Jack Straw artist Phoebe Tsang‘s solo violin/voice album Button Music, produced through the Artist Support Program, was recently released by Off Records. Read and hear more at phoebetsang.com.

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Jack Straw artist Kathya Alexander produced the audio version of Angel in the Outhouse, her book of short stories, through the Artist Support Program. The book is available now at audible.com.

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Pianist/composer Lynette Westendorf’s album Surrounded by Green was produced in 1999 through a Jack Straw Artist Support Program Residency, with Jim Knodle (Trumpet), Kenny Mandell (saxes/flute), Hans Teuber (alto sax/piccolo), Elizabeth Falconer (koto), Dennis Staskowski (bass), and Bill Moyer (percussion). Learn more at lwmusic.com

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Jack Straw artists Srivani Jade and Thione Diop performed this piece, from Rajasthan, at the Jack Straw Artist Showcase on January 21, 2018.

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This piece (performed by Jeff Huston, Mike Shannon, David Stanford, Mark Wheeler, Dave Knott, and Sheri Cohen) is part of the installation Piano Drop, commemorating the 1968 dropping of a piano from a helicopter in Duvall, WA. Knott and many other composers will perform their original music for dropped piano at Jack Straw on February 23rd, 2019.

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Alyssa Keene interviews Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Chun Shao about her installation Silicone Love – Her Garden.

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Jack Straw Artist Coley Mixan was one of twelve musicians who created new songs in response to the work of the 2018 Jack Straw Writers, in partnership with the Bushwick Book Club Seattle. This piece was inspired by the writing of poet Corbin Louis.

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The Steve Griggs Ensemble has released Sound in Stone: Poems by James Washington, with vocalist Bernie Jacobs, produced through Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program. Find more information on the group and this project at stevegriggsmusic.com.

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Jack Straw artist FOX HUNT has just released BLUE WAVES, his solo piano album produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, available now at https://foxhunt.bandcamp.com

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The first installment of Dmae Roberts‘s series Legacies: Faith, Hope, and Peace was mixed at Jack Straw through an Artist Support Program residency. The series was distributed in 1998 and broadcast on about 100 public radio stations across the country. The full hourlong episode is available on PRX at http://exchange.prx.org/pieces/3066

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