Wagner is an award-winning poet, author and artist who wrote WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS (Cavankerry Press, 2009) poems about her life with schizophrenia, and co-author, with her sister, a psychiatrist, of DIVIDED MINDS: TWIN SISTERS AND THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH SCHkIZOPHRENIA, a memoir, which was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and won the NAMI Outstanding Literature Award in 2006. It is still in print, and available at Amazon.Wagner second book, a first volume of poetry, is WE MAD CLIMB SHAKY LADDERS, (2009) which is available at a discount now from Cavankerrypress.org. Her newest book of poetry and art, LEARNING TO SEE IN THREE DIMENSIONS (Green Writers Press/Sundog Poetry Center 2017) is also now available at Amazon and other booksellers.
Her work has been published in Tikkun, Midwest Poetry Review, and the New York TImes Sunday Magazine as well as the Hartford Courant and the LA Weekly, among other places. She also won an international poetry competition sponsored by the BBC in 2001/2.
Wagner’s art was on display in Connecticut area libraries in 2011 and 2012 and in Vermont, in Brattleboro, in 2016 and 2017. Many pieces are available for sale and charitable donation. She currently lives in Vermont.
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Phoebe, you should be able to do this via your back end in the “Comments” section. Maybe you need to sign out of your other blog, then, sign in as administrator of this one first. If you log in via wordpress.com it should allow you to be logged into both.
Definitely used model photographs but the point is to truly know hands well enough to be able to draw one more or less from imagination! (Weird that I have to sign in to comment on my own blog…and what appears is my unused blogger blog!)
That is really lovely. Did you do it with model hands or out of your imagination? One of my students showed me her artwork today, and I thought of you. Her way of using the charcoal media is similar to yours.
Phoebe, you should be able to do this via your back end in the “Comments” section. Maybe you need to sign out of your other blog, then, sign in as administrator of this one first. If you log in via wordpress.com it should allow you to be logged into both.
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Definitely used model photographs but the point is to truly know hands well enough to be able to draw one more or less from imagination! (Weird that I have to sign in to comment on my own blog…and what appears is my unused blogger blog!)
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That is really lovely. Did you do it with model hands or out of your imagination? One of my students showed me her artwork today, and I thought of you. Her way of using the charcoal media is similar to yours.
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