August 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief We are officially now at the midpoint in our 2018 WTP competitions; you have just four weeks to pull together your best works and submit to either the poetry and photography categories. This is a unique opportunity for any writer or artist to spend a week in the Hamptons…
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Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
August 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. The Hidden Half of Florence’s Art Are you familiar with the work of Maria van Oosterwyck, Antonietta Brandeis or Anna Piattoli. Probably not. These are artists, women, who…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A GIFT FROM ABUELA by Cecilia Ruiz (Candlewick Press, August 7, 2018). 38 pp, hardback $15.99. “Sweet are the uses of adversity….” —William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II, Scene I) Indie publishers bring all types of books to life. Some…
Inside the Studio: Michael Kesselman
See Kesselman’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6. 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 Michael Kesselman loves going to his studio at the Peninsula Museum of Art (PMA) in Burlingame,…
Art Spotlight: David Quinn
Stony Brook Harbor II See David Quinn’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 archival inkjet on Museo Max matte paper 16’’ x 20’’ Over the years, my photographic interests have primarily centered on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In many of my photographs I strive…
Inside the Studio: Hanna Vogel
See Vogel’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 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 In the past year, Hanna Vogel has been busy. She finished her MFA at the University…
Gallery NAGA
Exhibiting and selling contemporary art since 1977, in a neo-Gothic stone church building at 67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA What do you look for in artists when considering representation? Meg White (Director): We need to love the work. Do you promote a particular focus or specialty? White: Gallery NAGA has been exhibiting and selling contemporary art on…
Art Spotlight: Elizabeth Albert
Family Vacation See Elizabeth Albert’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 chromogenic print 12.25’’ x 18’’ I began photographing with the Holga camera shortly after my daughter was born. As a busy mom with a newborn and a two-year-old, it was especially challenging finding time to make art. What I could do, however, was plan…
Literary Spotlight: stephanie roberts
From WTP Vol. VI #6 Meridian By stephanie roberts tonight there are the works, a super harvest moon, a low canoe in the gone, a rainbow sail catamaran drives to dusk, as a meteor dashes in the sky. the word meridian falls through the mind, like henry the eighth’s, bright exhalation in the evening. i…
Poets/Artists Ponder “Breath and Matter”
By Doug Holder, WTP Guest Writer I was pondering a question over my dark ale (with a hint of citrus) at the Remnant Brewery in the new Bow Market in Union Square. It was posed by the poet Robert Pinsky in the foreword of an anthology of poems about sculpture. He asked, “What has art…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
August 2018 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. Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry As poetry is the WTP focus this summer—in line with our 2018 competitions—I’ll keep to the poetic this…
Site Review: Monica Coyne
Blacksmithing as Fine Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Artist Monica Coyne is also a blacksmith, and her work is evidence of the powerful relationship between the human hand and steel. Although she began as a woodworker, studying Japanese joinery and timber framing, she went on to shape steel into tools, and is well known…