February 2018 By Donald Kolberg, Art Bookmarks Editor Monthly highlights of online resources and websites informative and inspiring for artists or art enthusiasts. Most are free. Suggestions are welcomed.[gap height=”20″] The Ultimate 2018 Art Fair List Caroline Goldstein from Artnet News has put together their definitive list of fairs for the entire year, covering the entire world!…
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WTP Writer: Vic Sizemore
“I try to observe like Chaucer, not judge like Dante” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Vic Sizemore is the author of three novels, The Calling, Seekers, and She Rises Crying. His fiction has won the New Millennium Writings Award. Sizemore’s short fiction and nonfiction is published or forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Connecticut Review,…
Site Review: Word Tango
Writing Doesn’t Have to be a Solo Sport by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor One challenge of online communities is creating a warm, welcoming environment in the absence of a physical meeting. Word Tango, which offers remote writing workshops and an online community for fiction and genre writers, is not revolutionary in its concept. Where Word…
Site Review: Talking Writing
“Creating meaning through personal stories.” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Talking Writing, an online literary journal spearheaded by Martha Nichols and Jennifer Jean, aims to provide a home for first-person journalism. Defined on their “About” page as “features told from a personal perspective but underpinned by research and reporting,” first-person journalism, the editors claim, is an…
WTP Artist: Barbara Milman
“It seems almost impossible that our actions can affect anything as vast as the oceans.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Barbara Milman is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in prints. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows, both nationally and internationally, and is included…
Site Review: Wally Swist
“Living in a farming area and observing nature…has been my own version of living a Thoreauvian or Franciscan kind of life” By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Submit your website for review by WTP Wally Swist’s works range the gamut—as the author of over twenty collections of poetry, on his website you will find his complete bibliography,…
WTP Artist: Eduardo Terranova
“This gives me the impetus to create, the belief that the glitter of metals is more than mere reflections.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Eduardo Terranova, originally from Cali, Columbia, works and lives in New York City. His works are in corporate and private collections, and his exhibits extend to domestic and international galleries and…
WTP Artist: Agnieszka Gzyl
“Art is a basic component of human nature” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Agnieszka Gzyl is a Polish artist whose original technique, applying silicone to canvas, speaks to the observer’s senses of sight and touch. With a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, she completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 2
Gesture, Craft, and Capitalism by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor I couldn’t help myself. I had to see the Whitney Biennial a second time, circling through the galleries until I was a bit dizzy with all the color and sound. I was partially enticed by the promise of a lens into the most contemporary of art—a…
Whitney Biennial Review: Part 1
The Time for Nuance is Over? by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Walking into the first floor of the Whitney Biennial, one is immediately accosted by what can only be described as the cacophony of 2016–2017. The first step off the elevator lands you in front of Dana Schutz’s “Elevator,” a bright jumble of bodies and bugs…
J.D. Scrimgeour: Finding Inspiration in the Classroom
“Classrooms can be some of the most intimate public spaces.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor J. D. Scrimgeour is the author of Themes For English B: A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class, which won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. Recent nonfiction has appeared in African American Review, biostories, Brilliant Corners, Pangyrus, The Quotable…
Featured Bookmarks: The Arts
June 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. With June here, the arts step up their presence around the world. For many artists the nice weather means opening the doors to studios, while here at…