Interviewsand Articles

Links to Editor's Introductions/w&c issues

With very few exceptions, the theme for each issue emerged after most of the content had been collected. The process was an organic one as, at the beginning of each new issue, typically, I would have only two or three pieces I felt sure about including. Each issue was always an adventure, almost a blank canvas to begin with. And always, looking back once an issue was finished, I'd see connections that had appeared as if guided by an unseen hand. - rw

From the Editor
w&c #1 - Hands On
w&c #2 - Greeting the Light
w&c #3 - The Garden As Art
w&c #4 - Viola Frey
w&c #5 - Dwelling
w&c #6 - Art and Healing
w&c #7 - Approaching LA
w&c #8 - Objects of Presence
w&c #9 - The Veil
w&c #10 - Odyssey
w&c #11 - Cowboy Arts
w&c #12 - This Incredible Fact of Being Alive
w&c #13 - Turning Points
w&c #14 - Hidden Dimensions
w&c #15 - East and West
w&c #16 - Toward Inaccessible Places
w&c #17 - Precision of the Artist
w&c #18 - Body and Spirit
w&c #19 - Outsiders and Insiders
w&c #20 - Revisiting Craft
w&c #21 - Visible/Invisible
w&c #22 - Warnings and Prayers
w&c #23 - Evidence
w&c #24 - Action of Light
w&c #25 - Transcending Cultural Boundaries
w&c #26 - Revelationsw&c #27 - Hidden Nature
w&c #28 - Journeys
w&c #29 - Art of Living
w&c #30 - Borderlands
w&c #31 - Flowers from the Sky
w&c #32 - Living on Earth
w&c #33 - A Place To Stand
w&c #34 - Enough, Not Enough
w&c #35 - Aesthetic Thought
w&c #36 - Unscripted Journeys
w&c #37 - The Gift

Richard Whittaker is the founding editor of works & conversations and West Coast editor of Parabola magazine.

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