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Kolaj 42

In Kolaj #42, we present G.E. Vogt's collage project responding to Project 2025. Valeri Clarke reviews the kaleidoscopic work of American artist Dana Hart-Stone. British collagist Mark Murphy took his animated collage to the Glastonbury Festival. Irish collagist Anthony D Kelly interviews his sometime collaborator, Polish collagist Marta Janik. Karen Hirsch reflects on her mother Elinor's decades of collage making. We profile Montreal collagist Maria Schamis Turner's book, The Life & Fashion of Frédérick Le ShoeShoe and review Aqualamb's survey of thirteen contemporary collage artists, "Transformation", with an introduction by Paul Loughney. And so much more, including Artist Portfolios and more artists from the Kolaj Institute's Curating Collage Workshop curating work from the Institute's collection. (cover image: God by Marta Janik (11.69"8.27"; analog collage; 2018.) Courtesy of the artist.)

Learn more: https://kolajmagazine.com/content/issues/kolaj-42

Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community. 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.

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CALL TO ARTISTS

Collage the Planet: Trash as Material Artist Residency

Early Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 31 August 2025. A five-day, in-person collage artist residency in New Orleans in October 2025. You can call it refuse or detritus or reclaimed materials or recycling or you can call it what it is, Trash. In collage, materials are never neutral. From how they are sourced to how they are used, the material a collage is made of shapes the story and experience of the artwork. Alongside Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour, the residency will be co-led by Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom artist and Kolaj Institute Artist in Residence Jodie House who will present her project, "Discarded & Caught", inspired by plastic bags and other litter caught in roadside bramble in the English countryside. Artists will visit The Green Project, a salvage store and paint recycling program in the Bywater to learn about their work and explore ideas about how to use the materials on hand. They will also review an international, historic survey of artists that used trash in their work and consider how materials are never neutral in collage. During the "Collage the Planet: Trash as Material Artist Residency," artists will develop a practice of using trash as materials and make artwork for an exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans. 

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Kolaj Institute supports 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. Kolaj Institute is a 501c3 Non-profit organization registered in the State of Louisiana, USA.

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Murderous Clothes, Chaos, and Layered Characters

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY: Whitney Keller, "Surreal, Layered Narratives"

FROM THE DANCING PIXEL EXHIBITION: Nisha Alberti's "Murderous Clothes"

COLLAGE ON VIEW: Elizabeth Castaldo "-born of Chaos" at the Croton Free Library in Croton-on-Hudson, New York through 28 August 2025

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY: Racquel Keller, "L'Entre Deux"

COLLAGE ON VIEW: Brandon Thomas Brown "Ancestry" at Pinkwater Gallery in Kingston, New York through 2 September 2025

CALL FOR PRESENTERS: COLLAGE::BOOKS in Montreal, Deadline 24 August 2025

CALL TO ARTISTS: Big Orange Monster, Deadline to receive work 4 September 2025

CALL TO ARTISTS: Collage the Planet: Trash as Material Artist Residency in New Orleans, Early Deadline 31 August 2025

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CALL TO ARTISTS

Photography & Collage Virtual Artist Residency

Final Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, 19 August 2025. The Photography & Collage Virtual Artist Residency will invite photographers and collage artists to come together in dialogue, learn from one another, and make artwork for a series of exhibitions that explore the intersection of collage and photography. Unfolding in two tracks over the course of a month, we will ask, What happens when a collagist picks up the camera? What happens when a photographer collages their pictures? Presentations will explore collage in theory, artist practice, the ecosystem of art, the state of photography, and the history of photography and collage. Artists will shoot with their own camera, in whatever process they choose (film & develop or digital & print), and then make collage with the photographs they take.

Read more: https://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/calls-for-artists/call-to-artists-photography-collage-virtual-artist-residency/

Kolaj Institute supports 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. Kolaj Institute is a 501c3 Non-profit organization registered in the State of Louisiana, USA.

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Arrests, Refractures, and More Calls to Artists

FROM SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION: Arrested by Jay Berrones (Mexico City) curated by Jamie Hughes (New Orleans)

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY: Colleen Hammond, "Show All the 'Ah' That I See"

CATC PACK 10 SPOTLIGHT: Beth I. Robinson

COLLAGE ON VIEW: RE|FRACT|URE at Replicant Beer & Wine in Portland, Oregon, USA through 1 September 2025

COLLAGE ON VIEW: "Where Photography Meets Collage" at the NOPA Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 14 August 2025

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: "Why Collage?", Deadline 15 August 2025

CALL FOR PRESENTERS: COLLAGE::BOOKS in Montreal, Deadline 24 August 2025

CALL TO ARTISTS: Big Orange Monster, Deadline to receive work 4 September 2025

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Weaving an Address, Architectural Outcome, & The Night the Ghost Got In

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Anna Belleforte, Utrecht, The Netherlands

COLLAGE ON VIEW "Weaving an Address" at The Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts, USA

COLLAGE ARTIST TRADING CARDS, PACK 10 "No Need to Limp Now, Boy" by Kirk Read, Portland, Oregon, USA

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Andrea Lewicki, Carnation, Washington, USA

COLLAGE ON VIEW "The Night the Ghost Got In" at the Fencework Gallery in Portland, Oregon, USA

KOLAJ 41: Selections from the Collection: "Fronteras" by Karla Rodriguez (Nicaragua) curated by Bettina Homann (Germany)

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AT KOLAJ INSTITUTE

Open Studio with Kolaj Institute Artist-in-Residence Melissa Eder

During her Solo Residency at Kolaj Institute, New York City-based artist Melissa Eder has continued to explore her “Still Life with a View” project. She is making more elaborate still lifes in the studio which she is photographing and creating mixed media works on canvas. The works include images of New York City and New Jersey, as well as photographs that she has taken in and of New Orleans.

On Saturday, January 11, 2025, 2-4PM, the public is invited to visit Kolaj Institute Gallery to meet the artist and see how the artwork is progressing. (image: detail of Still Life with Double Pics by Melissa Eder (24"x20"; acrylic paint, gouache and collage of the artist's photos on canvas; 2023). Courtesy of the artist.)

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Adhesions At the University of Warsaw Library Gallery in Warsaw, Poland through 19 January 2025. “Adhesions: International Exhibition of Collage in Artbooks and Artzines” showcases a broad spectrum of collage techniques used by artists working in book art, zines, and visual poetry. It introduces the audience to the work of artists from around the world–from Japan, through Germany and Portugal, to Latin America. A diverse range of personalities is represented, drawing from a rich array of influences: from local artistic traditions, through Dadaist experiments in the spirit of Kurt Schwitters, to contemporary independent publications in grunge style. Nearly 200 objects are on display in the gallery, including original, hand-crafted collages, art zines, art books, and digital collages. Work is by thirty-five artists from fourteen countries and twelve independent publishers. Curated by Anna Kłos, PhD and Miguel Correia and organized by the University of Warsaw Library Promotion Department and Retroavangarda. (image: artzines by Pere Sousa. Courtesy of the artist.) READ MORE

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

The Noise of Us

At the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA through 8 March 2025. This exhibition features the work of four artists who visualize the cacophonous experiences of memory-making and recall through their collage-like practices. Felipe Baeza, Ori Gersht, Simonette Quamina, and Maika’i Tubbs each integrates various materials and techniques to create art objects that are physically, visually, and conceptually layered. In the resulting works, forms continually appear and disappear, raising questions about how certain figures and narratives fade in and out of conscious memory. Composed of numerous distinct elements, these works draw attention to the interweaving of selective memories that contribute to experiences of migration, formations of identity, and senses of belonging. Curated by Elissa Watters. (image: Flower 02 (Rijksmuseum) by Ori Gersht (46.5″x35″; archival pigment print; 2021.) © Ori Gersht. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson.) 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 ARTIST DIRECTORY

The Sustainability of Storytelling

Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Judith Pelgrom writes, "It is fascinating to create collage art with existing imagery and contribute to the sustainability of storytelling through images. It’s a meditative process and once in that state, the only thing that exists is flow. Creating any independent artwork consists of immersing myself in a visually dynamic process. I am able to start the creative process, from which the composition within the artwork becomes a new whole from the constituent parts." (image: People Watching Art by Judith Pelgrom (60″x50″; paper and gouache paint; 2023). Courtesy of the artist.) 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 ARTIST DIRECTORY Intersectionality

London, England, United Kingdom. Melina Merlin writes, "My work is centered around the intersectionality of my gender, sexual orientation, Afro-Mexican-Greek heritages, and current experiences while maintaining a connection to my ancestry. As a social justice activist, I use narrative figurative drawing to incorporate memories, histories, and magic realism. I document and reimagine my life experiences to elevate the stature and prestige of women and their lives while challenging existing power structures." (image: Eve Before Adam II (Playing Under the Fig Tree) by Melina Merlin (68″x48″; charcoal, pastels on paper; 2023). Courtesy of the artist.) 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 ARTIST DIRECTORY

Rebuilding Culture

Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Jennifer Lentfer's collage and poetry are focused on rebuilding culture, as well as honoring lineage and community. Lentfer's people are the people of the Great Plains, the horizon, the 360-degree view. They are the people of four seasons and four-part harmony. They are resolute, resourceful, and stubborn descendants of German settlers to south-central Nebraska, who benefitted from the Homestead Act to occupy land stolen from the Pawnee people. Lentfer believes if we can claim our own personal, devastating truths, we can take bolder action together. Her work attempts to assure us all of grace and create intentional opportunities for community dialogue. (image: She Kept Loving by Jennifer Lentfer (10″x10″; paper, magazine; 2023). Courtesy of the artist.) READ MORE

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RESIDENCY UPDATE Virtual Collage Artist Residency: Castles as Buildings, Metaphors, & Systems of Power As part of a year-long investigation of castles as buildings, metaphors, and systems of power, Kolaj Institute hosted a month-long virtual artist residency in November and December 2024 focused on castles and the space they occupy in our contemporary imagination. The residency built on the work done by artists in Collage Artist Residency: Scotland and New Orleans where artists explored feudal castle systems, manor houses, and plantations as buildings, metaphors, and systems of power. Artists in the virtual residency attended from Canada, England, Scotland and the US. (image: Cesare Borgia_Gunfire by Yujia Jin (16.5″x11.7″; paper from magazine and history books, paint, glitter; 2023.) Courtesy of the artist.) READ MORE

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RESIDENCY UPDATE

Poetry & Collage Residency December 2024

In December and early January, Kolaj Institute Coordinator Christopher Kurts led the third iteration of the Collage & Poetry residency and guided 11 artists from Bangladesh, Turkey and the US in collaborative activities, research and discussion, and understanding the technical needs of design and layout necessary to submit page spreads to PoetryXCollage. Ric Kasini Kadour spoke about artist practice, the book as a place for collage, and how Kolaj Institute works to diffuse collage and poetry. Rod T. Boyer creates art and poetry under the moniker our thomas, exploring themes of redemption, mystery, and transformation. In Kolaj #32, his article, “Mind the Gap,” explored how collage and haiku share similar mechanisms of juxtaposition and disjunction. He spoke to these themes during the residency. (image: Observation from the Tower by Ayse Derin Ergenc (10″x13.4″; analog collage on paper; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.) READ MORE

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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS

The Big Print Fundraiser

Last Chance! The fundraiser ends on 31 December 2024! Want to see your collage BIG? For a $50 donation to support Kolaj Institute, we'll print one of your collages on a 24"x36" piece of paper—an opportunity to scale up your work and help elevate collage as a medium in the contemporary art world. Your donation helps fund programs like our gallery exhibitions, artist residencies, and educational workshops that support and grow the global collage community. Make your donation today and get your BIG PRINT! 

Thank you Nancy Kay Turner for your donation. Your BIG PRINT is on its way to you.

To learn more, visit https://kolajinstitute.org/big-print-fundraiser/

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(image by Jennifer Lentfer)

THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Rebuilding Culture, Intersectionality, Adhesions & The Noise of Us

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Melina Merlin, London, United Kingdom

COLLAGE ON VIEW "The Noise of Us" at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

COLLAGE ON VIEW "Adhesions" at the University of Warsaw Library Gallery in Warsaw, Poland FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Judith Pelgrom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

RESIDENCY UPDATE Poetry & Collage Residency December 2024 

RESIDENCY UPDATE Virtual Collage Artist Residency: Castles

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Jennifer Lentfer - Rebuilding Culture

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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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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS

The Big Print Fundraiser

Last Chance! The fundraiser ends on 31 December 2024! Want to see your collage BIG? For a $50 donation to support Kolaj Institute, we'll print one of your collages on a 24"x36" piece of paper—an opportunity to scale up your work and help elevate collage as a medium in the contemporary art world. Your donation helps fund programs like our gallery exhibitions, artist residencies, and educational workshops that support and grow the global collage community. Make your donation today and get your BIG PRINT! 

Thank you Katy Giebenhain for your donation. Your BIG PRINT is on its way to you.

To learn more, visit https://kolajinstitute.org/big-print-fundraiser/