Keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound

Bushwick Book Club Seattle x Jack Straw
Colorful text on a pink background: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents Bushwick Book Club Seattle x Jack Straw.

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!

New Media Gallery
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Athr | D BUTTERFLY EFEKT
November 1 – December 20, 2024

Visits by appointment, M-F, 10am-5:30pm
Call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org to schedule a visit

D BUTTERFLY EFEKT is an extended reality music album that allows people to experience the music via a series of futuristic AR filters and an immersive virtual reality art installation.

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Current Events
Intro to Pro Tools, Fall 2024

Hands-on instruction in the industry’s most popular digital audio production system.

Tuesday, December 10, 6:00pm

6-9pm, Tue-Thu. $150.

Intro to Pro Tools, Fall 2024

Hands-on instruction in the industry’s most popular digital audio production system.

Wednesday, December 11, 6:00pm

6-9pm, Tue-Thu. $150.

New Media Gallery Artist Talk: D BUTTERFLY EFEKT

with Jack Straw New Media Gallery artist Athr

Friday, December 13, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Shin Yu Pai: Ten Thousand Things: Artifacts of Asian American Life

In this talk enriched by audio clips, Pai shares intimate stories from Asian American communities drawn from two seasons of her chart-topping podcast.

Tuesday, December 17, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Featured Podcasts

Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All

The Metagnosis Vignettes - Mary Pan

Mary Pan’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of…

Rasheena Fountain - The Blues Woman Touches Down in the Pacific Northwest

Rasheena Fountain’s Jack Straw Artist Support Program project Dropped Down Blues is on view…

Moonyeka and House of Kilig New Media Gallery Podcast

Jack Straw artists Moonyeka and Heidi Grace Acuña of House of Kilig talk with…

Jack Straw teaching artist in the studio with Lowell ELementary 2nd graders

Jack Straw Youth Education

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!

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Jack Straw Artist Residencies

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.

Applications for our 2025 Programs are open now.

Apply now!

Create at Jack Straw

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.

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Learn at Jack Straw

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.

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