Summer 2019 Highlights By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Since summer is the season for travel, it feels somehow…
Allan Spencer
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe here. IN THE WTP SPOTLIGHT: Allan Spencer lives in New York City, where he works in book publishing. He holds a BA in English Literature from Pepperdine University. His writing has appeared in Arcturus and on…
Susan Dory
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe here. Glamour Shot See Susan Dory’s work in WTP Vol. VII #7 acrylic on canvas, rope 18” x 8” x 4” Re-envisioning her paintings as raw material, Susan Dory deconstructs and reassembles her canvases.…
New York City
Summer 2019 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. Summer in New York often brings group shows to galleries before…
Sculpting in Metal and Wood
Inside the Studio with Joshua Enck See Enck’s work in WTP Vol. VII #6 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. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Five years ago, Joshua Enck found a perfect spot for…
Jeffrey Harrison
Lost Photograph From WTP Vol. VII #7 I wish I knew what happened to the photograph of my father and me that my younger brother took when we were in our twenties, maybe still in college, home for Thanksgiving. We were helping our father cut firewood, a ritual since we were boys, though back then…
New Hampshire/Vermont
Summer 2019 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. While touring through some new and some familiar galleries in…
3D Models as Still Life
Interview with Amy Bennett Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Guest Writer Amy Bennett is an American artist who lives and works in Cold Spring, NY. Her paintings have been shown at numerous national and international solo exhibitions, including Miles McEnery Gallery in New York; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Vermont; Galleri Magnus Karlsson in…
Personal History and the Power of Repetition
A Poetry Prompt from Nathan McClain Using as a template Gregory Pardlo’s “Written by Himself” (from his book Digest), in which variations of “I was born” begin many of the lines, McClain asks his writing students to introduce themselves via the poetic method of repetition known as anaphora, with a repeated phrase of their own…
Etsuko Ichikawa
Vitrified 6618 See Etsuko Ichikawa’s work in WTP Vol. VII #7 glass pyrograph and watercolor on paper 30” x 45” Burnt Paper Drawings In these works, molten glass is used as a fiery paint scorching the surface of velvety, cast cotton paper. Etsuko Ichikawa is a Tokyo-born, Seattle-based, multimedia artist whose working media varies broadly,…
Indigenous Literature
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia, edited by Evelyn Flores and Emelihter Kihleng (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2019. 384 pages; $90.00 hardback, ISBN 9780824875411; $30.00 paperback, ISBN 9780824877460). New Oceania Literary Series editor: Craig Santos Perez “Even…
Nathan McClain
“I was concerned…that these were the only poems I’d ever write.” Interview by Sara London, WTP Poetry Editor Nathan McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and a recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Frost Place, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Currently, he teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts,…