Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Zack Bent | The Charity Stripe

June 5-July 21, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, June 9, 7pm: Opening Reception

Friday, June 23, 7pm: Artist Talk

Saturday, July 8, 2pm: Youth and Family Workshop

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

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.

Jack Straw Spring 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, June 7, 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, June 8, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

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

Presenting Mario

Saturday, June 10, 4pm

Axis Pioneer Square, 308 1st Avenue South, Seattle

Jack Straw resident artist Mario Layne Fabrizio presents his debut art and music exhibition. The exhibition will feature over 50 artworks, including oil, wood, and NFTs. In the evening, attendees will be treated to a concert featuring Mario's new band Star Gondola, accompanied by animations of his art.

4pm: Gallery opens

6pm: Gala (food and wine)

8pm: Star Gondola concert

10pm (till end): Dance party

Indigenous Americana: In Words, Song, and Multimedia

Friday, June 16, 7pm

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Three Indigenous artists in poetry, music, and intermedia share colorful, culturally-rooted stories that illuminate the legacy of Indigenous heritage.

This event includes a premiere of D.A. Navoti's multimedia project O'otham Rhapsode, produced with help from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. The video will be on display at Jack Straw through July 14th.

This one-time event features:

- Poet and writer Iz White (Snoqualmie)

- Multidisciplinary storyteller D.A. Navoti (Hopi, Zuni, Yavapai-Apache, Akimel O'otham)

- Singer, speaker, environmental activist, and artist Chenoa Egawa (Lummi, S'Klallam)

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 Foster High School student Pau, written with help from poet and teaching artist Merna Ann Hecht.

The color green reminds me of the trees of my childhood

I remember all the green grasses and green trees

that surrounded my home in Tedim, Burma

The color of Blue

reminds me of the colorful weather with all indigo in the sky,

I remember the sun rose up warmly

the sun, that gives all things living power . . .

Jack Straw Podcasts

SoundPages, the Jack Straw Writers Program Podcast

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

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 a live recording from Ran Park's performance at our December 2019 artist showcase. A new version of this piece appears on Ran Park's new EP, Primer.

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

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Tiffany Danielle Elliott talks with Jack Straw's producer Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation I promise I won't scream.

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.