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COLLAGE BOOKS
BlazeVOX, 2025. Geoffrey Gatza's poems and college poems are based on inspiring situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric, humoristic elements. The poems and college poems reference surrealism as well as the avant-garde or the postmodern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system. Gatza believes our current social climate must grapple with the role of discourse in shaping our perceptions of—and indeed structuring—the world. MORE
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COLLAGE BOOKS
Self-published, 2025. Indira Govindan's book is the culmination of a three-year project of collage-making, using one source. The book is also a celebration of print-news media, as well as a book of memories and an excavation of forgotten bits from the past, connecting them to the present. Three years ago, after four decades of living in the US, Govindan moved back to India and domiciled in Chennai, a coastal city in the coastal state of Tamilnadu. Though the artist spoke the local language, the city was not familiar to them and in order to understand the city, its culture and its people they subscribed to the print version of The Hindu, a storied newspaper that was founded more than 150 years ago, still chugging along. Govindan clipped articles, started making mixed-media collages from them and ended up with about a hundred collages. Afterlives of a Newspaper evolved organically over time. 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
Tacoma, Washington, USA. Dorothy Anderson Wasserman is a visual artist, photographer, art educator, tap dancer, and choreographer. These professional careers have crisscrossed over the span of five decades, informing and enlivening the artistic directions taken. After years of exploring photo transfers, she made her first photo collage in 1999. Wasserman writes, “On the drive home from visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, I became stuck in traffic for over two hours. In the middle of this standstill, I got out of the car and photographed the surroundings in an organized grid. After the images were developed I recreated the scene, morphing it into a new reality. This act of deconstruction/reconstruction initiated a photo collage practice lasting twenty-five years. What continues to thrill me about this approach is that the finished work has the look of a one-shot photograph, only the world created is of my own making.” MORE
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FILM SCREENING
Friday, 3 October 2025, 6PM EDT, at Cinéma Public in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Collage on Screen is an eclectic evening of short films. Part One is a collection of films curated by Kolaj Institute. Part Two features works made during Kolaj Institute’s 2024 Collage on Screen Artist Residency, a five-week program designed to support artists who want to develop a practice that includes motion in their artmaking. Part Three will show two films by Montreal, Quebec filmmaker Ric Kasini Kadour for the first time in Montreal. Among the showings is a short film courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada by early 20th century Montreal filmmaker Arthur Lipsett (1936-1986) which is often cited as an influence on George Lucas’s Star Wars and his conceptualization of “The Force.” Filmmakers from the United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Canada, and across the United States are represented. The inclusion of Tonya Dee McDaniel’s animated short film åguaguat, was celebrated by The Guam Daily Post: “A Guam-born artist is gaining international recognition through animation, breaking geographical barriers and bringing Chamoru cultural elements to a global audience.” MORE
This film screening is taking place as part of COLLAGE::BOOKS and VOLUME 8 MTL. If you are interested in bringing Collage on Screen to your community, send an EMAIL.
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
Stefano Carbone at Centro Cultural Xavier Villaurrutia in Mexico City, Mexico, through 1 October 2025. Stefano Carbone’s “Rupture” focuses on analog collage through the technique of tearing: fragments of torn paper are reassembled into new visual realities, giving form to identities in constant transformation. The project embraces the spirit of queerness, understood as experimentation and the fusion of diverse ideas and aesthetics. Each work is built from layers of colors, textures, and materials gathered from the streets of Paris, Madrid, Bari, and Mexico City. Though sourced from different geographies and contexts, the compositions maintain a visual harmony that reflects unity within diversity. This convergence of fragments mirrors the queer experience—multiple origins and perspectives coexisting in a single entity. MORE
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AT COLLAGE::BOOKS
Book Publishing as Artist Practice
COLLAGE::BOOKS, a multi-day event about collage, community, and publishing, presented by Kolaj Institute in Montreal, 2-5 October 2025. Event highlights include Meet & Greet and Collage Making; Visit to Artexte, a library, research centre and exhibition space for contemporary art; the symposium, The Book as a Place for Collage; and Collage on Screen, an evening of collage films. The event runs parallel to VOLUME 8 MTL, Montreal’s annual conference and fair devoted to art publishing and artists’ books. VOLUME 8 MTL is produced by ARCMTL, a Montreal-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving local independent culture.
In this session at the COLLAGE::BOOKS Symposium, The Book as a Place of Collage, presenters will show projects where the book is the centrepoint of the contemporary art project, rather than an auxiliary element and speak about the role publishing plays in their practice, process, and making and the role publishing plays in the diffusion of their artwork.
| | | | Gia Anansi Shakur (New York, New York, USA) (image top) will speak about the ekphrastic poetry and collage project, "Bella Daa'kness: From Montauk to Beyond," a collection of one hundred collages that explores lineage, current events and spirituality. Helena Sieborgs (Leopoldsburg, Belgium & Saint-Thégonnec Loc-Eguiner, France) (image bottom) will present her project, The Tender Veil, in which she intervenes on the 20th-century crime scene photographs of French police photographer Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) with floral interventions as a way to consider "ethics in representation, the aesthetics of violence, and the power of collage to act as both critique and commemoration." Jennella Young (Brooklyn, New York, USA) "grounds her creative and cultural work in place-based memory and the lived experiences of her community." She will speak about her Burnt Sugar: Memory, Myth, and Legacy of Louisiana Plantations project and related companion zines. The collage practice of William Davies King (Santa Barbara, California, USA) evolved from collecting "nothing" which he describes as "mainly ephemera, including worthless books." King will speak about making what he calls "Bibliolage". S. Erin Batiste (Brooklyn, New York, USA) will speak about how her practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, waymaking and migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. | | |
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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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