at Gagallery in Portland, Oregon, USA through 4 April 2025. "Galeria Libris", curated by Stashia Cabral, is a Book Arts-themed art show featuring Artist Books and Book-related artworks as well as illustrations, collages, sculpture and small press books. During the exhibition, the gallery will hold artist talks and workshops by the artists in the show.

Kinburn, Ontario, Canada. From Artist Geoff Wonnacott, “In today’s world we have become wired to accept conglomerations of information, materials and images. One can find meaning in what may have previously been seen as chaos. With modern tools and the evolution of aesthetics and design principles, we have the capability for processing a new visual vernacular. It is no wonder collage is so popular.” Wonnacott is strictly non-digital, analogue if you will, a cut and paster. “Not anti-digital, it’s just not my process”. He loves shuffling and sorting scrippets of paper. Sticking together some hidden order of things. 

Ray Maseman’s current work explores and embodies grief as a normal, healthy, and integral, yet difficult and disheartening facet of human existence. The choice of collage for this exploration is intentional. The elements of chance and serendipity inherent in collage mirror the sometimes unpredictable pathways of grief. At the same time, the playfulness of collage allows for being surprised by joy. The collage, Winter Is Past, 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 Pollinator Art Space in Atlanta, Georgia, USA through 10 April 2025. "You Kissed Me First" presents collaborative works by painter Sharon Shapiro and photographer Jody Fausett. The exhibition features fifty spare, poetic collages that delve into themes of desire, gender, and identity, shaped by the artists’ Southern childhoods—Fausett’s in rural Georgia and Shapiro’s in southern West Virginia. These works bridge the realms of eroticism and violence, exposing the underbelly of late 20th-century America’s aspirational culture with its fixation on youth, beauty, and wealth. While Fausett primarily works in photography and Shapiro in painting, their turn to collage becomes a vehicle for exploration—dissecting and reassembling memory and dreams.

Lincoln, Illinois, USA. Peter Ahart focuses on responding to experiences in the military and the effects that serving has on our veterans and their families through the materiality of process and the vitality of material. The process of developing, and responding to the art is the driving factor within his work. Throughout these processes, the viewer will see the historical record of actions, and reactions, allowing for the “soul” of the piece to emerge. 

Early deadline to apply: Wednesday, 26 March 2025. Intended as a clinic for working artists at any level, participants in this workshop will explore how they go about making art and putting it out into the world. How to set goals and manage one’s practice towards those goals. How to get your work seen. How to get an exhibition. How to create and maintain an inventory. How to identify and think about artist ancestors and how they influence our artwork. These are some of the challenges artists face when they want to take their art practice to the next level. Together, we will explore the difference between art as a hobby, profession, or vocation. Wednesdays, 23 and 30 April and 7 and 14 May 2025, 6-8PM EDT

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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