Laurie Riccadonna at The Painting Center in New York, New York, USA through 1 March 2025. "Vanitas" presents a series of paintings delving into the intersection of environmental crisis, mortality, and the human condition. The term vanitas comes from the Latin word for vanity and refers to a genre of art that highlights the transient nature of life and the insignificance of material wealth and possessions. Riccadonna’s works offer a deeply personal perspective on the current environmental crisis, reflecting on the degradation of the natural world.

Jody Zellen’s works take advantage of chance juxtapositions to inspire thinking about relationships between what is seen and what is imagined. Words and images culled from the news media have long been a source for her myriad projects. Zellen is drawn to the poetic potential of headlines and captions juxtaposed with abstracted reductions of original images and have collected headlines and news photos for years, archiving them for use as raw material.

Carrie Ann Baade at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 15 February 2025. In this exhibition, Baade explores the history of the American South via intimate narratives of identity and her own heritage rooted in colonial Louisiana. As she reimagines these narratives, the focus shifts from the women at the crossroads of cultural intersections, to colonial upheaval. Using a blend of collage and painting, each piece reflects evolving identities and the truth that all cultures are collages, continually blending and reshaping origins within the complex landscape of the American South.

Detroit, Michigan, USA. Teresa Petersen's collage and assemblage focus on nature, society, consumption, and re-use. She is concerned with overconsumption and how it affects Mother Nature. Due to our society’s throw-away mindset, the world is awash with trash, and overflowing with used items. Buying more new things contributes to landfills and global warming, so she creates only with castoff materials. She searches thrift stores and bulk trash day cast-offs to find materials to use in her artworks. Her work makes fun of popular culture as it pertains to stereotypes about women and women’s work. She also explores ideas of what is “natural” and how we live within nature.

During her Solo Residency, 3-9 February 2025, New York-based artist Christine Collado will concentrate on her personal artistic journey and create a series of collage works, using the rich culture and vibrant colors of New Orleans as the inspiration. Through the work, Collado will explore relationships and juxtaposition of texture, color, and space.

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Sonia Boué writes, "For me, collage-making is a redemptive process of making the fragmentary whole. Collage is also a cipher where ritual and allusion become embedded in strata-like paper layers. My work is experimental and often concerned with texture and the practice of décollage. I find I can work in ways unimaginable in any other medium, due to the expressive range and accessibility of the collage form. I use collage to capture and process the present moment and thus my subject can be fluid and ever-changing

A Cut-Out Page is a selection of fragments that one can use to make a collage. The feature reflects artists’ styles and approaches to collage making and shows how artists select and organize fragments. People use the Cut-Out Pages to make collage.Kolaj Magazine invites submissions of Cut-Out Pages for an occasional feature in the magazine or for the World Collage Day Special Edition. Deadline: 28 February 2025 to be considered for the World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition.

How do you want to manifest at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025? Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium, 25-29 June 2025. Our mission is to create a platform that allows us to explore critical issues around collage including how it is curated and presented, its role in contemporary art, and the tensions between collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a movement. Responding to the Call lets us know that you would like to be a presenter at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025. Attendance at Kolaj Fest New Orleans is required if your submission is accepted. Early deadline: Sunday, 23 February 2025.