FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Responsibility & Memory

Santa Barbara, California, USA. Jana Zimmer’s work includes monotype, collage, assemblage and mixed media on the themes of historical and political responsibility and memory. Zimmer recently participated in Kolaj Institute’s Politics and Collage Residency and she was a panelist at COLLAGE::BOOKS Symposium at Volume 2 MTL in 2019. 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 COMMUNITIES

Nashville Collage Collective

The Nashville Collage Collective was at first a collaborative foursome, Lisa Haddad, Eva Sochorova, robert bruce scott, and Randy L Purcell, which eventually became The Four Corners, allowing the Collective to open itself to the larger community. Meeting in studios and public places since 2010, members share whatever they bring to the table resulting in a communal stash of materials, cross-pollinating partnerships and inspiration for beginners and pros alike. The collective’s goal is to maintain the good thing that has evolved over the past decade: a safe space for expression with respect for any creative process involving the juxtaposition of stuff. 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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CALL TO ARTISTS

Todo y Nada

Deadline: Friday, 15 April 2022. Vayo Collage Gallery invites artists to submit small collage works on the theme “Todo y Nada” (“Everything and Nothing”) for an upcoming exhibition in celebration of the 5th annual World Collage Day.⁣ Submissions will be displayed in the gallery from 14-31 May 2022 and will become part of a World Collage Day poster published by Vayo Collage Gallery. ⁣In addition, a selection of fifty-two entries will be printed as a full-color deck of playing cards. ⁣A panel of five guest jurors will be choosing the collages for this printed deck through a blind jurying process. 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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Sensitive

Carolyn Boll at Galerie ERGA in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 30 March-3 April 2022. Using her collage book, A Day in the Life of a Highly Sensitive Person, as a departure point, Carolyn Boll’s “Sensitive” reflects the playful potential of the partnering between poetry, image, and dance. Just in time for National Poetry Month with this year’s theme of intimacy, Boll named the show “Sensitive” because of her collage book, created over many years of coming out, and also because of the layers of meaning the word has for her. It is a word that is too often used to suggest one should be less sensitive than they are, when sensitivity is actually such a valuable gift. Boll also loves how the word evokes secrets as in “sensitive information“. 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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Men on Mars

Mary A. Johnson at Box13 ArtSpace in Houston, Texas, USA through 30 April 2022. A window glowing in pinks and reds of an imaginary Martian landscape reminiscent of the idealized American West, Men on Mars investigates how myth plays a central role in how we experience our own spaces and selves and colors our perception of others. It uses imagery of recent corporate space travel while sardonicizing themes of adventure, exploration and national exceptionalism found in mythic structures. The work pulls from ancient Chinese myth texts Shan Hai Jin and Journey to the West and hybridizes them with American mythology: historical (e.g., Paul Bunyan), contemporary (e.g., Captain America), and ideal (e.g., The American Dream). 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 ARTIST DIRECTORY

Shattering Expectations

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Society puts a lot of pressure on women to be a certain way. Elysé Jokinen creates collage art to shatter those expectations. Jokinen starts by collecting, altering and intuitively arranging images. Once the clippings find their perfect coordinates on the page, they’re glued by hand with classic rock playing in the background. Her work reminds viewers that there’s beauty in who you are, no matter what you’re told to be. It represents freedom, femininity, equality and yes, a bit of magic. 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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This Woman’s Work

at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Alumni Gallery through 10 April 2022. “This Woman’s Work” is an exploration of the representation and materiality of the feminine in our culture through the manipulation of mass-produced materials and the performative and pastiche elements of post-modern discourse. Artists Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Daria Souvorova, Sofya Mirvis, and Brian James Spies explore what femininity is in our culture right now through mediums and methodologies rooted as much in traditional notions of “women’s work” as they are in dialogue with contemporary art and culture. 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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Post: Rethink the Future

at The Blender Gallery in Glyfada, Greece through 30 April 2022. The meta unfortunately is the loss of innocence! It is the realization that tomorrow will probably not be as we imagine or as we wish it to be. Konstantions Patsios, Valentina Biasetti, Alexandros Maganiotis, and Demetrio Di Grado express a critical reflection on the contemporary: who we are and who we will be. Collage, for its extreme synthetic ductility, along with iconographic research and the use of metaphor as a communicative and reflective tool, allowed the artists to express their vision of the world at various levels. The exhibition was curated by Francesco Piazza. 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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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Rethinking the Future, Women’s Work, & Men on Mars

COLLAGE ON VIEW
Post: Rethink the Future
at The Blender Gallery in Glyfada, Greece 

COLLAGE ON VIEW
Sensitive
Carolyn Boll at Galerie ERGA in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

COLLAGE COMMUNITIES
Nashville Collage Collective

COLLAGE ON VIEW
Men on Mars
Mary A. Johnson at Box13 ArtSpace in Houston, Texas, USA 

COLLAGE ON VIEW
This Woman’s Work
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Alumni Gallery

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Shattering Expectations: Elysé Jokinen, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Responsibility and Memory: Jana Zimmer, Santa Barbara, California, USA

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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 RESIDENCY

Poetry & Collage Residency

Kolaj Institute is pleased to announce the twelve artists selected to participate in the first round of the Poetry & Collage Residency. Over the past two weeks, through discussion and collaboration, the participating artists and writers have been investigating what is at the intersection of collage and poetry. Their efforts will result in a publication of the work they’ve made throughout the month of March. Another two rounds with all new people will take place in April and September with two subsequent volumes being published. 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 ARTIST DIRECTORY

“Macgyver” Images Together

Warrensburg, Missouri, USA. Collage is the most natural medium for Casey Babb to work in. It inherently facilitates a dreamlike quality, and allows for a fair amount of free association. Although he studied illustration, printmaking, photography, and animation, Babb found that when faced with the tyranny of a blank canvas, it is a much more intuitive process for him to “macgyver” images together than to create something from absolutely nothing. 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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Cabinet of Curiosities

at Yellow Cube Gallery in Paris, France through 16 April 2022. “Cabinet of Curiosities, Contemporary Vanities Collection” offers viewers an immersion into the varied universes suggested by the artists on display; a voyage that opens the spirit to an intimate and creative journey through time. These universes both fascinate and disturb, marvel and torment, and bewilder while also bringing the viewer back to an ordinary reality. This is what a contemporary cabinet of curiosities does. 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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CALL TO ARTISTS

Collagists in the Archives

Deadline: Sunday, 17 April 2022. The materials collage artists use for the artwork can play a critical role in the work’s meaning and how it makes its way into the world. Historical archives, when one understands how to use them, can be fruitful grounds. In this virtual Residency, held in May 2022, collage artists will learn how to work with an archive to build a project that speaks to themes of community and history. Centered around the Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont, participating artists will explore their collections and develop tools they can use to work with archives in their home communities. During the residency, artists will make a collage and write a brief statement about the material used and what the collage says about community, the material in the archive and its history. The resulting artwork will be considered for an exhibition at the Henry Sheldon Museum and for inclusion in a folio of prints and a book. 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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Home

Lily Hinrichsen at the Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol, Vermont, USA through 31 March 2022. Lily Hinrichsen’s textile collages are about home, which the artist says “is where my heart is…where I cry when my heart is broken…[it] fortifies me with energy and a full heart…[and it] is my sanctuary.” A portion of the sales proceeds from these collages will go to a local homeless shelter. 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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Let’s Collage About It

at the Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier, Vermont, USA through 15 April 2022. “Let’s Collage About It” is a community exhibition of contemporary collage art by fifteen Vermont artists. The exhibit includes a variety of collage techniques by artists of different ages and mediums. The exhibit is curated by artist Jess Quinn. 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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Artist book ‘Grafia Callada/Hushed Writing’

Artist book ‘Grafia Callada/Hushed Writing’

This isn’t the post I intended for today, which I’m still writing. Instead, here is a YouTube video about a wonderful artist book I came across only this week. It is by Pepe Gimeno and is described as “a book about writing without a single word.” Watch the video, and you will see how apt that description is.

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