#artist profile
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.
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.
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
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.
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.
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
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.
CALL TO ARTISTS
POST IT!
Deadline: Sunday, 8 May 2022. Three years after the World Collage Atlas project, COUPEE launches a brand new project for World Collage Day. A huge exposition of hundreds of small collages, made by artists all over the world. But to achieve this they need you to spread the word, and to make lots of tiny Post it collages. The submitted collages will be exhibited the weekend of World Collage Day at de Krook, Ghent, Belgium’s public library and new tourist hotspot. Afterwards, a selection of the collages will be printed as Post-It blocs and the collection will be available for other expositions worldwide! 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.
CALL TO ARTISTS
KAOS 2022 Open Call: Silence in Chaos
Deadline: Thursday, 5 May 2022. This year, the KAOS Festival of Contemporary Collage is questioning the meaning of silence, exploring the relationship between silence and sound and the visual. The jury will select 22 works from all the submissions, which will be exhibited in the form of printed digital collages and sound collages as part of a group exhibition at Layer House, Kranj, Slovenia and at street gallery Na mestu. Kolaj Institute’s Coordinator, Christopher Kurts, is on the jury this year. Kurts writes, “As a fan of plunderphonics and remix culture I’m excited to see the diversity of interpretations for this theme. How does one represent silence through sound and visuals?” 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.
CALL TO ARTISTS
ColabCollage
Deadline: Tuesday, 10 May 2022 (residents of Europe only). Brazilian-Swiss collagist Ana Barros’ idea for World Collage Day 2022 is to create together! Ana will start a collage on an A6 sheet (148x105mm) and mail it to the participants to finish it. Participants have until Tuesday, 10 May 2022 to complete it and send her a photo (or scanned image). Ana will put all the artworks together and prepare a video with them to celebrate World Collage Day. For logistical reasons, Ana can only mail starter collages to residents of Europe. A digital starter collage will be made available for non-Europeans to take part. 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.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - LAKE FOREST PARK, WASHINGTON, USA
World Collage Day at ShoreLake Arts Gallery
14 May 2022, Noon-3PM PDT | Shorelake Arts Gallery | 17171 Bothell Way NE. Bring your scissors and join Andrea Lewicki, The Sewing Collage Artist, for a collaborative collage party celebrating World Collage Day! Together we will collage flowers that will later be sewn together to create a community garden mural. Glue sticks and paper will be available as long as supplies last. You are welcome to bring a magazine or collage materials to share. Lewicki will provide examples and templates. No previous collage experience is needed to participate in this free event! MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Joyful, Whimsical & Dark
Winscombe, North Somerset, United Kingdom. Ros Cuthbert embraces joyful, whimsical and dark imagery. Musical, theatrical, ecological, socio-political and personal themes permeate her work. Cuthbert has worked with a variety of materials and for the past few years has explored collage with paint and graphic media. The colored or printed pieces offer a visual conversation between design and meaning which can allow the image to develop in surprising ways. 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.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA
CUTTING EDGE Collage-a-Rama Exhibition Artist Talk on-line via Zoom
14 May 2022, 11AM PDT | Arc Gallery, online via Zoom | 1246 Folsom Street
Celebrate the art of collage with San Francisco artists during the “CUTTING EDGE” World Collage Day Artist Talk in conjunction with the "CUTTING EDGE" Collage-a-Rama Exhibition in the Project Gallery at Arc. All of the work was made during collage-making sessions at Arc Gallery. Featured artists include Carrington Arredondo, Glenn Bachmann, Johnny Botts, Dianne Hoffman, Priscilla Otani, Barbara Pollak-Lewis, Steve Sweetser, Stephen C. Wagner, and Tanya Wilkinson. The exhibition runs 9 April-7 May 2022 with an opening reception Saturday, 9 April, 7-9PM. Register in advance for the Artist Talk on Zoom. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Corporeal Gestures
at the Portland State University School of Architecture in Portland, Oregon, USA through 29 April 2022. In 2019, collage artist Clive Knights put out an international call for submissions from collage artists, asking them to respond to nine “muses”, characterized as the bodily necessities of breathing, nourishing, sleeping, discharging waste, procreating, resisting the earth’s pull, communicating, aging and dying. The result is an exhibition of work by more than 100 collage artists from twenty-one countries. The work presents a diverse response to the ways in which our actions, rhythms, relationships and shared experience of being alive are both predetermined and made possible by the modicum of matter borrowed from the world that constitutes each of our bodies. The project challenged collage artists to consider how one’s body is activated in the world–acting, gesturing, making–amidst the shared rhythms pertaining to our common, mortal predicament in a single, unfolding cosmos. 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.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - FANØ, DENMARK
World Collage Day Exhibition
14 May-7 June 2022 | Fanø Plejecenter | Sønder Engvej 2. Between 15-20 amateur collage artists will have work on display for this exhibition. The call for artists asked for collage work from artists that had never shown in an exhibition before, giving an opportunity for those that are just beginning their collage journey. Located in the garden of the Care Center, there will be music and drinks. All are welcome. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
The Art of Jean LaMarr
at the Nevada Museum of Art through 29 May 2022. “The Art of Jean LaMarr” is a major retrospective of the work of one the most influential Native American artists practicing today. The exhibition presents more than 100 paintings, prints, and sculptures spanning five decades of the art and activism of Jean LaMarr (b. 1945), whose melding of post-modern eclecticism and Native American motifs and subject matter has affirmed the dignity of Native American women, addressed the legacy of colonialism, and above all sounded a ringing “rejection of the idea of the vanished American Indian.” 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.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - BOLOGNA, ITALY
Collazine: Artists at Risk Fundraiser
14 May 2022 | Collazine | Online. Wars, pandemics, climate change. The world seems to be an unsafe place to live in today and when we think that the only refuge may be in a better future, we realize that we are already living it, and should navigate it with care. It’s not possible to erase the past, but let’s imagine we have a blank sheet ready to rewrite a new story lived by moments of quiet, optimism and trust. We imagine a different future, but one so close that it can almost be touched. On the occasion of World Collage Day, Collazine will launch a fundraiser in support of Artists at Risk, a non-profit organization that since 2013 has been assisting artists who are politically vulnerable and are fleeing oppression and war in 26 locations, in 19 countries around the world. Artists at Risk hosts persecuted artists, writers, curators, critics and scholars by facilitating their safe passage from their countries of origin, hosting them at Artists at Risk Residencies and curating related projects. On rapso.org, unpublished collages made by ten international artists, inspired by the theme, a prompt to create a candid space in pursuit of a different future, will be made available for purchase. All proceeds will be donated to Artists at Risk. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Reveal What’s Beneath
Brooklyn, New York, USA. Meghan Larimer’s collages are her visual diary, interpretations of thoughts and observations, therapy for her wild range of feelings, and a visualization of the poetic narrative in her head. They vary from whimsical to violent, dreamy and surreal. Inspired by the unintentional collage of New York and other cities, Larimer writes, “The street art and walls tell a story of the transient art that is constantly changing with every tag, poster, and attempt to cover it all up with a fresh coat of paint, only to be peeled away to reveal what’s beneath. I try to replicate this beautiful process in my work.” 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.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Hello Collage
14 May 2022, Noon-5PM CDT | Palacio de Minería | Calle de Tacuba 5, Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. Artifício Postal, the community-facing, workshop-oriented collage practice of Selene Ramírez, is celebrating the ability to meet again on this year’s World Collage Day. Ramírez invites you to join her for a community experience centered around collage. Three events will take place throughout the day. The first event is a collage workshop from Noon-1:30PM. The second event is a meet-up from 2-5PM where artists and enthusiasts can discuss collage and get to know each other. The culminating event is a forum from 3-4PM where the public can get to know the people who are making collage in Mexico City. Each event takes place within the Palacio de Minería, a beautiful historical building located in the center of the city. All events are free and open to the public, however the first two events require registration. To register, send an email to [email protected]. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
COLLAGE RESIDENCY
Poetry & Collage Residency – Round 2
After learning a lot from March’s artists, Kolaj Institute heads back in for another round and we’re excited to announce the next twelve artists selected to participate in the Poetry & Collage Residency. Throughout April, through discussion and collaboration, the participating artists and writers will investigate 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. 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.
WORLD COLLAGE DAY - SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Belles Lettres: Collage in the Age of Covid Exhibition
12-22 May 2022 | Scratch Art Space | 67 Sydenham Road
A group of 10 Sydney-based collage students are showing their work with an exhibition opening on World Collage Day. During the Covid pandemic, Australia closed its borders and experienced one of the harshest lockdowns in the world. During this unique and uncertain time, students of the WEA, Sydney (Workers Educational Association, est. 1913.) were delivered a wonderful online weekly collage class by visual arts teacher, Brendan Vivian Smith. Over these weeks of stay-at-home orders the group created collage with images, materials, and papers that were at hand. The class also provided structure to the week and vital social connection. Collectively the group created new horizons, stories, and imaginings that brought beauty into their lives and kept their world large. This exhibition celebrates that work. MORE
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World Collage Day is May 14th, 2022.
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. On the event website, you can download a free poster, order a copy of the World Collage Day Special Edition, and see events from around the world.
EVENT WEBSITE
CALL TO ARTISTS
Create for Ukraine
Sunday, 24 April 2022, 9AM EDT/3PM CEST. Art Therapist Julia Volonts facilitates a three-hour art therapy workshop on Zoom using collage for social action to provide community support, raise funds and further awareness on the war in Ukraine. Donation Fee to Participate: $25 USD. All proceeds will go to the Kyiv Collage Collective. 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.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Look Around
Deadline: Wednesday, 20 April 2022 at 11:59PM EDT (0359 UTC). As part of World Collage Day 2022, Quebec Collage invites amateur and professional collagists from around the world to participate in “Look Around” by creating a circular collage. This project is inspired by the meditative exercises of the Japanese Enso. Participants are called on to explore their individuality, beauty, imagination, promotional gestures, and intuition. “Look Around” invites the participants to make their own circle, create within that space, and then open up to others by looking without judgment at their works, contemplating and marveling at their diversity. 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.
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.
