Keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound

Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club Seattle 2026
The words Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club Seattle 2026-2027 in ornamental purple and white text on a blue background with white wavelike lines.

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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Mia Mulvey | I Contain My Outside

September 11 – November 6, 2026

Appointments recommended: call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org.

An exhibition of intimate, interactive sculptures that incorporates nontraditional sound devices, including paper speakers and conductive/resonant sculptural forms, allowing sound to emerge through the material itself.

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Current Events
Ways of Awe Launch Celebration

with Maia Brown and Shelby Handler

Saturday, September 19, 7:00pm

Doors open at 6:30. 7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Jack Straw Writers at Elliott Bay Book Co.

with Kevin Dean, Elissa Favero, Jean Ferruzola, Rasheena Fountain, Maiah A Merino, and Ruth Marie Tomlinson

Friday, September 25, 7:00pm

7pm. Free.

Featured Podcasts

Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All

Unpoetry: Eric Michael Acosta and Till the Teeth

This week we’re sharing an excerpt from Eric Michael Acosta’s performance with Till…

Another Iberian Poet in New York? No! - Alejandro Pérez-Cortés

Alejandro Pérez-Cortés’s project for the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program is…

River Coello New Media Gallery Podcast

Jack Straw artist River Coello talks with Carlos Nieto about their Jack Straw New Media…

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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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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