Artist Residencies
Through our Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery Program, and Writers Program, we select over thirty artists/teams annually to create new work in our studios.
Through our Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery Program, and Writers Program, we select over thirty artists/teams annually to create new work in our studios.
Jack Straw has a commitment to art and technology education for all ages. We have implemented a wide range of classroom and in-studio learning programs for children from elementary through high school.
We provide education and training to adults through our professional audio workshops, artist residency programs, and internships.
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!
Tara Tamaribuchi | Groove Bardos
October 24, 2025 – January 9, 2026
Appointments recommended: call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org.
Groove Bardos, an installation memorializing Gen-X rave culture, expresses a self-determined, organic psychology away from self-othering mindsets through the use of groove, a rereading of colonial museum display, and the materiality of the disco ball, along with the artist’s personal camcorder footage from raves in the ’90s.
A song cycle based on the poetry of Harlem Renaissance writer Angelina Weld Grimké
Friday, November 21, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Audio art workshop in conjunction with Groove Bardos
Saturday, November 22, 2:00pm
2-4pm. Free.
Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All
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“The Want of You” is from a new song cycle based on the poetry of…
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Nhatt Nichols’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a non-fiction…
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Jack Straw artists Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos…
Jack Straw has a commitment to art and technology education for all ages.
We implement a wide range of classroom and in-studio learning programs for children from elementary through high school. Check out some of our recent projects featuring youth poetry, song, radio theater and more!
Become a Jack Straw Artist.
The Jack Straw Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery Program, and Writers Program offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs.
Jack Straw offers full service studio and remote recording services.
Jack Straw Cultural Center, located in Seattle’s University District, is the Northwest’s only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center. A community-based resource since 1962, we provide a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for local artists who work creatively with sound. Jack Straw is available to the community as a full service recording studio and audio production facility.
Jack Straw Professional Audio Workshops
Jack Straw Audio Workshops are the perfect opportunity to learn studio and field recording techniques or to get that first hands on introduction to the world of audio recording and editing.
