JACK STRAW FOUNDATION
4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 981056999 www.jackstraw.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Jack Straw Cultural Center exists to foster the creation and communication of arts, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. We keep art, culture, and heritage vital through sound.

Jack Straw Cultural Center impacts the arts and cultural communities of Seattle in diverse and significant ways. In 2020, thousands of people listened to our radio productions and podcasts, visited our New Media Gallery, attended our events, and participated in our programs. Not only did we provide a unique laboratory and venue for artists working creatively with sound, but we also provided important services for numerous arts and heritage organizations in Seattle and Puget Sound. We offered arts and technology programs for elementary, middle, and high school students in schools, in various community locations, and at Jack Straw Cultural Center with a special focus on youth with disabilities and with students with limited English proficiency. We worked with Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences to provide access services for the visually impaired for performing and visual arts events, to provide the 24th year of our programs for blind and visually impaired students, and to provide a ser

Education Programs: We served over 4,000 elementary, middle school, and high school students in creative and curriculum-based projects and performances including creative writing, oral history, radio theater, music recording, and audio production. Over the past year weve continued to expand our education programs with the Seattle World School, Vietnamese Friendship Association, and Concord Denny West Seattle Pathway and Dual Language program and others, and expanded our offerings for blind and visually impaired youth in partnership with the Department of Services for the Blind, Arts & Visually Impaired Audiences, Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, and the WA State School for the Blind. We completed the 24th year of our Blind Youth Audio Program, serving 13 blind and visually impaired high school students virtually from throughout Washington State. We began working with new school partners, including West Seattle Elementary and Genesee Hill Elementary. We continued our ongoing programs such as our poetry writing, performance, and recording with new refugees at the Seattle World School and Foster High School in Tukwila and with eighth grade Spanish immersion students at Denny International Middle School and our poetry and song projects with Concord and Lowell Elementary Schools. We also provided professional training for artists, teachers, and other community members.

Arts Programs: We successfully completed the twenty-seventh year of the Jack Straw Artist Support Program, twenty-fourth year of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and the twenty-first year of the Jack Straw New Media Gallery and Gallery Residency Program. Over one hundred artists created 26 new artworks, participated in 31 events in 12 community locations and online, 6 exhibits, 1 anthology, and 32 radio programs or podcasts reaching over 12,000 audience members. We continued our new series of piano performances featuring pianists from our Artist Support Program along with invited guest performers. We partnered with Trimpin and Path with Art to present Hear & Now, a collaborative, multidisciplinary kinetic sculpture, as well as a live poetry and music event in conjunction with the exhibit.We continue to develop new relationships and maintain longtime partnerships to keep our programming vital. We presented events with Poetry Northwest and the Seattle Turkish Film Festival; produced podcasts with partners such as Seattle Arts and Lectures Northwest Folklife; and we continue to produce environmental radio programs with reporter Martha Baskin. We also provided a variety of arts, heritage, and education organizations with production support.

Studio Services: Our studio services include music and spoken recording and production, remote recording, audition audio and video recording, podcast/radio production, audio book production, media digitization and preservation, audio mastering, sound design for film and performance, interpretive material production, oral history production, student and professional music recitals and performances, and radio theater. We offer these services for a wide range of clients. Music projects ranged from audition recordings for music students and professionals to album recordings for individuals and groups of all genres. We recorded and produced podcasts, radio theater, audio books, and other audio media for a variety of individuals and organizations, such as Entre Rios Books, Jim French Productions, Lens Media Group, EK Real Estate Group, Physio-Control, and Opal Food and Body Wisdom.

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