MARKET AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS 2025
Collage Art & Book Market at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025
in the Great Hall of the New Orleans Healing Center
2374 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117 USA
Saturday, 28 June 2025
Noon-5PM
Part of Kolaj Fest New Orleans, the Collage Art & Book Market is an opportunity for the general public to meet artists and publishers and to take in the rich and diverse cultural production of the international collage community. The public will be invited to peruse vendor displays or attend a talk or demonstration. The event is free and open to the public.
AT THE MARKET
Here is a preview of some of the participating vendors. If you are a registered participant and want to vend at the market, please speak to someone at the Information Table.
Andrea Burgay
Brooklyn, New York
Andrea Burgay is the founder and editor of Cut Me Up Magazine, an ongoing curatorial project where readers deconstruct and transform published artworks in response to curatorial calls. Burgay also creates collage-based works and collaborative projects that explore the passage of time and evoke cycles of destruction and renewal. At the market, she is selling Cut Me Up 15: Obstructions and Disruptions. www.cutmeupmagazine.com
Dolores Hooper
New Orleans, Louisiana
Dolores Hooper is a professional archivist who loves paper and paper arts. She will be selling packets of mixed papers which include three to five pages of old books, wallpaper samples, other papers she has collected from around the world, and papers that she inked or stained. She will also have packets of stained paper, which are ready to print. For 2025, she will also have works she created out of paper and her handmade notebooks. INSTAGRAM
Flanzella
Dallas, Texas
Flanzella describes her artistic process as “organized chaos”. Using intuition and analysis, “piles of potential” start to form on the desk. These piles have complimenting colors that juxtapose the original meaning. Carefully the pieces are cut out, arranged, and glued together. At the Market, Flanzella will be offering collage art prints and collage paper packs. www.flanzella.com
Ivy Gottet
Metairie, Louisiana
Ivy Gottet is a sketch artist and poet who is now making zines. At the Market, she will be offering zines, stickers, prints, and wearable art. syneiapt-chricks-sneorth.yolasite.com
18″x18″; mixed media collage on paper; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Jaclyn McCabe
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans based artist Jaclyn McCabe starts each of her vibrant handcut collages the same way. Step one: Observe. She watches closely, listens intently, and lets the piece take her where she needs to go.
Sometimes, it’s to a place of whimsy and awe-inspiring beauty. Sometimes, it’s a place of difficult emotions. It’s occasionally both. At the Market, McCabe is offering limited edition hand-signed prints, a selection of open edition prints, greeting cards, stickers, and a few original pieces. www.followingthewonder.com
Jody Zellen
Santa Monica, California
Jody Zellen aims to create visually engaging projects that draw from and reference both the media and a physical environment, while simultaneously presenting them anew. She creates interactive installations, mobile apps, net art, animations, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artists’ books. What motivates Zellen as an artist is to learn how to use and then integrate technology into artworks that enliven and activate both public and private spaces. Her works take advantage of chance juxtapositions to inspire thinking about relationships between what is seen and what is imagined. At the Market, Zellen is selling several of her books and small booklets. www.jodyzellen.com
6″x6″; paper, watercolor; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Keren Taylor
Blaine, Washington
Collage and assemblage allows Keren Taylor to work with a great range of textures and dimensions, and she enjoys the challenge of working through structural issues and adhesive choices. She is continually reminded of the metaphors of how our lives are mosaics of various moments, relationships and decisions–we break, we pull ourselves back together, we merge with others, we might fail despite excruciating planning, and sometimes, we can revel in a success now and then. At the Market, Taylor is selling “small colorful collages on watercolor paper that feel like little bursts of inspiration”. www.kerentaylor.com
Kirk Read
Portland, Oregon
Kirk Read will be selling tee shirts, notebooks, books, zines and prints. He will be selling home-screened collage related tee shirts at 1980s prices, as well as copies of his memoir and zines. He will have screen prints and collaged notebooks. Trades are happily encouraged. INSTAGRAM
8.5″x10.5″; analog collage on paper; 2020-2023. Courtesy of the artist.
Missy Arellano
Belmont, Massachusetts
Transdisciplinary artist Missy Arellano wrote, “Collaging began as a way to navigate the tangled labyrinth of physical and emotional hurdles The meditative act of layering paper to create playful, surreal abstractions and narratives that surprise even me. Each collage feels like assembling fragments of forgotten dreams, transforming chaos into cosmic order.” At the Market, Arellano is selling prints and postcards of her work. www.missyarellano.com
7″x5″; collage [postage stamp, vintage papers, acrylic] on Rives BFK; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Monica Church
Poughkeepsie, New York
Monica Church’s artistic process “feels like being a magpie, empowered to use magical materials—paper ephemera, trash, paint, my old artworks, collecting, ordering, and imbuing disparate materials with new content. Through the process of making, I succumb to a particular collage’s insistence of having its own architecture and story and finding its place within my story. At the Market, Church is selling recent small scale collages made with vintage, found and handmade papers on high quality support paper. monica-church.com
Renée Allie
Jefferson, Louisiana
New Orleans area collagist Renée Allie is working with collage in the form of vintage paper collage, lumen photography, cyanotype and mosaic. She has bought and sold ephemera since the 1990s in various of her retail outlets. Allie will be selling vintage ephemera including photos and negatives, slides, x-rays, advertising art, vintage book art, children’s book pages, coloring books, letters, maps and all kinds of magazine, newspaper and “throw away” bits at the market.
4″x6″; collage on found photograph; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Ric Kasini Kadour
New Orleans, Louisiana & Montreal, Quebec
Ric Kasini Kadour’s art practice is concept-driven and project-based. He makes a variety of objects–photographs, prints, collage, and sculpture–that he uses to tell stories, often in museum installations. Themes range from epistemology, history, archives, and society’s relationship with art, to more personal themes of intimacy, loss, epiphany and memory that point to an emerging new reality or consciousness. Kadour will have original analog collages for sale at the Market. www.rickasinikadour.com
Kolaj Magazine & Institute
New Orleans, Louisiana
Kolaj Magazine is an internationally-oriented, printed, art magazine that reviews and surveys contemporary collage. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. Kolaj Institute publishes books that document and diffuse ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. Books are often outcomes of residencies, fellowships, and other projects. www.kolajinstitute.org