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“Look Again” – An Interview with Amber Hertzog Weiss

In this interview, Sandra Clark Jergensen talks to Amber Hertzog Weiss about how her collage art explores faith and being through juxtaposing images of Jesus Christ, ancestors, temples, scriptures, and more. Your work is so vivid, surprising, delightful, and engaging. It uses Latter-day iconography to examine familiar scenes and asks viewers to look again with new eyes. Can you tell us more about your art and how you came to it? That phrase, “Look again with new eyes,” really captures my growth not only as an artist but as a daughter in my family and as a disciple of Jesus Christ. I didn’t […]

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“Family History in Art”

How did you decide to become an artist? My parents were very good at keeping art supplies on hand. To their dismay, I did not limit myself to crayons and paper; I remember making potions out of flowers, glue, shampoo, and anything that would mix well into my concoctions. Apparently, these supplies weren’t as cheap and expendable as paper, but the tactile properties of them always captured my attention. It has always been easy for me to get lost in thought. My imagination ruled. This limited my relationship with education, but if it was a hands-on experience or a challenge, my competitive […]

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“Art as Autobiography” – an Interview with Rachel Stallings Thomander

Why or how did you decide to become an artist?From a young age, I was interested in making things with my hands and was always obsessed with color, especially the colors that I wore. I had the privilege of being born into a family that valued writers, musicians, and artists, and was always exposed to this world. My mother studied art at UC Irvine, and I attended classes with her as a child. I fell in love with using clay and oil paint at age seven. I always knew I loved art, but artists seemed like magicians to me, endowed […]

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