Listen to  "Tales from the Mission" 
These oral history recordings are currently paired within the exhibition, "Everybody Eats When They Come to My House." 

Everybody Eats When They Come to My House is a curatorial exploration of the Charlotte Street Mission and the creative community in which it served. The Mission, as it was fondly called by Kansas City’s thriving artists, musicians, writers, chefs, craftsmen and new collectors, was a modest rental home owned by the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Artist John Puscheck played host of the Mission for nearly two decades in the 1980s-2000s. Affectionately remembered for its backyard cookouts, art shows, live music, dancing, dominoes, and art making, Everybody Eats When They Come to My House is a dive into the early community of artists that preluded Charlotte Street’s founding and Kansas City’s creative ecosystem today.

Throughout the month-long exhibition, Charlotte Street Gallery will be transformed into a backyard setting that will proudly display loaned artworks in an immersive installation. Additionally, Charlotte Street will be producing an oral history project to gather, share, and preserve stories from the Charlotte Street Mission’s artist community. These interviews and recordings will be edited and added to the media gallery listening station within the exhibition, and later archived in Charlotte Street Kemper Library. Friends and guests are welcome to complete and share their version of the show postcard and any ephemeral offerings that emulate the spirit and generosity of the Mission on the “Puscheck Potluck Table.” These items will remain on display through the duration of the exhibition.
Each track is a shared story or reflection about Kansas City artist, John Puscheck, the Charlotte Street Mission circa 80s-00s, Evil Monkeys, BBQ, KC music scene....

Audio Archive / Here We Are. We Are Here. 
is an Audio Archive designed by Strange Fruit Femmes for friends, sisters, and comrades. 
Strange Fruit Femmes is a collective that centers the works of Black femmes living and thriving in the Midwest --
in an interest to build and cultivate a community of care and support for BIPOC Femmes through transformative ARTs.  

Here We Are. We Are Here is coming together… An honoring of the words,sounds, and spaces that hold us. Using the legacy of Black, Brown, and Indigenous, music and literature, we will celebrate and be in conversation with one another about the many influences of our peers and ancestors' work on the spectrum of contemporary Black Artistic life and spirit and its place in our society. 

While carrying the gift of storytelling and cultural preservation each recording will be archived as an oral herstory,using Audio Collage Assemblage to communicate memories, illuminate paths forward, and hold care for and support the presence of Black and Indigenous artistic spirituality.

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