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COLLAGE EVENT

Open Studio with Kolaj Institute Artist-in-Residence Candace Caston

Saturday, 27 April 2024 from 1-3PM at Kolaj Institute.

Candace Caston is a collagist originating from New Orleans, Louisiana, currently residing in Decatur, Georgia. In her work, she primarily uses paper and water-based media to explore the memory of place. During her Kolaj Institute Artist Residency, Caston will make a visual archive of New Orleans that she will use to make collage that explores memory and place. This work will be infused with parts of her family’s story and with her memories attached to New Orleans. On Saturday, 27 April 2024 from 1-3PM, Caston will host an open house during which she will share the artwork she made while in residence and speak about her research in New Orleans. FREE. RSVP

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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COLLAGE WORKSHOP

Abstract Collage

Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 7-9PM at Kolaj Institute.

The Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist Etel Adnan said, “Abstract art was the equivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words, but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.” The freedom of abstract or non-representational art makes it an ideal way to engage with the medium of collage. In this workshop, participants will explore color, texture, and composition as they assemble an 8″x10″ abstract collage on paper they can take home. The workshop is led by Ric Kasini Kadour, artist, writer, and Director of Kolaj Institute. Cost: $25 per participant. REGISTER

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COLLAGE EXHIBITION

Collage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art

19 April-26 May 2024 at Kolaj Institute.. The premise of the exhibition “Collage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art” is that science has the capacity to tell us how to care for the planet, but those solutions are meaningless if humanity doesn’t care enough to evolve and change. Art is a unique technology that can distill complexity into simple human gestures that, when experienced, facilitate a deeper understanding of our world. The exhibition shows examples of artwork that speaks to environmental issues and offers us an opportunity to intellectually and emotionally foster a healthy relationship with the natural world.

Artworks from invited artists will be joined by collage made during the Collage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art Artist Residency, where artists from across North America spend five days in New Orleans exploring how they adapt their artist practice to speak to the complexities of environmental issues and contribute to a broader dialogue on sustainability and ecological consciousness.

The exhibition and artist residency, “Collage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art” is part of Kolaj Institute’s project, Politics in Collage, a series of residencies, publications, discussions, and exhibitions examining complex socio-political issues that contemporary society is contending with, in order to spark meaningful dialogue and inspire deeper engagement. Read More

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Not Conveyable Through Words

Astoria, New York, USA. Through mixed media collage, Stacey Burgay physically manifests feelings and emotions not conveyable through words. Process is integral to her practice. She absorbs her environment and surroundings by collecting found materials to use in conjunction with painted papers and her own photography. She adds, removes, and excavates papers and layers of paint to construct narratives founded on emotional states— happiness, sadness, anger, grief—and feelings—joy, anxiety, loss, and a sense of otherness. Read More

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COLLAGE EVENT

Kolaj Institute Celebrates Earth Day

Saturday, 20 April & Sunday, 21 April 2024 at Kolaj Institute. In honor of Earth Day 2024, Kolaj Institute is hosting a series of events as part of The Recycle Challenge's St. Claude Avenue Festival.

On Saturday, 20 April 2024, members of the Mystic Krewe of Scissors & Glue and participants in the Collage the Planet Artist Residency will join The Recycle Challenge Parade (10:30AM to Noon) as it passes by the corner of St. Claude and St. Roch Avenues.

On Sunday, 21 April 2024, the gallery will be open from Noon to 6PM where the exhibition, "Collage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art", will be on view. A Curator & Artist Talk will take place from 1PM to 2PM. From 4PM to 6PM, The Recycle Challenge will host a free workshop, "Crafting Costumes With Recyclables."

Events are free & open to everyone. Read More

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COLLAGE BOOKS

East of a 100th

Using paint and cut images, Jerome Bertrand aims to capture the essence of North American cities east of the 100th meridian. Adorned with telephone area codes, these collages are personal interpretations, a series of subconscious portraits unveiling the cultural spirit of each city. Each collage is a living testament to a city’s subconscious. Through Bertrand’s subjective interpretation, he distills key actors, major events, and unique colors defining each urban landscape. Read More

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COLLAGE WORKSHOP

PoetryXCollage: An Ekphrastic Collaboration

Sunday, 21 April, 9-10:30AM. As part of the New Orleans Poetry Festival, Christopher Kurts will lead artists and poets through an exercise of call and response that explores the intersection of collage and poetry. Utilizing an expansive supply of collage materials from the Mystic Krewe of Scissors & Glue, the collage collective Kurts runs in New Orleans, workshop attendees will start by making a twenty-minute collage. They will then pass their collages to the next person for them to write a poem inspired by or meant to juxtapose with the collage. Those poems will then be passed on to the next person to make a collage that will in turn be the inspiration for a final poem. Read More

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kolajmag · 6 days

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COLLAGE BOOKS

Odd Arcana: tarology for beginners

Odd Arcana is odd, as the title discloses. It plays with the idea of the Tarot major arcana. It respects their numbers but can’t remember their names or their symbols, so it makes them up. It starts with the images. Poems follow from within the images. There’s no plan, but there is a flow. The prose poems in italics mimic divination, but they are eminently ignorant of the art, so they don’t know what they are saying. They pretend but from the bottom of their heart. The reader is free to bluntly ignore them. They don’t mind. Read More

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Chemistry

Michael Sjostedt at Assemble Made and Curated in Northampton, Massachusetts, USA through 30 April 2024. Postcards were a big part of Michael Sjostedt’s childhood, filled with images of lighthouses, roadside motels, and flamingos. He never thought about using vintage postcards for his collages until a studio clean-up led him to a hidden stash beneath old romance comic books and some graphic chemistry transparencies. Seeing these random materials together, he couldn’t help but wonder how they might work in unison. Collage, being a forgiving medium, was the perfect playground for this experiment. Read More

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KOLAJ NEWS

Solo Artist Resident: Julie A. Bell

From Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Julie A. Bell is in residence at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans until 15 April 20024 where she is working in a maximalist, abstract style, using found materials, handmade paper, acrylics and inks, Bell will develop a series of collages that explores the history and tourist culture of the city. Her unique and eclectic imagery is rooted in the exploration of place, traditional culture and the evolving social landscape. Using found materials, handmade paper, acrylics and inks, Bell carefully constructs compositions that are full of energetic color and layered meaning. Read More

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FROM THE PRINT ISSUE

Evolving Collage Practice

Anna Innocenti reflects on the time she spent as an artist-in-residence in Sanquhar, Scotland. She writes, "More than a year later, I am aware of the extraordinary impact that this Artist Residency brought to my collage work, all touched by some novelty in the use of materials, the selection of the photographs or the chosen subjects." Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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FROM THE PRINT ISSUE

Eduardo Martinez's Artist Portfolio

Barcelona, Spain. "With elements as simple and economical as magazine clippings, old photos, textures, found objects or simply a modest computer, you can reinvent images or scenes of parallel worlds and authentic beauty." Each issue of Kolaj Magazine features portfolios of contemporary artists alongside critical commentary as a means of developing a deeper understanding of collage as both a medium and a genre. To be considered, register with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory. Read More

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

A Fluid and Whimsical Landscape

New York, New York, USA. Naomi Friedman works through the medium of physical and digital collage art. Their dedication to emergent praxis centers the importance of found objects and community testimony as guides to the creative process, rather than simply materials or static inspiration. Their work explores the creation of a fluid and whimsical landscape that defies the metaphysical and highlights intentional human connection. Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY EVENT

Place, Memory & Distance: BYOC (Bring Your Own Collage)

20 April, 1-6PM & 11 May Atelier 818 8 East 18th Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia V5V 1C9 Canada

Atelier 8.18 is putting out a call for mail art that explores ideas and senses around the theme of: Place, Memory and Distance. How do we remember spaces and places? How does distance impact or change relationships with communities and locations? As we move and exist around the world in different locations and cultures, how does that transform us? All types of media will be considered. Work must fit in 5 x 5 square and must be able to be mailed. All collage art must arrive by April 26th. Mailing the artwork to Atelier 8.18 you are knowingly releasing the work to be sold on World Collage Day on May 11th for the purpose of fundraising for the operation costs of Atelier 8.18 and will be displayed at the closing of the exhibition: “Place, Memory and Distance” This show will be connected to the current exhibition which features work by: Alison Keenan, Ideet Sharon, Simon Fleming, and on May 11th showcase works with visiting artist in residence Viviana Maidanik. On April 20th, BYOC (Bring Your Own Collage) will be a collage-making event where you can make a 5 x 5 collage for the Little White Square Postcard Project. Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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WORLD COLLAGE DAY EVENT

Call to Artists: Collage Offering – Street Collage Exhibition

9 May, 7PM-open ended Studio RGF Arriaza 11 Madrid 28008 Spain

Deadline: April 30th. This year Fantasía Collage will once again celebrate with a three-day POPUP with guided tours and an exhibition of the submitted collages at the StudioRGF in Madrid. Artists are invited to make a collage in any size, preferably without a background, in which the flowers are the protagonists. The collages will not be returned. Once the exhibition is over, they will be pasted on the street. Fantasía Collage writes, “May is the month of abundance, of harvests. The fields are filled with intense colors and flowers are in their maximum splendor. This year Fantasía Collage proposes flooding the streets by filling the walls with flowers and colors. Honoring the Holy Scissors, our pagan collage goddess, with an exhibition that symbolizes a huge altar (mural) for her. We implore you with our Collages Offerings for the end of wars and for the end of violence against the weakest. We want to make this day an artistic festival that celebrates life with respect and love.” Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Graphic Paper

The Art of Cutting Things Out with Alison Kurke at the Borders Textile Towerhouse in Hawick, Scotland 13 April-15 June 2024. American collagist, now resident of the Scottish Borders, Alison Kurke presents collages that are an overview of a studio practice that has evolved over the past twenty years. She makes collage because she likes cutting things out, combining them and pasting them down in pleasing arrangements. Retirement has its advantages and focused play is vastly underrated. At the opening reception on Saturday, 13 April, 1-3PM, is the launch of Standard Processes in Dressmaking, a collaged altered book by nine members of the International Collage Community, led by Kurke. Using E. Lucy Towers’s iconic, 1948 instruction manual as a point of departure, artists added fragments to the pages of the book as a means of exploring womanhood and fashion. Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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kolajmag · 14 days

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Graphic Paper, Street Collage, Whimsical Landscapes and Calls to Artists

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY A Fluid and Whimsical Landscape Naomi Friedman | New York, New York, USA

KOLAJ NEWS Solo Artist Resident: Julie A. Bell

FROM THE PRINT ISSUE Eduardo Martinez's Artist Portfolio in Kolaj #39

FROM THE PRINT ISSUE Evolving Collage Practice in Kolaj #39

WORLD COLLAGE DAY EVENT Call to Artists: Collage Offering – Street Collage Exhibition

WORLD COLLAGE DAY EVENT Place, Memory & Distance: BYOC (Bring Your Own Collage)

COLLAGE ON VIEW Graphic Paper: The Art of Cutting Things Out with Alison Kurke Alison Kurke at the Borders Textile Towerhouse in Hawick, Scotland

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