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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. Sara Willadsen makes pictures that satisfy her curiosity in aesthetics and found materials. Combining these articles with reappropriations of her own work allows her to employ past patterns and marks as prompts for new structures and environments. The aggressive process used to construct these secretive spaces is kept in balance with the consciousness to know when to stop. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Lambton House in Toronto, Ontario Canada through 31 May 2026. Presented by the Toronto Collage Collective at Historic Lambton House. The group exhibition "Journeys" brings together works by collective members alongside an international open call, exploring themes of migration, movement, memory, and transformation through the medium of collage. Installed within a 19th-century stagecoach inn along the Humber River, the exhibition engages with the site’s historical significance as a place of transit and exchange. This context deepens the exhibition’s focus on journeys, both physical and metaphorical, highlighting stories of displacement, identity, and belonging. MORE
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KOLAJ INSTITUTE SOLO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
through 7 June 2026. Chloe Riley will embark on a “deeply personal exploration of Black identity, culture, and community, rooted in the duality of my lived experience between Tucson, Arizona, and New Orleans, Louisiana. As an African American artist raised in a city where I am often the only Black person in the room, I have long been placed in the position of cultural interpreter—explaining my heritage and way of life to those unfamiliar with it. In stark contrast, New Orleans, my family’s home for generations, offers me a sense of belonging, pride, and cultural richness that is both empowering and creatively essential.” The resulting body of work will be a series of collage that promotes positive representation, honors intergenerational legacy, and connects deeply with the lived realities of the people the artist comes from. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Deadline to apply: 31 May 2026
Curating is a vital part of art’s function: a curator creates a bridge between artwork and audience. For artists, this process can be confusing and mysterious. The goal of the Curating Collage Workshop is to equip artists with the tools to curate their own work, to work with curators, and build exhibitions that connect with diverse audiences.
The Curating Collage Workshop is a five-week program designed to train artists as curators. In five virtual meetings over five weeks and through ongoing, online discussion, we will explore the fundamentals of curating, how to create critical context for collage, and various strategies for navigating the art ecosystem and presenting collage to an audience. Topics will include art writing; gallery and museum issues; documenting artist practice; and working with art professionals. We will also show artists how to develop an exhibition prospectus.
The workshop is facilitated by Kolaj Magazine Editor Ric Kasini Kadour. Curating Collage 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. The next Curating Collage Workshop: Saturday, 20 June and Sundays, 21 June-12 July 2026, 1-3PM EDT. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at SoNa Chicago Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, USA through 30 May 2026. Tony Fitzpatrick was the beloved, brash, and bold artist, actor, and poet who died too soon at the age of 66 on October 11, 2025. He was a prolific collage artist and printmaker who loved the city of Chicago as well as birds, dogs, and regular folks who are so often underappreciated. For years, he supported other artists and lifted them up. He selected most of the artists in this show because he said, “They are among the best.” This exhibit includes works by Lisa Barcy, Lou Beach, Monica J. Brown, Andrea Burgay, Tony Fitzpatrick, Glen Gauthier, Paul Loughney, Jack Poker, Nellie Seigel, and Paloma Trecka. There are several pieces in the show that were made in tribute to Tony. Many of the artists worked with or were mentored by him. The work in this exhibition showcases the myriad styles and subjects of contemporary collage, revealing the dynamism of this art form. This exhibition explores personal memories, social commentary, and a diversity of materials. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
London, England, United Kingdom. Robyn Dansie sees herself as an illustrator of ideas. Controlled and random chaos, humor and surprise are all merged in her works. Often appearing playful at first, her work endeavors to visually express her understanding about existence in the 21st century, but also includes references to the past. She examines society’s lusts and the desire for fortune and fame and, consequently, to highlight our insecurities. MORE
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PUBLICATION
Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026 Program Book is a document of all things related to Kolaj Fest. In these pages, you will find a schedule and descriptions of sessions, bios and website information for artists and presenters, descriptions of evening events and special workshops. A full-colour, printed book is included with your registration.
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Duke Street Gallery in Dublin, Ireland through 13 June 2026. For the past year, Brian Palm has been working with photo collage combined with vibrant watercolor washes, rather than his more familiar combination of collage, oil paint, and varnish. Focusing on intimate moments captured on quiet streets, this series of artwork depicts playful interactions between friends or family members as they go about their daily lives. Working with photographic imagery from the artist’s substantial archive of black-and-white negatives, Palm has for many years created evocative urban landscapes recalling the sights and sounds of Dublin’s streets from the not-so-distant past. However, when comparing those same streets with today’s city, the difference is astonishing. It is in the deliberate presentation of what could be considered nostalgic views of Dublin that the strength and depth of Brian Palm’s artistic vision is most clearly illuminated. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Mondoromulo Arte Contemporanea in Castelvenere, Benevento, Italy through 26 June 2026. After three years, Pasquale De Sensi from Lamezia Terme returns to the gallery with a new series of collages that take as their starting point one of the most famous places in satirical literature, Lagado, featured in Gulliver’s Travels. In the Academy of Lagado, which Jonathan Swift constructs in Gulliver’s Travels, a machine produces knowledge through the mechanical and random combination of words—a scathing critique of the rationalist claim to reduce thought to procedure. De Sensi takes Swift’s device and turns it over. Collage, in operation, is a recombination according to criteria, the deliberate architecture of visual memory. Lagado’s panel can exist only because it is manipulated by an artist: someone who chooses, who orders, who is accountable for his own system of meaning. 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
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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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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