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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
London, England, United Kingdom. Within Terry Palamara’s collages, a profound fascination with faces emerges, serving as the cornerstone of her artistic exploration. Faces in her art transcend mere physicality; they embody narratives that oscillate between the singular and the collective. Each visage tells a story—sometimes singular, at times multifaceted—reflecting her deep-seated contemplation of identity, alter egos, and the human psyche. Her artistic oeuvre is an immersive exploration of the myriad facets of human existence—a visual tapestry that oscillates between the known and the unknown, the real and the imagined. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Aliciama at Librairie La Rencontre and La Cale Maison du Projet in Rennes, France through 28 February 2026. Aliciama writes, "I am Mexican and I live in France. Here I feel more Mexican than I did back home. Being here awakens something deep within me, as if my surroundings were guiding me back to myself, inviting me to recognize and redefine who I am. I tell myself that I want to integrate, that I want to embrace my two nations as if they were one—fusing them until they coexist within me. That way, I won’t feel divided. So I turn to graphic expression. My art is a way of bringing harmony to what lives within me. To embrace two cultures is, in truth, to embrace myself." MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS (PAID ADVERTISEMENT)
Deadline to Apply: Friday, 20 March 2026 at 11:59PM PDT. Collage Artists of America (CAA) is accepting submissions for “Freedom Reframed”, an in-person and virtual juried show, taking place in May 2026. CAA writes: To reframe a situation means to change the way you think about it by looking at it from a different perspective and can refer to several concepts: personal trials and tribulations or liberation, world events, in a professional setting, or in one’s artistic expression. Work freely! The juror is Shannon Currie Holmes, a curator, arts administrator, and creative director with over 20 years of experience in producing dozens of exhibitions, leading community arts programs, and developing strategic partnerships across Southern California. Artists may submit for the online show only. The in-person exhibition will be at Betsy Lueke Creative Arts Center in Burbank, California, USA. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at The Cambridge Art Association Canal Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA through 20 February 2026. “Still as the World is Never Still” brings together ten artists whose works explore the concept of holding onto what cannot be held. They embrace the fleeting – the shift of a season, cycles of birth and death among all, the wonderfulness of love, and the sad, beautiful, craziness that is the experience of living. Their practice of making art seeks to capture that which is elusive – to create a moment of stillness in the midst of the inexorable forward movement of time. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Lisbon, Portugal. Nina Fraser creates artworks that reflect upon a sense of place to shape memory traces into physical form. Investigating ways of being, she explores ideas of transformation, connection and belonging through modes of thought, human and non-human systems and structures. Her work is often transient, evading or in dialogue with its physical supports, utilizing the tension between parameters to question how notions of identity and place can be explored. MORE
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FOLKLORE COLLAGE SOCIETY
In Folklore Collage Society, Volume 1, Kate Sutherland considers The Cailleach of Irish and Celtic folklore. She writes, "She is the Queen of Winter. At Samhain, she rides across the sky on the back of a wolf bringing the cold with a great hammer the least touch of which turns ground to ice."
Folklore Collage Society is a printed journal dedicated to artwork and artists who activate, transmit, and celebrate folklore as a form of cultural expression and a strategy for community resilience. In its pages, stories, statements, essays, field notes, poetry, and song lyrics mingle with collage art that shows how collage artists are thinking about the folklore. Visit Kolaj Institute's Folklore Collage Society page to get a copy or to join upcoming residencies where collage artists explore working with folklore in their artist practice. LEARN MORE
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FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE
In Kolaj #42, “Bye Bye Mail Art” reflects on the global Mail Art movement and the fragile networks that have sustained it for decades. Rooted in the experimental spirit of Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School and Fluxus, Mail Art fostered low-cost, democratic exchanges across borders. The essay centers on Düsseldorf-based artist Sabine Remy, whose long-running participation illustrates both the richness of these networks and the growing challenges they face. Rising postage costs and postal privatization have made the practice increasingly difficult to maintain. For collage artists, the piece offers a timely meditation on connection, circulation, and the material realities shaping creative exchange today.
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Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community. We hope you enjoy the articles and images in the magazine, but also, we hope it leads you to asking great questions and ultimately to great artwork.
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Kolaj 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. Your support of this magazine keeps us going and makes it possible for us to investigate and document collage and to promote a deeper, more complex understanding of the medium and its role in art history and contemporary art.
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CALL TO ARTISTS
How do you want to manifest at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026? Our goal is to create an event that attracts a variety of people working in various capacities, such as art professionals at museums, galleries, and centers as well as academics, writers, and artists. Responding to the Call lets us know that you would like to be a presenter at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026. The program at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026 promises to be a unique experience. In building a program, our aim is to break down hierarchy and foster dialogue among art professionals working in a variety of capacities. To that end, Kolaj Institute works with presenters to craft a program. Early Deadline: 28 February 2026. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Deadline to Apply: 14 February 2026. A five-session PoetryXCollage virtual residency, 21 February-22 March 2026. In the Virtual Residency,"The Elusive X," artists will concentrate on the intersection between Poetry X Collage, the dynamic space where these two methods of creativity intersect and inform one another. Our core path of exploration will be: How do we bring the visceral, linguistic precision of poetry and the fragmented, material nature of collage together? Jennifer Roche will lead participants on a journey of inquiry to explore what poetry and collage means for them, their work, and our culture. Poet and collagist S. Erin Batiste will join the residency as a guest speaker to share her own work and inform the artists about what Black Fems are doing at the intersection of poetry and collage and why she thinks it matters. Ric Kasini Kadour will share Poetry X Collage’s history and speak about the curatorial and editorial visions which guide the project. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: 28 February 2026. A week-long in-person PoetryXCollage residency in New Orleans, Sunday, 12 April to Thursday, 16 April 2026. The focus of the residency will be about making artwork at the intersection of poetry and collage for the exhibition, "The Fragment as Verse." Artists will have 24-hour access to the gallery, studio, and material library where they can work in community to make collage poetry. In daily meetings, artists will share work and get feedback from one another. Prior to the residency, artists will meet virtually where Ric Kasini Kadour will make presentations on the history of the project, artist practice, and the ecosystem of Poetry & Collage and Jennifer Roche will present on her observations of the intersection. Through in person discussions, artists will explore how the art they make at the intersection of poetry and collage exists on the printed page and on the wall of a gallery. Artists will be invited to present their work at the opening of the exhibition, "The Fragment as Verse," on Saturday, 18 April 2026, 2-4PM. The in-person artist residency at Kolaj Institute Gallery will coincide with the New Orleans Poetry Festival (16-19 April 2026) where we hope artists will connect with poets, editors, and publishers. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
At Kolaj Institute, our philosophy is that if we bring artists together, explore ideas and concepts, share knowledge, we can stretch and develop as artists. When we bring that knowledge and skill into our communities, we raise the standing of collage and contribute to the civic discourse. Kolaj Institute's Artist Development Program is a collection of three core workshops for self-motivated artists, at any stage in their career, who want to develop and expand their collage-based artist practice and work towards professional goals, particularly in the areas of exhibitions and publishing. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Kolaj Institute’s solo residencies in New Orleans are designed to provide artists, curators, and writers with dedicated time and space to work on a project. We are open to your ideas. We are looking for artists with an articulated goal for their time in New Orleans. That goal need not to be explicitly related to New Orleans, though priority will be given to those artists whose projects need time in New Orleans. These Solo Residencies are taking place at Kolaj Institute’s home in the New Orleans Healing Center and help further Kolaj Institute's mission to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, and disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
Folklore Collage Society is a printed journal dedicated to artwork and artists who activate, transmit, and celebrate folklore as a form of cultural expression and a strategy for community resilience. In its pages, stories, statements, essays, field notes, poetry, and song lyrics mingle with collage art that shows how collage artists are thinking about the folklore. In Folklore Collage Society, Volume 1, editor Ric Kasini Kadour lays out the inspiration behind the project. Kate Sutherland and Bella LaMontagne share Irish and Celtic folklore. Indira Govindan considers the story of Lakshmibai. Jennifer Lentfer offers an example of counter folklore. Jacoub Reyes explores Taíno oral histories. We share Field Notes about crows and witches turning into hares. Sarah Cowling and Eli Craven makes art of their own family folklore Leanne Poellinger explores the symbolism and community of apple pie. Dean Reynolds offers us photographic evidence of gateways between realms. Natalie Vestin shares stories of Swedish smallfolk. And Verónica Poblete Villanueva takes us to Algeria and shows us the dance of Ouled Nail Tribe. MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide is a collage. The book combines the text of a Polish human rights activist Martin Mycielski with the artwork of seven collage artists to create a space in which we can think about the rise of authoritarianism and how to navigate the troubling, difficult times in which we find ourselves. Organized as a series of lists, the book illustrates what to expect under authoritarianism and offers rules for surviving authoritarian regimes and engaging their supporters. The introduction traces how the text came into existence and how the artists came together to make collage about it. Ric Kasini Kadour shares historical examples of artists responding to authoritarianism; John Heartfield’s anti-fascist collage and a 1979 exhibition in East Germany that was described as a “victory over false consciousness.” Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide is a testament to the role art can play in our communities.
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NEW PUBLICATION
This project led by Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA-based artist Emily Denlinger speaks to the role of art, ritual, and resilience. Building on her own work, Denlinger engaged with thirty-nine artists at the 2025 edition of Kolaj Fest New Orleans to make locative collage photographs in an artist-created landscape inspired by global masking traditions. The resulting artworks are presented in this zine published by Kolaj Institute. "The project functions as 21st century folklore with each character potentially representing a magical creature or masked performer in some yet-to-be-imagined ritual," wrote Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour. "Like the odd, creature-like figures of early 20th century Surrealists, they, too, are a response to deeply troubled times and offer us the opportunity to find a collective effervescence to see us through them."
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PRINT MAGAZINE
Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community.
In Kolaj #42, you'll discover "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; Warsaw, Poland-based collagist Marta Janik; animated collage at the Glastonbury Festival; the radiating collage of Dana Hart-Stone; anti-authoritarian political collage projects from San Diego, California and Barcelona, Spain; contemporary challenges of doing Mail Art; a daughter reflecting on her mother's collage practice; a collaborative scanograph collage poem; collage book reviews; “Selections from the Collection” and and artist portfolios.
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. MORE
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JOURNAL
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing that 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.
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. On the Cover is a detail of BY CHANCE/LA DÉRIVE by Pablo Cabrera Ferralis. MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
Frankenstein
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This new version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic 19th century novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus features seventy-six illustrations by International Collage Artists who delved into the novel’s rich narrative and visual potential and created thought-provoking artworks that reflect the essence of Frankenstein in a 21st century context.
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NEW PUBLICATION
Magic in the Modern World
Taking a broad view of magic and drawing from multiple histories, the book, Magic in the Modern World, proposes a way to think about magic in the 21st century, what it means to communities, and how it negotiates itself in systems of power. Generously illustrated, the book features the artwork of fifteen collage artists and dozens of historical images.
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ARTSHOP
"I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt
Since we started Kolaj Magazine in 2011, people have been asking about t-shirts. Well, we finally made one. We are pleased to announce the "I Cut Therefore I Kolaj" T-shirt. We hope you like it and wear it with pride.
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TRADING CARDS
Kasini House Artshop works with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory to produce curated packs of the Collage Artist Trading Cards. Each card is a full color, 5.5” x 3.5” postcard with rounded corners. An example of an artist’s work is on the front of the card and the artist’s public contact information is on the back. Collage Artist Trading Cards come in packs of 15.
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About Kolaj Magazine
Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine 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. Kolaj is published in Montreal, Quebec by Maison Kasini. Visit Kolaj Magazine online.
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About Kolaj Institute
The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support 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.
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