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COLLAGE ON VIEW Shape MakerNichole Gronvold Roller at BoxHeart Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA through 16 September 2022. How do we see? What does it mean to examine our surroundings with a fresh vision? Images may become mundane with the familiarity of repetition, resulting in a neglected or unnoticed importance and significance. Nichole Gronvold Roller constructs imaginary spaces. As a means to organize the sensations of both actual and emotional interpretation of place, her paintings are representational of her thoughts and describe the vivid energy of her invented worlds. MORE |
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CALL TO ARTISTS 56th Annual National Mother Lode Art ExhibitionDeadline to submit: Friday, 23 September 2022 at Midnight PDT. Placerville Arts Association (PAA) in California is hosting its annual show, the 56th National Mother Lode Art Exhibition, 3-19 November 2023 at the Mills Station Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) in Rancho Cordova. There is no need to be a member of Placerville Arts Association. The exhibition is open to all US-based artists, regardless of medium or theme. First prize is $500. The juror is Barbara Burge. MORE |
COLLAGE COMMUNITIES Pacific Northwest Collage CollectiveLaura Weiler and Kellette Elliott founded Pacific Northwest Collage Collective in January 2021. Inspired by other collectives around the world, and collage artists often messaging Weiler about a “collage scene in Portland,” she made the final leap on an idea that had been brewing for months. Although Portland is the primary location for PNWCC, members also live in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. Previous projects include the World Collage Day Fencework Show hosted by Clive Knights, a permanent art exhibit of international collage at Kindness Farms in Portland, and a published zine from the show at Collapse Gallery called “Paper Cuts”. The goal of PNWCC is to create an inclusive, equitable, and diverse group of collage makers to gather online and in-person in celebration of collage. MORE |
COLLAGE ON VIEW Fragmented WorldRaphaele Cohen-Bacry at the Malaga Cove Library Art Gallery in Palos Verdes Estates, California, USA through 29 August 2022. Cohen-Bacry works with many different media, and often chooses unexpected materials for her research, with a focus on art magazines and wallpaper. She writes, "This new series of collages question the cycles of life, death, decay, deconstruction, and rebirth. For my work is about metamorphosis, transfiguration, renewal, and ultimately redemption." MORE |
COLLAGE BOOKS Electronic Resistanceby Nigel Ayers. Amaya Productions, 2021. Since the late 1970s, Nigel Ayers has cut a bracing, subversive path through the contemporary underground, bridging DIY industrial enthusiasms with multimedia experimentation to form a singular body of work. ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE compiles mail-art, collages, assemblages, flyers, slides, video stills, ephemera, record and tape covers to present an arresting cross-section of the genre-sundering art Nigel Ayers created between 1980 and 1992. MORE |
CALL TO ARTISTS Collage & Illustration–The AwakeningDeadline: Sunday, August 28, 2022. During this project-driven residency, artists will explore collage as illustration and collectively produce a series of collages that illustrate Kate Chopin’s 1899 novel, The Awakening. As a group, artists will analyze the story, discuss themes, uncover symbols, ask questions, and visually interpret the text for a 21st century audience. The Awakening touches on 19th century feminist, identity, and societal themes that are still relevant today. After the residency, Kolaj institute will publish The Awakening using the illustrations made during the residency as a way of bringing this important, historical book to 21st Century readers. MORE |
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PoetryXCollage Volume One will be sent automatically to members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Societies and to those who join before August 15th, 2022. These special subscribers support the work of Kolaj Institute while receiving an item from Kolaj each month. |
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BOOK Politics in CollageIn a time where the challenges facing us as individuals and communities have grown to seemingly insurmountable levels, further exacerbated by the increasing toxicity of the political climate, artists are using their work to confront these challenges by engaging their viewers in a higher level of discourse. Through a virtual residency, twenty-five artists created collage works examining complex socio-political issues that contemporary society is contending with, in order to spark meaningful dialogue and inspire deeper engagement. MORE |
PRINT MAGAZINE Kolaj 35From the Scottish Highlands to the shores of Lake Ontario to Mombasa, Kenya, Kolaj 35 brings the wide-world of collage to your doorstep: Ellsworth Kelly‘s postcard collages, uncollage in action, collage en plein air, the practice of collecting fragments, Black collage in Baltimore, the wild artwork of a Montreal-based mushroom and pinball enthusiast, collage at New Orleans' city-wide art triennial, and more. On the cover is a collaborative collage in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, a small gesture of hope for a more peaceful world in the future. Each issue of Kolaj Magazine shows how collage artists are making their way through the world. International in scope, we explore all aspects of collage and its impact on society and culture. MORE |
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SPECIAL EDITION World Collage Day 2022In honor of World Collage Day, 14 May 2022, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine.The Special Edition is full of Cut-Out Pages and stories from inspiring collage artists.The printed magazine also includes an interview with 2022 World Collage Day Poster Artist Erin McCluskey Wheeler. MORE |
BOOK The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & CollageThe Money $how juxtaposes contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us deconstruct culture and understand the world differently. Artists collage dollar bills into flowers and mine material remnants to tell stories about home economics. MORE |
BOOK Empty Columns Are a Place to DreamA companion book to the project of the same name, Ric Kasini Kadour unpacks what monuments are and their role in our communities. The book shows what happens when collage artists reimagine monuments as sites of truth and reconciliation. The book features the collages of eighteen international artists made a series of collages that reimagined the empty column in the center of Birr, County Offaly, Ireland. MORE |
ZINE Identiblocks: Portrait #001by Mark Vargo, 2022. Vargo's project pushes the boundaries of traditional paper collage into an interactive, dynamic and 3-dimensional space allowing individuals to both create and perform their own collage mask that represents their identity, vision and emotions. MORE |
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BOOK Radical ReimaginingsThe curators of the 96-page book invited artists who use collage in their practice to put forward a work of art that offers a visual narrative that speaks to the unprecedented change unfolding in 2020. An essay by Ric Kasini Kadour reflects upon collage's unique ability to imagine new realities. Forty artists from nine countries and multiple Indigenous peoples—Salish-Kootenai/Métis-Cree/Sho-Ban, Tlingit/Nisga’a, Oglala/Lakota, and Seneca Nation—offer a variety of perspectives. The voices of Black, Latinx, Native, and white Americans mingle with those from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Canada, France, and Germany. Artwork is accompanied by a statement in which the artists describe how they want to reimagine the world. MORE |
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BOOK Revolutionary PathsWhen the collage is presented in exhibition, it is often done so without the critical framework granted other mediums. In "Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage", exhibition curator Ric Kasini Kadour presents examples of collage that represent various aspects and takes on the medium. Each work in the exhibition represents the potential for deeper inquiry and further curatorial exploration of the medium. MORE |
BOOK Cultural DeconstructionsCollage is unique as a medium in that it uses as its material artifacts from the world itself. To harvest those fragments, the artist must first deconstruct culture; they must select, cut, and remove the elements they do not wish to use and then reconstruct work that tells a new story. In "Cultural Deconstructions: Critical Issues in Collage", exhibition curator Ric Kasini Kadour presents examples of collage artists who are deconstructing identity as a way to critique culture. MORE |
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COLLAGE BOOK transitional MOMENTStransitional MOMENTS: restoring equilibrium through the art of collage includes one hundred collages selected from over 2000 submissions created from 600 collage packets sent to artists around the world for World Collage Day 2021 by the Arizona Collage Collective. transitional MOMENTS "reflects our current state of uncertainty as we wrestle with feeling constrained, disoriented and suspended in air between what was and what will be. Yet, these thresholds, unsettling as they are, can be spaces of great creativity and transformation," writes ACC's Suzanne Winkel. MORE |
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COLLAGE BOOK Unfamiliar Vegetables: Variations in CollageUnfamiliar Vegetables is a collection of collage where each of the fifty artists interpreted, in their own way, Carlotta Bonnecaze’s 1892 Carnival float design Familiar Vegetables. Project organizer Christopher Kurts observed, “Unfamiliar Vegetables is an experiment in controlled chaos….tiny variations within each artist’s creative sphere accumulate until the outcomes are as unique as the people creating them.” MORE |
COLLAGE COMMUNITIES The International Directory of Collage CommunitiesThe 104-page book is a survey of collage networks, guilds, communities, and projects as well as online efforts and groups focused on collage research. For each community, the directory presents their key activities, mission, how to join, and a bit of their history. Copious images illustrate the book. MORE |
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About Kolaj MagazineKolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini. Visit Kolaj Magazine online. WEBSITE | ARTIST DIRECTORY | SHOP About Kolaj InstituteThe mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world. ABOUT | PROGRAMS | PUBLICATIONS | NEWS | SUPPORT |
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