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Exercises in Melancholy

Unwilling at Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA through 27 April 2018. Curators Vanessa Kwan and Kimberly Phillips ask us to re-consider melancholia as defined through our contemporary condition. This exhibition reimagines passive sadness as powerful refusal, a conscious (or unconscious) "standing aside," a willful production of generative failures and resistant potencies. Each of the contributing artists begins with the idea that outside the boundaries of contentment resides a potent flourishing. Of note, the weeping willow is at the centre of collagist Noa Giniger’s multi-faceted take on reversals of sadness and the refusal to succeed. MORE

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She Was Once the Queen of Stars

"When I discovered collage, I found that the instant gratification from juxtaposing a few images cut out of old magazines, and arranged to resemble an old B movie still, was as satisfying as it was freeing," writes Eugene, Oregon collagist Shawn Marie Hardy. "I could make things look terrifying, humorous, and beautiful in the same short amount of time–something I’ve struggled with when painting." Hardy's collage are otherworldly, evocative of the sci-fi shows she watched as a kid. "Television was my favourite babysitter while my parents were busy and shows like The Twilight Zone, Land of The Giants, One Step Beyond, The Avengers, and numerous horror films helped shape my love of the macabre." Her collage is featured in Collage Artist Trading Cards Pack 7. We spoke to her about her work. MORE

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Serendipias

Silvia Cuello at Centro Simón I. Patiño in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 6 April-10 May 2018. Cuello's "Serendipias" series comprises some fifty collages of small and medium format created almost entirely in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2016-2017. "Serendipity is a fortunate and unexpected discovery that occurs when you are looking for something else. Collage is an inexhaustible source of serendipities. An image is never a faithful reflection of reality, it is always a construction designed to achieve specific effects." The images contribute to create the ideology of a culture and to legitimize it by making us believe that they are objective representations of an invariable reality. MORE

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Feast of Fools

Hannah Morris at Studio Place Arts in Barre, Vermont, USA through 12 May 2018. This solo exhibition features Morris' painted collages and soft sculpture installations that explore the intersection of the sublime, the absurd, and the mundane in recognizable moments and places. The artist writes, "I fabricate visual stories and scenes by arranging, refashioning, and building upon found images. Using tones, marks, typography, paint, and fabric, I create layered visual languages that allow for multiple interpretations of the details or of the entire scene. I want to trigger a viewer’s memory, for I believe that vision is shaped by thousands of remembered moments." MORE

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I Have Known Such A Creature

Katie McCann on the Art Wall at Shige Sushi in Cotati, California, USA though 29 April 2018. "As a child, I lived in a wonder world of faeries, witches, science fiction and botany. Not much has changed, the only difference being that I now record all of my thoughts and stories in the form of intricately cut and pieced together collages. I am drawn to books, images and pages that are antique, forgotten and foxed with age. I transform these paper memories and records into other worldly creatures who are sometimes static like specimens and at other times are surviving in unique habitats." MORE

World Collage Day is an international celebration of collage on Saturday, May 12, 2018. Kolaj Magazine invites you to submit events taking place on that day that celebrate collage. LEARN MORE

WORLD COLLAGE DAY UPDATE

2018 World Collage Day Poster Artist

Kolaj Magazine announced Michael Pajon as the 2018 World Collage Day Poster Artist. For World Collage Day, Michael Pajon composed an image of an anthropomorphized bird, his human hands hold a pair of scissors and a banner heralding the day. Pajon’s image will grace the cover of a Special Edition being prepared by Kolaj Magazine that features Cut Out Pages, artist profiles, and stories about collage. The image will also be made into an enamel pin. MORE

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Aloft New Orleans Downtown

We recently announced Aloft New Orleans Downtown as the Kolaj Fest New Orleans Hotel. Aloft New Orleans Downtown is located in the heart of the Central Business District, steps away from the French Quarter and a street car ride away from the Marigny/Bywater. Kolaj Fest New Orleans will host a reception at the hotel's W XYZ Bar on Wednesday, July 11th, 5-7PM. MORE

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Collage Making

Collagist Kevin Sampsell will be bringing the energy of Portland's Open Collage Night to Kolaj Fest New Orleans as the Collage Space Director for the festival. Collage making will take place 11AM to 5PM on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Kolaj Fest New Orleans in a space that will be a central hub of the festival. In addition to free time to make collage, the space will also host other artists who want to share their work through demonstrations and activities. MORE

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KOLAJ #22

Kolaj #22 delivers a look at the wonderful world of contemporary collage: the people who make it and the people who love it. Belgian artist Strook‘s building-sized collage is on the cover of the issue. In her profile of the artist, Etty Yaniv writes, "The found wood pieces Strook fuses in his assemblages and the imagery he depicts in his collaged paintings manifest an act of revival: allocating fragmented elements of decay by making an artistic use for them and out of them." MORE

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