Collage: One Artist’s Answer to Writers Block

Collage: One Artist’s Answer to Writers Block

Kim Triedman is a practicing visual artist and an award-winning poet and novelist living in Arlington, MA. She works primarily in collage and mixed media and often uses her own photography in her pieces. Much of her work focuses on issues of gender expectations, historical perceptions of femininity and sexuality, and the weight and challenge…

Site Review: Capucine Bourcart

Site Review: Capucine Bourcart

Photography as Collage By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Capucine Bourcart is a contemporary photographer who has lived and worked in Harlem for the past eleven years. A rich multi-cultural background cultivated by extensive world travel, her Vietnamese origins, and having been raised in the Germanic region of Alsace, France, serve as a the framework for…

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

September 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Arts Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Harold Garde As we age and the people who inspired, taught, and befriended us pass, it is always a joy to be able to remark on a…

Sooo-Z Mastropietro: Painting with Fabric Tubes

Sooo-Z Mastropietro: Painting with Fabric Tubes

“Variables actually help me reach for new challenges and push the limits.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Sooo-Z Mastropietro graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York with a BFA in Fashion Design and Textile Design. From textile design, to oil painting, to estate renderings, to playing classical bass in regional symphonies, her philosophy…

Christopher Owen Nelson: Portraits of Infinite Possibility

Christopher Owen Nelson: Portraits of Infinite Possibility

“I experienced the most transcendent oneness I had ever felt.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Christopher Owen Nelson, a painter, musician, and sculptor native to Colorado, studied Fine Arts at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Nelson’s artwork has been been featured in Western Art Collector; Luxe Interiors and Design; Western Art and…

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

February 2017 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly link highlights to online resources and websites that seem informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed. Beloved Grafitti in Texas In Keller, Texas,  a graffiti artist has been at work painting  under its Bear Creek Parkway Bridge. After the first painting of a doe…