WTP artist Gladys Nilsson is known for her densely layered and meticulously constructed watercolors and collages. read more
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Painting for a Robot
Video Generates Abstract “Pre-Paintings” Video by William A. Brown “I amuse myself with many conceits but I have a particular fondness for my importance as an artist with a track record for serious explorations that push the boundaries of what exactly defines painting, video, and sculpture. With painting I’m trying to find new digital solutions…
Meditative Painting
Designed to Heal our Eyes and Hearts By Donald Brackett, WTP Guest Writer Time Shadow, The Ambient Paintings of Bernadette Jiyong Frank. July 9 – August 29, 2020, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco. This remarkable body of work by Jiyong Frank, in its harmonious entirety, is the opposite of the hyper-speeds of technology and celebrates…
Unity in Fiber Art
The despair Tara Kennedy feels of different cultures and religions suffering in conflict drives her to communicate important messages of acceptance, empathy, and hope in her work. read more
Description Brings the Past to Life
“Simple Things Beautifully Described” By WTP Guest Reviewer Philip Lawton Telling Sonny: A Novel by Elizabeth Gauffreau (New York, NY: Adelaide Books, December 1, 2018; 340 pages; $22.30). In Telling Sonny: A Novel, Elizabeth Gauffreau brings her extraordinary gift of observation to the insular world of inland America in the mid-1920s. Faby Gauthier, the central character,…
Coming out to Mami
Caridad Moro-Gronlier's poetry appears in The Woven Tale Press. Read her poem "Coming out to Mami" in this month's WTP poetry spotlight. read more
Alternate History of the Atomic Age
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer (Rockville, Maryland: CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC, June 2, 2020; 374 pages; $16.99; trade paper ISBN 978-1-64710-013-1). Published in Canada by Red Deer Press…
Light in the Darkness
Dark Before Dawn Video by Elder Gideon Set on a vast prairie landscape, Dark Before Dawn is a short experimental documentary that plumbs the liminal moment of balance between light and darkness, beginning and end. From the same dark silhouettes of the landscape, this intimate meditation unfolds scenes gazing east into the dawn or west…
Reimagined Architecture
Nikola Olic's abstract photography plays with hidden shapes and patterns in buildings to display reimagined architecture. read more
Vol. VIII #5
This month in WTP: Clay portraits, fiber and tin can sculpture, constructed watercolors, a story of Mbuna Dunes, a poem about coming out in Mami, and more. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page. [hide for=”logged”] To access the latest issue please register or login below. (Or subscribe on sidebar to…
Philip Lawton
Philip Lawton's personal essay, "Learning by Heart," from June's Woven Tale Press magazine. read more
Odes to the Lost and Found
Write an ode to something that’s been lost, or recovered… A Poem Prompt from Sue D. Burton Write an ode to something that’s been lost. It could be silly, a lost sock, or it could be very serious. What comes up for me are the hundreds of wooden synagogues in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, burned to…