Jack Straw Foundation

EDUCATION: We served over 400 elementary, middle school, and high school students in creative and curriculum-based projects including creative writing, oral history, radio theater, family celebration stories, music, and audio production. We continued to expand and adapt our programs for online, in-person, and hybrid settings in collaboration with our partners Seattle School District, Kandelia, WA Department of Services for the Blind, Arts & Visually Impaired Audiences, and the WA State School for the Blind. We completed the 28th year of our Blind Youth Audio Program, serving 24 blind and visually impaired high school students from throughout Washington State. We presented five accessible art-making workshops for blind and visually impaired students, families, and sighted friends with our New Media Gallery artists. We continued our ongoing programs such as our guitar lessons with new refugees at the Seattle World School; poetry with elementary students at Genesee Hill Elementary, poetry and song with Concord Lowell, Adams, and McGilvra Elementary Schools; family cultural celebrations with Daniel Bagley Elementary; and Spanish-language poetry with eighth grade dual-language students at Denny International Middle School. We also provided professional training for artists, teachers, and other community members.

STUDIO SERVICES: Our studio services, which we provide for a wide range of individuals and organizations, 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. 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, Imagination Theater, American Radio Theater, Encompass NW, Opal Food & Body Wisdom, University of Washington, MacMillan Publishers, and EK Real Estate Group.