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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Union City, Indiana, USA. Jolie Ruin is a big comedy fan and uses humor in a lot of her art. Sometimes the goal is to make people laugh but sometimes the message is meant to inspire or empower them. She is Latina and also a feminist and she tries to represent people of color and present feminist issues in her work. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Satchel Projects in New York, New York, USA through 2 July 2026. In an era of relentless digital image circulation, the artists in “Composite World” turn to the tactile act of cutting, collecting, and recombining printed matter. Working primarily with analog collage, they find and reassemble magazines, photographs, advertisements, and other forms of ephemera into new embodied forms, dislocated from their original contexts and set into newly dynamic relations. Collage operates as both method and metaphor: a means of constructing images while exposing their underlying structures. Through acts of isolation, rearrangement, and juxtaposition, these artists disrupt the narratives embedded within mass-produced imagery, allowing unexpected relationships between figures, objects, and spaces to emerge. Curated by Paul Loughney. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 14 June 2026. Montreal: City as Archive Collage Artist Lab is a five-day intensive where collage artists use Place as a laboratory and spend a week making artwork; learning about the city, its people, and its history; and discussing how art can capture, share, reflect, comment, and otherwise engage with a sense of place. The Artist Lab will be based out of Atelier Galerie 2112 in downtown Montreal, Tuesday, 28 July to Sunday, 2 August 2026. LEARN MORE
Kolaj Institute’s Place as Archive investigates how artists incorporate a sense of place into their collage art as a way of drawing out deeper, more complex stories. With a current focus on New Orleans, Montreal, and Scotland, the project manifests as residencies, articles, exhibitions, and publications. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 14 June 2026 (part of Kolaj Fest New Orleans). The idiom, “Bird on a Wire,” speaks to the tension between freedom and vulnerability, a precarious state of existence where at any moment one could fly or fall. Leonard Cohen’s 1968 song is an apology, a prayer, and an anthem. He sings, “I have tried in my way to be free.” The idiom also speaks to what it feels like to be an artist; constantly on the verge of success or failure, balancing security with unpredictability. The idiom also speaks to this historical moment where society itself feels precarious or to quote Cohen’s song, we are all “like a worm on a hook.” With this in mind, we invited participants of Kolaj Fest New Orleans to submit for this exhibition, which was juried by Christy Wood, the director of LeMieux Galleries, and Kolaj Magazine Editor Ric Kasini Kadour. It is an official exhibition of Kolaj Fest New Orleans, an annual, multi-day festival & symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 10-14 June 2024. LEARN MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Shawn Marshall’s process is significantly shaped by the integration of her multidisciplinary background in architecture and sculpture. It informs not only the techniques she employs and the tools she uses but also the consideration she gives to structure, form, space, composition, and material. In Marshall’s work, she explores the connection between human presence and our environment. She is also concerned with consumption and waste and for this reason, she collects discarded and found materials such as paper, cardboard, wallpaper, magazines, lace, and scraps of material. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Deadline to apply: Monday, 6 July 2026. A four-week, virtual/online workshop with Kolaj Institute. At Kolaj Institute, we see the book, not just the gallery, as a place to experience collage. This sentiment has broad implications for how collage artists work and how their work is received by an art world whose orientation is decidedly fixed on the gallery wall. In the Collage Publishing Workshop, artists turn a body of work or a project into a zine, art catalog, monograph, or book. We explore different models of publishing and types of book projects and we walk through the steps and support one another as we create publishing projects and prepare to put them out into the world. Next Session: Sundays, 26 July-16 August 2026, 1-3PM EDT
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Collage Publishing is part of Kolaj Institute's Artist Development Program, 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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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Delight Factory in Brooklyn, New York, USA through 27 June 2026. This exhibition of works by Sarah Porter brings together thirteen new mixed-media works that evoke both perpetual loss and volatile renewal. Porter sources figures from vintage photographs—Civil War soldiers, boxers, children, and odalisques—and layers them over watercolor, acrylic, and collage backgrounds. The phototransfer technique gives the figures a dangerous transparency, leaving them on the edge of obliteration. At the same time, “The Buried Sun” reveals loss as metamorphosis. Hundreds of individually cut collage slivers from vintage magazines detach from their original contexts and radiate in explosive colors across the works in beams, haloes, and starbursts, breaking free from containment. MORE
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KOLAJ INSTITUTE EXHIBITION
through 14 June 2026 at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans. All of the work in the exhibition stands at the intersection of poetry and collage. Often work at the intersection of poetry and collage is made for the page. In this exhibition, we consider how artwork at the intersection operates on the gallery wall. "When viewing this work, we are encouraged to think of the fragment—which may be text or image—as a verse in a grand poem. We think of poetry as knowledge in the form of song. By which we mean that knowledge is expressed using rhythm, cadence, beat; stanza, verse, chorus. We think all art contains knowledge," wrote curator Ric Kasini Kadour. "We also believe that this artwork raises questions about the nature of poetry, the nature of artwork, and how these cultural expressions are understood by you, the viewer." LEARN 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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