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 closely with award-winning artists and organizations to elevate the local arts community. She has led the ..read more

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 Visual Culture this past year. Jodi is interested in midwestern americana, soviet aesthetics, an ..read more

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 collaboratHER. She graduated from UMSL in 2018 with a B.A. in Psychology, Workplace Science. As a native to S ..read more

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 challenges and aspirations as an immigrant. With research degrees in History and Field Archae ..read more

Ep. 64- Melon Press 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 Melon Press’ Sophia Malone and Dan Madrigal! MelonPress is a community driven collaborative that gives artists the outreach that only print can achieve. Melon Press turns traditional printmaking on its head and experiments with the printed medium to its fullest capabilities.  Melon Press is a haven of radicalism ..read more

Ep. 61- Tim Portlock 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 Tim Portlock! Tim Portlock’s current work combines special effects software and the visual conventions of 19th-century American painting to creatively simulate contemporary cityscapes. In recent years, his large format print images have depicted imagined landscapes populated with the empty buildings that surround hi ..read more

Ep. 56- Gretchen Wagner Gretchen L. Wagner is a curator, art historian, and writer based in St. Louis. She has completed projects featuring modern and contemporary art at institutions internationally, including the St. Louis Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, International Print Center New York, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and Williams College Museum of Art, among others. Her projects explore diverse themes including, the investigation of global abstraction and conceptu ..read more

Ep 53. Jordan McGirk 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 Jordan McGirk! Jordan McGirk received his BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA is Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. Jordan McGirk’s work explores the anxious embodiment of western hyper-masculinity and represents the fragilit ..read more

Ep. 51- Adrian Aquilino 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 Adrian Aquilino. Adrian Aquilino is an artist exploring the formal and expressive possibilities of paper through paper cutting and collage. Her work features phantasmagorical imagery drawing from her interests in mythology, folklore, and the supernatural. Welcome Why art? Why create?  Where should your work ..read more

Ep. 50- MK Stallings 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 MK Stallings. MK Stallings is a poet, educator, and community arts administrator. In 1999, he began organizing events under the name Urban Artist Alliance, and in 2001, founded Urban Artist Alliance for Child Development (UrbArts), newly Urbstetiks where he serves as president. Like UrbStetiks’ mission, he is dedica ..read more