COLLAGE ARTIST
2025 World Collage Day Poster Artist
Kolaj Magazine is pleased to announce the 2025 World Collage Day Poster artist is Montevideo, Uruguay artist Rosita Schandy.
Schandy grew up and currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, enriching herself with the illustrations and drawings she sees in books and those her dad did. Throughout her life, she has explored techniques in a wide array of media. Her creativity took her to paint on canvas and leather, then to decoupage on canvas until she fell prey to the ‘passionate technique’ of analog collage, as she describes it. In June 2024, Schandy debuted a large-scale mural collage as part of her first solo exhibition, “Imaginarium”, which took place at Sala Saez in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The artist wrote, “My collage work is completely manual, I cut from magazines, books or from printed images from the web. I work with bright color backgrounds and glue. For temporary murals displayed at exhibitions, I use ‘putty’ type of reposition-able adhesive. I enjoy working on very colorful and generally busy pieces depicting fantasy, touches of surrealism and irony, whimsical details and loving to catch the viewer’s curiosity to keep them exploring a piece to discover more in it. In my pieces, such concepts as the feminine shape, ornaments, fantasy and surrealism, intertwine with religious icons, flowers and comic characters in some sort of playful dance, with a touch of protest, sarcasm and balanced ridiculousness.”
An interview with Schandy will appear in the World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition.
Previous World Collage Day poster artists were American artist Michael Pajón (2018), Canadian artist Rosie Schinners (2019), Australian artist Emma Anna (2020), Colombian collective Red Collage (2021), American Artist Erin McCluskey Wheeler (2022), Irish artist Anthony D Kelly (2023), and Bahraini artist Ali Hasan (2024). The poster is free to download and use to promote World Collage Day and events in one’s community.
The World Collage Day Poster is free for anyone to use. Visit the World Collage Day website to download a high-resolution pdf suitable for printing on an 11″x17″ piece of paper.
KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Getting Ready for World Collage Day 2025
Saturday, 1 March 2025 at 4PM EST (1PM PST; 2100 UTC)
Learn about World Collage Day, its impetus and philosophy. Meet the 2025 Poster Artist, Rosita Schandy, from Montevideo, Uruguay.
REGISTER FOR KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE: GETTING READY FOR WORLD COLLAGE DAY 2025
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. In this online event, Ric Kasini Kadour will share the impetus for the day’s creation and its philosophy. We will introduce the 2025 World Collage Day Poster Artist Rosita Schandy from Montevideo, Uruguay, who will speak about the concept behind the poster and the series of postcards she designed for the day. The artist wrote, “My collage work is completely manual, I cut from magazines, books or from printed images from the web. I work with bright color backgrounds and glue. For temporary murals displayed at exhibitions, I use ‘putty’ type of reposition-able adhesive. I enjoy working on very colorful and generally busy pieces depicting fantasy, touches of surrealism and irony, whimsical details and loving to catch the viewer’s curiosity to keep them exploring a piece to discover more in it. In my pieces, such concepts as the feminine shape, ornaments, fantasy and surrealism, intertwine with religious icons, flowers and comic characters in some sort of playful dance, with a touch of protest, sarcasm and balanced ridiculousness.” 2020 World Collage Day Poster Artist Emma Anna will join us from Colombia to speak about the events she is planning in Tasmania, Australia. Bring and share your ideas, questions, and thoughts about your own plans for World Collage Day 2025.
REGISTER FOR KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE: GETTING READY FOR WORLD COLLAGE DAY 2025
ABOUT KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Kolaj LIVE Online is a series of virtual programs in the form of forums, panels, workshops, artist talks, studio visits, and other activities that allow people to come together, learn and talk about collage, and connect in real time to the collage community. Our goal is to bring the community together in a spirit of mutual support and fellowship. Kolaj LIVE Online manifests Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute by bringing together artists, curators, and writers to share ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. Learn more at the SERIES WEBSITE.
ABOUT WORLD COLLAGE DAY
In 2018, Kolaj Magazine initiated World Collage Day, an international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. We invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. We saw fifty events in twenty-five countries and thousands of posts on social media using the hashtag, #worldcollageday. The succeeding years, the event continues to grow.
Kolaj Magazine invites artists, art centres, museums, galleries, schools, and communities to celebrate the day by hosting events that bring communities together. Ideas include collage making meet-ups, docent-led tours of collage in a museum or gallery, activities for kids, slideshows or talks that appreciate collage’s role in contemporary art & art history, exhibitions of collage, and more. We invite people to come together around collage in their own communities and to connect to the world digitally using the hashtag #WorldCollageDay. Learn more at the event’s website.
11.8″x9.8″; collage; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
ABOUT ROSITA SCHANDY
Rosita Schandy is an emerging artist and inheritor of a creative genetics. She grew up and currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, enriching herself with the illustrations and drawings she sees in books and those her dad did. Throughout her life, she has explored techniques in a wide array of media. Her creativity took her to paint on canvas and leather, then to decoupage on canvas until she fell prey to the “passionate technique” of analog collage, as she describes it. She expanded her studies at the workshop of renowned local artist Clever Lara in Uruguay, but a change of life took her to travelling the world for work, so she does, absorbing its art, shapes and colors and cutting and sorting all that which attracts her. Her collages are 100% hand-cut; occasionally she will play with mixed media in her creations. Learn more at the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory and on Instagram @schandy.art.