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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Plumas Lake, California, USA. Kerri Warner uses book pages, maps, wrapping paper, found objects and fragments of antique hardware to depict moments in time. She sees her art as vibrant visual storytelling, rich with texture and detail, each composition combines elements inspired by everyday moments, executed with a whimsical touch. Warner loves the puzzle of putting together pattern and color to depict subjects, portraying body language and facial expressions that might make the viewer stop and ponder the situation or stir a memory of time spent with friends or family. Her imagination and observations of the world around her are the driving force behind the artist's creations. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 1 November 2026. Monday, 7 December to Friday, 11 December 2026 at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
At Kolaj Institute, we believe there is great value in artists having dedicated, focused time to work on their artwork while being in community with other artists. The retreat provides time and space to pursue an independent project while sharing ideas and experiences with fellow artists. From 10AM Monday to 4PM Friday, artists will have 24-hour access to a studio space shared with a small group of other artists. Supplies, including scissors, cutting knives, mats, and glue, and materials, including books, magazines, and paper, will be provided. Following an orientation on Monday morning, artists will meet once a day as a community to discuss their goals and progress. Artists will have the option for one-on-one curatorial support with Kolaj Institute’s director. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Institut français Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany through 12 November 2026. A solo exhibition by Ivorian artist Yannick Ackah. Bringing together works from different phases of his practice, the exhibition focuses on a form of painting in which personal memories, cultural visual traditions, and social realities converge. At its core is the question of how images preserve, transmit, and transform experiences as they enter new contexts. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: Monday, 9 November 2026. A four-week, virtual/online workshop with Kolaj Institute.
Next Session: Sundays, 27 December 2026-17 January 2027, 1-3PM EST.
At Kolaj Institute, we see the book, not just the gallery, as a place to experience collage. In this four-week workshop, artists will turn a body of work or a project into a zine, art catalog, monograph, or book. We will explore different models of publishing and types of book projects. We will walk through the steps and support one another as we create publishing projects and prepare to put them out into the world. Participants will present and receive feedback on page spreads. Presentations will speak to issues around copyright and appropriation, getting the book printed, and launching and marketing the book. They will finish the workshop with a publishing project or create a detailed plan for one. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Simone on Sunset, Houston, Texas, USA through 5 December 2026. For Giacomo Viscardi, collage begins in finding. It then meets destruction. With the cut of a razor blade, a character or image can be ripped from its original story, isolated and cast off from its world of meaning and tossed into the deep (or, a storage bag in the studio). Motivated by a fundamental belief that this part of the creative process mirrors the moments when our lives suddenly lose their narrative threads - i.e., when our worlds crumble about us and the constellations that once guided us home lead us into the dark, Viscardi transforms diverse images, textures, and materials from different continents and centuries into his debut exhibition, “What Dreams May Come.” MORE
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NEW PUBLICATION
How do we visualize the contemporary political moment? How do collage artists speak to rising authoritarianism? Midterm Report on the Rise of Authoritarianism shares the work of five contemporary collage artists who came together for a month to make art about contemporary politics. Their work speaks to a range of topics from economics, the environment, and militarization to religion, gender, and international relations. The artwork is contextualized with quotes, news reports, artist statements, and reading suggestions. We hope this zine will inspire others to draw upon their strength and to use their voice and their creative skills to resist authoritarianism. MORE
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COLLAGE BOOKS
Europeana Foundation, 2025. Europeana's Collage Book is full of beautiful artworks, vintage photos, beautiful patterns and fascinating objects, sourced from cultural heritage collections from museums, galleries, libraries and archives across Europe. With 22 pages of copyright-free illustrations, it is ideal for you to explore, cut, glue and use for your postcards, bookmarks, zines and more! The Europeana Collage Book can be downloaded and printed for free from Europeana.eu. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Austin, Texas, USA. Through color, texture, and layered composition, Hannah Barnard explores themes of curiosity, transformation, and the emotional landscape of modern womanhood. Much of the imagery she uses is intentionally abstract or indiscernible, inviting viewers to pause, wonder, and find their own meaning. Her work reflects a personal journey of navigating the complexities of femininity—grappling with inherited generational patterns while carving space for autonomy and new ways of being. Against the backdrop of a shifting cultural and political climate, Barnard's art serves as both a personal archive and a quiet act of resistance. 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 October 2026. Make your donation today and see your collage BIG! LEARN 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
Final Deadline to apply: Sunday, 8 November 2026. A four-week, virtual/online residency with Kolaj Institute, 29 November-20 December 2026.
Every culture has stories about death. The rituals, beliefs, and traditions that grow from these stories shape how we understand mortality, experience grief, and remember the dead. During this Virtual Collage Artist Residency, artists will explore how different cultures express death through folklore, including stories about the afterlife, ghosts, and spirits. Participants will investigate cemeteries, traditions, and social organizations in their own communities, using this research to inform their collage making. Through group discussions, presentations, and supportive feedback, artists will develop their practice and consider how their materials help tell these stories. Work created during and after the residency will be considered for two New Orleans exhibitions in 2027. Artwork and writing will also be considered for publication in Folklore Collage Society. 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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