“Many of my pieces involve creating hundreds of tiny individual elements…” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Laurie Borggreve is an American artist and sculptor. Her early years were spent studying design, studio arts, and art history in Minneapolis. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, she moved to San Francisco, where she focused on…
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WTP Artist: Zac Benson
“My father is an artist so I grew up around art all my life.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Zac Benson is an international artist whose work has been shown in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and the United States. He has had public commissions in Australia, California, New York, and Washington, D.C. He graduated with…
Site Review: Dorothea Osborn
Dichotomies and Hybrid Works By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Dorothea Osborn is a cross-disciplinary artist who incorporates into her paintings and drawings dichotomies between physical and spiritual realms. Based on the ephemeral and fragmentary of both society and her own personal life, these works are a complex working and reworking of mediums, leading to multiple…
Inside the Studio: Lorraine DeProspo
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. My Montclair, New Jersey, studio is a small, cozy space in my home, where work often trails down a long hallway just outside, and drifts into other spaces.…
Inside the Studio: Renae Barnard
Inside the Studio offers an inside 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 Renae Barnard is recognized by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) as a Leadership in Energy Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and by…
Inside the Studio: Susan Clinard
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. Susan Clinard began her sculpture career over twenty years ago. She works in wood, clay, bronze, stone, and mixed media. As the artist-in-residence for the Eli Whitney Museum,…
Site Review: John Diamond-Nigh
Furniture as Provocative Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor On his website, John Diamond-Nigh describes how he began his artistic career as a wood-turner, carving on a lathe that rotates much like a potter’s wheel. “I had come of age in the art furniture movement here in the states,” he states. “I loved the grass-roots,…
WTP Artist: Susan Clinard
Storytelling with Sculpture Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Susan Clinard is a prolific artist known for work that often expresses human struggles, such as mothers protecting children and the strong helping out the weak. Now living in Connecticut, she began her sculpture career over twenty years ago. She works in wood, clay, bronze,…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
August 2017 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. As August ends and the heat starts to dissipate, it’s time to refocus on goals and projects lost to the summer. Though not quite a summer of…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
July 2017 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. Craftsy: Impressionism Maybe you find yourself painting with focal points moved to unusual places or cropping your compositions in new ways. Or suddenly you find that the…