Pages Tagged With: "delaware division of the arts"
Trebs Thompson
Trebs Thompson Newark Established Visual Arts: Crafts By: Gail Obenreder “I love telling stories, and making art is one more way I can do that. I also love breathing new life into discarded materials.” Trebs Thompson began her career in glass painting and non-traditional glass sculpture with no formal art training. The self-taught artist saw glass […]Read More
L.J. Sysko
L.J. Sysko Wilmington Established Literature: Poetry “If Madonna and Magritte had a baby. Or, if Warhol’s Marilyn swallowed Munch’s screamer.” That’s L.J. Sysko ‘elevator pitching’ her work, which she describes as “imagistically punchy – cultural criticism dressed up in pop-culture fluorescence.” In fact, in the preface to Sysko’s debut full-length poetry collection The Daughter of […]Read More
Jennifer Morrell
Jennifer Morrell Wilmington Emerging Literature: Creative Nonfiction By: Gail Obenreder “Writing is painting with words, and I feel rewarded when I am able to get beyond stick figures, conveying something full-bodied.” Jennifer Morrell has been “writing creatively my whole life,” just not in what she would term “a steady fashion.” Morrell is a law professor and […]Read More
