For thirty-four years, Jack Straw Cultural Center has operated as a rare institutional constant in the Pacific Northwest: a working studio whose Artist Support Program treats sound not as ancillary production labor but as a primary artistic medium. The program is open to artists of all disciplines, provided the proposed project includes sound as a major component. Past and prospective projects span recording a music album, producing radio programs, oral histories, audio literature, sound for gallery installation or public art, film, music and sound design for dance and theater, and digital media work. The through-line is not genre but intent: artists who need the studio as a site of authorship rather than mere post-production. Up to eight artists or teams are awarded 20 hours of free recording and production time with an engineer at Jack Straw Cultural Center. An additional 10–12 artists or teams receive matching awards. There is no application fee. Completed projects are publicly presented at a Jack Straw artist event, which situates the work within an audience and a civic context rather than leaving it at the file-transfer stage. The program's scale is deliberately modest and its selection process correspondingly selective. Twenty hours with an engineer is enough to make a serious document, not enough to waste on indecision. Applicants should read the call as an invitation to articulate, with precision, why sound is structurally necessary to the work — and what, concretely, will exist at the end of the studio time.