Join Wilder with artist Kim Hamburg of @gluepaperscissors_ as we discuss all things collage, technique and what to expect in 2023!

“I never saw myself as an artist. In fact, I remember my father telling me that I would do well to just be a waitress. Although I am a first generation college graduate, I’ve never taken an art class. Most of my materials are found and are always previously owned by someone else.

 In my house, the kitchen and my studio are the same room.  It is a space where I can be a mother and an artist at the same time; a space where who I am becomes what I do, and my experiences and emotions all merge together on the paper. 

 I started making mixed media collage during the COVID lockdown.  There was a lot of anxiety and my family was at home. Collage helped me to make sense of life and to work out the emotions that come with that. Now, I make art everyday. It pours out of me. Nothing stops me from making it, not even a lack of supplies. I will pick up a chopstick or a spatula if I don’t have a brush. I will use wood or cardboard.

 I work intuitively and I make what I know, so you will see most of my art features women in domestic situations or surreal situations that mimic real life. I like to grapple with the real world issues that women face everyday and hope that the viewer is able to figure it out with me.  

 I am gluepaperscissors_ and I am a woman, a mother, a foster mother, wife, teacher, healer, maker, cook, driver, and an artist.”