Education for All #5 See Guilherme Bergamini’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 mineral pigment on cotton paper 28″ x 41″ Democratic societies presume educated citizens, that is to say, it presumes well-informed and critical people, both because it requires them to be able to determine their preferences and choose among different alternatives, and also…
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Literary Spotlight: Alexander McCoy
From WTP Vol. V #6 Archipelagos (Made of Collapsing) By Alexander McCoy I. In the hollows, between the trees, where the woods come into sharp relief, like ribs, like bone-shards stretched with breath, Five o’clock, and already the windows are starting to bleed. How fragile it looks chambering in the light, this little world of…
WTP Artist: Agnieszka Gzyl
“Art is a basic component of human nature” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Agnieszka Gzyl is a Polish artist whose original technique, applying silicone to canvas, speaks to the observer’s senses of sight and touch. With a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, she completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
July 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief While we frequently feature interviews with our contributors, it is rare that we are privileged to interview them in person. Last month, WTP Arts Editor Richard Malinsky was able to actually meet with Tim Prentice, kinetic sculptor on par with Calder and George Rickey. Prentice’s work is featured in…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
July 2017 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Kurt Baumeister This lively site presents a writer to follow, think with, and respond to. Though Baumeister, a web columnist for The Weeklings, reviewer for…
Site Review: Joy Munt
Nature, Industry, and Diptychs By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Joy Munt’s website details her work in the film and video industry and then her transition into painting to follow her love of landscape. Inspired by living in four different cities in three provinces, Joy’s painting is an expressive,…
Video: Ode to Spring
“Hooray for Blooming Spring”: An Illustrated Poem By Anastasya Shepherd Anastasya Shepherd worked as a neuropsychologist for ten years in diagnostic testing, consulting, therapy, rehabilitation planning and teaching. After marrying and having children, she turned her focus to illustration: “I had been drawing and dabbling in photography throughout the years, but at that point I…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 2
Gesture, Craft, and Capitalism by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor I couldn’t help myself. I had to see the Whitney Biennial a second time, circling through the galleries until I was a bit dizzy with all the color and sound. I was partially enticed by the promise of a lens into the most contemporary of art—a…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 1
The Time for Nuance is Over? by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Walking into the first floor of the Whitney Biennial, one is immediately accosted by what can only be described as the cacophony of 2016–2017. The first step off the elevator lands you in front of Dana Schutz’s “Elevator,” a bright jumble of bodies and bugs…
Art Spotlight: Sharmon Davidson
Transformation 24 See Sharmon Davidson’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 monotype collage with mixed media 7″ x 7″ Whatever the medium, my process involves gradually building up layers of various materials such as oil-based printing inks, watercolor, acrylic ink, colored pencil, and collage elements to synthesize a unified whole from the parts…The images are formed…
Literary Spotlight: J.D. Scrimgeour
From WTP Vol. V #5 Columbia Elegy By J.D. Scrimgeour A few years ago I took my two sons to look at Columbia University, where I’d been a student some thirty years ago. We went into the mathematics building, where my years at Columbia had begun. I had thought that I’d major in math until…
J.D. Scrimgeour: Finding Inspiration in the Classroom
“Classrooms can be some of the most intimate public spaces.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor J. D. Scrimgeour is the author of Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class, which won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. Recent nonfiction has appeared in African American Review, biostories, Brilliant Corners, Pangyrus, The Quotable…