Includes Q&A with Members of the Opaque Collective.
About the Artists:
Janie Stamm (b. 1988) is an artist based in Pacific, MO. Born and raised on the edge of the Everglades in Broward County, Florida, her work focuses on preserving Florida’s environmental and Queer history in the face of climate change through embroidery and assemblage sculpture.
Janie received an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in Saint Louis, where she received the Dubinsky Scholarship for study at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the Frida Kahlo Creative Arts Award. She has received additional awards from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis and Critical Mass. She has been an artist in residence at ACRE, the Cite Internationale des Arts, Aquarium Gallery, SAFTA, and Craft Alliance. Her work has been featured in outlets including Poetry Magazine and CandyFloss. She regularly exhibits her work throughout the United States. Janie’s solo exhibition, Mermaid’s Purse, will be on view at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, for Spring and Summer of 2026.
Website: www.janiestamm.com/
IG: @glitterpuppies
Listen to Janie’s episode on the podcast cool WIP: https://coolwipofficial.com/cool-wip-episode-17-coolin-with-janie-stamm
Brittany Boynton Mosier is an artist and illustrator living in DeSoto, MO and also living and working in St. Louis, MO.
Brittany is an artist and mom to Clark Mosier. She is currently living a double life as a resident of both St. Louis and De Soto, Missouri. She always makes art for reasons unknown. She was formerly known as a member of Butt'nBooty and Grease 3. She works with themes of hope, humor, pop culture, personal memories, family, and partying within a melancholy Missouri existence. She has been regularly exhibiting work and curating projects since she graduated from Webster University in 2012 (Note: it was fun to attend Webster at the time of indie sleaze culture.)
From an interview with cool WIP:
“But what happens when you take serious, timely, and conceptual subject matter then strip it of its pretentiousness and add a wink? Brittany Boynton.
Her body of work is the artistic equivalent of a Carol Burnett ear tug at the end of a sketch or Dolly’s blinding smile on the cover of Playboy. She knows. Culling content from both her personal history and enigmatic pop culture moments, she recreates and formats these vignettes into typically small-scale illustrations and paintings.
By removing iconic, obscure, or jarring images from the media “zeitgeist,” it allows for space. For room to understand the complexities of a single image. The pieces are witty access points for further exploration and catalysts conversation, without a prescriptive narrative. In this way, her work allows for freedom of discussion by minimizing the barrier of access to the subject and implied connotations.”
Website: https://brittanyartprincess.com/
IG: @brittanyartprincess
Listen to Brittany’s episode on the podcast cool WIP: https://coolwipofficial.com/cool-wip-episode-8-coolin-with-brittany-boynton
About Opaque:
Opaque is a collective of artists dedicated to high-quality products, excellent customer service, fair prices, and fair wages. We are focused on providing personal and ethical work to local businesses, artists, and trades. We are employee-owned and union strong.We do not outsource.
Opaque was built by people who dream beyond what our current lives offer us. We mourn the loss and commodification of subcultures and communities that offer alternatives to the status quo, and seek to build something new out of their ashes.
We seek to nurture trust, honesty, and collaboration within our communities and with our clients.