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 Youngborg | not a town but a landing page
January 23 – March 20, 2026
Appointments recommended: call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org.
An immersive sound and video installation exploring one of the first railroads in the United States. Through techniques of glitch, loss, and layering, Youngborg tries to recreate a ghost without its community, ultimately questioning the role of data, archives, and reproduction in understanding place, loss and memory.
An installation by Tara Youngborg
Friday, January 23, 7:00pm
7pm in person at Jack Straw. Free.
Shankar Narayan explores how AI and Big Tech are reshaping our rights today.
Thursday, February 12, 7:00pm
7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.
Learn techniques for high quality field recording of music, ambience, sound effects, and voice with portable equipment.
Saturday, February 21, 9:00am
Meet at Jack Straw at 9am. $125.
Learn the basic skills of recording and editing sound with Audacity and GarageBand.
Thursday, February 26, 6:00pm
Join on Zoom at 6pm. $50.
Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All
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Performer Christian Swenson produced Off-Road Vocals, an album of vocal improvisations, as part of…
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Mateo Bracken’s project for the 2025 Jack Straw Writers Program is a manuscript of…
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Jack Straw artist Maya Nguyen talks with Carlos Nieto about her Jack Straw New Media…
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.
