Abstract Art Series and Butoh Dance By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Maya Dunsky is a multidisciplinary artist, butoh dancer, choreographer, and painter. Born in Israel, she studied there as well as in Japan, and now lives and creates in Zickron Yaakov, Israel. She is professionally trained in classical ballet, butoh dance, and the fine arts. Butoh…
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Art Spotlight: Stacy Slaten
Nesting #4 See Stacy Slaten’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8 graphite on paper 12” x 9” Slaten’s understanding of the human form underlies all her work with an emphasis in figurative studies, although she is now investigating the anatomy of birds. Birds, particularly parrots, express similar human needs of love and belonging. The bonds…
Inside the Studio: Monica Coyne
See Coyne’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8 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. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Metal sculptor Monica Coyne is inspired by the rainforest surrounding her forge shop, a forty-minute…
Inside the Studio: Andrea Rae
See Rae’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8. 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. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer As she enters her home-based studio in West Lafayette, Indiana, fiber artist Andrea Rae is reminded…
Book Review: Inventing the World
On the Craft of Writing, for All Levels By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor INVENTING THE WORLD: THE FICTION WRITER’S GUIDEBOOK TO CRAFT AND PROCESS by Jack Smith (Serving House Books, 2018). 285pp, $15.95. Jack Smith’s essays on “the craft and process” of writing fiction have appeared since 2010 in either The Writer or in…
Literary Spotlight: Bob Meszaros
From WTP Vol. VI #8 Triangulation By Bob Meszaros Here, where the ice withdrew and the rock spine rose then slowly buckled over time, while the seashells rattle and the white surf beats old boulders into silt, gently, with his fingertips, he traces and retraces letters, numbers, and the triangle inscribed on a bronze disk…
WTP 2018 Third Place Literary Winner
Pamela Sumners Pamela Sumners is a constitutional and civil rights attorney, with a special interest in religion cases. A native Alabamian, she has litigated against Roy Moore, Jay Sekulow, Bill Pryor, and a governor who argued that the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to Alabama. She has published her work with about twenty magazines and…
WTP 2018 Third Place Fine Art Winner
Jeremy Ackman I see photography as documenting the life around me. I started photographing my daily commute to work on the subway. From there to documenting my family, as a stay-at-home father I’ve been focusing on my daughter growing up and the world around us. By concentrating on my surrounding environments there is a bigger…
Art Spotlight: Sky Kim
Illusion See Sky Kim’s work in WTP Vol. VI #8 archival pigment print 24” x 17.5” Echoes of Shadow is a series focused on outsiders, those not accepted by others. In this series, Sky Kim seeks to convey the “soundless voice” of the marginalized: “People and places that go unnoticed (because we choose not to pay…
WTP 2018 Second Place Literary Winner
Rachel Michaud Rachel Michaud is a prize-winning poet and essayist. Her essays have been published in The Washington Post and the Hartford Courant, and heard on WAMC-Northeast Public Radio. Recently, her poetry was included in the anthology Birchsong, v. II (Blueline Press, 2018). Rachel made her living as a literacy teacher, and later as a…
WTP Artist: Sandrine Hermand-Grisel
Photography Inspired by Painting Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Photographer Sandrine Hermand-Grisel grew up in Paris and London before relocating to the United States. She studied international law, then in 1997 decided to dedicate herself full-time to photography. Influenced by her late mother’s sculptures and her husband’s paintings and films, she worked on…
WTP 2018 Second Place Fine Art Winner
Laura J. Bennett Umbilicus is a conceptual depiction of my life as both artist and mother. The spherical form is an element I have referenced in my work throughout my career. I sculpt spheres and build ‘sets’ in my studio, sometimes adding collected objects. The canvas backdrops are sourced from scanned antique glass negatives. I…