Denise Wolf

Denise Wolf is an artist, licensed art therapist, and Associate Clinical Professor at Drexel University.  Her work spans altered books, hand papermaking, installation, and creative place making and community care. Using handmade paper and reclaimed materials, she explores fragility and strength, loss and repair, presence and absence. Influenced by neuroscience, social engagement, and contemporary craft, her work investigates how material transformation can reveal hidden stories and embodied experience. Her artist books challenge conventional reading through touch, movement, and reflection. Through experimental forms and process-based inquiry, Wolf creates opportunities for contemplation, connection, and the imaginative reconstruction of what has been broken, lost, or overlooked.

Wordle Poetry began as a daily practice. While solving Wordle puzzles, I found myself experiencing an almost immediate narrative response to the sequence of words entered in pursuit of the solution. What started as fleeting associations evolved into short poems constructed from the puzzle's vocabulary. During the summer, I began pairing these texts with digital collages built from photographs in my camera roll, creating what I affectionately call "Wordle Jawns." As the collection has grown, a larger narrative has begun to emerge, revealing unexpected themes, connections, and personal reflections. The project embraces vulnerability, play, and the transformative power of language. Collaborations with Shannon Brock and Sok Song have expanded the work's possibilities, reinforcing my belief in artmaking as a relational process and storytelling as a means of communicating with both others and oneself.