Keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound

Bushwick Book Club Seattle x Jack Straw
Red, bubbly text on a mottled green and orange background: Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Cub Seattle

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
A human shape made of mirrors, emitting light, lies on a clear platform in a darkened room. Images and shapes are projected on the wall.

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.

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Current Events
Ask a Jack Straw Artist! with Kodō Araki VI

Live Q&A about applying for the Jack Straw Artist Support Program

Wednesday, October 22, 11:00am

11am on Instagram Live @jackstrawculturalcenter

New Media Gallery Opening Reception: Groove Bardos

An installation by Tara Tamaribuchi

Friday, October 24, 7:00pm

7pm in person at Jack Straw. Free.

Featured Podcasts

Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All

Bun-Ching Lam - Another Spring

Bun-Ching Lam produced the album Mountain Clear Water Remote through her 1995 Jack Straw…

Jenny Harrington Lill - How to Write a Eulogy for a 10-Year-Old

Jenny Harrington Lill’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a memoir…

Till the Teeth New Media Gallery Podcast

Jack Straw artists Jonathan Rodriguez and Sandesh Nagaraj of Till the Teeth talk with Carlos…

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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Left: Profile image of Beth Fleenor plays clarinet into a microphone; Right: Jalayna Carter smiles with a microphone in front of her

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.

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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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