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
a layered collage, with digital and analog, black and white and color elements

Till the Teeth | we being so
April 18 – June 27, 2025

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

An act of embodiment through sound, space, and presence, this multimedia installation considers how bodies and frequencies shape a room, its narratives, and the rituals it conveys.

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Current Events
New Media Gallery opening reception: we being so

A multimedia installation by Till the Teeth

Friday, April 18, 7:00pm

7pm in person at Jack Straw. Free.

2025 Jack Straw May Reading Series, Night 1

With Bill Hollands, Asha Dore, Jenny Harrington Lill, and Sigrun Susan Lane. Hosted by Kathleen Alcalá.

Friday, May 2, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. $10 suggested donation.

Featured Podcasts

Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All

Anna Homler - Reverie

Anna Homler’s Reverie, created through her 2007 Artist Support Program residency and produced by…

The Godspore King - Gabriel Moseley

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

Romson Regarde Bustillo New Media Gallery Podcast

Jack Straw artist Romson Regarde Bustillo talks with Carlos Nieto about his Jack Straw New…

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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