Jack Straw Productions in Seattle, WA, the only nonprofit multidisciplinary audio arts center in the Pacific Northwest, is now accepting applications from artists and artist teams for its residency programs. Emerging and established artists in all disciplines who use sound in their work, or would like to do so, are encouraged to apply, regardless of their proficiency with audio.

The organization offers three residency programs, to which artists and teams may apply for only one per year (click on each program for its full application guidelines): The Writers Program, through which participants gain professional training in voice and microphone technique, performance and delivery, and studio interviewing, and create new work to be presented through live readings, recorded interviews, a published anthology, and as podcasts on Jack Straw’s website; The Artist Support Program, which provides free or low-cost recording and production time with an engineer at Jack Straw Productions to complete projects (such as music CDs, radio programs, oral histories, audio literature, sound for a gallery installation or public art project, etc.) to be presented at a public event at Jack Straw; and The New Media Gallery Program, which enables artists to experiment with audio and develop new skills and ideas as they create a sound component for an installation at Jack Straw’s New Media Gallery for the following year.