Memory Blocks—Autumn Gathering See Mayme Kratz’s work in WTP Vol. V #7 dried corn, cicada exoskeletons, eucalyptus seed pods 2” x 2” Image courtesy of the artist and Littlejohn Contemporary With great reverence for the natural world, Kratz creates cast-resin pieces of fragile beauty locked in fluid, translucent resin. The artist embeds her found objects,…
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Literary Spotlight: Emily Mohn-Slate
From WTP Vol. V #7 Thunderstart By Emily Mohn-Slate We’re in the sea when the rain comes hard He runs to shore his legs slick and purposeful to build a canopy of umbrellas over our bags on a cracked plastic chair When he’s done he stands and watches to make sure it doesn’t fall…
Interview: Emilia Dubicki
A Path to Abstract Oils Interview by John Skoyles, Contributing Editor Emilia Dubicki is a Connecticut-based artist. Her paintings are primarily abstract, but sometimes representational imagery is integrated into the work. She shows work nationally and internationally and has received residencies from the I-Park Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center; and the Wurlitzer Foundation. In the summer…
Site Review: Button Poetry
Broadcasting Today’s Best and Brightest Poets By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Although I have been writing poetry since I was two years old, I only first discovered “slam poetry” in college, when a classmate began a slam poetry club, team, and reading series, drawing on performers whom he had met at regional and national high…
Art Spotlight: George Fellner
Illuminopolis See George Fellner’s work in WTP Vol. V #1 pigmented ink print 20″ x 14″ The focus of Fellner’s present work, Imaginary Realms, reveals an endless search for the abstractions of reality, involving the macro photography of stones and crystals. Influenced by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century art movements of Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism,…
Literary Spotlight: Kelli Simpson
From WTP Vol. V #2 Choctaw Road By Kelli Simpson I. Yesterday, I drove my daughter out west on Choctaw Road just to show her the country mile I came from. I wanted her to see the sunset that has sustained me – the scissortails on the telephone wires, the ponds her Papa wrestled from…
Site Review: Catherine Spencer
An Interior Life on Canvas By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Catherine Spencer’s website dramatically opens with this big, bold, and emotionally charged image (above). Many abstract painters subscribe to the philosophy of their work transcending the two-dimensional surface, hence allowing for the viewer’s own unique and particularly subjective…
Punctuation & My Pig Tale
Vile New York Times colon usage & looking at the lonely sentence. By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor The New York Times isn’t alone in making me ill over its colon usage. But I adore the Times and read it faithfully, so I’m daily aggrieved. The usage I detest: capitalizing the first letter of the clause…
Art Spotlight: Christopher Owen Nelson
Breathing Room See Christopher Owen Nelson’s work in WTP Vol. V #3 carved and painted cast acrylic 32″ x 48″ Nelson thrives in the vast arid landscape of the American West. As a Colorado native, he studied Fine Arts at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he learned classical methods in drawing and…
Literary Spotlight: Larry D. Thacker
From WTP Vol. V #1 A Lamentation: Honey By Larry D. Thacker Of the things that take me back when I’m sick for home, biscuits never fail me. If they’re a little flaky, and there’s salty butter to be had, I am transported and a happy man, however temporarily. On this trip, I was glad…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
August 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. As August ends and the heat starts to dissipate, it’s time to refocus on goals and projects lost to the summer. Though not quite a summer of…
Site Review: Frances Ferdinands
Robust Exploration and Expression By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Frances Ferdinands’s paintings are known for their richly saturated color, patterned compositions, and exploratory vision. She is inspired by nature, emotions, and events in her daily life mixed with social concerns and a strong sense of cultural identity. As…