The primary exhibition of Kolaj Fest New Orleans is “Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage” at Antenna Gallery (see information HERE<\/a>). Like any vibrant, contemporary art scene, New Orleans is full of remarkable galleries showing collage.<\/p>\n On Thursday, July 12th, Ric Kasini Kadour will lead Kolaj Fest New Orleans registrants on a tour of several galleries in Arts District New Orleans.<\/p>\n Here is our list of places we recommend checking out:<\/p>\n Callan Contemporary<\/strong> The Ogden is offering Kolaj Fest New Orleans registrants half-price admission to the museum during Kolaj Fest New Orleans, including their Thursday night concert series. Simply show your name badge at the museum’s ticket desk.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Through 7\/22\/18: \u201cThe Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction\u201d celebrates strong female voices in abstract art in the American South. Of particular interest to Kolaj Fest New Orleans attendees is Eating Cake<\/em> by Shawne Major, a mixed media piece including paratroopers, alphabet letters, sheriff badges, plastic ants, rings, bracelets, buttons, tassels, silk flowers, Barbie clothes and more. The Benny Andrews Gallery also features collage work. Open daily 10AM-5PM (until 8PM on Thursday). (image: Eating Cake<\/em> by Shawne Major (mixed media; 2008). Gift of the artist))<\/p>\n Kolaj Fest New Orleans<\/a> is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, July 12-15, 2018. Visit the website<\/a> to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COLLAGE ON VIEW Art to be seen, Galleries to visit during Kolaj Fest New Orleans Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, July 12-15, 2018. Visit…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stella-Jones-Gallery.jpg\")
\nStella Jones Gallery<\/strong>
\nin the Place St. Charles
\n201 St Charles Ave, Suite 132, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.stellajonesgallery.com<\/a>
\nEstablished in 1996, Stella Jones Gallery provides a venue for artists of the African diaspora to exhibit superior works of art. 6\/18-7\/31\/2018: Phyllis Stephens is an award-winning fifth generation quilt maker, considered by critics to be a Master of African-American Story Quilts. She has quilted professionally for more than thirty years and her quilts have been displayed in such institutions as The Museum of the American Quilter\u2019s Society in Paducah, Kentucky and the National Museum of Ghana in Accra. Also on view is Field Slave’s Locker Room<\/em> by John Barnes, an assemblage sculpture with a biting take on current politics. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM (image: Field Slave’s Locker Room<\/em> by John Barnes (50″x30″x60″; reclaimed wood and signage subtracted from an old church sign))<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/LeMieux-Galleries.jpg\")
\nLeMieux Galleries<\/strong>
\n332 Julia St, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.lemieuxgalleries.com<\/a>
\nOriginally established in 1983, LeMieux Galleries focuses on work by emerging and established artists of the Southern U.S. 7\/2-28\/2018: Sculptor and ceramicist Marcy Lally\u2019s “Wild Wisdom” is a body of work based on nature and the passage of time, which is most evident in the animal skulls adorned with flowers. Based in Kansas City, Lally studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Northern Illinois University and in Italy at Studio Palla and Founderia Tomassi. Open Monday-Saturday, 10AM-5:30PM (image: Midnight<\/em> by Marcy Lally (24″x19″x18″; deer skull, mixed media with handmade ceramic flowers in black Laguna clay on vintage tin))<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jonathan-Ferrara-Gallery-New-Orleans.jpg\")
\nJonathan Ferrara Gallery<\/strong>
\n400A Julia St, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.jonathanferraragallery.com<\/a>
\nJonathan Ferrara Gallery presents forward-thinking national and international, emerging and established artists who have a sense of purpose, mission, and message in monthly shows. 5\/31-7\/14\/2018: \u201cAnthropocene\u201d: with a strong interest in environmentalism, Los Angeles-based Richelle Gribble examines human impact on nature and the biological consequences of human influence. Gribble\u2019s highly conceptual work includes painting, drawing and sculpture. Tucson-based Jenny Day\u2019s \u201cOur Shared Disaster\u201d presents eight new paintings reminiscent of her earlier landscape work, but now in a more fragmented and abstracted composition. Day was the winner of the gallery\u2019s 2017 \u201cNo Dead Artists\u201d juried exhibition. Open Monday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM (image: 1 of 1<\/em> by Jenny Day (36″x36″; acrylic, spray paint, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen and crayon on canvas; 2018)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/authurrogersgaller.jpg\")
\nArthur Roger Gallery<\/strong>
\n432 Julia Street, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.arthurrogergallery.com<\/a>
\nArthur Roger Gallery presents an impressive selection of collage work by the gallery\u2019s artists. Among the dozen artists on view: Cuban-born New Orleans artist Luis Cruz Azaceta whose chromogenic prints on wood express the artist\u2019s concern with violence, displacement, homelessness, isolation and exile. Jacqueline Bishop\u2019s intricate renderings of flora and fauna reflect the absolute beauty and mystery of the natural world yet also impart a certain solemnity as she explores the complex connections between climate change, species extinction and migration. Troy Dugas cuts or shreds product labels and then intricately arranges them on paper, canvas or wood to form meticulous mandala-like compositions as well as evolved works incorporating paint in synthesized large-scale portrait and still life assemblages. The collages of Douglas Bourgeois juxtapose the degraded and the sacred, light and darkness, the mundane and the transcendent. The psyche and its relation to poetry and to the self are also core elements in Lesley Dill\u2019s paper cut and thread work. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Octavia-Art-Gallery.jpg\")
\nOctavia Art Gallery<\/strong>
\n454 Julia Street, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.octaviaartgallery.com<\/a>
\nThrough 7\/28\/18: \u201cConstructing Worlds: Intersections of Art and Architecture\u201d focuses on the relationship between architecture and fine art. Collage is featured in the work of New Orleans artist Grover Mouton, whose works on paper demonstrate a humanized scale in understanding larger urban design and architectural concepts. In the gallery\u2019s viewing room is mixed media work by New Orleans artist James Henderson, who explores the concept of memory and the idea of \u201chome\u201d as an emotional space, rather than a physical one. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-6PM. (image: New Orleans House in Space<\/em> by Grover Mouton (30″x24″; collage, graphite, colored pencil; 1986))<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brand-New-Orleans-Gallery.jpg\")
\nBrand New Orleans Gallery<\/strong>
\n646 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.brandneworleansartgallery.com<\/a>
\n7\/12-8\/31\/18: \u201cRiver of Palms\u201d by Anne Blenker is an exploration of various New Orleans landscapes created with unique layering techniques that echo the process of collage. The exhibit encompasses different views of the southern region\u2019s subtropical ecology and urban landscape, including the Mississippi River and surrounding swamplands. Opening reception, Thursday 7\/12, 6-9PM. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 11AM-6PM. (image: untitled by Anne Blenker (32″x48″; acrylic on canvas; 2018))<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Front.jpg\")
\nThe Front<\/strong>
\n4100 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans 70117
\nwww.nolafront.org<\/a>
\nSaturday, 7\/14\/18, 6-10PM: In Gallery 1, \u201cConvoluted\u201d, a solo show by Front member Cynthia Scott, explores the tangled nature of the contentious issues currently besetting us, through various sculptural mediums including cut and glued paper. Gallery 2 features \u201cPiecework\u201d, five artists of varying disciplines who combine fragments of a wide assortment of materials into unexpected aesthetic compositions. Stretching the concept of collage to its widest latitude, the mediums range from photography through metal, fiber, and wood. Galleries 3 and 4 present Film Festival shorts that form a collage of a different sort. Sunday, 7\/15\/18, 3PM: artist walkthroughs of the exhibitions. Open Saturday-Sunday, Noon-5PM. (image: I Want My Spot Back<\/em> by Abdi Farah (2018))<\/p>\n
\n518 Julia Street, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.callancontemporary.com<\/a>
\nHead to the viewing room in the back for work by two artists who incorporate collage elements in their work. New York-based Irish artist James Kennedy creates geometric paintings that have the intensity of gestural abstraction. New Orleans artist Raine Bedsole creates lyrical sculptures and mixed media drawings, which incorporate found papers, maps and fabrics. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ogden-Museum.jpg\")
\nOgden Museum of Southern Art<\/strong>
\n925 Camp Street, New Orleans 70130
\nwww.ogdenmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/New-Orleans-Art-Center.jpg\")
\nNew Orleans Art Center<\/strong>
\n3330 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans 70117
\nwww.theneworleansartcenter.com<\/a>
\nOpening 7\/12\/18: \u201cMenage \u00e0 Collage\u201d is presented as part of the current exhibition, \u201cExpect Delight\u201d. Artists include: Keith Duncan, Michael Fedor, Dama Fountain, the duo Barbie L\u2019Hoste\/Brandt Vicknair, and Britney Penouilh. L\u2019Hoste and Vicknair create new worlds from old abandonments where photographs printed on canvas are combined with mixed media elements. For Fedor, \u201cCollage making is the active place where his inner diety of the unknown embraces chaos, and its laws of magic, chance and synchronicity.\u201d Fountain\u2019s collages have been produced for the last 20 years as the annual commemorative posters for The Social & Marching Club Mondo Kayo. Keith Duncan is known for his collage paintings that frequently use satire to create dialogue. Britney Penouilh combines her passion for geology, nature and time into large mixed media paintings where she works the surface, peeling back layers of history that often include historical printed references as part of the media. Also on display is work by Jillian Gibson, whose collage paintings are part of \u201cExpect Delight\u201d, and a unique collage painting by Larry Daniel Nevil. Opening reception: Saturday, July 14, 6-10PM. Open daily 10AM-6PM and by appointment. (image:\u00a0All Apollojis<\/em> by Barbie L’Hoste\/Brandt Vicknair)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paper-Machine.jpg\")
\nPaper Machine<\/strong>
\n6330 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans 70117
\nwww.papermachine.works\/artist-book-collection<\/a>
\nThe Artist Book Collection at Paper Machine houses a rich resource of artist\u2019s books for the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas. Envisioned as a teaching collection, ABC@PM collects artists\u2019 books in all media, editioned and one-of-a-kind, on all variety of subject matter. Interdisciplinary by nature, artists\u2019 books move through the crossroads of visual art, literary art, graphic design, printmaking, bookbinding, papermaking, and publishing. ABC@PM is particularly interested in books in which the structure and actions of reading are integral to the content and the ideas within. Open Monday-Friday, 9AM-4PM, and by appointment.<\/p>\n