Emily Denlinger at the Crisp Gallery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA through 16 December 2024. Emily Denlinger’s collage artwork explores the human condition: issues of identity, survival, truth, and power. In this installation, Denlinger shares her work New Mutations/Old Traditions, part of her “Gain of Function: New Mutation” series. The expansive collage is an exploration of masked traditions that take place around the world, as simultaneous inventions, to invite positivity into a community and expel negative forces. “Gain of Function: New Mutation” is an ongoing series created in response to research surrounding the intersections of ecology, simulations, mutations, and futurology.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. Sara Willadsen makes pictures that satisfy her curiosity in aesthetics and found materials. Combining these articles with reappropriations of her own work allows her to employ past patterns and marks as prompts for new structures and environments. The aggressive process used to construct these secretive spaces is kept in balance with the consciousness to know when to stop.

In Kolaj #40, Helen Hartmann follows Dutch artist Anneke Stil's collage journey in "Attention & Connection". Hartman writes, "Each collage becomes a vessel of memories, an ode to the people she holds dear. It is exactly these ingredients of friendship, love, companionship, and connection that give Anneke’s work a deep sense of meaning." Stil is an active member of the mail-art groups Add&Pass-Passport Project and NEO-Exquisit Corpse, as well as being a member of the Dutch collective, Col-Lab. Helen Hartmann is a British-Dutch collagist, freelance writer and translator who lives and works in Scheveningen, The Netherlands.

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Austyn Sullivan’s experimental style of collage art utilizes religious iconography & various forms of classical & modern art. Sullivan uses found source materials & upcycles forgotten books into thoughtful & metaphorical collages. His recent focus has been recreating tarot through collage art. The common thread of Sullivan’s work is the exploration of human folklore, spirituality & the dilemmas of the human condition.

at the Hillsboro Civic Center in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA through 20 December 2024. Artists Heather Smith, Amy Bennett and Cherie Savoie Tintary, present artworks that create narratives and compositions from collage and cut paper. Bennett creates narrative-driven paper artworks utilizing ink and cut paper. Savoie Tintary started creating collages in 2020 as a way to heal from her battle with lung cancer. Smith is a paper quill and mixed media artist inspired by the intricate and beautiful details of nature. 

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! 

SPRING-SUMMER 2025 DEADLINE: Saturday, 30 November 2024. Kolaj Institute’s Solo Residencies are designed to provide artists, curators, and writers with dedicated time and space to work on a project. Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans includes a fully fitted bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen that allow us to provide housing for artists who come to New Orleans to develop their practice and make artwork.

Final deadline to apply: Sunday, 8 December 2024. Intended as a clinic for working artists at any level, participants in this workshop will explore how they go about making art and putting it out into the world. Participants will finish the workshop with a deeper understanding of their practice; a strong statement of practice that can be used to communicate with curators, editors, and art professionals; a portfolio of consistent artwork (or a plan to make one); and tools for growing or developing their practice.