“I Gave Myself the Challenge of Painting Without Paint.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Theresa Knopf is a recent graduate of the California State University at Northridge where she studied painting. Using a mixed medium including paint, textiles, thread, and cyanotype prints, Knopf creates pieces which reflect on women’s histories through restraint, concealing, and revealing. Jaeger:…
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Literary Spotlight: Joyce Peseroff
Boot Found on the Side of the Road See her work in Vol. IV #8 Joyce Peseroff is a valued contributing editor to The Woven Tale Press. Her fifth book of poems is Know Thyself. She is also the author of The Hardness Scale, A Dog in the Lifeboat, Mortal Education, and Eastern Mountain Time.…
A Story That Made Me Want to Write
On Yates’s “The Best of Everything” By DeWitt Henry, Contributing Editor I first read Richard Yates’s short story “The Best of Everything,” some fifty years ago. Yates was in his prime then as the promising author of Revolutionary Road, which he had just followed with the collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, where this story appears.…
Dreamers
“12 Dreamers” and “Dancing with the Devils” By Jeff Alu See his work in Vol. IV #8 Jeff Alu is an experimental whose work crosses a line between science and art. He writes, “My style hovers between documentary and a semi-dreamlike state. I’m constantly searching for what I like to call “clues.” These clues generally…
WTP Artist: Julia Wright
“Pushing the limits is the only way to challenge complacency in design.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Julia Wright is a textile artist and designer currently living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design. Jaeger: In “Structural Understanding,” (above) appearing in this month’s issue you explore the…
Art Spotlight: Alison Ye
Statement See her work in Vol. IV #8 Statement ceramic, underglaze, glaze 10″ x 10” 10” Alison Ye is from China, and earned her BFA in Ceramic from Sichuan Fine Art Institute and her MFA in Sculpture from Academy of Art University. She is inspired by her personal and friend’s love stories. She creates playful…
Jeff Alu: Playing with Scale
Ventures in the Tilt-Shift See his work in October’s Vol IV #8 issue One of my favorite techniques in photography is to play with scale. Or more specifically, making it difficult to tell how big or small something is. I want m viewers to look at a photo, do a double-take, and wonder “Just what the…
Site Review: The Poetry Conversation
Poet Sharon Bryan in the Cyber Arena By Emily Jaeger, Features Editor The first word that comes to mind when thinking of Sharon Bryan’s new website, The Poetry Conversation, is generosity. An award-winning author of four collections of poetry, Sharp Stars, Flying Blind, Objects of Affection, and Salt Air as well as a professor of…
Richard Gilbert: Word by Word
Writing’s Values—Intelligence, Sensitivity & Beauty—Challenge Me By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor “The ability to forgive oneself … is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life.”—Ann Patchett English departments inherently espouse reverence for thoughtfulness, sensitivity, and comely expression. I codified this recently for myself while…
Gross and Wapiennik's Freak Show
Collaborative Calm Behind the Carnival View Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennik’s work in Vol. IV #7 Artistic collaborations can often be tenuous arrangements, especially when the traditional expectation or practice of the artist is to create alone. However, as Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennek, the artists behind Freak Show have shown, collaboration can spark artistic growth and works…
From Novelist to Poet
On Logophilia and Process By Stephen Mead See his work in Vol IV. #7 Just as some have a natural proclivity for math or sports, I have had one for actual words since an early age. “Chrysalis” was a particular favorite, the name of an old Jethro Tull record – I remember the icon on the…
Information vs. Emotion in Memoir
Writing about Dreams, Loss, Fatherhood & Farming By Richard Gilbert, Contributing Editor One fall day, I sat down to write about my family’s experiences in Appalachian Ohio, where we lived and worked and were part-time farmers for thirteen years. It took me a year and a half to produce a manuscript of 500 pages. It took me…