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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS

Last Chance to see "Temporal Geolocation: How Place & History Inform Identity in Collage" at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans

How do we reconcile disparate identities and nurture a whole sense of self? In the exhibition, "Temporal Geolocation," Paula Mans, T. Owens Union, Candace Caston, and Jeanna Penn draw on history and a sense of place to make collage art that speaks to identity. The artwork of Jeanna Penn (a detail of artwork featured here) Jeanna Penn uses images from archives and found historical images to tell stories of Blackness in the diaspora. Using photographs from the 1920s of a Black community in Buda, Texas that she found in an Austin antique shop, We Three Queens and Sending Love, Seeking Light from her "New Women" series celebrate "the clothes, houses and cars [that] spoke of an affluent Black community that no longer exists." The semi-abstract, monochromatic collage in the series "This Is America" invite us to consider what has and hasn't changed in the history of Black life in the country. The exhibition runs through 24 November 2024. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from Noon to 6PM. 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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NEW PUBLICATION

PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven

PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. Learn more at get the current issue at https://kolajinstitute.org/poetryxcollage/

PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven includes artwork and writing by Pablo Cabrera Ferralis (Leipzig, Germany); Natalie W Schorr (Greenville, North Carolina, USA); Hanna Madej (Wroclaw, Poland); Dianalog (Palm Springs, Florida, USA); Christy Sheffield Sanford (Saint Augustine, Florida, USA); and a selection of Asemic Writing Collage Poems from Anthony D Kelly, Laura Tafe, Thomas Mayer, and Janice McDonald, with commentary by Ric Kasini Kadour. The image here is a detail of a page spread by Natalie W Schorr.

PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven ships in December. Pre-order your copy today! https://shop.kasinihouseartshop.com/product/poetryxcollage-volume-7

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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS

Last Chance to see "Temporal Geolocation: How Place & History Inform Identity in Collage" at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans

How do we reconcile disparate identities and nurture a whole sense of self? In the exhibition, "Temporal Geolocation," Paula Mans, T. Owens Union, Candace Caston, and Jeanna Penn draw on history and a sense of place to make collage art that speaks to identity. The artwork of Paula Mans is featured here. Based in Paula Mans creates "figurative collages that engage in visual discourse surrounding the (in)visibility and agency of people of African descent. The works subvert notions of power through the Gaze. Rather than being images to be viewed and consumed, the figures that the artist constructs look defiantly out onto the world --engaging, confronting, and challenging the viewer." Mans' artwork speaks to "the ways in which collage is emblematic of identity formation, specifically within the historical context of the physical and cultural formation of the African Diaspora." The exhibition runs through 24 November 2024. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from Noon to 6PM. 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

Ping-ponging Back and Forth

Santa Monica, California, USA. Jody Zellen tries to maintain a balance between the analogue and digital. Ping-ponging back and forth, she might transform a drawing into an animation which then becomes the basis for an installation, which in turn becomes an app—an artwork that everyone can carry in their pocket. While her works take context into consideration and engage with her conceptual and political concerns, she tends to create pieces that first foreground the visual and that are accessible and available to wide audiences. She aims to inspire thinking about the relationship between what is seen and what is imagined. 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

Celebration of the Connections

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. While building the stratification of layers in her mixed media work, Tracy Casagrande Clancy's process commonly includes the use of painting and sculpture, encaustic, collage, cold wax, pastel and found objects. The materiality of her process helps to enrich and communicate the celebration of the connections with which she is so intrigued. As a former pediatric and family grief counselor, Casagrande Clancy is a lifelong student of the shared experience of life and death throughout various cultural and ethnic groups across the world. Finding herself deeply curious about faith traditions and religions throughout the world, she continually strives to communicate celebration of our profound interconnectedness in her work. 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

Book Installation

Akateeminen Kirjakauppa in Helsinki, Finland commissioned an installation from Riikka Fransila for their 125th anniversary and to promote recycling, sustainable development, and the store’s long and eventful history. In Kolaj #40's round-up of collage news, we report on the Finnish collagist's large, 3D collage on the walls of the book store. The collage, which measures 55”x79”, presents a layered narrative of the different stages of life. 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

Artist-in-Residence Miranda Vitello

During her Solo Residency, Miranda Vitello will create a series of mixed media collages inspired by New Orleans that incorporate maps and found paper. She will explore the city, and create artwork of the different places she visits, as well as the architecture of the Faubourg Marigny, especially some of the converted buildings now used in different ways than their original purpose, such as the Marigny Opera House and Hotel Peter and Paul in former church buildings, and Ruby Slipper restaurant in a former bank. 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

Last Chance to see "Temporal Geolocation: How Place & History Inform Identity in Collage" at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans

How do we reconcile disparate identities and nurture a whole sense of self? In the exhibition, "Temporal Geolocation," Paula Mans, T. Owens Union, Candace Caston, and Jeanna Penn draw on history and a sense of place to make collage art that speaks to identity. The artwork of Candace Caston is featured here. Candace Caston is a collagist from New Orleans, Louisiana who was displaced to Decatur, Georgia as a young girl after Hurricane Katrina. In April 2024, while an artist-in-residence at Kolaj Institute, she made a visual archive of the city that she used to make collage that explores memory and place. The work is infused with parts of her family’s story and with her memories attached to New Orleans. The exhibition runs through 24 November 2024. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from Noon to 6PM. 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

Big Print Fundraiser

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! 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

"Fiber Reimagined"

In Kolaj #40, the review, "Fiber Reimagined", considers what an exhibition at Gravers Lane Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania says about collage. "Fabric and cloth is all around us and we often don’t think about what it's made of or the threads come together but like collage in general, the artwork in 'Fiber Reimagined II' has something to say about our world." 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

NCS 40th Annual Juried Exhibition

at the Meyerhoff Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art through 15 December 2024. National Collage Society’s 40th Annual Juried Exhibition features ninety-three collages and assemblages across forty states and four countries. There were 434 submissions received. The National Collage Society, Inc. (NCS) was founded in 1982 by Gretchen Bierbaum. It is incorporated in Ohio with a dedicated Board of Directors. A non-profit classification was granted with a Federal ID. 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

Ping-ponging Back and Forth, Celebration of the Connections, Fiber Reimagined, & Big Print Fundraiser

FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE "Fiber Reimagined"

FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE Book Installation

KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS The Big Print Fundraiser

KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS Artist-in-Residence Miranda Vitello

COLLAGE ON VIEW NCS 40th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Meyerhoff Gallery at the Maryland Institute College of Art

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Ping-ponging Back and Forth Jody Zellen | Santa Monica, California, USA

FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY Celebration of the Connections Tracy Casagrande Clancy | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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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

Last Chance to see "Temporal Geolocation: How Place & History Inform Identity in Collage" at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans

How do we reconcile disparate identities and nurture a whole sense of self? In the exhibition, "Temporal Geolocation," Paula Mans, T. Owens Union, Candace Caston, and Jeanna Penn draw on history and a sense of place to make collage art that speaks to identity. The artwork of T. Owens Union (a detail of artwork featured here) draws on the experience of her paternal grandmother who made patchwork quilts in Alabama and "reflects the African American cultural experience throughout history." She wrote, "The lack of an accurate and fully realized historical understanding of this community has at times led to exclusion and invisibility in American society. I use this experience to inform a present voice for ancestors who too often were silenced and suppressed." The quilt, she noted, "a symbol of protection and guidance in our community, is often incorporated into the art." The exhibition runs through 24 November 2024. The gallery is open Thursday through Saturday from Noon to 6PM. 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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NEW PUBLICATION

PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven

PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. Learn more at get the current issue at https://kolajinstitute.org/poetryxcollage/

PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven includes artwork and writing by Pablo Cabrera Ferralis (Leipzig, Germany); Natalie W Schorr (Greenville, North Carolina, USA); Hanna Madej (Wroclaw, Poland); Dianalog (Palm Springs, Florida, USA); Christy Sheffield Sanford (Saint Augustine, Florida, USA); and a selection of Asemic Writing Collage Poems from Anthony D Kelly, Laura Tafe, Thomas Mayer, and Janice McDonald, with commentary by Ric Kasini Kadour. The image here is a detail of a page spread by Pablo Cabrera Ferralis.

PoetryXCollage, Volume Seven ships in December. Pre-order your copy today! https://shop.kasinihouseartshop.com/product/poetryxcollage-volume-7

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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY

A Treasure Hunt for Materials

Barcelona, Spain. Saki's artworks are a testament to her eclectic taste in materials. She gathers inspiration from the streets of the cities she visits, collecting a medley of items such as old magazines, tattered books, papers, brochures, and even fashion catalogs. Occasionally, she infuses her creations with fragments of paint, adding her personal touch to the mix. As for her creative process, it embarks on a treasure hunt for materials. From there, she relies on intuition to select and piece together images, allowing the final composition to organically take shape. 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

CONTENT

Joel Lambeth at Braemar House Gallery in Springwood, New South Wales, Australia through 8 December 2024. In “CONTENT”, Joel Lambeth takes the symbols, lexicons and iconographies of cyberspace and morphs them back into the physical world in the form of densely layered analogue collages. The transient nature of the online landscapes are once again made static; glitched and crashed, dumped to hardcopy. Ephemeral digital networks are recreated using ephemera. Hacking with a pair of scissors, print replacing pixels, the question in the search bar is: Are we content 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

Nature and Spirit

Weehawken, New Jersey, USA. Nature and Spirit have been great influences in France Garrido's art and life. Working specifically in the visionary and surrealist genre and employing universal symbols of sacred geometry, in particular the circle and the circle in the square, as key elements in this pursuit. Garrido has developed a visual language utilizing, predominantly, collage/mixed media; these works might begin with an image that is striking to her, a word or phrase or free flow, similar to automatic writing. She “plays” with the image and/or image making till it feels "cooked". From that point forward it grows into the final piece. She will use appropriated and hand created images as well as objects and materials, such as handmade papers, etc. 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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