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Critical Mass for the VisualArts Critical Mass for the Visual Arts is a nonprofit selfformed visual arts collaborative dedicated to promoting enhancing and initiating contemporary visual art in the St. Louis region. Latest 5 Questions Ilene Berman Ilene Berman she her is a sculptorwitha studio practice and a socially engaged artspracticethatstemfrom a pair ofrelatedquestionsdoes art have the capacity to adequately address the structural concerns of our day and is it possible for an artist to engage the viewer in these concerns by creating spaces for them to think and feel. Although there are moments in which large scale revolutionary action leads to social change Ilene believes that most change happens in small sustainable shifts often sparked by artful gestures.