Have you ever wondered what you’re supposed to be looking at when you look at art? What are you supposed to do when you enter a gallery? Elissa Yukiko Weichbort joins the Artistic Vision Podcast today to help Christians look and think about art.

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt (PhD, Washington University in St. Louis) is associate professor of art and art history at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. As a biracial Japanese-white woman, she has navigated the joys and tensions of a hybrid identity. Weichbrodt has published on topics ranging from contemporary Black photographers to the patronage of Hawaiian landscape paintings to documentary photographs of Japanese Americans during World War II. She also enjoys writing for general audiences on the intersection of art history, politics, and pop culture.

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Today, we have our friend Taylor Worley on the show to talk about weird contemporary art and how Christians can approach it.

Taylor Worley is the Visiting Associate Professor of Art History at Wheaton College in Illinois. In 2021, he was awarded a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust for a project titled “Thinking About Thinking: Conceptual Art in the Contemplative Tradition.” Dr. Worley served as the Visiting Associate Professor of Faith and Culture and the Managing Director of Trinity International University’s Center for Transformational Churches. In 2010, Worley was awarded his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He received an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2004 and a B.A. in Christian Studies from Union University in 2001.

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Today’s episode of The Artistic Vision features Erin Shaw who shares her artistic vision and the role of symbolism in her art. Erin Shaw is a painter of borderlands, the spaces between worlds. As a visual storyteller, the child of an Oklahoma farm, Shaw tills the rich soil of dichotomy through her masterful uses of color, iconography, and story. As a Chickasaw-Choctaw artist, she creates in a state of tension, suspended between two worlds where both solemnity and humor pervade her art.

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