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Intersection - Students and Their Art

This week we're talking with MU student artists. These young people create with paint and fabric and even barbed wire. And for them making art is really serious work and as well as a passion. We learned about our guests through the University's Undergraduate Visual Art and Design Showcase, which took place for the first time on campus in January. To learn more, listen to our entire show, or read and listen to portions of our interviews below. 

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Simon Tatum, an MU student from the Cayman Islands, is inspired by his culture. While researching Cayman history for his work, Tatum says he was surprised to find out what it means to be a modern Caymanian.

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A clip from our interview with Simon Tatum.

MU senior and graphic design major Kara Rinella says her artistic style is drawn from the funny pages she read as a kid.

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A clip of our interview with Kara Rinella.

Maddie Olmsted mixes fibers and sculpture to create her pieces. She says her work started as a self-reflection of her own emotions and life experiences.

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A clip of our interview with Maddie Olmstead.

Art can even come in the form of costumes. Caitlin Allen was given the daunting task of creating Renaissance gowns for MU Theater's production of Romeo and Juliet.

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A clip of our interview with Caitlin Allen.

Brianna Heese says she found a love for ceramics in how  it draws from the past, since the medium has been around for centuries.

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A clip of our interview with Brianna Heese.

Creative teens in Columbia can also find a place to learn and even work as artists through the city's C.A.R.E. program. Jamila Batchelder, the C.A.R.E Gallery coordinator, says she was surprised by the first group of student artists she worked with last summer.

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A clip of our interview with Jamila Batchelder.

Sara Shahriari was the assistant news director at KBIA-FM, and she holds a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Sara hosted and was executive producer of the PRNDI award-winning weekly public affairs talk show Intersection. She also worked with many of KBIA’s talented student reporters and teaches an advanced radio reporting lab. She previously worked as a freelance journalist in Bolivia for six years, where she contributed print, radio and multimedia stories to outlets including Al Jazeera America, Bloomberg News, the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, Deutsche Welle and Indian Country Today. Sara’s work has focused on mental health, civic issues, women’s and children’s rights, policies affecting indigenous peoples and their lands and the environment. While earning her MA at the Missouri School of Journalism, Sara produced the weekly Spanish-language radio show Radio Adelante. Her work with the KBIA team has been recognized with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and PRNDI, among others, and she is a two-time recipient of funding from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.