{"id":18369,"date":"2026-05-19T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=18369"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:45:33","slug":"the-inquisitor-more-is-required-at-kolaj-fest-new-orleans-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans\/the-inquisitor-more-is-required-at-kolaj-fest-new-orleans-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inquisitor & More Is Required at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FILM SCREENING & WORKSHOP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inquisitor & More Is Required<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

EVENT WEBSITE<\/a> | REGISTER FOR KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS<\/a> |
RSVP FOR THE MORE IS REQUIRED WORKSHOP<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Workshop, More Is Required, is Free and open to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 10-14 June 2026. Visit the website<\/a> to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, 12 June 2026, 4-6PM
Cafe Istanbul
in the New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 70117<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workshops at Kolaj Fest New Orleans offer participants the opportunity to engage with their process or materials in a new way; explore subjects or themes; or practice a new collage technique to make. Over a dozen workshops take place during the festival.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fusing collage, filmmaking, installation, and layered soundscapes, Angela Lynn Tucker<\/strong>, based in New Orleans, Louisiana, creates “sanctuaries for Black thought.” She wrote, “My work challenges the status quo by weaving together personal memory, cultural resistance, and historical texts\u2014insisting on the full complexity and diversity of Black life in America. With rigor and whimsy in equal measure, I push viewers to engage with sidelined Black intellectual traditions, ensuring these stories remain vital and enduring.” In February 2026, Tucker premiered her film, The Inquisitor<\/em>, at the Tribeca Film Festival and on PBS Independent Lens. At Kolaj Fest New Orleans, the film will be screened on Thursday evening as part of Collage on Screen<\/a> and on Friday, Tucker will join the panel, “Consumerism, Context, and Action: Politics & Collage<\/a>” and kick off the collaborative collage project, \u201cMore Is Required<\/strong>,\u201d inspired by the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inquisitor<\/em> (2026) follows the life and career of Barbara Jordan (1936-1996), the first Black Texas state senator, the first Southern Black woman to join Congress (1973-1979), and the first Black American and the first woman to give a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention (1976). Jordan referred to herself as The Inquisitor during her historic statement to the House Judiciary Committee regarding the impeachment of President Nixon on 24 July 1974. The film also explores how Jordan never publicly identified herself as lesbian or queer, but she shared a home with Nancy Earl for twenty years and dodged homophobic political attacks. The documentary uses Kelly Gallagher’s collage stop-motion animation to tell the full story of Jordan’s life and to illustrate aspects missing or erased from the historical record. “Over the five years of making this film, the world has changed dramatically. Democracy feels more fragile than ever, and many people feel lost.” Tucker wrote, “I hope this film serves as both a balm for the times and a roadmap from Barbara in the great beyond. Making this film has kept me grounded through these turbulent years.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Her conviction that more is required of us\u2014as citizens, as artists, as human beings\u2014feels urgently alive right now.” Since the film’s debut, Tucker is engaged in the collage project, “More is Required,” a participatory, traveling initiative that invites collage artists everywhere to respond to the prompt: More Is Required. “What does it demand of you? What does it demand of us collectively?” On Friday’s panel, Tucker will speak about this project and how collage can be used to tell stories, build community, and speak to contemporary politics. Later that afternoon, participants will use collage to respond to the project\u2019s prompt\u2014assembling images and text to define what \u201cmore\u201d means in their own terms, and to surface what remains unaddressed. She wrote, \u201cKolaj Fest would be a founding community event of this project\u2014the place where it opens up beyond one artist and becomes many voices.\u201d The workshop is open to anyone from the New Orleans community who wishes to attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT THE PRESENTER<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Angela Lynn Tucker <\/strong>is an Emmy- and Webby-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work confronts the trauma and beauty of living in a Black body in America. Her latest documentary, The Inquisitor<\/em>, premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and will broadcast in 2026 on PBS\u2019 Independent Lens. It completes her trilogy on Black women and political power in the South. Her work has screened globally and aired on NBC, Showtime, PBS, Netflix, and Lifetime, including the holiday film, A New Orleans Noel, starring Keshia Knight Pulliam and Patti LaBelle. Tucker has shown her art at the True\/False Festival, Vassar College, Lawrence Arts Center, Brooklyn Historical Society, and The Diboll Gallery and been featured in Cut Up Magazine<\/em>. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the New Orleans artist-run gallery The Front, she has received fellowships from Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, and Chicken & Egg. Raised in New York City, she lives between New Orleans and Mississippi and is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Mississippi. Learn more at angelalynntucker.format.com<\/a> and on Instagram @tuckergurl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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