Shawn Marshall at Jen Tough Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA through 27 November 2024. in “Reframe,” Kentucky-based artist Shawn Marshall uses collage to explore juxtaposition, contrast, and critical reflection. Using found and discarded paper and magazines, she crafts dynamic compositions that invite the viewer to question and reconsider familiar narratives and explore broader themes such as consumerism, identity, and the traces we leave behind.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "The mostly monochromatic collage elements seamlessly compliment Karsh’s black & white photographs. The interventions lead the viewer to contemplate the psyche of celebrity and power." Bob Bunck has worked as a photographer since 1968 and as a full-time professional artist since 1977, with work in painting, photography, collage, assemblage and frescos. His collage of Pandit Nehru is on the back cover. 

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.

Barcelona, Spain. Saki's artworks are a testament to her eclectic taste in materials. She gathers inspiration from the streets of the cities she visits, collecting a medley of items such as old magazines, tattered books, papers, brochures, and even fashion catalogs. Occasionally, she infuses her creations with fragments of paint, adding her personal touch to the mix. As for her creative process, it embarks on a treasure hunt for materials. From there, she relies on intuition to select and piece together images, allowing the final composition to organically take shape.

Thursday, November 14th, 6:30 to 8:30PM at Kolaj Institute Gallery

Are you curious about collage but not sure where to start? This workshop is for you. Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour guides participants into the world of collage. He will provide an overview of the medium and some tips for gathering materials and getting started. He will discuss various approaches to cutting and composition. Participants will collaborate on a group collage and then make their own. All supplies are provided. Kolaj Institute has a variety of supplies, including magazines, books, ephemera, substrates, X-acto knives, and of course, scissors and glue. Attendees are welcome to bring their own materials or projects to work on. Donations of materials are always appreciated. Participants will leave the workshop with a collage they made and a deeper understanding of how they can make collage at home. This workshop is for ages 18 and up.

In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons—from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring—what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.

Weehawken, New Jersey, USA. Nature and Spirit have been great influences in France Garrido's art and life. Working specifically in the visionary and surrealist genre and employing universal symbols of sacred geometry, in particular the circle and the circle in the square, as key elements in this pursuit. Garrido has developed a visual language utilizing, predominantly, collage/mixed media; these works might begin with an image that is striking to her, a word or phrase or free flow, similar to automatic writing. She “plays” with the image and/or image making till it feels "cooked". From that point forward it grows into the final piece. She will use appropriated and hand created images as well as objects and materials, such as handmade papers, etc.

Joel Lambeth at Braemar House Gallery in Springwood, New South Wales, Australia through 8 December 2024. In “CONTENT”, Joel Lambeth takes the symbols, lexicons and iconographies of cyberspace and morphs them back into the physical world in the form of densely layered analogue collages. The transient nature of the online landscapes are once again made static; glitched and crashed, dumped to hardcopy. Ephemeral digital networks are recreated using ephemera. Hacking with a pair of scissors, print replacing pixels, the question in the search bar is: Are we content?

Deadline to apply: Wednesday, 13 November 2024. Kolaj Institute has been exploring the intersection of collage and poetry since the first residency in March 2022. It says something that in the Poetry Foundation’s Glossary of Poetic Terms, “collage” is one of the few visual art terms they define. Perhaps this is because so many poets have also been collage artists. In four virtual meetings over the course of a month and through ongoing, online discussion, artists will leave the residency with a deeper understanding of the intersection of collage and poetry. At the end of the residency, artists will be invited to submit page spreads to be considered for the PoetryXCollage Journal.

DEADLINE: Thursday, 14 November 2024. 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. We do this by curating artwork from Kolaj Institute’s Collection and curating the artwork of other workshop participants. Artists complete the workshop with an exhibition proposal or prospectus.

Curating Collage 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.