City Meditation Crew collaborated with Seattle artists to create sound pieces inspired by various water-adjacent locations in Seattle. This Pier 56 soundscape was created with sound artist Susie Kozawa. All of the artists’ pieces will be included in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Meditations on Water, opening April 14th, 2017. Visit listenherenow.org for more information on this project.

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Gordana Crnkovic and David Hahn produced the text and sound piece Zagreb Everywhere through a 2000 Jack Straw Artist Support Program residency. A video version of the entire program is available at https://vimeo.com/45275095

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist E.T. Russian talks with Steve Rowland about the video comic installation CASTING SHADOWS.

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Jack Straw resident artist James DeJoie‘s band The Ocular Proof will celebrate the release of their new album, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, on Friday, January 27th at 7pm at Jack Straw Cultural Center. Visit here for more information on the album and performance.

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Bushwick Book Club Seattle member Goodsteph‘s “Misfits” was written in response to the work of 2016 Jack Straw Writer Shontina Vernon. A collection of music inspired by the work of the 2016 Jack Straw Writers is available for download here.

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Producer Monika Khot – aka Nordra – produced the audio soundscape for Jack Straw resident artist Coleman Pester‘s performance piece “Pylon II”. The audio was mixed and mastered at Jack Straw.

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Jack Straw New Media Gallery resident artist Paul Kikuchi talks with Omar Willey about his sound and video installation AUTONOMIC.

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This story was produced as part of Anna Balint‘s Artist Support Program project, presenting the work of writers from the “Safe Place Writing Circle” at Seattle’s Recovery Cafe. The work of 10 Safe Place writers has been collected in a book and an album called Words from the Cafe, published by Raven Chronicles Press.

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Steve Peters produced “Cancoes Profundas” (Deep Songs), a soundscape composition for field recordings and improvising musicians, through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. This is an excerpt of part 2, “Community.” The full recording is available from Prefecture Records and here.

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Radio producer Phyllis Fletcher created this audio documentary about her father for her 2003 Jack Straw Artist Support Program project.

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