Sneak Peek: Jenny Mendez Podcast

Jenny Mendez: I grew up on the west side there in Kansas City and in the 1970s, my mom had signed us up, me and my sisters, for day camp. And we got to go on a bus and go different places and we were able to go up to the Mattie Rhodes Center, and I remember walking into this awesome space as a little girl. I was probably around, I don’t know, seven or eight maybe, and walk up and alley and then you go into this cool garage. It’s an old garage that was turned into an art center, a place where kids could create art, and the memory that I have of it is just walking in and seeing everything that you could possibly think of to make art with, and it just stayed in my mind and that was a really great memory that I have of my childhood and just those experiences that my mom was able to give us and then after that, you know, my heart was pretty much set on, “I’m going to work there one day.”