Apply now for our 2025 Artist Residencies!
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
Artist Support and New Media Gallery Program deadline: Monday, November 25
All Jack Straw residency applications are online via Submittable. If this format is not accessible to you for any reason, please contact us at arts@jackstraw.org or (206) 634-0919.
The 2025 Writers Program Curator is Kathleen Alcalá. A two-time Jack Straw writing fellow, Kathleen was born in Compton, California to Mexican parents. She is the author of six books that include a collection of stories, three novels, a book of essays, and most recently, The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island, from the University of Washington Press. Forthcoming is Why Stars Burn from Rosarium Press. Her audio work was recently added to the PALABRA collection of the Library of Congress.
Recognitions include the Western States Book Award, the Governor’s Writers Award, two Artist Trust Fellowships and Jack Straw Writers Program fellowships in 2000 and 2012. Kathleen has been a guest professor at Seattle University and the University of New Mexico, as well as a writer in residence at Hugo House in Seattle and a Whitely Scholar in Residence at the Helen Riaboff Whitely Center in Friday Harbor, Washington.
Questions? Check our FAQs or email us at arts@jackstraw.org.
Categories: Artist Support Program, New Media Gallery, Writers Program
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