Janet Yagoda Shagam

Best advice you’ve been given•Work from your heart

Goals/Aspirations•To have other people enjoy my art to the extent that they want to live with it at home – something I consider a great honor.

Favorite artist•Agnes Martin and Dorothy Napangardi, an Australian aboriginal artist. Both use patterned marks – lines or dots – that draw me into a deeply reflective space.

What are you reading•The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

Hope to learn how to •Figure out how to do vitreography - essentially “lithography” using a grained glass surface as the matrix.

You spend a lot of time thinking about•Ways to solve various art and writing challenges, but thoughts about what to make for dinner and picking up the dry cleaning also occupy considerable brain space.

Favorite musical artist•Antoine Dvorak, Béla Bartók, George Walker, and Dame Evelyn Glennie to Sixto Rodriquez, Johnny Cash, and Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers.

What do you do when not creating art •I write, garden, swim, tend to my bee hives, make bread, and enjoy my family and friends.