Bill and Naima Lowe's 97 Days Between is the third and final installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear the whole series and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

October 13, 2021: Bill and Naima Lowe - 97 Days Between

Gradient, by Nat Evans with Will Hayes, guitar, and additional improvisations by the artist, was played using the sonic sculptural systems Andrew Fallat created for his installation Timbre, on view in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through November 5th.

September 29, 2021: Nat Evans - Gradient

Lori Goldston's "Miasms: For three instrumentalists, one audio technician, and piano that’s been dropped (min. 20’) and left to sit (min. 20 years)," performed by Lori Goldston, Alan Jones, Greg Kelley, and Austin Larkin, was created for the 2019 Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Piano Drop, which commemorated the 1968 dropping of a piano from a helicopter in Duvall, WA.

September 15, 2021: Lori Goldston: Miasms

Chenoa Egawa's Enduring Rhythms: Seven Songs from the Skagit Valley is the second installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear the whole series and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.

August 25, 2021: Chenoa Egawa - Enduring Rhythms: Seven Songs from the Skagit Valley

The audiobook of Betsy Hanson's novel Always Gardenia, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, is now available on Audible, Libro.fm, and other platforms. Betsy will present a Zoom workshop on September 16th for writers to help prepare for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Visit bit.ly/3lWMXRA to register.

August 11, 2021: Betsy Hanson - Always Gardenia

"Come on Jane" is the first single from Tekla Waterfield's forthcoming album New Skies, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. For more about Tekla and the album, visit www.teklawaterfield.com.

July 28, 2021: Tekla Waterfield - Come on Jane

Our recent exhibit Submergence: Going Below the Surface with Orca and Salmon, presented with the Endangered Species Coalition, included a soundscape of orca sounds, original poetry, and music. This excerpt features Jack Straw Writers Ching-In Chen and Rena Priest reading their work, and music by Eduardo del Signore, with Hydrophone recordings by Orcasound.

July 14, 2021: Submergence: Poetry and Sound Excerpt

Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Rachel Lodge about her installation Transfigurations: Carbon Flow.

June 30, 2021: Rachel Lodge New Media Gallery interview

Byron Au Yong's Pomelo is the first installment in Sonolocations, our three-part series of commissioned works with The Henry Art Gallery. Hear and learn more at soundcloud.com/sonolocations and henryart.org.

June 23, 2021: Byron Au Yong: Pomelo

As part of her interdisciplinary Skid Road project, Jack Straw Artist Josephine Ensign conducted interviews with people who work and live at the intersection of health and homelessness in King County. This excerpt comes from an interview with Public Health-Seattle and King County nurse Heather Barr. Josephine's book Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City will be published this summer by Johns Hopkins University Press. Learn more about this project at josephineensign.com/skid-road.

May 5, 2021: Josephine Ensign - Skid Road Oral Histories

KO SOLO (aka Kate Olson)'s "Standby Mode" is inspired by the work of 2020 Jack Straw Writer Arianne True, and was careated as part of our recent collaboration with the Bushwick Book Club Seattle. Check out Kate’s Spring into Weirdness livestream Friday 4/2/21 at 7pm on Loudswell.

March 31, 2021: KO SOLO - Standby Mode

This song is from the soundtrack to the film A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff, written and created by Jack straw Artist Alicia Jo Rabins, who completed the soundtrack album through her Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. Find more information on the film at akaddishforberniemadoff.com.

March 17, 2021: Alicia Jo Rabins - My Grandfather Deserted the Czar's Army (Therapist)

Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Cameron Perry Fraser about his installation Large String Array.

March 10, 2021: Cameron Perry Fraser New Media Gallery interview

The Jack Straw Artist of the Week Podcast highlights work created in Jack Straw's Artist Residencies