Stony Brook Harbor II See David Quinn’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 archival inkjet on Museo Max matte paper 16’’ x 20’’ Over the years, my photographic interests have primarily centered on creating landscape, flower, and nature images with an occasional venture into street and architectural pictures. In many of my photographs I strive…
Inside the Studio: Hanna Vogel
See Vogel’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 In the past year, Hanna Vogel has been busy. She finished her MFA at the University…
Gallery NAGA
Exhibiting and selling contemporary art since 1977, in a neo-Gothic stone church building at 67 Newbury Street, Boston, MA What do you look for in artists when considering representation? Meg White (Director): We need to love the work. Do you promote a particular focus or specialty? White: Gallery NAGA has been exhibiting and selling contemporary art on…
Art Spotlight: Elizabeth Albert
Family Vacation See Elizabeth Albert’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 chromogenic print 12.25’’ x 18’’ I began photographing with the Holga camera shortly after my daughter was born. As a busy mom with a newborn and a two-year-old, it was especially challenging finding time to make art. What I could do, however, was plan…
Literary Spotlight: stephanie roberts
From WTP Vol. VI #6 Meridian By stephanie roberts tonight there are the works, a super harvest moon, a low canoe in the gone, a rainbow sail catamaran drives to dusk, as a meteor dashes in the sky. the word meridian falls through the mind, like henry the eighth’s, bright exhalation in the evening. i…
Poets/Artists Ponder “Breath and Matter”
By Doug Holder, WTP Guest Writer I was pondering a question over my dark ale (with a hint of citrus) at the Remnant Brewery in the new Bow Market in Union Square. It was posed by the poet Robert Pinsky in the foreword of an anthology of poems about sculpture. He asked, “What has art…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
August 2018 By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources, magazines, and author sites that seem informative and inspiring for working writers. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry As poetry is the WTP focus this summer—in line with our 2018 competitions—I’ll keep to the poetic this…
Site Review: Monica Coyne
Blacksmithing as Fine Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Artist Monica Coyne is also a blacksmith, and her work is evidence of the powerful relationship between the human hand and steel. Although she began as a woodworker, studying Japanese joinery and timber framing, she went on to shape steel into tools, and is well known…
Art Spotlight: Hanna Vogel
Was, Might Be See Hanna Vogel’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 steel wire, abaca and cotton paper, pigment, rust, sealant 15’3” x 6’11” x 7’10” I use craft-based materials and techniques in sculptural ways, to evoke growth, decay, and the tenuousness of the environment. My work addresses aspects of physical existence on the edge…
Literary Spotlight: Lynn Casteel Harper
From WTP Vol. VI #6 The Shut Door By Lynn Casteel Harper Sylvia entered my office and shut the door. As the chaplain at a retirement community, I’d grown accustomed to the closed door, to discussing life, death, doubt, suffering in hushed tones. She sat in the chair directly in front of my desk. She…
Inside the Studio: Froso Papadimitriou
See Papadimitriou’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 For sixteen months, Froso Papadimitriou has painted and drawn in a studio in a beautiful…
WTP Artist: Nguyen Thi Mai
Finding Happiness and Balance Through Art Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Nguyen Thi Mai is a self-taught, Vietnamese artist focusing on acrylic and lacquer painting. In 2004, she committed to creating art, moving from Singapore to Hanoi, where she took lessons in oil painting at the Art & Lacquer Club. She has participated…