July 2017 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. Kurt Baumeister This lively site presents a writer to follow, think with, and respond to. Though Baumeister, a web columnist for The Weeklings, reviewer for…
Site Review: Joy Munt
Nature, Industry, and Diptychs By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Joy Munt’s website details her work in the film and video industry and then her transition into painting to follow her love of landscape. Inspired by living in four different cities in three provinces, Joy’s painting is an expressive,…
Video: Ode to Spring
“Hooray for Blooming Spring”: An Illustrated Poem By Anastasya Shepherd Anastasya Shepherd worked as a neuropsychologist for ten years in diagnostic testing, consulting, therapy, rehabilitation planning and teaching. After marrying and having children, she turned her focus to illustration: “I had been drawing and dabbling in photography throughout the years, but at that point I…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 2
Gesture, Craft, and Capitalism by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor I couldn’t help myself. I had to see the Whitney Biennial a second time, circling through the galleries until I was a bit dizzy with all the color and sound. I was partially enticed by the promise of a lens into the most contemporary of art—a…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 1
The Time for Nuance is Over? by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Walking into the first floor of the Whitney Biennial, one is immediately accosted by what can only be described as the cacophony of 2016–2017. The first step off the elevator lands you in front of Dana Schutz’s “Elevator,” a bright jumble of bodies and bugs…
Art Spotlight: Sharmon Davidson
Transformation 24 See Sharmon Davidson’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 monotype collage with mixed media 7″ x 7″ Whatever the medium, my process involves gradually building up layers of various materials such as oil-based printing inks, watercolor, acrylic ink, colored pencil, and collage elements to synthesize a unified whole from the parts…The images are formed…
Literary Spotlight: J.D. Scrimgeour
From WTP Vol. V #5 Columbia Elegy By J.D. Scrimgeour A few years ago I took my two sons to look at Columbia University, where I’d been a student some thirty years ago. We went into the mathematics building, where my years at Columbia had begun. I had thought that I’d major in math until…
J.D. Scrimgeour: Finding Inspiration in the Classroom
“Classrooms can be some of the most intimate public spaces.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor J. D. Scrimgeour is the author of Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class, which won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. Recent nonfiction has appeared in African American Review, biostories, Brilliant Corners, Pangyrus, The Quotable…
WTP Artist: Berndnaut Smilde
Exhibiting Rainclouds Interview by Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in Groningen, The Netherlands. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Smilde holds an MA from the Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen. Selected exhibtions include: Saatchi Gallery, London (2017); RWA Bristol, (2017); Museum Kranenburgh, (2016); LIAN Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai (solo) (2015);…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
June 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Arts 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. With June here, the arts step up their presence around the world. For many artists the nice weather means opening the doors to studios, while here at…
Site Review: Carolyn A. Land
Nature Represented and Abstracted By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Carolyn A. Land is a Florida-based artist focused on nature and the human relationship to it: “I am fascinated by the intricate designs that are created within the small space of one’s vision. The lines, forms, colors, and textures, of the natural elements are what motivate my…