5 Questions- A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast

Joe Kohlburn, Sarah Hammond, Brett Williams•criticalmassart.org

5 Questions is a short podcast in which we interview creatives with connections to St. Louis. By design, we will be asking a set of unusual questions. These short episodes will be released as we record them. Our intention is to dig a little deeper, to get at the previously undiscovered, the weird, and perhaps the uncanny.

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5 Questions- Miriam Ruiz

Ep. 74- Miriam Ruiz Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Miriam Ruiz. Miriam Ruiz is an art museum educator with eight years of experience in community outreach, in-school, public, and interpretive programming, lately as Education Manager at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Lo...

Jun 02, 2025

5 Questions- Second Synthesis

Ep. 73- Second Synthesis Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld. This episode we’re doing a little something different. Brett, Sarah and I chat about our takeaways and goals for the coming year. Looking specifically at reaching new interviewees for new perspectives and untangling the threads of our region to ...

Apr 04, 2025

5 Questions- Ilene Berman

Ep. 72- Ilene Berman Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld. This episode we’re talking with Ilene Berman . Ilene Berman (she, her) is a sculptor with a studio practice and a socially engaged arts practice that stem from a pair of related questions: does art have the capacity to adequately address the structu...

Jan 29, 2025

5 Questions- Kalaija Mallery

Ep. 71- Kalaija Mallery Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Kalaija Mallery. Kalaija Mallery is the Artistic Director of The Luminary. She is a graduate of Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she completed both her BFA in Photography and MFA with a focus on Critical Stud...

Nov 14, 2024

5 Questions- Kevin Harris

Ep. 70- Kevin Harris Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Kevin Harris. Kevin Harris is an experimental artist with a background in engineering, as a studio musician, and freelance circuit designer. Kevin is currently teaching through his non-profit The Center for Aesthetic R...

Aug 21, 2024

5 Questions- Katherine Poole-Jones

Ep. 69- Katherine Poole-Jones Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Katherine Poole-Jones . Katherine Poole-Jones is Professor of Art History at SIUE, specializing in early modern Italy. She teaches both halves of the introductory survey course in art history, as well as upper...

Jun 28, 2024

5 Questions- Jessica Mannisi

Ep. 68 Jessica Mannisi Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld. This episode we’re talking with Jessica Mannisi. Jessica is a St. Louis-based curator, arts consultant, and art historian with 20 years of experience in the museum and gallery field. She’s devoted to supporting regional arts, and has worked closel...

Feb 23, 2024

5 Questions – Jodi Kolpakov

Ep. 67- Jodi Kolpakov Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Jodi Kolpakov. Jodi is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and foodie based in St. Louis. She graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from Washington University in 2018, and completed her MFA in Illustration and Vis...

Jan 02, 2024

5 Questions – Myrina Otey-Myton

Ep. 66.- Myrina Otey-Myton Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Myrina ‘Renaissance’ Otey-Myton. Myrina is a fashion, portrait and event photographer born and raised in St. Louis, MO. She is a wife, mother of 5 (soon to be 6), daughter, aunt, sister, and community collaboratH...

Nov 11, 2023

5 Questions- Mee Jey

Ep. 65- Mee Jey `Welcome listeners to 5 Questions: A Critical Mass for the Visual Arts Podcast in which we ask 5 questions of our interviewees aimed at positioning and contextualizing their respective bodies of work within the St. Louis artworld.This episode we’re talking with Mee Jey. Mee Jey is a multidisciplinary Indian artist concerned with the lived experience. Through large scale installations, durational live, video or photo performances, illustrations and collage works, she digs into her...

Aug 21, 2023

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