July 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. Craftsy: Impressionism Maybe you find yourself painting with focal points moved to unusual places or cropping your compositions in new ways. Or suddenly you find that the…
Video: Plaster & Pearls
Plaster: “Gouged, deconstructed, explored” By Eduardo Terranova See Terranova’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 The Plaster is gouged, deconstructed, explored to reveal signs, pathways and corridors into a primitive consciousness. The Pearls, perhaps antithetically, are the perfectly sealed cocoons of an ancient interruption, emitting the eternal ineffable light. These juxtaposed elements combine to whisper…
WTP Artist: Barbara Milman
“It seems almost impossible that our actions can affect anything as vast as the oceans.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Barbara Milman is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in prints. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally, and is included…
Art Spotlight: Michael Woodhouse
Looking for Landscapes #2 See Michael Woodhouse’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 archival pigment print 13″ x 19″ My work is my reaction to the familiar definition of what is an image of the landscape. Within the confines of my home I attempt to create new landscapes from found National Geographic magazines and ink…
Literary Spotlight: Vic Sizemore
From WTP Vol. V #6 Delmas By Vic Sizemore It is the last good day of Delmas and Lillian’s fifty-three years together, the last day that they dared the ferry, the beach walk they have relished for so long, the treacherous logs washed ashore. It is late, and now the cold off the sound slaps…
Site Review: Wally Swist
“Living in a farming area and observing nature…has been my own version of living a Thoreauvian or Franciscan kind of life” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Wally Swist’s works range the gamut—as the author of over twenty collections of poetry, on his website you will find his complete bibliography,…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: The Leavers Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, May 2, 2017 (352 pp., $25.95 hardcover), ISBN 9781616206888; also available as e-book. Author: Lisa Ko Born in Queens, Ko now lives in Brooklyn. She grew up in New Jersey in a small town, the…
WTP Artist: Eduardo Terranova
“This gives me the impetus to create, the belief that the glitter of metals is more than mere reflections.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Eduardo Terranova, originally from Cali, Columbia, works and lives in New York City. His works are in corporate and private collections, and his exhibits extend to domestic and international galleries and…
Art Spotlight: Guilherme Bergamini
Education for All #5 See Guilherme Bergamini’s work in WTP Vol. V #6 mineral pigment on cotton paper 28″ x 41″ Democratic societies presume educated citizens, that is to say, it presumes well-informed and critical people, both because it requires them to be able to determine their preferences and choose among different alternatives, and also…
Literary Spotlight: Alexander McCoy
From WTP Vol. V #6 Archipelagos (Made of Collapsing) By Alexander McCoy I. In the hollows, between the trees, where the woods come into sharp relief, like ribs, like bone-shards stretched with breath, Five o’clock, and already the windows are starting to bleed. How fragile it looks chambering in the light, this little world of…
WTP Artist: Agnieszka Gzyl
“Art is a basic component of human nature” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Agnieszka Gzyl is a Polish artist whose original technique, applying silicone to canvas, speaks to the observer’s senses of sight and touch. With a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, she completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
July 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief While we frequently feature interviews with our contributors, it is rare that we are privileged to interview them in person. Last month, WTP Arts Editor Richard Malinsky was able to actually meet with Tim Prentice, kinetic sculptor on par with Calder and George Rickey. Prentice’s work is featured in…