Strappo, a unique Monoprint and Monotype The Woven Tale Press arts editor, Donald Kolberg, demonstrates strappo printmaking [dropcap]S[/dropcap]trappo combines painting and printmaking. First, an acrylic paint is created on a clear glass plate. When the image is fully formed, it is left to dry. Then, successive layers of acrylic gesso are added. This thickens the…
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WTP Writer: Sophia Blackwell
“My audience is always smarter than me.” Interview by Jo Ely, Literary Editor Sophia Blackwell was born in Newcastle. She read English at Oxford, where she started performing poetry with Hammer & Tongue. Now an established performance poet, her poetry has been anthologized by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches, The Emma Press, Sidekick Books and The Woven…
Art Spotlight: Pam Erickson
Lintscape —assemblage & sculpture using non-traditional media, by Pam Erickson [dropcap]P[/dropcap]am Erickson’s assemblage and sculpture employ a wide range of non-traditional media. Some materials being quite personal: early family photos, hair from her cats and dogs, the shed skin of a pet iguana and bones from chickens fed to family and friends, etc, etc. Perhaps…
Interview with David Loret de Mola
Performance poetry and so much more Guerilla Poetry Month was initiated in 2014 —street performance poetry by a group of artists from Zero Forbidden Goals (ZFG). Can you tell us a little about ZFG and how Guerrilla became an offshoot? Well, ZFG started as a collection of hiphop artists who came together to perform in…
Listen to Kirstin Maguire
Audio Poetry: The Writing Life By Kirstin Maguire https://soundcloud.com/kirstinmaguire/the-writing-life [dropcap]K[/dropcap]irstin Maguire produces her poems in audio at SoundCloud as well as publishing them in numerous publications and collections, including Every Day Poems, The Guardian, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine and Cannon Poets. Her debut collection was a collaboration with Artist Jane Moore— the Sketch A Day…
Printmaking
How I Make a Monotype by Barbara van Buskirk See her work in WTP Vol. IV #3 Who can say wherein lies the charm of a monotype— that unique print from a painted plate, which stands in the half shadow between painting and printmaking? … Its spontaneity and freshness, its directness and freedom place it apart…
Art Spotlight: Federico Uribe
Not to Draw or Paint on Canvas — But Vibrant Images After years of struggling to be a painter, I realized that my calling was not to draw or paint on canvas, but instead to mold inanimate objects into vibrant images.” —Federico Uribe Visit Federico Uribe’s gallery web page. More from Federico Uribe in The…
Tatiana Rivero Sanz | In Her Own Words
Sculpture, Dance, Performance— A Photographer’s Personal Journey By Tatiana Rivero Sanz [dropcap]T[/dropcap]atiana Rivero Sanz is a photographer who creates her own indoor props for her photos and incorporates sculpture and performance. Prior to this process, she primarily photographed out in nature, until she had a bad fall on one of her excursions: I had just…
Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Satoshi Aki | Video
Composer & Photographer— A melody inspired by her photos… Tana Onceuponatimetana’s 150205—a collaboration between American photographer Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Japanese composer Satoshi Aki. [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y photos grow from an elaborate process, which involves a whole installation. In my own studio I first paint the walls, then I create one or two sculptures that represent a dilemma,…
Woven Tale Press Editor Jo Ely | In Her Own Words
Writing My First Novel Jo Ely [dropcap]I[/dropcap]f truly committed, one can always find time to write–poet Salena Godden gets up at 4 am, and short story writer and novelist Jacqueline Crooks would write on buses and trains, commuting to her seven-day-a-week job. Not many people have that kind of commitment, and I am no exception. I…
Literary Spotlight: J.G. McClure
The Deer J. G. McClure [dropcap]G[/dropcap]lass. Glass and blood not his own. His own mistake—the drinks, the brakes too late. Too late for the deer sprawled in the dark, slick road. Slick roads, he thought, it’s these slick fucking roads. Not the drinks. The man stood in the road and watched the woman watch the…
David Gaffney | In His Own Words
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]avid Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Manchester. The Guardian says that “One-hundred-and-fifty words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than novels by a good many others.” He is the author of several books of fiction and flash fiction, including Sawn-Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), The Half-Life of…