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. Louis. She is an artist and curator whose work centers around issues of labor and human rights, and is Vice President of Latinx Arts Network. Miriam has an MA in Contemporary Art Theory and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

1. Why art? What are the questions you ask and what drives you to think about art?
2. Talk a little about your work, it’s very integrated into praxis and institutional labor. Can you tell us of its complexity?
3. What do you want for St. Louis and its people?
4. What do you wish someone would ask you about your work, you art, your pedagogy, any of it?
5. What are you building towards?

5 Questions is a program by Critical Mass for the Visual Arts – a nonprofit, self-formed visual arts collaborative dedicated to promoting, enhancing and initiating contemporary visual art in the St. Louis region.

With Miriam Ruiz and Joe Kohlburn

Editor – Sarah Hammond

Producer – Brett Williams