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COLLAGE COMMUNITIES
International. Sunday Collage Club began in 2022 when artists from Kolaj Institute’s first Poetry and Collage Residency wanted to remain connected. Facilitated by Jennifer Roche, the club has grown into a free, international online community whose members gather via Zoom on the third Sunday of each month to learn, experiment, support, and share. Meetings feature one or two collage artists presenting their work, followed by an informal and supportive discussion. Each December, members also participate in the Suitcase Project, exchanging envelopes filled with collage materials and half-finished artworks for fellow members to complete. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at The Gallery at Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 10 September 2026. “Single Use / Long Memory” is a solo exhibition by artist and Tulane Professor of Practice Jill Stoll. The exhibition brings together woven and constructed works made from cardboard, aluminum coffee capsules, and invasive vine. Each work begins with a material whose previous life remains visible. Rather than disguising or erasing those histories, the work transforms them through weaving, accumulation, compression, and suspension. MORE
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COLLAGE BOOKS
Redfoxpress, 2026. Undercover: Briefs & Drawers is a visual exploration of international 19th and early 20th century cultural and visual fashion customs. The book features 40 full color original collages made with a variety of vintage underwear ads and ephemera by award-winning artist and writer Marilyn Stablein. The book, published in a numbered edition of 150 pamphlet stitched copies, is a collectible artist book and her third collage book published by Redfoxpress, Ireland. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Final Deadline to apply: 13 September 2026. A four-week, virtual/online workshop with Kolaj Institute. Sundays, 4-25 October 2026, 1-3PM EDT
The practice of collage takes on many forms. A practice will be shaped by the goals of the artist and what they want to achieve with their artwork, how they want to diffuse their artwork in the broader ecosystem of art. It will also be informed by the choice of material, scale, and subject matter. A collage practice is also informed by the history of artists who came before and how an artist chooses to be in dialogue or opposition with their creative ancestors. A working understanding of one’s practice is critical to one’s professional and artistic development. LEARN MORE
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KOLAJ SOLO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA through 30 August 2026. During his Solo Residency, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based artist Ron Grady will work toward completing two ongoing collage series, “Flowerboy” and “Spacekid.” Drawing from existing photographic archives, secondhand printed materials, and botanical and scientific texts, Grady will continue his exploration of Black boyhood and childhood, particularly the representation of Black children in nature-based spaces. His work considers questions of visibility: who is made visible, how they are made visible, and how existing representations might be reimagined so that previously obscured narratives can surface. Using Kolaj Institute’s archives, collections, and community, as well as the city of New Orleans, as resources, Grady will break apart and reconfigure authoritative texts and archival materials, both literally and figuratively, into speculative and fantastical narratives that create new imaginative possibilities. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Carlsbad, California, USA. Carolyn E. Oliver's work is a fusion of collages, mono prints, and mixed media pieces. She draws inspiration from memories, everyday life, and the whimsical elements of the world around me. She elects to use a variety of materials: found papers and objects, handmade elements, vintage and antique magazine images, as well as photography from across the globe. Her art is an exploration of emotion and connection. MORE
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KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
Want to see your collage BIG? Kolaj Institute’s Big Print Fundraiser is back for 2026!
Make a donation to support Kolaj Institute, and we’ll enlarge one of your collages and print it on a 24"x36" sheet of paper. It’s an opportunity to experience your artwork at a new scale while supporting the exhibitions, artist residencies, publications, workshops, and community programs that help grow the international collage community.
The Big Print Fundraiser runs through 31 December 2026. Make your donation today and see your collage BIG! LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE COMMUNITIES
FaiV Officina di Collage was founded by five Italian artists across five Italian cities. Vanna Barboni writes, “Although social media is now a part of our lives, it is our common understanding that the real “network” is made up of real people, so we felt the need to meet and shake hands.” The collective strongly believes in a universal coexistence based on sharing and inclusion. The group aims to propose content related to collage, share an open virtual space, and respect the principles of civil coexistence. They also plan on hosting workshops on collage to be able to meet physically and share their experiences. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
The project by Magdalena Sobolska is rooted in dozens of interviews, several travels, and hundreds of works reviewed, alongside photographs captured during personal studio visits. All featured artists are living and creating here and now, each employing the collage technique in their own unique way, developing a distinct signature style. It is a multi-voiced collage narrative that is finally ready to be heard. MORE
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SUBSCRIBE TO KOLAJ MAGAZINE TODAY
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
Deadline to Apply: Saturday, 12 September 2026. A four-week virtual artist residency taking place in October 2026.
How can collage artists respond to the ways war, conflict, and peace are represented in the media? Artists will research historical and contemporary war correspondence, examine the history of political collage—from its roots in European anti-fascist movements to contemporary practice—and consider how art can contribute to civic discourse. Participants will hear from Adrian Paukstat about the German magazine Wissenschaft & Frieden’s forthcoming issue on war and conflict reporting, make and discuss new collages, and develop writing that documents the historical and social contexts of their work. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Final Deadline to apply: Sunday, 30 August 2026. A five-day, in-person Artist Lab in Montreal, Tuesday, 6 October to Sunday, 11 October 2026.
Montreal: City as Archive Collage Artist Lab (Tuesday, 6 October to Sunday, 11 October 2026) 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. Artwork made during and after the lab will be considered for a 2027 exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans and future publications about Place as Archive. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS & WRITERS
This special issue is being guest edited by S. Erin Batiste. To be considered, writers and artists who identify as Radical Black Feminists are invited to follow the regular submission process for PoetryXCollage to express their interest and how their practice and submission explores and reflects Radical Black Feminist theory. Please be mindful of your relationality and points of intersection and intervention when putting together your submissions. Alternatively, they may send an EMAIL to S. Erin Batiste. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. 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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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
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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