Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen | now you are there when this happened

October 6-December 8, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, October 6, 7pm: Opening Reception

In person at Jack Straw

Friday, November 3, 7pm: Artist Talk

In person at Jack Straw or streaming via YouTube and Facebook.

Mondays: October 9 and 30, November 20, December 4, 7:30pm: Artist performances

Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen perform live with the installation, in person in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery

December 9, 2pm: Youth and Family Workshop

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

This interactive audio-visual installation deals with the poetics and uncertainty of memory. Sounds, colors—how are they recalled, reactivated, rebuilt, and reallocated? It asks, whose memory is it? Is the past yet to be made?

Jack Straw Atrium Gallery

Cheryll Leo-Gwin | Larger than Life

October 2-December 29, 2023

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

Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Friday, October 27, 7pm: Opening Reception

In person at Jack Straw

Larger than Life presents a series of oversized prints based on oral histories the artist recorded from Chinese women who survived turbulent times in the US and China. Leo-Gwin uses these oral histories as a point of departure for her oversized prints, sculpture, animation, and recordings. Accompanying the exhibition is the release of Buried Alive, a pilot podcast produced by StoryBoards Northwest and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Buried Alive follows the journey of the Misty Poets of China, who at great peril held underground salons for artists and writers during China’s Cultural Revolution.

Jack Straw Writers Program Fall Readings

Thursday, October 12, 6pm

It's about Time Reading Series

Streaming event through SPL - register to join on Zoom

With Hana Choi, Geri Gale, Stephen Reed Griggs, Nancy Mburu and David K. Rea

 Saturday, October 14, 7pm

Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham

With Stephen Reed Griggs, Garfield Hillson, Nancy Mburu, Carla Shafer, Kaitlyn Teer, and Julene Tripp Weaver

 Saturday, November 4, 2pm

Downtown Seattle Public Library, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle

Free - register to join in person

Curator Priscilla Long hosts a group reading of the 2023 Jack Straw Writers.

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 27: Garfield Hillson and Townsend's Solitaire

October 11: Geri Gale and Shelby Natasha

October25: David K. Rea and Kate Olson

November 8: Hana Choi and Intisaar

Jack Straw Fall 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, October 11, 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, October 12, 6:30-9:30pm

Fee: $50 (held on Zoom)

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

Jack Straw Artist Residencies

Apply Now!

The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere.

Program deadlines:

Writers Program (Curator: Nisi Shawl): Wednesday, November 1

Artist Support and New Media Gallery: Monday, November 27

 All residency applications are now online via Submittable! If this format is not accessible to you for any reason, please contact us at [email protected] or (206) 634-0919.

 Questions? Check our FAQs or email us at [email protected].

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is an Artscape piece from 1996 about musician Juan Barco and his work in Jack Straw's Traditional Artist Support Program.

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

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Jonathan Rodriguez of Till the Teeth and Whitney Lynn talk with Jack Straw producer Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Time Kills.

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.