“Watercolor is to improvise or die.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer John M. Humphries is an artist who grew up in Texas, and teaches architecture and interior design at Miami University in Cincinnati, OH. His artwork has been exhibited in Japan, Germany, the Czech Republic, and the United States. He has received several awards,…
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My Father Eats Figs
[tm_pb_section admin_label=”section”][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] My Father Eats Figs By Heidi Stauff, WTP Video Producer [/tm_pb_text][/tm_pb_column][/tm_pb_row][tm_pb_row admin_label=”row”][tm_pb_column type=”4_4″][tm_pb_video admin_label=”Video” src=”https://youtu.be/NH7Vt2JxSWw”] [/tm_pb_video][/tm_pb_column][/tm_pb_row][tm_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][tm_pb_column type=”1_2″][tm_pb_text admin_label=”Text” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”22″ custom_padding=”50px|||”] The idea for Voice & Vision evolved in our Woven Tale Forum, where members are actively conversing on ways to…
Jacquelyn Shah
From WTP Vol. VII #5 Sometimes By Jacquelyn Shah it doesn’t matter if morning, its course having overtaken the tacking darkness, is lightened suddenly by something small and graceful, a lagniappe in an overgrown lawn—herbertia. It doesn’t matter, the pleasure of espial,…
Raja Oshi
Paintings That Speak to Women By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Raja Oshi is a Sudanese artist now living in South Africa. Her painting is clearly inspired by her life experiences and expresses the oppression, pain, and suffering of Sudanese women. Having grown up in a male-dominated culture of limited opportunities, poverty, and violent abuse of…
Brooklyn
Spring 2019 Highlights By John S. Berman, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. When we were growing up, many of us heard the…
Bentley Meeker
Exploring Light See Bentley Meeker’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 resin, birch, canvas, 3200K LED, and 5600 LED 40” x 40” x 8” These meticulously constructed sculptures comment on the intersection of human culture and the natural world. Meeker’s works scrape down our experience of artificial light to its rawest components. Using contrasting light…
New York City
Spring 2019 Highlights By Emilia Dubicki, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. For several years now, galleries have been opening in or relocating…
Fay Wood
See Wood’s work in WTP Vol. VII #5 Inside the Studio offers a behind-the scenes peek into the work environments of WTP artists, as well as insight into their creative process within these resonate spaces. By Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Six years ago, artist Fay Wood and her husband sold their large, inspirational church in…
Eric Maroney
From WTP Vol. VII #5 Devoted By Eric Maroney “Tis too much proved—that with devotion’s visage And pious action we do sugar o’er The devil himself.”–Shakespeare Or sits and writes at the table and often turns her gaze toward the clouds congealing in the heat bubbling above her like a milky copula. The clouds arrive,…
New Hampshire/Vermont
Spring 2019 Highlights By Susan B. Apel, WTP Art Correspondent Four times a year, WTP art correspondents from around the country will report back on the previous season, with images from exhibitions you otherwise might have missed, and their own insights into these varied venues. The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College has reopened.…
PHANTOMS by Christian Kiefer
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Phantoms by Christian Kiefer (New York: Liveright Publishing, April 9, 2019). 288 pages; $26.95, hardcover ISBN 9780871404817. “These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself….” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora…
Things I Carry Into the World
“Like thunderclouds, I don’t stray far from earthly things” Video by Jamil McGinnis and Pat Heywood Inspired by the work of four New York City poets, THINGS I CARRY INTO THE WORLD is an abstract meditation on the body, the feminine, the everyday realities of being young and black, and the fragile relationship between the…