Volume 1 Release Exhibition at The Fulton Street Collective in Chicago, Illinois, USA through 24 November 2024. The Chicago Collage Community strives to connect and uplift the diverse array of talented collage artists in the greater Chicagoland area. It is their intention to be an inclusive, nurturing and safe space while ensuring Chicago is in the ongoing conversations being had about collage art and artists throughout the world. They do this by building a vibrant, connected community where they are. In their continuing efforts towards these goals, they are launching the Chicago Collage Magazine, an independent publication that features collage and assemblage artists, introducing them to the art world at large. Curated and edited by co-founders Charlea Taylor and Christine Vilutis, along with fellow collage artist and curator Miranda Livingston.

Contemporary Mail Art from Around the World at The Little Gallery in Huron, Ohio, USA through 4 December 2024. “Modern Fluxus” consists of art from the archive of curator Stephen Tomasko, which he has amassed as a practicing mail artist over the last few decades, especially highlighting work sent in response to a recent global call for new work. The gallery explodes with an abundance of correspondence art, over one hundred images made by contemporary artists from twenty-five countries, an astounding creative outpouring made and sent outside of the commercial realm in the spirit of Dada, Fluxus, and Mail Art. Most of the work in the exhibition is being displayed for the first time.

In Kolaj #40 article, "This, That, & the Other Thing", we explore the activist assemblage of Norman Barney, Terry Graff, and Laurie Rayner Langford. "Assemblage art gives focus to human-object interactions, steering us to consider what objects tell us about society, history, and culture, in short, to what they disclose about us."

Chicago, Illinois, USA. "Each composition is a conversation or ‘cautionary tale’ that uses humor, rhythm, balance and beauty to explore surreal aspects of feminism, control and power in American culture." Last year, Bramlage took part in Kolaj Institute’s Collage Magic Artist Residency and was featured in the resulting book and exhibition, “Magic in the Modern World”. A portfolio of artwork appears in Kolaj #40.

Each issue of Kolaj Magazine features portfolios of contemporary artists alongside critical commentary as a means of developing a deeper understanding of collage as both a medium and a genre. To be considered, register with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory at www.kolajmagazine.com.

Kenmore, Washington, USA. Lisa Sheets’ mixed media analog collages explore history, gender roles, and cultural norms, and how these things impact our lives. Sheets uses combinations of religious and historical iconography along with pop culture images to stress the sacred in our modern day lives. Her most recent body of work places a firm focus on hope, joy, and renewal, Sheets is now committed to emerging out of the disruption and trauma, to move towards a time that can be new, fresh, hopeful; a time of growth and reimagining.

Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Poland. Bogna Warszawa is a self-educated video editor, motion designer, and collage artist. She creates analog collages, collage gifs, stop motion music videos, and short documentaries about the cultural and social topics of places important to her. Her strength lies in making paper characters, composed of many independent elements.

Want to see your collage BIG? For a $50 donation to support Kolaj Institute, we'll print one of your collages on a 24"x36" piece of paper—an opportunity to scale up your work and help elevate collage as a medium in the contemporary art world! Your donation helps fund programs like our gallery exhibitions, artist residencies, and educational workshops that support and grow the global collage community. Make your donation today and get your BIG PRINT! 

Early deadline to apply: Saturday, 28 November 2024. Intended as a clinic for working artists at any level, participants in this workshop will explore how they go about making art and putting it out into the world. Participants will finish the workshop with a deeper understanding of their practice; a strong statement of practice that can be used to communicate with curators, editors, and art professionals; a portfolio of consistent artwork (or a plan to make one); and tools for growing or developing their practice.

SPRING-SUMMER 2025 DEADLINE: Saturday, 30 November 2024. Kolaj Institute’s Solo Residencies are designed to provide artists, curators, and writers with dedicated time and space to work on a project. Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans includes a fully fitted bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen that allow us to provide housing for artists who come to New Orleans to develop their practice and make artwork.