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.

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.

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

In person and streaming live via YouTube and Facebook 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)

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

D.A. Navoti | O'otham Rhapsode

June 16-July 14, 2023
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, whereas 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.

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To celebrate Children's Day (and get excited for summer vacation), we recently posted this audio story by Daniel Bagley Elementary student Brody, called "Tha Disneyland Thingy."

"Hi, my name is Brody and this is about a trip to Disneyland that will last for like one minute! Also, I have a TERRIBLE sense of humor, so if I try to say something that will cause hysterical laughter PLEASE don't laugh. Oh yeah, this will be from my point of view, so you will know when I got jump scared. . . ."

Words over a photo of elementary school students in class: Da Disneyland Thingy by Brody, Jack Straw Youth Education, Daniel Bagley Elementary School

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is an audio excerpt from D.A. Navoti's multimedia work O'otham Rhapsode. Join us at Jack Straw on Friday the 16th for the premiere of the full work.

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

Erin Langner, wearing headphones, reads into a microphone.

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 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.

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