Inside the Studio offers a behind-the scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. Susan Clinard began her sculpture career over twenty years ago. She works in wood, clay, bronze, stone, and mixed media. As the artist-in-residence for the Eli Whitney Museum,…
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Site Review: John Diamond-Nigh
Furniture as Provocative Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor On his website, John Diamond-Nigh describes how he began his artistic career as a wood-turner, carving on a lathe that rotates much like a potter’s wheel. “I had come of age in the art furniture movement here in the states,” he states. “I loved the grass-roots,…
Gallery Profile: T.W. Wood Gallery
Home to the works of T.W. Wood and Vermont’s works from the Federal Art Project, bringing the best of today’s art to central Vermont at 46 Barre Street, Montpelier, VT What do you look for in artists when considering representation? Ginny Callan (Executive Director): The Gallery has a visual arts committee that reviews artists’ work…
Art Spotlight: Margie Criner
Migration See Margie Criner’s work in WTP Vol. VI #3 wood, sand, plastic, acrylic paint, vinyl, metal, glass, paper, LED 10” x 9” x 5” As I move toward completing a work, I often gain a better understanding in regards to some aspect of myself or the world around me. The finished piece becomes my…
Literary Spotlight: JS Khan
From WTP Vol. VI #3 O.G. By JS Khan Olivia Goldblatt sulks, frowning at her reflection in the glass: her ghostly double trapped in the windowpanes conjured by the dawn’s pale glow: how she haunts herself these sleepless mornings. Swiveling in her wheelchair, she scowls at the rec-room of the Orange Grove Retirement Home as…
Site Review: Lisa Sears
Painting over Digital Collages By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lisa Sears is a Midwestern artist interested in historical artwork, architecture, and feminism—all of which find their way into her imagery. Her website focuses on her unique process of carefully planning and designing her images in Photoshop, creating a mechanical grid over the composition, building a canvas…
Gallery Profile: White River Gallery
Visitors at the W. David Powell exhibition at the White River Gallery, located at 35 S. Winsdor Street, South Royalton, VT 05068 What do you look for in artists when considering representation? Dian Parker (Curator): I am looking to represent older, professional artists who have been working their entire life. I meet so many young artists…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
April 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Simple Shape, Complex Painting John Gibson says, “I paint balls because they are the most simple and fundamentally different thing from the flat surface of a painting that…
WTP Artist: Nancy Breakstone
Photographing Impressions in the Sand Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Nancy Breakstone is a Connecticut-based photographer who calls herself a “water-woman.” Oceans inspire her artistically, and water sports contribute to her physical and emotional well-being. She has travelled to beaches around the world, including Playa Negra in Costa Rica where she took photos…
WTP Artist: Susan Clinard
Storytelling with Sculpture Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Susan Clinard is a prolific artist known for work that often expresses human struggles, such as mothers protecting children and the strong helping out the weak. Now living in Connecticut, she began her sculpture career over twenty years ago. She works in wood, clay, bronze,…
Art Spotlight: Darryl Hudak
Blue See Darryl Hudak’s work in WTP Vol. VI #3 pigmented urethane and rice paper on cotton paper stock 50” x 72” In what I call improvisational sketch painting, I put ‘marks’ on canvas or heavy canvas-like paper, using pigment, urethane, oil paint, papers, graphite, and found materials. My work can incorporate inspirational object imagery.…
Literary Spotlight: stephanie roberts
From WTP Vol. VI #3 The Clutch By stephanie roberts Headphoned, he pushed the mower following the game couch pleasure held in abeyance to the knuckle-crack of rain. Duty pitched delight in clover levelled—carpet and diamond centerpiece to her garden’s linden-day fragrance of rose and vine. Today, she eyed him from the deck, but preferred…