WTP Artist: Teresa Stanley

WTP Artist: Teresa Stanley

“The dance between the scientific inquiry and the artistic one.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Teresa Stanley has exhibited her work extensively both nationally and internationally. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. A professor at Humboldt State University, she is the recipient of an individual artist grant from the Ingrid Nikelson Trust…

WTP Artist: Theresa Knopf

WTP Artist: Theresa Knopf

“I Gave Myself the Challenge of Painting Without Paint.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Theresa Knopf is a recent graduate of the California State University at Northridge where she studied painting. Using a mixed medium including paint, textiles, thread, and cyanotype prints, Knopf creates pieces which reflect on women’s histories through restraint, concealing, and revealing.  Jaeger:…

WTP Artist: Julia Wright

WTP Artist: Julia Wright

“Pushing the limits is the only way to challenge complacency in design.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Julia Wright is a textile artist and designer currently living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design.  Jaeger: In “Structural Understanding,” (above) appearing in this month’s issue you explore the…

Gross and Wapiennik's Freak Show

Gross and Wapiennik's Freak Show

Collaborative Calm Behind the Carnival View Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennik’s work in Vol. IV #7 Artistic collaborations can often be tenuous arrangements, especially when the traditional expectation or practice of the artist is to create alone. However, as Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennek, the artists behind Freak Show have shown, collaboration can spark artistic growth and works…

Walking on Egg Shells

Walking on Egg Shells

Performing Anticipation Video by Kathryn Baczeski Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a visual artist from Southbury Connecticut. She received her BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Connecticut in 2009. She is currently earning her MFA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. Baczeski is an avid dreamer and believer that anything…

WTP Artist: Stina Persson

WTP Artist: Stina Persson

“Always striving for beauty but letting the process, and struggles, show.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stina Persson studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence, and also has a degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in New York. Using ink, watercolor or collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers, she creates a style…

Black Hand Rose Garden

Black Hand Rose Garden

Video by Rose Knapp Rose Knapp is a poet, novelist, electronic music producer, and multimedia artist. She has an experimental novel forthcoming and poetry publications in Chicago Literati, PDXX Collective, BlazeVOX, OccuPoetry, Danse Macabre, and others. She currently divides her time between Brooklyn and Minneapolis. Twitter Handle: @Rose_Siyaniye About the work: “This video/audio project combines several…

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking

An Art Recipe By Finnabair I’m a woman of many interests: a mixed media artist, scrapbooker and art journaler who loves new challenges, experiments and developing new techniques and skills. My projects are mostly media-based: I make paper and canvas layouts, collages and altered art, tags, journal pages. I started scrapbooking, and today I’ve got a scrapbook page named…