Under the Surface Looking Back on 2016 See her work in Vol. IV #4 Mixed media on canvas-cement 28″ x 28″ Fišić refers to her work as “sculptural abstract paintings.” She is always experimenting with new materials, including recycled ones: oils, burned cement, wood, sand, remnants of industrial materials. Using colors, structures, and textures can…
Composition: Unity vs. Variety
Composition Ideas To Make Your Art Stronger By Melinda Tidwell See her work in Vol. IV #2 Part 1 of 2 on Collage and Composition. Collage is a great medium for artists who want to explore the wonderful world of abstract composition. Since you can try a lot of visual ideas without committing, it can really…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
January 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief With the hustle and bustle of the holidays, you may have missed some of our December features: A couple of particularly insightful interviews, with Charlotte Holmes on how she transitioned as a writer from poetry to prose; and printer-maker-turned-photographer Susan Malmstrom on her fascinating images of curiosity cabinets; and a…
Book Review: Know Thyself
“A poet writes to continue asking questions” By Ruth Lepson, poet-in-residence at New England Conservatory of Music It takes nerve to write homophonic renderings of Shakespeare’s sonnets, yet that’s exactly what Joyce Peseroff has done in one section of her well-crafted, complex recent book of poems: Like a granite island quarried to oblivion, her husband’s memory…
Featured Bookmarks: The Literary
January 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. The Nervous Breakdown Brad Listi, based in Los Angeles, is the founding editor and creator of The Nervous Breakdown (TNB), an influential, informative, and engaging…
Dusting Off. Moving Forward.
Chris Offutt’s writing advice resonates as America regroups By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor Cast a cold Eye On life, on death Horseman, pass by. —tombstone of W.B. Yeats When Chris Offutt was ten, growing up in an Appalachian backwater, he asked a librarian for a book on baseball. She gave him J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in…
Art Spotlight: Vincent Minor
The Widower Looking Back on 2016 See his work in Vol. IV #1 Photograph In 2014, inspired by a newfound passion in producing work from my imagination and experimenting with a new medium, I began exploring new ways to express myself, through characters and storytelling with digital photography/manipulation. I started using self-portrait photography as a…
WTP Artist: Susan Malmstrom
The Deserted Toy Shop Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Susan Malmstrom attended California State University, Long Beach, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a specialization in Printmaking. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California at Irvine. Since 2011, she has been installing…
Fernanda Vargas: All Wrapped Up
Batik Pieces out of Bedsheets Video by Fernanda Vargas See her work in WTP Vol. IV #10 Read more about Vargas’s “All Wrapped Up” project, with a written description and a gallery of in-process photographs, here. Fernanda Vargas is an an artist, educator, citizen of the world, and mother of two teenagers. She has explored multiple art forms, including…
Site Review: Devise Literary
An Emerging Website by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Devise Literary, a site spearheaded by emerging fiction writers Alexandra Stanislaw and Drew Wade, originally began as “a way to gather resources for writers.” However, since its initiation in 2015, the site has already evolved to include a seasonal literary magazine open to creative work and literary…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
December 2016 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. How do you fix the Art World? Back in August, ARTnews decided to explore a question: “How do you fix the art world?” To that end, they spoke with…
WTP Artist: Ryan Schroeder
“Relics That Reflect Reality” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Ryan Schroeder received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous galleries, including an upcoming exhibition, Ryan Schroeder: Recent Paintings at the Chenango Arts Council, Norwich, NY. He has…