at Outsiders and Others in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada through 25 November 2023. "Paper Play" features artists from both Canada and the US, Zan Ahoy, John Catron, Sarah Grant Duff, Torea Frey, Jack Procter, Evie Osborn, Seema Shah, Chris Short, and Geoff Wonnacott, who responded to a call for artists in May 2023. Even though we live in an age of advanced technology and AI, all the artists featured in this exhibition cut paper and use glue to make their artwork.

David Crunelle at Zedes Art Gallery in Brussels, Belgium through 23 December 2023. David Crunelle, an avid ragpicker of past splendors, uses them to recreate the beautiful works destined to cast a final glow, a moment, before their disappearance in the blaze of a dying world. To do this, he constructs his works like quilts, taking up craft patterns as complex as they are underestimated, seeking to push them, technically, ever further. He inserts salvaged images, like photopolymer holograms, forgotten survivors of a bygone past, whose production has long since ceased. It’s no longer time to hope, fight or cry. It’s time to die in style, holding on to images, objects, the fascination of kaleidoscopes and holographic magic until the very end.

West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Kim Rae Taylor's collage work is usually rooted in drawing, allowing more traditional media to interact with castoff bits like discarded paper, shards of plastic, vinyl, and signage. These elements unexpectedly inform one another as they converge, much like a puzzle. Some of the collage material is nothing more than litter plucked off the street, but it’s often the random clutter from her studio floor that offers the most opportunity for dismantling and reinventing older drawings and paintings. This improvisational way of creating imagery always draws from nature as subject matter. The ebb and flow, growth and decay, of both the natural and the man-made are in a continuous state of transformation: an abnormal dichotomy between the disposable goods we consume and the natural world we need.

A four-week, virtual/online workshop with Kolaj Institute in January 2024. A working understanding of one’s practice is critical to one’s professional and artistic development. Intended as a clinic for working artists at any level, participants in the Collage in Practice Workshop will explore how they go about making art and putting it out into the world. How to make a living as an artist? How to get your work seen? How to get an exhibition? How to get reviewed? How to make a life for yourself as an artist? What does that even mean? These are some of the challenges artists face when they want to take their art practice to the next level. 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. Early deadline to apply: Sunday, 5 December 2023. Final deadline to apply: Sunday, 17 December 2023.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Elizabeth Wood's artwork explores the underlying, personal narratives that share a universality of themes: vulnerability, loss, resilience, and hope. Her art practice is influenced by her childhood experience as an orphan navigating an unstable world shaped by powerful emotions such as: grief, loneliness, fear and hope. In her work, which is predominately collage as well as installation, Wood seeks to express the experience of vulnerability with the hope of building a shared awareness of and empathy for others.

Deadline: Sunday, 31 March 2024. Coordinated by artists Jennie Johnston and Shamina Senaratne, this project was created by Chicago, Illinois artist Elaine Luther in 2021, as she explored labour, domestic labour, and unpaid caring work. Canada-resident artists are invited to create collage on the theme of unpaid labour using time cards provided by the coordinators. The works will be shown in the Vancouver, British Columbia area in late Spring or Summer 2024.

In the Kolaj 38 editorial, Ric Kasini Kadour asks what happens when a work of art becomes detached from the artist, orphaned, unidentified? "Lost Collages" considers those artworks found in attics and thrift shops, divorced from their maker. "Like many collage artists, I often find myself in second-hand shops. Lately, I have been buying the collage art that I find there."