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…
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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…
Gordon Leverton
Cidade da Luz See Gordon Leverton’s work in WTP Vol. VII #1 acrylic on canvas 60” x 72” “Geometry features prominently in my work. I endeavor to keep the composition orderly and simple, relying on flat areas of color to complement the simple lines. And although people rarely appear in my paintings, I’m always conscious…
The Boro Project
Poured Paintings on Canvas Video by Bette Ridgeway Watch artist Bette Ridgeway as she works with her team in a warehouse in Santa Fe, NM, to create a 15′ x 21′ triptych installed January 12, 2019, at the Boro Tower in Tysons, VA. (The borough is a new district within Tysons being developed by The…
Sandell Morse
From WTP Vol. VII #1 Hiding By Sandell Morse The year is 1939. Germaine Rousso, twenty years old, walks along a street in Brive, a town four hundred and eighty-two kilometers south of Paris. Afraid of bombs, her family has fled the capital. In Paris, Germaine and her sisters had formed Le Trio Rousso with…
Nancy McTague-Stock
See McTague-Stock’s work in WTP Vol. VII #1 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 Nancy McTague-Stock has worked in various studios, both here and abroad, including in an old castle…
SILENCE by Jane Brox
Through Penitentiaries and Monasteries, A Meditation on Silence By DeWitt Henry, Prose Editor SILENCE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ONE OF THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD ELEMENTS OF OUR LIVES by Jane Brox (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2019). 310pp, $27.00 hard cover, ISBN 9780544702486. Jane Brox, like the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists, worries that we lose our best selves to the…
Ken Collins
“It is my firm belief that having a film background is a great advantage working in digital photography.” Interview by Jennifer Nelson, WTP Feature Writer Ken Collins is a professional photographer and artist in New York City. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Theater, New York Magazine, The New York Times, ARTnews,…