November 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap] Open Access at the Barnes The art collection at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation just got a little easier to see. While the foundation is best known for its collection of Impressionist…
WTP 2017 Second Place Fine Art Winner
Bart O’Reilly Bart O’Reilly was born in Dublin, Ireland, and has lived in Maryland since 2003. He makes interdisciplinary work that includes painting, drawing, poetry, and video. He teaches at The Maryland Institute College of Art and Hartford Community College. His work has been shown extensively in Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, as well…
WTP 2017 First Place Fine Art Winner
Ellen Koment recipient of the The Elizabeth Sloan Tyler Memorial Award Ellen Koment , first place winner in the WTP first annual art competition, is a native New Yorker, who lived in Coney Island, half a block from the boardwalk until age seven. She and her family eventually moved to the West Coast, but she would…
WTP 2017 Second Place Literary Winner
Kris Faatz Kris Faatz is the WTP 2017 Literary Second Place recipient, for her short story “Let Me Take Your Hands.” Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Potomac Review, Reed, and other journals. Her first novel, To Love a Stranger, was a finalist for the 2016 Schaffner Press Music in Literature Award and…
WTP 2017 Third Place Literary Winner
Henry Plunkett Henry Plunkett is the recipient of the 2017 WTP Third Place Literary Award for his short story “Drive-By.” He was born and grew up in rural Ireland. He lives now with his wife and child and a menagerie of small animals in the Perth hills. He is a student of creative writing at…
WTP 2017 Third Place Fine Art Winner
Catherine Spencer Catherine Spencer, whose work will appear in the WTP special winners edition in December, is a Cleveland-based artist, although originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. She earned her Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2013 from Alfred University. Through the program, she had the opportunity to study abroad in Florence,…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Croatian War Nocturnal Los Angeles: Phoneme Media, August 15, 2017. 120 pp., $14.00, paperback ISBN: 9781944700133. Author: Spomenka Štimec Spomenka Štimec is a Croatian author, translator, and editor fluent in Esperanto. Born in the village of Orehovica in the Međimurje region of…
WTP Artist: Katherine Daniels
“My work grew by leaps and bounds, when I started sewing as a form of drawing then sewing into my paintings….” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Katherine Daniels’s beaded sculptures, weaving, and site-specific installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including throughout the New York City metropolitan area, as well as the Hunterdon…
Art Spotlight: Maggie Evans
Choosing Solitude See Maggie Evans’s work in WTP Vol. V #9 pastel on paper 48” x 34” Collective Behavior As humans we often emphasize our uniqueness and individuality. Beneath these independent identities, however, all humans harbor a deep, intrinsic need to be part of a group. A group provides security and comfort, but it can…
Literary Spotlight: Laura Foley
From WTP Vol. V #9 The Heated Windowsill By Laura Foley From the darkness of unknowing, from the steep unlit stairs, the sudden loss of what was vibrant, the impossibility of imagining what comes next— a room of doors, and which to open? The monk, across from me at lunch, tells me how, three days…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
November 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief First, an update on our literary and art competitions: submissions officially closed on October 31, and winners will be announced on our site on November 15th. Other news: A warm welcome to a new contributing editor, David Hamilton. David is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa,…
WTP Artist: Teresa Meier
Stitching Montage and Narrative Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Teresa Meier is an artist and teacher from Oregon whose creative photography has been exhibited internationally and published in Communication Arts. All her life, she has loved puzzles. She likes sifting through the pieces, analyzing their parts and finds immense satisfaction in seeing how…