08/12/2026
A Girl & Zu have turned around and are officially heading Southbound!
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First stop: River Market West at Delaware, where Zu and the pups visited Abuelita’s Kitchen is Home by Vania Soto 🧿Vania Soto🧿 the only hand-painted KC Streetcar 🩷🚊 shelter in the Art in the Loop series.
Vania’s work begins with a deeply personal idea: home isn’t always a place. Sometimes, it’s what we carry with us.
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Vania’s found that even as geography, language, and familiar surroundings changed from country to country, state to state, her grandmother’s kitchen remained a constant through the recipes, traditions, prayers, superstitions, and stories passed down through her family.
Abuelita’s Kitchen is Home transforms those memories into public art, honoring the ways food, storytelling, ritual, and care can keep us connected to the people and places that shaped us even after they’re gone.
And because no tour of the River Market is complete without a little treat, Zu and our tiny tourists wandered down the block afterward for ice cream at Betty Rae's 🍦🐾
Then it was back aboard the KC Streetcar 🩷🚊 for the next stop on their Southbound Art In The Loop adventure.
✨A Girl & creates handmade crocheted creatures and leaves them around the city as FREE ART. Finders are invited to photograph their discovery, take it home and keep it, or pass it along to someone who could use a little joy.✨
Until these two find their permanent homes, Zu
is still generously volunteering as their teenage tour guide.
What food, recipe, or kitchen immediately feels like home to you?
