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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Maya Nguyen | huh ugh uh hm mhm
July 11 – September 12, 2025

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

In a conversation between four speakers, various fragments of linguistic detritus form a love language for when you have nothing left to say because you understand one other so well that you complete each other’s sentences before you even begin to speak.

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Current Events
New Media Gallery Opening Reception: huh ugh uh hm mhm

A multi-channel sound installation by Maya Nguyen

Friday, July 11, 7:00pm

7pm in person at Jack Straw. Free.

Jack Straw Writers at Elliott Bay Book Co.

with Hillary Behrman, Mateo Bracken, Makayla Danielle Gay, Bill Hollands, and Nhatt Nichols

Tuesday, August 19, 7:00pm

7pm. Free.

Featured Podcasts

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Greg Kramer - Heat Check

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Athr New Media Gallery Podcast

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The Godspore King - Gabriel Moseley

Gabriel Moseley’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a speculative fiction…

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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