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Our History and Our Future: a place of creative freedom.

309 N. 6th Avenue became a punkhouse in the late 1990’s. Arguably the oldest continuously inhabited Punk House in the south, 309 and its residents played a role in the American Punk subculture for decades. Over the years, internationally renowned photographers, painters, writers, activists, and musicians have lived in 309. Long-standing local businesses and non-profit organizations rose out of the creative fires of 309.

​In 2016, the non-profit, 309 Punk Museum Project was a collective founded to raise awareness about its history through curatorial practice and programming efforts and to raise funds towards the purchase and renovation of the house. The house was officially procured in 2019 and was to open its doors as a venue, community arts center, a Punk Archive and an Artist in Residence Program in August 2020, yet due to COVID-19 we are postponing that celebration opening until it is safe to do so.

Our Mission: punks dream big.

309 Punk Museum Project is the only artist run nonprofit organization in the South committed solely to archiving the creative efforts of the punk culture of our region. It is our primary goal to serve the local and regional community as archive, residency, and venue for divergent practices in DIY culture and contemporary art that critically examines the sociopolitical cultural moment that is shaping all our lives. 

The 309 Punk Archive preserved to inspire research and creative practice from our collective histories that is currently preserved in the archive. Additionally we use the archive to curate traveling exhibitions to further raise awareness of our creative culture. We work to extend the reach of our audience while diversifying our own voice in the punk community. 

We support and advocate for regional, national and international punk artists whose socially engaged work supports inclusivity, is relevant to the punk community, and whose DIY projects sit outside of commercial priorities. ​​With donations and grant funding, we aim to sustain an Artist in Residency Program that serves ​all​ of our community and gives voice to underrepresented creative populations (LGBTQ+, Female and Female Identifying, all people of color, etc.) We are committed to preserving and defending the First Amendment rights of artists. ​

FROM THE BANDS WE CREATED, THE weeks WE TOURED, THE SPACES WE STARTED, THE SHOWS WE BOOKED, THE ART WE MADE AND  THE ZINES WE WROTE, OUR LOVE FOR THE SCENE IS UNENDING.
​THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THIS. ​

About Us: DIY to the core 

Our founders are a range of punks who work as artists, writers, activists and professors. We operate this collective project ourselves and are fiscally supported by donations from our community and grant funding. ​

C. Scott Satterwhite
​Co-Founder of the 309 Punk Museum Project, Scott Satterwhite is a historian, writer, educator, and 9-year resident of 309. Scott writes for the IN Weekly and edits the zine Mylxine, which he started in 1995. He's contributed to several publications,  including Cometbus, Florida Historical Quarterly, Literature Compass, and Maximum RockandRoll. The co-founder of End of the Line Café and the Open Books Prison Book Project, Scott was also in the band Tender Cobra. He holds a Master’s Degree in American History and English Literature.  His most recent book, A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309, written with Aaron Cometbus, is set to be released in Fall 2021 by University Press of Florida. He currently teaches writing, rhetoric, composition, and literature at the University of West Florida.

Terry Johnson
​Co-Founder of the 309 Punk Museum Project, Terry Johnson is the owner of Sluggo’s Vegetarian Restaurant, formerly located in Pensacola and now exclusively located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Sluggo’s was a mainstay in the Pensacola punk community for decades, much of which time Terry lived in 309 and helped found it as a house for the Pensacola punk community. She was in the seminal punk band “This Bike is a Pipe Bomb,” who released numerous records and toured the world during their active years. ​

Valerie George (she/her) is a visual artist, drummer, DIY recording artist, the Arts Editor for Panhandler Magazine, and Full Professor of Art at the University of West Florida. She is the founder of Nam June Psyche Records, a DIY recording project historically including a traveling recording studio built into the back of her car. She records a range of projects, from folk musicians, experimental sound art, and noise, to seminal punk endeavors such as Rymodee, Mike Watt, ADD/C, Tuneyards, Scum of the Earth, to the final This Bike is a Pipebomb show at Sluggo's South. She has been an active member of the Pensacola punk community since the early 1990's.

Eliza Espy  is a former resident of 309 and has been an active member of the punk scene in Pensacola for many years. They have organized and promoted film festivals, punk shows at the 309 and other houses as well as Sluggo's South, art shows, and have toured with many bands as a roadie, driver, manager, and spiritual warrior. Eliza is a visual artist, longtime vegetarian, and a visible political activist for social change.​



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@4N4RCH1V15T 534N L1N320 is an experimental producer, filmmaker, artist and archivist. His most recent work is an on-going project called AnArchive, a collection of stories and a series of films featuring the Pensacola punk community from the 1980's to today. His work has been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally including New York City, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.

Barrett Williamson is a Pensacola musician and recording artist. He has been in Zerox 82, Apostate, The Hazards, and is currently the guitarist for Rezolve. He is a long-standing resident of 309, living there for the past seven years. Once the museum is up and running, we hope to have Barrett return as the 309 Punk Museum Project official caretaker.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, our records are publicly available.
​If you would like to see them, please contact us to set up an appointment.

309PUNKMUSEUM@GMAIL.COM
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