Art Spotlight: Vincent Minor

Art Spotlight: Vincent Minor

The Widower Looking Back on 2016 See his work in Vol. IV #1 Photograph In 2014, inspired by a newfound passion in producing work from my imagination and experimenting with a new medium, I began exploring new ways to express myself, through characters and storytelling with digital photography/manipulation. I started using self-portrait photography as a…

WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom

WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom

The Deserted Toy Shop Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Susan Malmstrom attended California State University, Long Beach, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Printmaking. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine. Since 2011, she has been installing…

Fernanda Vargas: All Wrapped Up

Fernanda Vargas: All Wrapped Up

Batik Pieces out of Bedsheets Video by Fernanda Vargas See her work in WTP Vol. IV #10 Read more about Vargas’s “All Wrapped Up” project, with a written description and a gallery of in-process photographs, here. Fernanda Vargas is an an artist, educator, citizen of the world, and mother of two teenagers. She has explored multiple art forms, including…

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

December 2016 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. How do you fix the Art World? Back in August, ARTnews decided to explore a question: “How do you fix the art world?” To that end, they spoke with…

WTP Artist: Ryan Schroeder

WTP Artist: Ryan Schroeder

“Relics That Reflect Reality” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Ryan Schroeder received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries, including an upcoming exhibition, Ryan Schroeder: Recent Paintings at the Chenango Arts Council, Norwich, NY. He has…

WTP Writer: Charlotte Holmes

WTP Writer: Charlotte Holmes

Into the Grass Labyrinth Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Charlotte Holmes is a writer, a poet, and a teacher of creative writing. Her first book, Gifts and Other Stories, was published in 1994. Published by BkMk Press in 2016, her new collection of stories, The Grass Labyrinth, has been hailed as “a contemporary classic.” Holmes received…

Cookie Moon: A Wait

Cookie Moon: A Wait

The Moment Between Silence and Drama Video by Cookie Moon Cookie Moon (Sara Laimon) is a video artist and digital collage creator. Currently, Cookie is a fourth-year student in the video art department in the Bezalel Academy. She has created video installations and digital collages depicting creation themes in Genesis and has shown in galleries and exhibitions in…

WTP Artist: Ivette Cabrera

WTP Artist: Ivette Cabrera

Women Who Wear Crowns Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Ivette Cabrera is a Nicaraguan-born artist currently residing in Wynwood Miami, Florida. She migrated to the United States with her mother and siblings at the age of three to escape the Sandinista Revolution. She studied Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Art University and Marketing at…

Exhibition Review: Invented Landscapes

Exhibition Review: Invented Landscapes

Surreal Visions of the Natural World By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Initially, Tula Telfair’s sweeping landscape compositions in her Invented Landscapes series may remind you of the large panoramic vistas of nineteenth-century Hudson River School painters, such as Thomas Cole or Frederic Edwin Church. All have similar attention paid to rendering natural splendor in great detail. However, Telfair’s…

Site Review: Stephen Althouse

Site Review: Stephen Althouse

A Contemporary Photographer Prefers Film By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor The home page is as sophisticated and uncluttered as the actual works of Stephen Althouse—a small sample photograph set against a muted background. Accompanied by a testimonial quote and a simple black navigation bar, the page establishes a branded look that anticipates what follows. His current…