Tearing paper into shreds is a lot more precise - and colorful - than it sounds. Artist Wanda Edwards, in her basement studio, tears up pages and scraps of paper and then glues them to a canvas, thick ...

It all began my last year of college, when I lived alone for the first time, off campus, on the top floor of an old clapboard house in Yellow Springs, Ohio. I was writing my bachelor’s thesis on ...