WTP Artist: Stephen Althouse

WTP Artist: Stephen Althouse

“Cloth, string, and rope are such expressive materials for me.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor “Stephen Althouse (b. 1948) fabricated his early sculptures out of wood, leather, and forged metal to resemble farming implements. Later, rather than making sculptures from raw materials, he began collecting already made objects which he loosely assembled together to…

WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks

WTP Writer: Jacqueline Crooks

Short-story author and novelist Jacqueline Crooks Looking Back on 2016 Interview by Jo Ely, Contributing Editor Jacqueline Crooks is a Jamaican-born, British short-story writer whose main subjects are migration and Caribbean subcultures. Crooks is A Wasafiri Prize runner-up, and the first chapter of her novel Fire Rush was published by Granta (WW15, the Anthology of New Writing,…

Fernanda Vargas: All Wrapped Up

Fernanda Vargas: All Wrapped Up

Batik Pieces out of Bedsheets Video by Fernanda Vargas See her work in WTP Vol. IV #10 Read more about Vargas’s “All Wrapped Up” project, with a written description and a gallery of in-process photographs, here. Fernanda Vargas is an an artist, educator, citizen of the world, and mother of two teenagers. She has explored multiple art forms, including…

Site Review: Devise Literary

Site Review: Devise Literary

An Emerging Website by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Devise Literary, a site spearheaded by emerging fiction writers Alexandra Stanislaw and Drew Wade, originally began as “a way to gather resources for writers.” However, since its initiation in 2015, the site has already evolved to include a seasonal literary magazine open to creative work and literary…

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

Featured Bookmarks: The Arts

December 2016 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. How do you fix the Art World? Back in August, ARTnews decided to explore a question: “How do you fix the art world?” To that end, they spoke with…