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KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS
There is something different, however, when an artist chooses to put their work out in the community. It ceases to be about personal expression and becomes part of the community's discourse. During the Symposium at Kolaj Fest New Orleans, we will hear from Jamie Amdal Hughes, Emily Denlinger, Flanzella, Grace Wilbanks each of whom are putting their art into the cultural ecosystem. They are exhibiting and publishing; getting commissions; working it on social media; engaging their communities; and doing the work of culture all while trying to live lives as human beings with all that that entails. They will speak about contemporary art projects and their artist practice. LEARN MORE
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FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE
Konstantine Patsios
Artist Portfolio
Athens, Greece. “This materiality, and the alchemy of blending the humble and intangible, is my attempt to convey the emotional depth of human experience through fragmented images and a very personal narrative, which paradoxically resonates collectively.” A portfolio of artwork appears in Kolaj #41. READ MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Kirk Read at Replicant in Portland, Oregon USA through 25 June 2025. Collage artist and writer Kirk Read offers thirty recent analog collages which explore the twin heads of urban nostalgia: perpetual disintegration and resuscitation. The central series uses telephone pole scraps and won a Bronze award from Contemporary Collage Magazine. Read gathered paper during and after the pandemic--harvesting four-inch layers of telephone pole posters, removing all of the staples and sorting the pieces into color groups. The posters had survived the Portland rain and occasional fires set to remove them. The work is a meditation on moving to Portland during the pandemic from San Francisco, where he worked as a street and shelter nurse. Read is the author of the memoir How I Learned to Snap and co-heads the Pacific Northwest Collage Collective. READ MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Philadelphia CollageWorks at Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA through 2 July 2025. Since 2022, Philadelphia CollageWorks has engaged in a citywide undertaking to demonstrate the power of collage and forge a connection between diverse groups. Fourteen community partners hosted eighteen events during which diverse groups created 5″x5″ collage squares. Every participant joined together, making art in profound and personal ways. The result is nearly 500 squares, each a unique expression, coming together on the north wall of the 5th floor gallery at Philadelphia’s City Hall, in a quilt-like display that is the outcome of a 5″ square-making event for World Collage Day 2022 held at DaVinci Art Alliance. READ MORE
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FROM THE PRINT MAGAZINE
In Kolaj #41, we debut a new feature, "Selections from the Collection", where we showcase artwork from the Kolaj Institute Collection that has been curated by participants in the Curating Collage Workshop. In this issue, Aqui/Alla by Paola De la Calle (San Francisco, California, USA) is curated by Aurora Tower (Nashville, Tennessee, USA). READ MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Mobile, Alabama, USA. Mary Elizabeth Kimbrough's work is designed to elicit delight in visual forms. Humor is especially important in her work as well. She is attracted to a kind of hyper-aggressive, yet femme, beauty. She utilizes a variety of images to communicate her thoughts, but she lets them land randomly. Narrative is not her goal, instead she pushes for a personal reading of each work, done by the individual viewer. READ MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Detroit, Michigan, USA. Camille Ann Brewer explores architecture in space through linear elements, which are woven as cloth or nets built through a variety of calculations to create rich, complex patterns. The construction of calculations to create woven forms is an exciting view of contemporary “digital” thinking. Brewer investigates how textile construction intersects with spatial planning, symbolism, coding, and composition making.
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 29 June 2025. An amuse-bouche is a small tasting of what is offered on the menu, often served as an hors d’œuvre or appetizer. With this culinary tradition in mind, this exhibition features collage work by participants of Kolaj Fest New Orleans. Twenty-six artists from across the USA offer small works for your viewing and collecting pleasure. As a whole, the exhibition is a small tasting of the International Collage Community. The exhibition was juried by Christy Wood, the director of LeMieux Galleries, and Kolaj Magazine Editor Ric Kasini Kadour and is an official exhibition of Kolaj Fest New Orleans, an annual, multi-day festival & symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. READ MORE
Image: Jesus Drives an Astrovan by Jaclyn McCabe.
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Kolaj Fest New Orleans is 25-29 June 2025
Kolaj Fest returns to New Orleans on 25-29 June 2025 for a gathering of collage artists and art professionals; a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society; where the focus is how we celebrate and elevate the status of collage. Presenters will lead panel discussions and explore key curatorial issues. Artists will exhibit artwork, and create special activities and demonstrations. We will meet, network, share community, camaraderie, and fellowship. We will leave armed with new ideas for our artmaking, writing, and curatorial projects, but more importantly, we will leave Kolaj Fest New Orleans prepared to champion this artform in the year to come. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.
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SUBSCRIBE TO KOLAJ MAGAZINE TODAY
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
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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Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community.
Inside Kolaj #41, you will learn about a collage series that unpacks a painful history, collaged seed packets, an exploration of Louisiana's forgotten women, a review of a book on the history of collage, the reissue of a book about collage on screen, a curated selection from Kolaj Institute's collection of collage, collage at the intersection of art and community history, a two-story collage in Miami, 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.
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JOURNAL
PoetryXCollage
Volume 7
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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.
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PUBLICATION
World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition
In honor of World Collage Day, Kolaj Institute is releasing a special edition of Kolaj Magazine. The Special Edition is full of Cut-Out Pages and stories from inspiring collage artists.
Highlights include "Light in the Darkness," an Editorial by Ric Kasini Kadour about World Collage Day; collage book recommendations; “The Irrational Stage,” a profile of World Collage Day 2025 Poster Artist Rosita Schandy from Montevideo, Uruguay; “Paths of Engagement,” an article about how Victoria, British Columbia collagist Phyllis Schwartz developed ways to engage her community with collage in exhibition and publication; “Rasga Tijera: Collage Collective,” Mayboll Vargas's reporting on how Costa Rica’s first celebration of World Collage Day led to a new collage collective; and eighteen Cut-Out Pages from International Collage Artists.
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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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