“There are challenges to creating modular paper sculptures that are like carving stone.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Francene J. Levinson, who was born in Brooklyn, is a digital artist based in Portland, OR. She has transformed modular, three-dimensional origami into fine art. She draws inspiration from nature, with series on birds, oceans,…
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Lauren Scharhag
From WTP Vol. VII #2 Buddhas on Death Row By Lauren Scharhag Over and over, he draws that visage, slender, beatific, possessed of the earlobes of wisdom. The desire to create cannot go unheeded. Sometimes, the third eye is a jewel, sometimes, a wound. Hands stained with ink, watercolor, crayon, glue. We’ll call it extreme…
Amy Kanka Valadarsky
Experiments in Fine Art Photography Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Amy Kanka Valadarsky is a photographer based in Even Yehuda, Israel. She was born in 1964 in Romania, where she spent the first eight years of her life before moving to Israel with her family. After graduating as a software engineer, she worked…
Patricia Lagarde
Looking for Eva 1 See Patricia Lagarde’s work in WTP Vol. VII #2 platinum/palladium 6 1/2” x 4” “My work has to do with the object as symbol. I am interested in the relationships established between things and the subject that sees, describes, analyzes and names them. Representation as language, as metaphor. The theme of…
Art Roundup: New York City
Winter 2018 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. This winter in the northeast, where life quiets down a bit…
Art Roundup: Los Angeles
Winter 2018 Highlights By Emily Nimptsch, 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. Can history ever truly be put to bed? Is it firmly…
Art Roundup: New Hampshire/Vermont
Winter 2018 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. Much of this winter’s art reflected the essence of Vermont…
SOUNDS LIKE TITANIC by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (New York: W. W. Norton, February 12, 2019). 256 pp, $25.95, hardcover ISBN 9780393651645. “Hallo, Rabbit,” he said, “is that you?” “Let’s pretend it isn’t,” said Rabbit, “and see…
Beth Kephart
From WTP Vol. VII #2 Fixing Beauty By Beth Kephart It wasn’t like me to startle her, to catch her Elizabeth Taylor eyes in a wistful double take. You, she almost seemed to say. Me. Her first-born daughter. A stranger. I’d pulled my tangled hair from my face. I’d worn something that fit. The boyish…
Bette Ridgeway
See Ridgeway’s work in WTP Vol. VII #2 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 For the past thirty years, Bette Ridgeway has worked full-time as an artist, painting colorful canvases…
Francene J. Levinson
Reveal See Francene J. Levinson’s work in WTP Vol. VII #2 paper sculpture 8” x 10” x 9” “My art has been influenced by the ancient Chinese art of paper folding called Zhe Zhi. In 1993, the Western world first learned about modular Zhe Zhi when a ship called the Golden Venture brought desperate Chinese…
Terri Witek
“I’m definitely happier now as a mixed-bag poet.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Terri Witek’s most recent book is The Rape Kit (2018). She is also the author of Body Switch (2016); Exit Island (2012); The Shipwreck Dress (2008), a Florida Book Award winner; Carnal World (2006); Fools and Crows (2003); Courting Couples, a winner of the 2000 Center for Book…