WTP Roundup: From the Editor

WTP Roundup: From the Editor

November 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief First, an update on our literary and art competitions: submissions officially closed on October 31, and winners will be announced on our site on November 15th. Other news: A warm welcome to a new contributing editor, David Hamilton. David is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Iowa,…

WTP Roundup: From the Editor

WTP Roundup: From the Editor

June 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Happy June! Highlights of WTP delights you may have missed: Interview with Brianna Baurichter about her sweeping and deeply evocative charcoal drawings; video of Holly Wong’s diaphanous and thoughtful installations works (both who appear in our Vol. V#4 issue); contributing editor Richard Gilbert’s insightful post on how making art can also apply…

Galleries—Make a Difference

Galleries—Make a Difference

Exhibitions and Activism By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief In light of recent events, of the reckless, dangerous, and entirely callous trajectory of our new president, I applaud the resistance by the arts community, from the more national movements of the J20 Art strike and petitions circulating by Americans for the Arts Action, to the more local of actual…

WTP Roundup: From the Editor

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…

Trump Versus the Arts

Trump Versus the Arts

What is Our New Reality? By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief This past August, in the Washington Post, Phillip Kennicott posed this question: “What would happen to the arts if this country turned to authoritarian leadership? If fundamental freedoms were challenged, if a strong leader gathered up the full weight of the regulatory state and started using…