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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
San Luis Obispo, California, USA. Marsha Shaw is inspired by her interest in dreams, horror films, and the works of Edgar Allen Poe and Stephen King. Benign images are cut from magazines and discarded books, and combined in a way to give the viewer a glimpse into some strange and imaginary world. Eyes stare out of trees, references to “home” are anything but homey, and hands reach down from the sky wanting to pluck some innocent person or object up into the sky. Birds frequently appear, symbolizing guides to help the viewer negotiate these strange stories. MORE
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COLLAGE BOOKS
Redfoxpress, 2021. Himalayan Notebook is part of a vernacular series of time and place based autobiographical visual narratives composed of vintage Himalayan ads, trivia, pop culture, folklore, maps, woodblock prints, and handmade Nepalese lokta paper, that multidisciplinary artist Marilyn Stablein collected during her seven year sojourn in the Himalayas during the countercultural sixties before the internet, cell phones and email. The book is a hand-stitched numbered edition limited to 150 copies with forty original color collages. MORE
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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Tuesday, 21 October & Thursday, 23 October 2025, 7-9PM CDT. Silence Your Inner Bully is a creative workshop led by Jaclyn McCabe designed to overcome imposter syndrome and cultivate unshakeable confidence. McCabe writes, "In this workshop, I’ll guide artists through engaging, creative exercises designed to help them unlock their potential by silencing the inner critic, fostering artistic freedom, and building confidence in both their creative practice and the art world." The workshop takes place over two session, with the first focused on teaching and the second on collage-making. In between sessions, participants will make collage on their own. No prior collage making experience is necessary. Participants should have collage making materials, a cutting tool, and glue on hand. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Tucson, Arizona, USA. Jennifer Mead uses collage as a creative outlet to bring her eye for design layout, color, and unique perspective into a tangible visual form. In her recent work, she enjoys exploring themes of surrealism, absurdity, vintage style, memory, and female experience. She uses cut-outs from her great-grand-uncle’s magazine collection along with other similar era magazines and ephemera layered with acrylic paints to explore her own creative perspective. For Mead, repurposing these remnants from her familial past seems like it was meant to be. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Janice McDonald at The Arvada Center in Arvada, Colorado, USA, through 9 November 2025. The dynamic world of collage and assemblage comes to life in this exhibition through bold patterns, unexpected materials, and striking visual narratives. Artist Janice McDonald joins a host of other artists that use the act of layering to explore memory, identity, passion, and place, transforming everyday materials into powerful statements. Whether stitched, glued, painted, or constructed, each piece invites you to look closer, to uncover hidden meanings, and to rethink what collage can be. Step into a world where fragments become stories, and where the familiar is made new; this is collage as you’ve never seen it before. Far from random layering, each work reveals a careful design of elements—scraps, textures, sounds, and objects—brought together with deliberate intention. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Through 18 October 2025 at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans. At the heart of this exhibition is collage made and sent to the gallery in response to an open call to artists: "You mix fear (yellow) and anger (red) and you get a Big Orange Monster. What's the emergency? There are a lot of Big Orange Monsters on the loose. Monsters only have power if you are afraid of them. So let's create a space where we can slay our fear of Big Orange Monsters. Art helps us exorcise our demons. Monsters can be glorious and wonderful or horrible and evil. Let's not cast aside the good Big Orange Monsters because some other Big Orange Monsters are well...unpleasant." Artists sent 128 collages from 13 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States. Nine artists from New Orleans contributed works to the exhibition. We ask visitors to the gallery to take care and not feed the monsters, some of which have been installed behind a protective iron gate for everyone's safety. Join us for Second Saturday, October 11th, 6-8PM. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at New Discretions in New York City, New York, USA through 18 October 2025. This group exhibition adopts a two-pronged approach in confronting the detritus of culture and mood, unpacking how artists build new worlds. At once material and metaphorical, this exhibition posits trash as both condition and critique. What is thrown away—and what it reveals—becomes a lens through which to see not only contemporary art, but contemporary life. Gathering works by a disparate collection of makers, the exhibition investigates assemblage and the ready-made as both material strategies and as reflections of the darkening collective reality. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Estelle L. Roberge at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Bedford, Pennsylvania, USA through 19 October 2025. Collagist Estelle L. Roberge had three works juried into the Donald M. Robinson Photography Biennial 2025 by Juror Nicole Elliott. Roberge is a prolific artist whose work has been featured in solo and group shows across the U.S. Originally from Maine and holding degrees from the Portland School of Art, the University of Southern Maine, and Idaho State University, Roberge now lives and works in Magdalena, New Mexico. MORE
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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
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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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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