Keeping art, culture, and heritage vital through sound

Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club 2023-2024
Text on a varied green background: Jack Straw x Bushwick Book Club Seattle 2023-2024

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!

Watch and listen now!

New Media Gallery
Susie Kozawa holding a small mechanical object in a room with dark wood and stained glass.

Brigid Kelly, Susie Kozawa, and Alex MacInnis | Tokio Florist Project
March 22 – May 17, 2024
Visits by appointment: Call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org to schedule a visit

The Tokio Florist Project is a four-sided immersive video and spatial sound installation, which features artist Susie Kozawa exploring the resonance of her childhood home, the historic monument Tokio Florist, with instruments she makes out of found objects, conjuring the spirit of the space and those who have passed through it.

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Current Events
Santrofi

Live music from Ghana, presented with JHP Cultural and Diversity Legacy

Friday, March 29, 4:00pm

4pm. Free.

Tokio Florist Project: Saturday Open Hours

Saturday, March 30, 10:00am

New Media Gallery Artist Talk: Tokio Florist Project

Friday, April 12, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

Jack Straw Alumni Poetry Series

Jack Straw Writers Program alumni read new poetry. Hosted by Kathleen Flenniken.

Wednesday, April 24, 7:00pm

7pm in person, on Facebook, or YouTube. Free.

2024 May Reading Series: Night 1

with Josh Griffin, Elyse Hauser, Allison Masangkay, and McKenna Princing

Friday, May 3, 7:00pm

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

Featured Podcasts

Selections from our resident artist podcasts. View All

365/24/7 - Julene Tripp Weaver

Julene Tripp Weaver’s project for the 2023 Jack Straw Writers Program is a memoir…

Kaley Lane Eaton - Lookout

Singer-songwriter, composer, and performer Kaley Lane Eaton releases her new album Lookout, produced in…

Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman New Media Gallery Podcast

Jack Straw artists Erin Slomski-Pritz and Jenny Lesser Holman talk with Carlos Nieto about…

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.

Discounts for the visually impaired are offered on selected classes. Co-sponsored by Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Jack Straw Cultural Center.

Sign up today!