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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

Black Joy, Black Beauty & Blackness

Los Angeles, California, USA. Brandon Brewer's collage work involves the assembly of three elements: Black joy, Black beauty and Blackness, the representations of which he often passively absorbed as a media consumer in his youth. As an adult in the context of quarantine and Black Lives Matter, his art is both an act of self-care and political as he nurtures a pride in Black culture while also actively and positively contributing to it. 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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http://www.kolajinstitute.org/collections/schwitters-army/index.html Very pleased to be included in this exhibition of collage at the #Merz Gallery in #Scotland #MerzGallery #KolajInstitute #SchwittersArmy (at Peekskill, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Ey9nJJBK8/?igshid=1qwqguaxlkqge

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

A Form of Movement

Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom. Sylwia Kramarz is constantly experimenting with new techniques and materials to express and represent her ideas, producing images that encourage a viewer to feel some emotions that cause a reaction. For Kramarz, creating is a form of movement that gives her the energy and without it she has the feeling that she is standing still. 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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AT KOLAJ LIVE MILWAUKEE

Collage as Bridge Between Psyche & Cosmos

Illustrated with handmade and digital collages created by graduate architecture students, Clive Knights, PhD. professor at Portland State University School of Architecture, will reveal the efficacy of handmade collage work as progenitor in exploring the cultivation of human community in a context of natural cycles. Addressing themes of human necessity such as feeding, sleeping, washing and congregating, one project challenges the commodified, introspective spatial realities of the contemporary home by effectively turning it inside out to respond to its broader context. The second project addresses mental health in the houseless population and deploys collage to consider places of communal experience in the city amidst the fragmented reality of human psychic 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.

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FROM KOLAJ 32

Precise Organization & Camouflage

"The precise organization and the camouflage of the traces create a reversal of the traditional use of collage in the history of art," writes Montreal, Quebec artist Myriam Dion in Kolaj 32. "By multiplying the same images several times in a work, I develop a strategy to make the repetitive character already present in my work more complex, in addition to emphasizing the serial nature of the newspaper, which is mass-printed. These repetitions allow me to go beyond the conventional framework of the newspaper, to take it out of its linearity and to give it a unique form that contributes to metamorphosing it." A portfolio of Dion's dynamic work appears in the issue. 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

Novelties, Camouflage, & Social Fabric

COLLAGE ON VIEW Social Fabric at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

COLLAGE ON VIEW Novelties at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

FROM KOLAJ 32 Tread Water: Sharon Shapiro’s Artist Portfolio

FROM KOLAJ 32 Precise Organization and Camouflage: Myriam Dion’s Artist Portfolio

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY A Form of Movement: Sylwia Kramarz, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom

AT KOLAJ LIVE MILWAUKEE Collage as Bridge Between Psyche & Cosmos

AT KOLAJ LIVE MILWAUKEE Hybrid is the Future: Digital to Analog to Digital to Analog

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COLLAGE BOOKS

Collage Haggadah

By Emily Marbach (Notting Hill Press, 2021). Collage Haggadah is the work of ex-pat American artist Emily Marbach. The 214-page book is filled with analog collages on the themes of the Jewish holiday of Passover. which include slavery and freedom, the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, and the spring season. MORE

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Vanidades

Vanezza Cruz at Empty Set in Bronx, New York, USA through 20 March 2021. “Vanidades” is a solo exhibition showcasing recent works investigating Cruz’s experience in being Afro-Latina. Cruz’s overwhelming experience of conforming her identity to mainstream depiction(s) of womanhood, has inspired a body of work intended to expand and challenge this view in how women of color are seen as a series of parts, rather than as whole. 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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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA

"Cut Me Loose" Collage-a-Rama Artists Talk

online via Zoom | 11AM-Noon | Arc Gallery & Studios. Celebrate the art of collage with an online artists talk by San Francisco artists who participate in the monthly Collage-a-Rama collage-making sessions at Arc Gallery. See the artists' collage work featured in the ​"Cut Me Loose" Collage-a-Rama 2021 Exhibition ​in the Project Gallery at Arc. Hear from the featured artists: Carrington Arredondo, Glenn Bachman, Johnny Botts, Dianne Hoffman, Sean O'Donnell, Priscilla Otani, Barbara Pollak-Lewis, Steve Sweetser, Stephen C. Wagner, and Tanya Wilkinson. Register in advance. MORE

World Collage Day is May 8, 2021. Collage artists around the globe are organizing events. VISIT THE WORLD COLLAGE DAY WEBSITE to see them. http://www.kolajmagazine.com/worldcollageday

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FROM KOLAJ 32

Tread Water

A visual storyteller, Sharon Shapiro’s work embodies what it means to have grown up as a white woman in the American South in the 1980s—well after segregation was no longer the law, yet still lived everyday. Her work confronts the past and examines the present using nostalgia and memory. In Kolaj 32, Elyana Shamselangeroodi and Ric Kasini Kadour recall the history of recreational segregation and investigate how Shapiro uses collage to bring the subject to viewers.

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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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PUBLICATION

World Collage Day 2021 Special Edition

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. The Special Edition is sent automatically to members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Societies who support the work of Kolaj Institute. LEARN 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

Collage Haggadah, Beautiful Ruins, & Vanidades

COLLAGE COMMUNITIES Italian Collagists Collective

CALL TO ARTISTS Neuroanatomy at Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill in Poultney, Vermont, USA  Deadline: Thursday, 1 April 2021. 

COLLAGE ON VIEW Vanidades: Vanezza Cruz at Empty Set in Bronx, New York, USA 

FROM KOLAJ 31 Marrying Today's Culture with the Past: Gavin Benjamin's Artist Portfolio

REPORT FROM THE WORKSHOP Beautiful Ruins: Elyana Shamselangeroodi

COLLAGE BOOKS Collage Haggadah By Emily Marbach 

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Spontaneous and Fluid: María Gabriela Herrera Lamas | Antofagasta, Chile

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Novelties

At Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA through 11 October 2021. Delano Dunn’s “Novelties” presents the viewer with two bodies of work that explore things we hold dear—family, love, comfort, tradition, and connection—and things that threaten to undermine them. In the "Paradise" series of works on paper, Dunn uses the colorless backgrounds of an instructional manual on painting to explore the banality and insidiousness of stereotypes. “Roux”—named for one of the important bases of Creole cuisine—is a series of chaotic, brightly colored mixed media works exploring family history and culinary tradition. 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

Black Joy, Re-membering Self, & Happy Collage

REPORT FROM THE WORKSHOP Re-membering Self: Madeleine Rhondeau-Rhodes 

FROM KOLAJ 31 Sublime Clarity of Civilization Nancy Baker’s Artist Portfolio 

CALL TO ARTISTS Happy Collage: Resource Sharing by Mail. Deadline Sunday, 7 March 2021. 

CALL TO ARTISTS International Women's Day, Don't Run from the Fire Deadline: Saturday, 13 March 2021. 

COLLAGE ON VIEW Overboard: Andy Yoder at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA 

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Black Joy, Black Beauty & Blackness: Brandon Brewer | Los Angeles, California, USA. 

COLLAGE BOOKS Xtian's Illustrated Book of 100 Facts

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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

The Little Dream Factory

TLDF began when a few artists started to come together for informal sessions in 2019 during which they would talk about art, opportunities for exhibitions, and inspiration. They later decided to formalize their group meetings and started involving the community at large with the intention of educating new friends and colleagues about collage. The group’s organizer, Madcollage, says “To us, trying is more important than being famous or recognized. We open our arms to every artist no matter where they are in their careers: from absolute beginners to consummate experts. We believe in cross pollination of ideas and everyone is encouraged to share without concern or fear of harsh criticism.” 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 KOLAJ 31

Make Revolution Irresistible

The Estallido Social in Chile is changing the Latin American country. In October 2020, 78% of the people voted in favor of a new constitution. It’s been a long road that started the year before with protests over transit fares that quickly escalated into mass demonstrations and riots about inequality. The Black American author, filmmaker, and social activist Toni Cade Bambara said the job of an artist “is to make revolution irresistible.” Taking up that challenge, Chilean street artist Caiozzama has used large-scale, public collage murals to do just that. A portfolio of his work appears in Kolaj 31. 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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