Spring 2018 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. For this spring roundup, I’ve narrowed my selection down to favorites…
Art Roundup: Los Angeles
Spring 2018 Highlights By Emily Nimptsch, 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. This spring, a slew of the city’s most illustrious art galleries…
Art Roundup: Boston
Spring 2018 By Marni Elyse Katz, 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. Late winter in Boston (called spring in other parts of the…
Art Spotlight: Maria Martinez-Cañas
EstructurasTransformativas SI 034 See Maria Martinez-Cañas’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 pigment print 20” x 16”, edition of 3 Maria Martinez-Cañas brings a sense of her own history and past, as well as a fresh and experimental attitude, to all of her work. Her medium can best be described loosely as “photo-based” in that…
Literary Spotlight: Douglas Cole
From WTP Vol. VI #5 Thank the Wind Alive By Douglas Cole I tell stories to nothing but the walls, and the photographs are floating away. The old ones said that three’s a crowd, and I got used to thinking that way, figured there was a bad vein inside me, silent kid just observing at…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
June 2018 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief For May, we had our usual varied interviews and site reviews, but also a couple of guest posts by artist Martin Mugar and poet Amy Nawrocki. And this month look for our spring installment of Art Roundups from our WTP art correspondents out in the field. Keep up with…
Site Review: DeJeonge Reese
Culture and Body Image in Art By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor DeJeonge Reese began her art training in ceramics as an undergraduate at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Later, while earning her MFA at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, she began working with other materials and established new creative concepts. She set out to…
Art Roundup: New Hampshire/Vermont
Spring 2018 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. Decades ago the Guerrilla Girls famously challenged the paucity of…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor MEM: A NOVEL by Bethany C. Morrow (Unnamed Press, May 22, 2018). 192 pp, hardcover, $25.00. Also available as e-book and audiobook. “Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.” Christina Rossetti “Remember”…
Site Review: Lali Torma
Art as Personal Paradigm By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Lali Torma was born in communist Romania and migrated to Canada where she began a new life in the financial industry. On her website, she describes how her new career lacked personal expressive opportunities and why she began to explore painting. After completing an MBA from…
Art Spotlight: Sharon Stepman
Elephant See Sharon Stepman’s work in WTP Vol. VI #5 matt paper 16” x 22” Using subjects from daily life, Stepman challenges reality; in her photos, foreground and background become a flat space. Sharon Stepman attended the Art Students League as a student of George Grosz, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, with…
Literary Spotlight: Lynne Viti
From WTP Vol. VI #5 It’s the Real Thing By Lynne Viti My father’s tavern sat on the corner of North Kresson and Fairmount Avenue, though Fairmount was no avenue. It was a wide cinder stub of a road, flanked by the Halls family’s gritty brown house and across the street, the tavern, last in…