla Long.

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.

The words O'otham Rhapsode in purple with lightning streaks on a black background.

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In celebration of Ice Cream Day we recently posted this poem by Concord Elementary student Methodist, written with help from teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

If people were ice cream, You would be sprinkle, And I would be blueberry.

But we could both be sweet in our own way!

Black text on a light background, a poem by Concord Elementary student Methodist: 'If people were ice cream, You would be sprinkle, would And I would be blueberry. But we could both be sweet in our own way!"

Jack Straw 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.

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is the first single from EarthtoneSkytone's forthcoming album, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.

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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