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…
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WTP Artist: Ivette Cabrera
Women Who Wear Crowns Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Ivette Cabrera is a Nicaraguan-born artist currently residing in Wynwood Miami, Florida. She migrated to the United States with her mother and siblings at the age of three to escape the Sandinista Revolution. She studied Interior Architecture and Design at the Academy of Art University and Marketing at…

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…

Hamilton Glass
Mural Art: Graphic Graffiti Style By Janelle Rucker Did you know there are little jewels hidden in plain sight in most communities? Murals, stickers and tags on the sides of buildings, in alleys and on light poles, all with a story and a purpose. Hamilton Glass, known in art circles as Ham?, has been dropping these…

8/16/15
Join me weekly when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor The feature film about the life of Dan Eldon is now filming. Follow the progress here and see a brief behind the scenes video of the filming here. A primer on interference colors acrylic paints. Hand-cut, photorealistic paper…

7/12/15
By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. 14 women artists who have changed the way we think about design. Looking forward to the film CRAFTED from Morgan Spurlock. Wish I were in London to see Wanderlust: an exhibition of work from Joseph Cornell…

6/30/15
By Seth Apter, Press Arts Editor Join me every Sunday when I share some of my favorite links I discovered in the previous week. 12 artists share what they do when they get stuck creatively on the Cloth Paper Scissors blog. Typology like you have never seen before. Studio must-see: Kiki Slaughter. And see her work at her website. Kecia Deveney…