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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Dublin, Ireland. Examples of Brian Palm’s distinctive photo collage and paint technique have been a mainstay of Irish art exhibitions for several decades. Using black-and-white photos which the artist made in Dublin as a young art student, fragmentary moments in the life of a city on the verge of massive disruption and change have been depicted with affection, humour and empathy in Palm’s collage work. City dwellers continue with their lives amidst the upheaval around them; they play, they work, they continue doing mundane chores in a rapidly disappearing environment. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 8 August-1 November 2026. Rochester Art Center presents works from the folio “Art to Resist & Survive Authoritarianism”, which was created as a result of Kolaj Institute’s virtual residency, Collage in Politics: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, which took place in January and February 2025. Seven artists from Canada and the US created the works in the folio, which also appeared in the book The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide, with text by Martin Mycieskl. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Final Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 23 August 2026. An in-person artist lab in New Orleans, Wednesday, 9 September–Sunday, 13 September 2026. The Mississippi River has shaped New Orleans’ history, culture, economy, environment, and sense of place. In this artist lab, participants will explore what the River can teach us about history and our shared humanity through research, site visits, presentations, discussions, and collaborative collage making. Artists will investigate archives and historical materials, consider social, economic, and environmental issues, and develop new work informed by place. Participants will also visit NOLA River Fest and the Williams Research Center at The Historic New Orleans Collection. Work developed through the Lab will be included in the “Place as Archive” exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in October 2026 and considered for future exhibitions and publications. 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 BOOKS
Self-Published, 2026. Living through the 1960s cultural revolution and dealing with its backlash is the topic of this novel with 13 hallucinatory full-page collages by Astrid Bant. A fictional version of contemporary history with strong characters, unexpected twists and turns and rich visual renditions of the hippie aesthetic. Bant worked on the collages in the book during her Solo Artist Residency at Kolaj Institute in May 2025. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Staple Goods, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 6 September 2026. “Unearthing” is a two-person show spotlighting recent sculptural works by Felicita Felli Maynard and by Bunny Chionesu. Both artists work with assemblage, materials found in the natural world, materials found in the industrial world, the grid, the grid’s disruptions, and the body. MORE
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
North Aurora, Illinois, USA. Robert Voigts experiments with color, shape, line and texture. He plays with ideas of chance, opposites, mundaneness, memory, wonder, contradiction, juxtaposition, poems, letters, numbers, punctuation, and more. After following the impressions and lots of experimentation, he arrives at a stopping point, contemplates what emerged and considers if it is done. If it is, he names it. Names come to me after the process is complete. The names sometimes are derived from visual cues in the work itself. Other times they appear in his mind and seem to fit the piece. Sometimes he searches for word fragments in poetry. MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
at Step Up Gallery, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA through 16 September 2026.“Visual Poetry and Color” is a traveling exhibition of collage artists and visual poets from around the world, presented by the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction. This fourth iteration brings together approximately 180 works, including new contributions by artists from the United States and around the world. 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
Final Deadline to apply: Sunday, 30 August 2026. A four-week, virtual/online residency with Kolaj Institute in September and October 2026.
In this residency, collage artists will explore the history and contemporary rise of authoritarianism and consider how art can resist it. Using The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide as a starting point, artists will examine how authoritarian systems operate and develop strategies for making work that contributes to civic discourse. Accepted artists will receive a copy of the book by mail. Through readings, discussions, presentations, and weekly collage-making, participants will create work responding to authoritarianism or resistance, receive critical feedback, and develop statements contextualizing their artwork. 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
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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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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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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