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COLLAGE COMMUNITIES
Northwest England, United Kingdom. Every month Collage Cult meets online for 90 minutes to discuss a research paper and a chosen collage artist. Members have the opportunity to show examples of their own practice to illustrate their points. The aim is for the group to be relaxed and open, where everyone feels that they can bring their thoughts about collage art practice to the meeting. The Cult has met via a mix of online and in-person gatherings. Their conversations have ranged from; how we store our images and final pieces, what we collect, what adhesives and cutting tools we use, the themes behind our individual practice, and what the future of technology is in collage art making, such as AI and the possible re-birth of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Some of the artists they’ve researched so far are Mary Delaney, Asha Zero, Linder Sterling, Ellen Gallagher, and Mark Napier. (image: Encounter (aka Narratives of the Absent #12) by Bing-Chi Wu (photography, digital collage, giclée print on paper; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.) MORE
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EXHIBITION
“Come to me, here beside the River”
8-22 September 2026
Iron Fence of the U.S. Mint
New Orleans Jazz Museum
“Come to me, here beside the River” brings together nine International Collage Artists, each of whom offers a unique take on the Mississippi River as a dynamic force of culture. The exhibition will take place 8-22 September 2026 on the iron fence of the U.S. Mint, home of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Participating Artists include: Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland), LaVonna Varnado Brown (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), Marta Janik (Warsaw, Poland), Lilya Chavaga (Brussels, Belgium), Matthew Hendricks (Cape Town, South Africa), Allison Spence (Tallahassee, Florida, USA), Jeanna Penn (Oakland, California, USA), Ric Kasini Kadour (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA & Montreal, Quebec, Canada). After the exhibition at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, the exhibition will travel to the New Orleans Healing Center where it will be on view during Kolaj Fest New Orleans, 23-27 June 2027. MORE
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KOLAJ SOLO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Brooklyn, New York, USA through 6 September 2026. During her solo residency, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary poet and artist S. Erin Batiste continued work on her collage series, which reclaims and transforms archives and early 1900’s mugshot photographs of Black women and girls from the New Orleans Public Library Archive. She visited The Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane University Special Collections to learn more about Black life and living during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South following the Civil War and the overwhelming and violent backlash after the abolition of slavery, and researched the Storyville red light district where many of the women attempted to claim themselves and agency, and make a way in the new United States. Batiste is currently guest editing an issue of PoetryXCollage that focuses on Radical Black Feminists. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Matthew Morpheus’s collage practice transforms echoes of protest and reflections of revolution into fragmented visions of digital cities. His work explores the tension between chaos and order, freedom and constraint, and the resilience and fragility of the human spirit. Morpheus distills reality into fragments that bridge past and present, nostalgia and possibility. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Let Intuition Guide the Process
Lake Orion, Michigan, USA. For Maria Smith Bohannon, making collages is a way to repurpose discarded artworks—things the artist made but wasn’t happy with—and found materials such as papers, magazines, and ephemera. There is something incredibly satisfying to Bohannon about combining and juxtaposing textures, colors, and images to create new compositions. The tangible collage process allows for experimentation, and it works best when they let intuition guide the process. MORE
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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
Want to see your collage BIG? Kolaj Institute’s Big Print Fundraiser is back for 2026!
Make a donation to support Kolaj Institute, and we’ll enlarge one of your collages and print it on a 24"x36" sheet of paper. It’s an opportunity to experience your artwork at a new scale while supporting the exhibitions, artist residencies, publications, workshops, and community programs that help grow the international collage community.
The Big Print Fundraiser runs through 31 December 2026. Make your donation today and see your collage BIG! LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at the Helen C. Frederick Gallery, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA through 4 October 2026. “Ruminations” celebrates the possibilities of paper through life-size paper-cast doors embellished with gold leaf, a translucent installation addressing endangered species, printed Chinese papers, custom paper drawings, large-scale pulp paintings, artist books, and other works that combine hand papermaking with print and mixed media. MORE
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KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Saturday, 19 September 2026, 1-3PM EDT (1700 UTC).
During this Kolaj LIVE Online, we will hear from artists whose work appears in the exhibition “Come to me, here beside the River.” Artists collaged Harold Fisk’s 1944 Mississippi River Meander Belt Maps along with materials found in archives and their personal material collections to make artwork that invites us to consider the role the Mississippi River has played in shaping history and community. MORE
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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
Deadline to Apply: Saturday, 12 September 2026. A four-week virtual artist residency taking place in October 2026.
How can collage artists respond to the ways war, conflict, and peace are represented in the media? Artists will research historical and contemporary war correspondence, examine the history of political collage—from its roots in European anti-fascist movements to contemporary practice—and consider how art can contribute to civic discourse. Participants will hear from Adrian Paukstat about the German magazine Wissenschaft & Frieden’s forthcoming issue on war and conflict reporting, make and discuss new collages, and develop writing that documents the historical and social contexts of their work. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Final Deadline to apply: 13 September 2026. A four-week, virtual/online workshop with Kolaj Institute. Sundays, 4-25 October 2026, 1-3PM EDT
The practice of collage takes on many forms. A practice will be shaped by the goals of the artist and what they want to achieve with their artwork, how they want to diffuse their artwork in the broader ecosystem of art. It will also be informed by the choice of material, scale, and subject matter. A collage practice is also informed by the history of artists who came before and how an artist chooses to be in dialogue or opposition with their creative ancestors. A working understanding of one’s practice is critical to one’s professional and artistic development. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS & WRITERS
This special issue is being guest edited by S. Erin Batiste. To be considered, writers and artists who identify as Radical Black Feminists are invited to follow the regular submission process for PoetryXCollage to express their interest and how their practice and submission explores and reflects Radical Black Feminist theory. Please be mindful of your relationality and points of intersection and intervention when putting together your submissions. Alternatively, they may send an EMAIL to S. Erin Batiste. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. 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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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
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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SPECIAL EDITION
In honor of World Collage Day, 9 May 2026, Kolaj Institute released a special edition of Kolaj Magazine. Highlights include a profile of World Collage Day 2026 Poster Artist Jessa Dupuis, an Editorial by Ric Kasini Kadour about technologies of the self on World Collage Day, the story of the Eclectic Collage Collective in London, Ontario by Sarah Cowling, Jerome Bertrand shares his experience creating a Living Collage in a day-long performance at Atelier Galerie 2112 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Cut-Out Pages from inspiring collage artists. MORE
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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 #43, you’ll discover “The Fluctuation of Likeness” by Portland, Oregon collagist Clive Knights; Irish collagist Anthony D Kelly on basic income for the arts in Ireland; an interview with photomontagist Mark Rappaport about images, art, and cinema; Ric Kasini Kadour’s editorial, “Blank Cartridge Pistol”; a report on The Rose, an exhibition and book exploring female narrative through archival and embodied collage practices; Anthony Michael Ryder on collage and trauma; Emily Denlinger on bringing “Gain of Function” to Carnival in New Orleans; “Selections from the Collection” featuring Meikel Church’s Self-Inflicted Regret, curated by Susan Simpson; and collage news from Montreal, Paris, Germany, Kolaj Institute, World Collage Day, PoetryXCollage, and more.
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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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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