Thank you for a wonderful 2025! We send our deepest thanks to the artists, students, teachers, community members, and everyone else who was part of another year of keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound. This year, as always, our youth art and technology programs have helped students from elementary through high school express […]
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program, Youth Education Programs
THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS 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. Artists may apply to only one program per year. Writers Program Deadline: Sunday, November 2 […]
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program
Dear friends of Jack Straw, In these times when our rights, freedoms, livelihoods, and abilities to express ourselves are being made more and more precarious, the Jack Straw board and staff want to state openly that we are an organization and place where everyone is welcome and accepted for who they are. We openly reaffirm […]
Categories: Access Programs, Art and Heritage Partnerships, Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program, Youth Education Programs
This year’s Writers Program Curator, Kathleen Alcalá, has selected the 2025 Jack Straw Writers: Mateo Acuña, Hillary Behrman, Asha Dore, Makayla Danielle Gay, Jenny Harrington, Bill Hollands, Sigrun Susan Lane, Nhatt Nichols, Monique Ouk, Jason Prokowiew, Mia Tong, and Connor Watkins-Xu. Our writing fellows will be hard at work for the next few months writing […]
Categories: Writers Program
THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS 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. Artists may apply to only one program per year. Writers Program Deadline: Thursday, October 31 […]
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program
The Jack Straw Writers Program is still going strong in its 28th year, and we are proud of the work our program alumni continue to produce. The Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series is a chance to catch up with some of our poet alumni and celebrate their recent books. We are amazed – and yet […]
Categories: Writers Program
This year’s Jack Straw Writers Program Curator, Nisi Shawl, has selected the 2024 Jack Straw Writers! We’re thrilled to welcome our new writing fellows: Amontaine Aurore, E.J. Batiste, Catherine DeNardo, Josh Griffin, Becca Rose Hall, Elyse Hauser, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson, Allison Masangkay, Gabriel Moseley, Mary Pan, McKenna Princing, and Jarrett Ziemer. Our writing fellows will […]
Categories: Writers Program
Jack Straw is thrilled to announce Summit Sound, an audio gallery at the new Seattle Convention Center Summit Building on Pine St. Summit Sound was envisioned by the SCC Art Program as “an outdoor space where residents and visitors can immerse themselves in one of our region’s revered creative disciplines–sound.” As the new home to […]
Categories: Art and Heritage Partnerships, Artist Support Program, Writers Program, Youth Education Programs
THE JACK STRAW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAMS 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. Artists may apply to only one program per year. Writers Program Deadline: Wednesday, November 1 […]
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program
The annual AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference is coming to Seattle this week, and you will have many opportunities to see and hear Jack Straw Writers and Artists reading and talking about their work, both at the conference and at countless public offsite events around the city. In addition, Jack Straw will […]
Categories: Writers Program
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Here you’ll find past podcasts from our Soundpages, Artist of the Week and Writers Programs. |
