BLUEs.Weave in the Artist Studio
Date & Time
Thursday, February 5, 2026
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
This event is in the past.
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Jai will be hosting a listening-and-performance-based activation of the Black musical archive; by non-linearly exploring the branches of the tree of Black music (blues, jazz, hip hop, and more), they hope to reveal through-line interests, goals, and modes of expression across time and across these traditions.
Jai will begin the session with a mix of spinning recently recorded work and performing original pieces, providing the historical context behind the musical techniques, samples, and sounds chosen for each track. The session will end with live composition and recording in the Artist Studio space, branching off of approaches found throughout the history of Black diasporic sound-making.
About the Artist
Jai Kobi Kaleo'okalani is a Seattle-based guitarist, composer, producer, and poet. Graduating in 2025 with a Bachelor is Music in Jazz and Improvised Music from the University of Washington, they studied with Steve Rodby, Cuong Vu, Ted Poor, and Kassa Overall. Often performing under the moniker BLUEs.Weave, her genre-defying work seamlessly blends the sonic worlds and approaches of improvised Black American music traditions and experimental sound design, delivering innovative, immersive sets featuring resonator and electric guitars, drum machines, samplers, and electronics. Her work as a soloist began with a DXARTS commission to compose and perform the beat-suite “Let Loose Thy Soul: Black Alchemy and the Upper Arcana” for the 2024 SPAM New Media Festival at the Georgetown Steam Plant; since then, Jai has presented original music and multimedia performances at the Frye Art Museum, the Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery, and ARTS at King Street Station Gallery.
As an accompanying voice, she has had the privilege to perform with internationally renowned and incredible local artists alike, including Bill Frisell, Steph Richards, Ted Poor, Luke Bergman, Jahnvi Madan, and Kyra “Wolf” Wolfenbarger. Jai’s debut release The Blues is Best Sung at Sunrise hit Bandcamp in February 2025, under BLUEs.Weave; the Jacob Lawrence Gallery displayed the project and its accompanying cover art for two months during the Artists and Poets exhibition.
Learn more on Instagram @Blues.weave and on Bandcamp.
