Final Deadline: Saturday, 15 March 2025 at Midnight PST. To support artists working at the intersection of poetry and collage, Kolaj Institute is organizing an in-person artist residency at Kolaj Institute Gallery. The residency will coincide with the New Orleans Poetry Festival. From 10AM on Tuesday, 8 April to 2PM on Saturday, 12 April, artists will have 24-hour access to the gallery, studio, and material library where they can work in community to make collage poetry. In daily meetings, artists will share work and get feedback from one another. Prior to the residency, artists will meet virtually where Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour will make presentations on the history of the project, artist practice, and the ecosystem of Poetry & Collage. Through in person discussions, artists will explore how the art they make at the intersection of poetry and collage exists on the printed page and on the wall of a gallery.

Missouri City, Texas, USA. Chasity Porter is inspired by everyday life experiences, dreams, and memories. Nature and beauty become a cover for dark thoughts and feelings. Objects and animals become metaphors for real life and people. I am also inspired by nostalgia, the mundane, and the visceral aspects of life. What makes people and objects unique, inspired, haunted? I am attracted to the absurd and how absurdity has become a part of everyday society; how it has affected us–how it has affected me–and what effect will it have on our futures?

With subject matter often rooted in the feminine, Miranda Millward plays upon our memories, real and fictional, individual and collective, and the place where these memories overlap but also diverge. She is fascinated by serendipity and nostalgia in terms of what we decide to preserve and what we abandon. Multi-layered, cropped, obscured, obfuscated, and covered over, Millward’s work appears fractured, fragmented, chaotic, disparate, and uncertain. The collage, Half Empty, appears in Collage Artist Trading Cards Pack 10.

ABOUT COLLAGE ARTIST TRADING CARDS

Curating selections from the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory, Kolaj Institute publishes packs of Collage Artist Trading Cards as a way to diffuse and share the artwork of the International Collage Community. Each card is a full-color, 5.5” x 3.5” postcard with rounded corners with an example of an artist’s work on the front of the card and the artist’s contact information on the back. Collage Artist Trading Cards come in packs of 15. Collage Artist Trading Card packs offer a glimpse into artist practice.

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at The Ballinglen Gallery in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland through 17 March 2025. Déirdre Kelly and Kaitlin Zorah McDonough come together in "Land-mark", a presentation of the multifaceted ways that place anchors and informs their work. For the Ballinglen works, McDonough was moved by the primal directness of the land, ocean, animals, sky and by the extraordinary mist and air of Sea-Angels. Déirdre Kelly focuses on the language of mapping the aesthetics of cartography by recognizing the intrinsic beauty of the physical map made up of familiar signs, symbols and colors. The mechanisms and language key to reading maps provide a kind of "grounding", a "grip" on the world, a fundamental connection with time and place.

at The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, New York, USA through 8 June 2025. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents the exhibition “Suzi Ferrer”. Born Susan Nudelman in New York City, Suzi Ferrer (1940–2006) became a pioneering visual artist during her decade-long stay in Puerto Rico. Her transgressive work, which coincided with the second wave of feminism, challenged gender roles and experimented with contemporary materials while confronting observers with their stereotypes about sex and desire.

Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Norma Foulds uses reclaimed materials, collage, print and textiles. Routine and repetition are frequent elements and themes running throughout her work. Her most recent work uses the print, handwritten text and stitching to convey her feelings connected to the menopause and aging. She uses non-art materials and processes alongside more traditional methods, including sewing, print, documentation, and clay.

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. Final deadline: Sunday, 16 March 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.

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