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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 Geri Biamonte 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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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 Christine Karapetian 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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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Intersections

Rashad Ali Muhammad and Jordann Wine at The Mansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, USA through 11 January 2025. The “Intersections” series presents contrasting artists with distinct viewpoints intersecting in the Mansion Galleries. Visitors discover a counterbalance between the artists rather than a connection through theme, style, or technique. Muhammad’s collages form new worlds from recognizable imagery and Wine’s meditational geometric work creates transformations by subtly merging colors. Both artists elevate humble silk flowers and reflective glitter through compelling artistic vision. 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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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Sequenze

Silvia Beltrami at HABITA79 MGallery Pompeii in Pompeii, Italy through 1 March 2025. Silvia Beltrami’s project is directed towards a material study characterized by the fresco tearing technique, a procedure by which a fresco is taken away from its original wall, by removing the pictorial part and the surface plaster and then transferred onto a new support (calicot method from the name of the thin canvas also called “grandmother’s rag” which is used to remove the fresco) where the artist subsequently intervenes by applying fragments of coated paper. “Sequenze” draws inspiration from the current events of our times which, mediated by the mass media, become propaganda, not allowing space for free thought and therefore feeding homogenisation. 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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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 Goodman Lawrence 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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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 Mimi Shapiro 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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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 Lori Petchers 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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SOLO RESIDENCY

Renold Laurent

Originally from Haiti and now living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kolaj Institute Solo Resident Renold Laurent, writes, "New Orleans is an essential cultural crossroads where European, African, and Native American cultures intersect. Sharing with Haiti a history marked by the slave trade, this city constitutes an ideal setting for historical and spiritual exploration." Laurent's project originally aimed to deepen these links through iconographic research and visual creations while addressing universal themes such as memory, resistance, and spirituality. During his residency, he will focus on the connections between Haiti and New Orleans, the Great Migration. Through a series of collage artworks, poems, and word fragments, incorporating historical photographs, newspaper clippings, and personal stories, he will create work that explores personal and historical narratives. Laurent's Residency runs 23-28 December 2024. The artist will hold visiting hours at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans on Friday and Saturday, 27 and 28 December 2024 from 4 to 6PM. READ MORE

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Acrylic Skin Collages

Englewood, Colorado, USA. Leslie Miller creates “acrylic skin collages” by peeling off dried paint “puddles” from her palette, resulting in unique and irregular shapes that are then mounted on paper or canvas to create visually stunning art. Miller's artistic process is experimental and often guided by the dried paint pieces themselves. Her background as a dress patternmaker in New York City has given her a keen eye for shape and line, which has become the main focus of her current work. Just as a quarter-inch correction to a dress pattern can drastically change its appearance, small or large alterations to the shapes and their arrangement can completely transform the rhythm and flow of her artwork. She is fascinated by the power of shape and its ability to captivate the viewer. 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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CALL TO ARTISTS

Politics in Collage 2025: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

Early Deadline to Apply: Monday, 30 December 2024. A month-long, virtual/online collage artist residency in January and February 2025. What can collage artists do to counter rising authoritarianism? During this residency, collage artists will work together to make artwork that responds to a global rise in authoritarianism. They will explore the history of political collage and its early 20th century roots in the European anti-fascist movements. They will learn how to read and decode authoritarianism, to understand how it operates, and strategies for resisting or countering it. Discussions and presentations will center on how an artist can make work that picks up the unfinished work of history and contributes to the civic discourse. The Residency is led by Ric Kasini Kadour. Artists will hear from Guest Speakers Martin Mycielski, the Vice-President and Executive Director of the Brussels-based Open Dialogue Foundation, and G.E. Vogt, who will talk about how 21st century collage artists make political collage. Artists in the residency will work together to illustrate and elucidate Mycielski's The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide. 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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COLLAGE IN MOTION

Messy/Complex/Idiosyncratic

Santa Cruz, California, USA. Sarah Buckius’ recent creative work involves “Intertwined HerStories” reenacting and enacting the unpaid and paid labor of women, including her own from lived experience. She is interested in working in the space of absurdity that emerges at the point of disconnect between the seemingly coded/structured/ordered/ production-based space of technology and the messy/complex/idiosyncratic space of humanity. 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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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Intersections, Harmony, Idiosyncratic, and Politics in Collage

CALL TO ARTISTS Politics in Collage 2025: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide Early Deadline to Apply: Monday, 30 December 2024

SOLO RESIDENT Renold Laurent Visiting Hours at Kolaj Institute, 27-28 December 2024, 4-6PM

COLLAGE ON VIEW Intersections at the Mansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, USA

COLLAGE ON VIEW Sequenze at Habita79 in Pompeii, Italy

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Acrylic Skin Collages Leslie Miller | Englewood, Colorado, USA

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY The Harmony of Complimentary Anna Kirby | Wake Forest, North Carolina. USA COLLAGE IN MOTION Messy/Complex/Idiosyncratic Sarah Buckius | Santa Cruz, California, USA

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

The Harmony of Complimentary Colors

Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA. Anna Kirby makes her collages using second-hand books, scissors, and glue dots. Her work expresses the complex emotions surrounding child loss and infertility. She is inspired by the harmony of complementary colors. She is a community college English instructor and a published poet who now channels her creativity into collage format. 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

No Specific Story

Jackson Heights, New York, USA. Christine Karapetian's work is not telling a specific story. When successful, it conveys an intimacy that is mysterious and not easily defined. It is the result of her actions and response to experience, observation, and chance. She paints on and uses found objects and collage because the elements of chance and the accidental mirror the process of discovery in how she works. The process of adding and removing, snipping, pasting, painting, and scraping, takes each piece through multiple stages. 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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COLLAGE ON VIEW

cut/form

at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, California, USA through 20 December 2024. Maritta Tapanainen’s collages and David Fought’s sculptures at first glance could not be more different. Yet both artists, as they examine form and line and the space between, engage us in the conversation. Tapanainen’s work uses the most delicate of materials for her collages and what’s interesting is that the plaster surfaces of Fought’s sculptures are also delicate and fragile, yet they appear solid within their realm of influence. They both share an abstraction ethos. These abstractions by Fought and Tapanainen bring to our eyes an idea of Agnes Martin’s explorations. Specifically as we examine their surfaces, both works begin to approach color field paintings. Read More

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NEW EXHIBITION AT KOLAJ INSTITUTE GALLERY IN NEW ORLEANS

Camera & Collage

at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA On view through 5 January 2025 part of PhotoNOLA

The mediums of collage and photography are bound together in an ongoing dialogue. The photographer makes pictures of the world. The collagist remixes those pictures to tell a story about the world we live in. What happens when the photographer begins collaging their own work? What happens when the collage artist picks up the camera?

“Camera & Collage” brings together artists from Australia, Kuwait, Mexico, Canada, and the United States each of whom have developed a practice that sits at the intersection of collage and photography. This artwork showcases a rich array of techniques and creative approaches. The artists embrace collage as a dynamic process—transforming family archives and found materials, experimenting with alternative methods, and questioning our relationship with images in a world overwhelmed by them. Through their work, they invite viewers to explore deeper themes of identity and gender, family and memory, the physicality of photography, and the interplay between history and artistic process. 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 PRINT MAGAZINE

Who’s a Good Boy!

Cat collages get a lot of love in the International Collage Community, but where the dogs at? In Kolaj #40's round-up of collage news, we report on Los Angeles artist Wendy Tigerman's collaborative book of dog collages. Tigerman organized forty-three artists to make dog-themed collage and then, in August 2024, she published Collage to the Rescue, an 8”x8” softcover book. (Collage by Alvaro Sánchez.) 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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