Collage by Robbie Morgan at the Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 16 August-6 October 2024. Bywater Second Saturday Gallery Walk: 14 September 2024, 6-9PM. Made in the months leading up to the artist’s 40th birthday, “Advanced Wound Healing Techniques” is a collection of collage made with personal photographs that were destroyed in a series of fires that took place when artist Robbie Morgan was 24 years old. In the intervening sixteen years, the artist carted around these photographs, moving them from home to home, storing them, occasionally reflecting on them. The collages speak to trauma, destruction, memory and how, as we age, we make sense of things. The artist wrote, “The collective assemblage allowed me to connect to these memories in a way that I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to if I hadn’t made this work.“

at Flavio Dolce Art Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA through 5 October 2024. “Easel of Emotions” explores the intricate landscape of human feelings through contemporary art, including work by several collage artists. Curated by Rodrigo Franzao and featuring work by fifteen New Orleans-based artists, this exhibition delves into the diverse ways artists interpret and convey emotions.

Collage Artists of America online juried exhibition, 1 November-31 December 2024. Deadline to apply: Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 11:55PM PDT. “What Lies Beneath” invites artists to explore and interpret the theme through their unique perspectives. What’s behind your art? Certainly, the surface is the first thing the viewer sees. Nevertheless, behind all that is the path you traveled to reach your final manifestation of expression. Perhaps you used many layers of materials or ideas or even both. The theme is meant to be a creativity starter and interpretation is up to you.

Collage artist Alan Pocaro, traveling to New Orleans from Champaign, Illinois, will be continuing his series of collage-based artist books that he calls travel journals. For his Solo Residency, Pocaro will create a book of collage and poetry that draws directly on his engagement with the culture and geography of New Orleans, both past and present. He began this series in Spring 2022, during his Artist Residency at the Morgan Paper Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. Pocaro will show his New Orleans works along with the other books in the series at a solo exhibition in Cleveland in Spring 2025.

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.

NEXT SESSION: Curating Collage Workshop

starts Sundays, 29 September 

DEADLINE TO APPLY

Saturday, 14 September 2024

Next Deadline: 29 September 2024 (for Spring 2025 dates). Residents stay in Kolaj Institute’s space in the New Orleans Healing Center, where they will have their own bedroom, and access to a shared kitchen and bathroom with shower. Residents work in Kolaj Institute’s Gallery that includes access to collage making supplies and a printer. The Gallery and Resident space is located on the second floor of a building in the Marigny neighborhood. The wrap-around balcony overlooks St. Roch Market. Residents work independently to complete their plan. At the end of the residency, we meet with the artist to review their progress with them and discuss next steps. Submissions are reviewed on an ongoing basis.