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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at The Contemporary Austin in Austin, Texas USA through 11 January 2026. "Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art" is the first museum retrospective dedicated to the inventive though overlooked artist Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995). A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval was an active participant in both U.S. and international avant-garde movements. For twenty-five years, he produced subversive, yet playful artworks that explored the codes of gender and sexuality and continuously mined archetypes of masculinity in his work through his signature icon of a faceless man, often sporting a mustache. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Galleria Matria in Milan, Italy through 12 December 2025. How do we remember—and what remains of those memories once we do? Danish artist Anne Misfeldt tackles these questions in “Recollecting: The Shape of Memory”. The show transforms everyday fragments into poetic reflections on the elusive, shifting nature of memory. Rather than treating memory as a fixed archive, Misfeldt approaches it as a living, breathing act of reconstruction. Her collages—built from old photographs and documents she has gathered across Europe, layered with her own impressions—don’t simply retell stories; they reinvent them. The result is a delicate interplay between the personal and the collective, where the past becomes less about what happened and more about what we imagine might have. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Owen Tucker’s collages and other works reduce found material (old books, shiny garbage, his own drawings) to simple shapes, colors, and textures that can be rearranged into something wholly new. Tucker writes, “I splice and graft, destroy and rebuild. I am not, in fact, limited to a knife, but I view the enterprise of making art less rigidly, more generously, more joyously. Though I mostly work with paper right now, almost anything is a potential material. There is so much already out there, ready to be repurposed, rearranged, or renewed.” MORE
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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
through 23 November 2025. Solo Resident Lisa Mullikin (Wilmington, North Carolina, USA), using techniques including printmaking, book arts, and joomchi, will make several large-scale collages based on the physical fabric of New Orleans and its historical evolution. She wrote, "Explorations are focused on the relationships I have with regional landscapes: the geography, geology, history and the layered cultural connections to place. As I have established myself in different places my work continues to evolve based on my relationship to that place. Painting and collage begin with occupying the landscape and taking time to understand its inhabitants as well as its physical properties. My perspective of the environment was shaped by my knowledge of history while working as an architect on historical iconic buildings in San Francisco, and this is when I began painting. Light, landscape and structure were my subjects as I began plein air painting in rural Louisiana. Having lived my life in urban environments, the quality of light was unique and unfamiliar to me." She will begin this study using previous experiences in the landscape and with her architectural skill of mapping. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at the Eaton Hotel DC in Washington, DC, USA through 31 December 2025. Rashad Ali Muhammad explores the liminal spaces between the physical and spiritual worlds, tracing how ancestral knowledge endures and transforms across time and geography. He invites viewers to consider what it means to reconnect with “lost” African spiritual practices that manifest in African American experiences and are reshaped by displacement, memory, and creativity. Muhammad’s mixed media collages, sculptural masks, and immersive installation evoke the unseen energies that flow between realms. Inspired by travels to West Africa and a voodoo ceremony witnessed in the floating village of Ganvié, Benin, the work interprets ritual as a portal for connection, healing, and empowerment. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Westwood, Massachusetts, USA. Identity is a daily chore for Michael Manning, especially as an African American. Collage helps him to work through this with his hands. Manning writes, “I can take the seemingly unrelated tiny pieces of what I see and try to connect them, tell a story, and make a masterpiece. I have fallen in love with the process and even I am excited to see the end result as it starts to take form. My work encapsulates the themes of consumerism, identity, earth, and music. These themes inspire me because they are always changing in cultures around the globe, which in turn is reflected through imagery found in many forms of printed media.” MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: 14 December 2025. Carnival as Folklore is a five-day, in-person collage artist residency at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, 25-30 January 2026. Carnival’s traditions are rooted in ancient European festivals. Its 19th-century revival in the Americas parallels a time when people were rediscovering and reveling in Greek and Roman Mythology. As such, carnival is dripping with folklore. No place does Carnival like New Orleans, where the city comes alive in a mass display of collective effervescence. During this in-person Artist Residency, collage artists will be invited to spend a week in New Orleans investigating Carnival as folklore and making art about it. Taking a broad view of collage and rooted in an understanding of Artist Practice, artists will hear a working theory of folklore; what it is; how it functions in communities; and the role artists can play in activating, transmitting, and celebrating folklore in communities as a form of cultural expression and a strategy for community resilience. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 30 November 2025. The Folklore & Collage Virtual Residency is a four-week program designed to support artists who want to develop a practice that includes folklore in their artmaking. In four virtual meetings over four weeks and through ongoing, online discussion, we will explore folklore as an idea, its role in culture, and influence on art. During the Residency, artists will identify stories from communities and make art which activates these stories. Artists will examine the work done previously by artists in Kolaj Institute’s Folklore Collage Society Project to develop a series of strategies for making collage that is in conversation with folklore relevant to their own community. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Next deadline: Tuesday, 2 December 2025. The practice of collage takes on many forms and is shaped by the artist’s goals and what they want to achieve with their artwork, how they want to diffuse their artwork in the broader ecosystem of art. The Collage in Practice Workshop is designed to give artists a working understanding of artist practice and how this understanding informs approaches to professional and artistic development. Participants will explore critical concepts and collage taxonomies as a way to develop and refine the language they use to talk about their own practice and to develop a broad view of the creative landscape in which they operate. 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 artwork (or a plan to make one); and tools for growing or developing their practice. 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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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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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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