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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Mickalene Thomas at Le Grand Palais in Paris, France through 5 April 2026. Through painting, collage, photography, video, and installation, Thomas reimagines classical portraiture from a uniquely queer and Black feminist perspective, exploring the visibility and representation of Black women in art, history, and popular culture. Featuring works spanning over two decades, “All About Love” honors the agency, beauty, and resilience of Black women. Thomas’s subjects—friends, family, lovers, and cultural icons—are depicted with confidence, sensuality, and grace, reclaiming spaces historically denied to them. Her lush, rhinestone-studded compositions invite viewers into worlds where pleasure becomes a political act and representation takes on a radical form. MORE
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WORLD COLLAGE DAY
LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
To celebrate World Collage Day, Artist and teacher Brittany Lopez Burton will host Together in Pieces, an evening dedicated to exploring the endless possibilities of collage, on 9 May 2026, 6-9 PM BST at OPEN Ealing Arts Centre. This hands-on event is perfect for anyone eager to dive into the world of mixed media, discover new techniques, and connect with fellow art enthusiasts. MORE
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. In honour of World Collage Day on 9 May 2026, 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. Order before World Collage Day and the printed magazine also includes a printed poster and collection of World Collage Day Postcards designed by World Collage Day 2026 Poster Artist Jessa Dupuis. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Rhodri Kasperbauer at Kerr Street Bulletin Gallery in Oakville, Ontario, Canada through 31 March 2026. Rhodri Kasperbauer’s work addresses contemporary issues and features bold compositions and mixed media, inviting viewers to find their own meanings through insights, paradoxes, contradictions, and humour. The word “PROPOCANADA” was created for this Exhibition. It is a fusion of the words “Propogare” (to spread information), “Canada” (acknowledging our present country), and “Dada” (a nod to that disruptive art movement). The subtitle – “Propoganda” – is a word that is often used to derogatorily describe biased or misleading information (often promoting a particular agenda or point of view). But these days, perhaps the only certainty is that the truth is uncertain and all is propaganda? MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Grace Wilbanks has been creating collages from National Geographic magazines, dinner menus, catalogs and old books since she can remember. Her passion for collage is centered on changing context to give new meaning and life to a subject. The artist explores themes like female expression and recovery in her work. She also works on a commission basis. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Montara, California, USA. Caroline Goodwin came to the art of collage during an online poetry workshop with bilingual Welsh poet and performance artist Rhys Trimble. In response to Trimble’s prompts, she started to consider her relationship with the natural world and to find real joy. After reading and writing poetry for thirty years, the incorporation of diverse materials liberated her. She uses snippets of her late husband’s handwriting, glass seed beads, purple Sharpie, cards and calendars from Alaska, work by dead and living poets, photographs of her and her husband, and her own poetry in every piece. She continues to be fascinated by the healing power of collage. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
The next Art Writing Workshop: Saturdays, 11 April-2 May 2026, 1-3PM EDT. Final Deadline to apply: 2 April 2026. Art writing is not like other forms of exposition. Writing about collage is different from writing about other mediums. In this workshop, participants will work together to develop practical techniques for writing about their artwork. We will examine the nature of artist statements, biographies, proposals, art reviews, and other forms of writing about art. Participants will practice writing object descriptions, explore how to draw stories out of artwork; and consider how using alternative forms of text creation like poetry, personal essay, and found text can build context for their artwork. The workshop will unfold through virtual presentations and group discussions and through readings and sharing texts in process.
The workshop is facilitated by Kolaj Magazine Editor Ric Kasini Kadour and guest speaker Danielle Krysa, collage artist and author of seven books, will share her experience writing about art. Participants will leave the workshop with a revitalized artist statement and bio and a set of strategies for incorporating art writing into their artist practice. Art Writing Workshop is part of Kolaj institute's Artist Development Program, a series of four 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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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
31 March 2026 is the last chance to subscribe to Kolaj Magazine and start with Kolaj 42.
From Washington, DC to Warsaw, from Birmingham to Düsseldorf, and across studios, festivals, and quiet domestic spaces, Kolaj 42 traces a vivid and urgent map of the international collage community. These artists engage with history and myth, animate images, confront political power, mourn fragile networks, and find new forms of expression in the face of social and cultural instability. They are reflecting on memory and illness, reimagining narratives through metaphor, and sustaining creative exchange through residencies, publications, and collaborative work. Moving between satire and sincerity, personal story and collective resistance, Kolaj 42 captures a moment where collage continues to evolve as both an art form and a way of thinking through the complexities of our time. LEARN MORE AND GET YOUR COPY
Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community. We hope you enjoy the articles and images in the magazine, but also, we hope it leads you to asking great questions and ultimately to great artwork.
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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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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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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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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 Eight includes artwork and writing by Kara McKeever (Kansas city, Missouri, USA), Susan Lee Simpson & Hugh Findlay (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA), Rebecca Sales (South San Francisco, California, USA), Iain Bleakley (London, England, United Kingdom), Heather Stearns (White River Junction, Vermont, USA), Milk Teeth (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). On the Cover is a detail of Finally Yielded by Heather Stearns. 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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