Caitlin Hurd, who was born in the suburbs of Boston, has worked on several public art projects. Her artwork has been shown in more than thirty group and solo shows. She has also been featured in publications such as Hi-Fructose and the New York Post. She founded Spark Portrait, a portrait business in Easthampton, MA,…

Exploration of Color
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Alayne Spafford received a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the University of Saskatchewan. After studying textiles at Concordia University and the…

Sag Harbor Studio: A Sculptor and Cabinet Maker
Inside the Studio with Mark Webber 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. See Mark Webber’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #6. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer More than twenty years ago, sculptor Mark Webber and his…

Voice In and Out of Poetry
Cleopatra Mathis’ After the Body: Poems New and Selected, was published this year by Sarabande Books. In this eighth book of poems, as Michael Collier writes, one discovers “the resolute heart and keen human insights” that have made her one of “our most important and essential poets.” Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, notes her…

In a Suburb
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. George Franklin is the author of two poetry collections, Traveling for No Good Reason (winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions competition, 2018), and a…

The Pursuit of Home
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel (Portland, Oregon: Kelson Books, September 30, 2020; 202 pages; $20.00 paperback: ISBN 978-0-9827838-5-6; distributed by SPD). “One is always at home in one’s past….” —Vladimir Nabokov,…

Pandemic Studio Renovation: How One Artist is Coping
Inside the Studio with Joe Hedges 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. See Joe Hedges’ work in WTP Vol. VIII #4. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For a few years, Joe Hedges was fortunate to have…

Vol. VIII #6
This month in WTP: feather portraits, human rituals, a snake sculpture, a doctor’s daughter and so much more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here.

Character Development
Shoptalk: A Prose Central Series By DeWitt Henry, Prose Editor I evolved shoptalk or notebook sheets during my teaching of fiction workshops, which proved helpful to me and to students. I asked them to ask themselves about character, plot, setting, dialogue, sensory imagery, sentimentality, translation, simultaneous actions and other aspects of craft. But foremost of…

Acrylic and Watercolor Collage
Gladys M. Nilsson is a Chicago-based painter known for a style that borders on surrealism and pop, fantasy and cartoon. Nilsson was one of the original members of the Hairy Who, a group in the 1960s who turned to representational art and whose members are associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.…

Inspiring Places for Fiber Art
Inside the Studio with Tara Kennedy 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. See Tara Kennedy’s work in WTP Vol. VIII #5. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer To create her fiber works, Tara Kennedy spreads out in…

Sculpting from Aluminum the Textile Inspired
Christina Massey is a Brooklyn-based abstract and mixed-media artist whose work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States. Massey, who was born in 1979, is passionate about the preservation of our environment and our relationship with nature. She is also committed to addressing the equality of women’s rights…