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Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and she is the author of Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art (Baker Academic, 2023). She is a Contributing Editor for Current.

REVIEW: Van Gogh Might Break Your Heart Too

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  December 20, 2024

What does it mean to be alive?

Excess Baggage

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  August 2, 2024

Can we still enjoy vacation destinations when we know their fraught histories?

Seeing Mrs. Riddle

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  December 27, 2023

Can looking with love change how we see others . . . and ourselves?

FORUM: What Does Higher Education Need Now? Part Two

Antón Barba-Kay, Andy Draycott, Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt and Nadya Williams   |  September 21, 2023

This is one crisis that must not go to waste

Redemptive Art Meets Redemptive Reading: A Conversation

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt and Jessica Hooten Wilson   |  May 30, 2023

The good, true, and beautiful are here before us—if we have eyes to see

Celebrating the book launch of Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt: Redeeming Vision

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  March 21, 2023

Today is book launch day for Current Contributing Editor, Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt. Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art, is now out from Baker Academic. Below, Dr. Weichbrodt tells us about her aims in writing […]

Moving Images

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  February 15, 2023

What can history teach us about pictures of violated Black bodies? 

Laughter in the Museum

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  October 25, 2022

Giggling at art history should be part of the point

Seeing Bathsheba

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  July 25, 2022

There’s more art history than you realize in your old children’s Bibles

The Massacre of the Innocents

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  June 13, 2022

Can art of the past help us better grieve the present?

Celebrating the Humanity of Edmonia Lewis

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  February 21, 2022

We do this American artist a disservice by failing to acknowledge her contradictions

Angels From Another Angle

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  December 23, 2021

Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Angels Appearing Before Shepherds urges us to see the familiar anew

From Whore to Helpmate

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  August 31, 2021

Katie Luther went from being depicted as a vile prostitute to a happy homemaker. Why does that matter?

Museums Matter

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  June 11, 2021

Art museums are reopening. Here’s why you should visit one.

A Second Glance

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt   |  April 21, 2021

A hidden history lurks in the images featured in PBS’s The Black Church. Why didn’t its creators tell it?