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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. In her collage and assemblage practice, Kim Rae Taylor integrates drawing and paint media, along with fabric and scrap paper to make the surfaces textural and purposeful. She has been using repurposed art books, security envelopes, and other ephemera for two different collage-based projects. The first draws from the canon of Western art history using discarded books to interrogate the ways in which women have been excluded as artist and situated as subject. The deconstruction and repurposing of outdated Art History and art instruction books is meant to create a dialogue addressing the reductive ways in which women have been narrowly defined by visual culture. “Security Unfolding” is the second project, utilizing discarded security envelopes she collected over a two-year period. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, Oregon, USA through 17 July 2026. As Kolaj Magazine co-founder Ric Kasini Kadour says in an editorial in Kolaj Magazine: “Collage is an enormous tree, its branches as widespread and diverse as its roots.” Collage has a rich history creating community, and this art form has been used to process unimaginable world and individual events. Collage artists demonstrate what salvage, collaboration, creativity, and healing can look like. Join us to celebrate scissors, ephemera, and glue. MORE
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ARTIST LAB UPDATE
Kolaj Institute is pleased to announce the artists participating in “Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab,” taking place 27 July–2 August 2026 at Atelier Galerie 2112 in Montreal: Laura Cannamela of Valatie, New York; Denise Clemen of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sarah Cowling of London, Ontario; Bar Davi of Auburn, California; Robin Duncan of Edmonton, Alberta; Ernest Lopez of Naugatuck, Connecticut; Julianna McCarthy of Norris Point, Newfoundland and Labrador; and Dominique Norville of Vancouver, British Columbia. MORE
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COMMUNITY EVENT
Monday, 27 July 2026, 7-9PM EDT at Atelier Galerie 2112, 2112 rue Atateken, Montréal, Québec H2L 3L8
Join Kolaj Institute for an evening of community and collage making. Hosted by Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour, who will speak briefly about the Place as Archive project, upcoming activities and exhibition opportunities at Kolaj Institute. RSVP is helpful but not necessary. Artists are encouraged to bring artwork to share with the group. Questions? EMAIL
The meet-up takes place on the eve of “Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab,” which brings together eight artists from Canada and the United States to explore how collage can engage with Montreal’s people, history, and sense of place. Artists who cannot attend but would like to become involved in Kolaj Institute’s Place as Archive project are encouraged to email info@kolajinstitute.org. RSVP
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FROM THE ARTIST DIRECTORY
Portland, Oregon, USA. Caitlin Moline’s work aims to create atmospheric dream-like scenes that evoke emotion, pulling inspiration from nature, vintage and antique imagery, and the beautiful visual storytelling qualities inherent to analog collage. “I find the tactile patterns of collecting primarily vintage imagery and ephemera and carefully hand-cutting, tearing, assembling, and gluing these delicate materials incredibly soothing and emotionally beneficial. I often find myself drawn to the colors, textures, and “feeling” or ambiance associated with older images and enjoy embracing the juxtapositions and serendipitous discoveries that arise from intuitively piecing these elements into something new.” MORE
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KOLAJ INSTITUTE SOLO ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Oxford, Ohio, USA through 26 July 2026. During her Solo Residency, Oxford, Ohio-based artist Marcia Lopes de Mello will create a collage series exploring how architecture and urban design materialize social policy and shape questions of justice and belonging. Focusing on Claiborne Avenue, the Tremé neighborhood, and the Lower Ninth Ward, she will examine sites shaped by federal urban renewal, environmental policy, displacement, and cultural resilience. Using archival maps, zoning diagrams, photographs, found ephemera, and vernacular materials gathered through fieldwork, Lopes de Mello will employ layering, transparency, juxtaposition, and fragmentation to contrast official policy language with lived experience. By placing New Orleans in dialogue with her previous research on Little Haiti in Miami, she hopes to create layered visual palimpsests that present policy as a spatial narrative embedded in streets, homes, and memories while proposing collage as a critical tool for reimagining justice through design. MORE
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KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Tuesday, 21 July 2026, 7-9PM EDT on Zoom
Kolaj Institute’s Architecture & Collage Project views Architecture as a building technology, as a form of visual art, and as culture. Through this conversation, Kolaj Institute invites participants to dive deeper into architecture, modernism, preservation, and the possibilities of collage as both a creative and historical practice. During this edition of Kolaj LIVE Online, Seth Ter Haar, Kolaj Institute Managing Director and Fellow of Docomomo US/Wisconsin, Clive Knights, Portland, Oregon-based artist and architect Clive Knights, and Michael Eble, Lafayette, Louisiana-based artist and educator, will speak about the connections between collage and modern architecture. LEARN MORE
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COLLAGE BOOKS
Autobiography of an Extinction, Duke University Press, 2025. A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffer’s These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Focusing on climate change and mass species extinction, Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color images, and experimental features that include black-out poems, weather reports, and abecedarian essays. She considers her struggles with everyday life and confronts the immensity of extinction across the expanse of geological time, recognizing the self’s insignificance in the context of the planet’s 4.5 billion-year existence. MORE
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COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Chaos Contemporary Craft, Columbus, Ohio, USA through 18 September 2026. In his unique practice, Bradley Parsons pulls from his vast library of damaged picture books and salvaged clay detritus gleaned from the beaches of NYC. Dense layers of meticulously hand-cut paper media or expertly reclaimed and refinished ceramic ephemera create new scenes, narratives, and objects. Playful, humorous, and unlikely narratives emerge from the fragments as they re-relate and respond to each layer of found material. 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: Tuesday, 28 July 2026. A four-week, virtual/online collage artist residency in August & September 2026.
Kolaj Institute’s Architecture & Collage Project views Architecture as a building technology; as a form of visual art; and as culture. In this sense, a building can be a vessel of history or a site of storytelling and folklore. Buildings exist in time; their meaning and function may be different in the past, present, and future; and they exist in a dynamic cycle of construction, use, decay, preservation, reuse, and ultimately destruction. The project holds space for those buildings that are cultural symbols and works of art and those buildings that make up our neighborhoods and communities. LEARN MORE
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CALL TO ARTISTS
Final Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 2 August 2026. A five-week, virtual/online residency in August and September 2026.
Collage in Motion is a project of Kolaj Institute that explores collage and the moving image, a broad, loosely defined category that includes animations, film cut-ups, collage film, stop-motion, animated GIFs, documentaries about collage artists, and other forms of media in which collage–as medium or genre–is present. We see our role as not one of defining “collage in motion” but as one of asking what “collage in motion” can be. The project manifests as articles in Kolaj Magazine, an online directory, workshops, residencies, and screenings. Artists with practice of Collage in Motion are encouraged to submit to the online directory. 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 NEW ORLEANS ARTISTS
Deadline to submit: Sunday, 2 August 2026. An Exhibition of New Orleans Collage Artists at Kolaj Institute Gallery.
“Is This Your Chicken?” is an exhibition of collage made by artists who live in or around New Orleans. The title is a refrain frequently found on message boards and in social media groups focused on New Orleans neighborhoods that reflects the phenomenon of wild chickens that roam our streets and drug store parking lots. “Part folklore, part urban legend, part daily reality, ‘Is This Your Chicken?’ is the sort of phrase that we recognize as our own,” said Kolaj Institute Director and exhibition curator Ric Kasini Kadour. Collage, like New Orleans, which often plays with the absurdity of life, nonsense, frivolity, and fun, can also take on serious issues and help us make sense of a fragmented world. In this exhibition, we consider how artists from the city are using collage. 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
Next Deadline: Sunday, 2 August 2026. 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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