Jack Straw Artist Residency Applications - Deadlines Extended!

Submittable is currently experiencing issues which may prevent you from completing your application today. For this reason, we are extending our deadlines for the Artist Support and New Media Gallery Programs to this Friday, December 2, at 11:59PM PST.

Please call us at 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] if you're unable to complete your application.

The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to only one program per year.

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Celebrating 60 Years of Jack Straw!

Since our founding in 1962 to start and run KRAB-FM community radio, Jack Straw has been dedicated to keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound.

Give now to help our programs thrive!

Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Ching-In Chen & Cassie Mira | Breathing in a Time of Disaster

Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, December 3, 2pm

Email [email protected] for more information or to sign up.

Join us for a hands-on sound art workshop with artists Ching-In Chen and Cassie Mira, in conjunction with Breathing in a Time of Disaster. Participants will explore the concept of breath and participate in an audio story circle. Participants will also work with Jack Straw audio engineers to create an original soundscape.

Exhibit open through December 23, 2022
Call 206-634-0919 or email [email protected] to schedule a visit
Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE

Jack Straw Writers and Bushwick Book Club Seattle

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!

September 21: Ally Ang and Nic Masangkay
October 5: Katharine Strange and Emily Persha
October19: Bjørn Watkins and Jory Mickelson
November2: Christiana Crabbe and Danielle Hayden

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Join us on Social Media!

Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to get regular doses of writing, art, and music from Jack Straw artists of all ages.

We recently shared this poem by Olympic View Elementary School student Sadie, written with help from poet and teaching artist Vicky Edmonds.

Sometimes when I feel disappointed,
I can be like a wind storm
blowing all the people
that try to help me away.

But I can try to be like a sunny day,
shining on people and
making them happy.

Jack Straw Podcasts

Jack Straw Artist of the Week

The current installment of our Artist of the Week podcast is a Jack Straw Artscape from 2005 about Nancy Rawles's Artist Support Program project, producing an audio companion to her book My Jim.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Podcast

Chanee Choi talks with Whitney Lynn about her Jack Straw New Media Gallery installation Remembrance: Magma.

Listen at jackstraw.org, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts.

Opening Doors

Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, from Jack Straw and the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium. Our second season continues to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.

Listen and subscribe at soundcloud.com/OpeningDoorsPod - or wherever you get your podcasts.

Support Jack Straw Cultural Center

Jack Straw Cultural Center relies on the support of individual contributors to make our programs possible. Please help us continue to support the work of artists working with sound and all our art and technology education programs. Donate any amount by clicking the button below, or sending a check directly to us at 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105.

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