From WTP Vol. VI #7 Nicky Nicky Nine Doors By Robin van Eck An itch skittered across the nape of his neck. He peeked through the peephole. No shadows. No unwelcomed movement. Like the first time, he grasped the knob and pulled open the door slowly, listening for the hushed giggles. Scratch stepped onto the…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
September 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Hope you all had a terrific summer! Tomorrow our first fall WTP issue goes live. We held it until after the holiday to be sure it doesn’t get lost in all the end-of-summer festivities. And look this month for our art correspondent roundups, what you may have missed in…
WTP Artist: David Quinn
Finding Beauty and Drama in Long Island By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer David Quinn is a self-taught photographer in Setauket, New York, who became interested in photography in his early fifties. He focuses mainly on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In his artwork,…
Art Spotlight: Froso Papadimitriou
Pointless Self-Portrait 04 See Froso Papadimitriou’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 fabric, acrylic, ink, pigment, thread on recycled canvas 16” x 24” Froso Papadimitriou experiments with multiple art forms, including painting, art installation, drawing, sculpture, video, and craft. Personal experience, observations, and social behaviors and their dynamics have become her raw materials, as she…
WTP Writer: Lynn Casteel Harper
“I am not interested in writing detached from people’s actual lives.” By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Lynn Casteel Harper is a writer, minister, and chaplain. Her nonfiction book, On Vanishing, is forthcoming with Catapult Books. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review online, Catapult, The Huffington Post, North American Review, Tiferet, New Delta Review, CALYX, and…
Art Spotlight: Greg Skol
Paper Towns #6 See Greg Skol’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 oil on panel 6″ x 6” My work is about evocation, not transcription. I try to speak to our human connection with our natural environment, through images that transcend specificity of place. As we are both a part of that nature and apart from…
Art Spotlight: Nguyen Thi Mai
Belly Dancers See Nguyen Thi Mai’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 acrylic on canvas 51” x 39 There are three common ingredients that always influence my work: colors, music, and the feminine form. I use neutral and rustic colors, to symbolize the old and the simple things in life. Colors that are found in antique…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
August 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief We are officially now at the midpoint in our 2018 WTP competitions; you have just four weeks to pull together your best works and submit to either the poetry and photography categories. This is a unique opportunity for any writer or artist to spend a week in the Hamptons…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
August 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. The Hidden Half of Florence’s Art Are you familiar with the work of Maria van Oosterwyck, Antonietta Brandeis or Anna Piattoli. Probably not. These are artists, women, who…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A GIFT FROM ABUELA by Cecilia Ruiz (Candlewick Press, August 7, 2018). 38 pp, hardback $15.99. “Sweet are the uses of adversity….” —William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II, Scene I) Indie publishers bring all types of books to life. Some…
Inside the Studio: Michael Kesselman
See Kesselman’s work in WTP Vol. VI #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 Michael Kesselman loves going to his studio at the Peninsula Museum of Art (PMA) in Burlingame,…