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FROM KOLAJ 32
Hot Sauce Collage!
In Kolaj #32, we report that collagist Simon Blake directed a Crystal Hot Sauce Campaign. Alligators ride the streetcar. Skeletons play in a jazz band. A woman in the French Quarter catches a hot sauce-dressed oyster poboy. The campaign, “How New Orleans Does Flavor”, will run in print, on billboards, as well as in television spots and on social media. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Moment/um
Janice McDonald at Spark Gallery in Denver, Colorado. The artist says about her work in the show, "While momentum has sometimes seemed elusive, I’ve found refuge amidst torn bits of reclaimed color and imagery, slowly solving puzzles of my own making. The result: small collage works with an uncertain and dynamic balance— reflective of our time— offering moments of solace, quiet joy, and hope." MORE
FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Intuition & Intentional Order
Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Melissa Donoho’s process is about building layers of materials, textures, and colors, giving them time and space to develop relationships or simply be themselves. Each piece she creates highlights the give and take of intuition and intentional order. Donoho’s intent is to embrace the innate qualities of the materials, letting their imperfections and inherent qualities tell the story of their past while elevating them into a new form and sense of place. MORE
COLLAGE ON VIEW
A Field
Kandis Williams at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA through 1 August 2021. Through a combination of sculpture, video, photographic collage and installation, A Field addresses the regimes of control associated with Black labor, including at prison farms in Virginia. The exhibition transforms the ICA’s top-floor gallery into a horticultural environment filled with plant sculptures, drawing connections between the oppression of Black people in America and the world of non-human plant life, and exploring the ways in which people, much like the crops they cultivate, can be subject to exploitation and control. MORE
CALL TO ARTISTS
Collage Artist Residency: Money Money
Deadline to apply: May 26, 2021. During this project-driven artist residency, collage artists work together to create a series of collages that illustrate Eleanor H. Porter’s 1918 novel, Oh, Money! Money!. The result will be a book published by Kolaj Institute. The residency is being done in conjunction with “The Money $how” at Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The book will be released at an event in July. MORE
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MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
Postales Uruguayas
The Uruguay Collagistas Collective asks collagists far and wide to post a collage on Instagram featuring the color blue, in honor of the Uruguayan flag, and tag their account. The group will be reposting the submissions throughout the day on World Collage Day. MORE
WARSAW, POLAND
Collage Artist Extravaganza Party
8-10PM CEST. In commemoration of World Collage Day a group of collage artists from around the world are hosting a “Collage Artist Extravaganza Party” vía Zoom. This happy gathering celebrates the relationships between collage artists around the world. The hosts say “We´re going to have a ball! Wear a costume, bring your own drinks, come if you dare!” MORE
Recent Publications
Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. We not only hope you enjoy the articles and images in Kolaj #32, we hope it leads you to asking great questions.
CURRENT ISSUE
Kolaj #32
In the Kolaj #32's editorial, Ric Kasini Kadour writes, “I often find myself saying, Collage is powerful magic. The collage community often feels like we are off in our own private corner of the art world. We excel at sharing that collage magic with each other. How can we do better sharing it with the rest of the world?” 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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Members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Societies support the work of Kolaj Institute while receiving an item from Kolaj each month. Those who join before 15 May 2021 will receive Kolaj #32. LEARN MORE
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SPECIAL EDITION
World Collage Day 2021
In honour of World Collage Day, May 8, 2021, 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 World Collage Day 2021 Special Edition includes a booklet, a World Collage Day 2021 poster and a pack of 8 postcards featuring the work of Red Collage. MORE
Note: The World Collage Day Special Edition is not included in a regular Kolaj Magazine subscription.
COLLAGE BOOK
Unfamiliar Vegetables: Variations in Collage
Unfamiliar 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 Communities
The 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
BOOK
Radical Reimaginings
The 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
BOOK
Collage Magic
by Emma Anna
Part autobiography, part fantasy, Emma Anna’s vision of The New Old World (aka The NOW) fuses vintage ephemera with modern imaging technologies. Emma shapes this strange world by using the pen tool from Adobe Photoshop as her magic wand, in the process declaring herself to be a “collage magician”. Part artist book, part document of art making, Collage Magic, from La Casa Verde Editions, is Emma Anna’s journey through magic and art. MORE
BOOK
Revolutionary Paths
When 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 Deconstructions
Collage 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
Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society. Each issue of Kolaj Magazine is dedicated to 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.
