Pushing Back Against Tradition By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Virginia Mahoney is a mixed-media artist living and working in Boston, Massachusetts, whose work is not easily categorized. Growing up, she was much influenced by her mother, who was quite creative at home, with cloth, thread, yarn, paint, and shells. Following in her mother’s footsteps, Mahoney…
Art Spotlight: Eric Zener
Hammock See Eric Zener’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 oil on canvas 60″ x 70″ My work reflects our collective desire for transformation into something ideal. In my paintings I seek to create a sense of sanctuary using the subject of water and our connection with it. Orphaned from the sanctuary of youth we are…
Literary Spotlight: Dina Elenbogen
From Vol. VI #6 Missing By Dina Elenbogen Blame it on the brutal winter tomatoes still not ripe enough to pick her mother at work all day sometimes missing until midnight Now she’s gone missing 15 black last seen on her bike no helmet wanting to go anywhere except where…
Site Review: Jodi Colella
Traditional Stitchery as Contemporary Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor See Jodi Colella’s work in WTP Vol. VI #2. Jodi Colella’s website features needlework art that balances tradition against innovation. Her hand-wrought forms lend a fresh contemporary relevance to a fiber art often wrongly dismissed as a hobbyist’s craft. Her work begins with everyday found…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
July 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. Michelangelo’s Secret Hideaway and Drawing Board A secret room located in Florence’s Basilica di San Lorenzo may shed light on the artistic process of the artist and his…
Inside the Studio: Elizabeth Albert
See Albert’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 Elizabeth Albert looks to the basics when choosing an ideal studio. It must come with…
Art Spotlight: Jay Kelly
Small-Scale Sculptures See Jay Kelly’s work in WTP Vol. VI #6 All works are mixed media; various combinations of metal, Japanese paper, gesso, acrylic, and/or wood. Sizes range between 3″ and 12″ Jay Kelly’s small-scale sculptures are recognized for their whimsicality and enigmatic origins. They share a lightness of form and an acute senes of proportion…
Literary Spotlight: Dian Parker
From WTP Vol. VI #6 Otre Vez By Dian Parker There is only one road that runs the full length of the Baja peninsula in Mexico. It’s never more than two lanes wide and it’s an obstacle course of corduroy ridges and potholes. Dangerous if you’re riding a motorcycle. Summer, Baja, Highway 1 and motorcycles definitely…
Two Cosmopolitan Collections
Essay Collections in a Global Time By DeWitt Henry, Literary Bookmarks Editor In the American Sixties, a writer’s “sense of place” usually referred to regionalism and immediately brought to mind Faulkner, Cather, and Frost. For English writers, the phrase suggested colonial displacements, such as E.M. Forster’s India or Joseph Conrad’s Congo. Since then, however, with…
WTP Artist: Greg Skol
Contemporary Landscape Collage Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer For the past thirty years, Greg Skol has been an artist, working in Los Angeles and San Francisco before eventually settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990. His artwork has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, and other cities. The Albuquerque…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor FOR SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AS TRAIN CONDUCTORS by Laura Esther Wolfson (University of Iowa Press, June 1, 2018). 144 pp, paper original $19.95. Also available as e-book. “Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” —Rita Mae Brown, Starting from…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
July 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Summer is upon us and so are our 2018 literary and fine art Hampton competitions: submissions open July 15th! Don’t wait until last minute to submit, as we do consider all submissions on a rolling basis for the magazine as well. Jacqueline Kolosov, our first place 2017 literary awardee,…