PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
World Collage Day 2026 Special Edition
In honor of World Collage Day, 9 May 2026, Kolaj Institute is releasing a special edition of Kolaj Magazine. The Special Edition is full of Cut-Out Pages and stories from inspiring collage artists. Order before World Collage Day and the printed magazine also includes a printed poster and collection of World Collage Day Postcards designed by World Collage Day 2026 Poster Artist Jessa Dupuis.
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EDITORIAL
Be Your Own Algorithm
An Editorial by Ric Kasini Kadour about Technologies of the Self on World Collage Day. “Art, the making, viewing and enjoyment of it, offers us and our neighbors an opportunity to escape the tyranny of the feed….We need to make life off our phones as engaging, as connected to others, and as fulfilling as scrolling. We need weird art, interesting art, informative art. We need art that connects us to other people.”
COLLAGE BOOKS
The Weedy Garden
A new book by writer Margaret Renkl and her collagist brother Billy Renkl takes young readers on a tour of a garden brought to life by Billy’s collage, which uses the viewpoint of a small child in the artworks.
COLLAGE COMMUNITY
“Restrictions”
For World Collage Day 2026, the Belgian collage group, Coupee Collage Collective, is setting up “an accessible and large-scale, collaborative project to promote the objectives of World Collage Day worldwide and in Belgium.”
EXHIBITION
Michael Eble’s “Mod Sampling”
Opening on World Collage Day at Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans. “Mod Sampling” is a solo exhibition by Michael Eble featuring a new body of collage and paintings that use acrylic, drawn elements, and found materials to reflect on architecture as a vessel for memory, place, and cultural identity, grounding modernist forms in the distinctive visual history of New Orleans.
COLLAGE ARTIST
“You Need Weird Art in Your Life…”
An Interview with 2026 World Collage Day Poster Artist Jessa Dupuis. “Art helps remind us that we’re human, that we’re special, and that we can create things out of nothing. That’s a powerful thing that makes life more manageable.”
COLLAGE COMMUNITY
Ten Years of the Eclectic Collage Collective
The Story of the London, Ontario Collage Community by Sarah Cowling. “So, in 2015, I decided to create a collage group—for interaction with like minded artists and for opportunities to learn new ideas and techniques…2025 marked the tenth anniversary…”
COLLAGE TATTOO
Living Collage
Jerome Bertrand shares his experience of a day-long performance at Atelier Galerie 2112 in Montreal, Quebec Canada that took place on World Collage Day in 2024. “In the end, we covered Juliette’s body down to just below the knees, using 783 individual temporary tattoos.” He wrote, “This living collage became not only a visual accumulation of seven years of material, but also a manifestation of shared labor, trust, and spontaneous community.”
CUT-OUT PAGES
What Defines Us?
Elzbieta Zdunek | Berlin, Germany
Elzbieta Zdunek is inspired by 20th century Italian philosopher and writer Umberto Eco who once said, “Every story tells a story that has already been told.”
A Range of Emotions
Lindsey Boss | Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
“I consider collage an obsession of mine,” wrote Lindsey Boss. “I’m addicted to the way it feels to hold scissors and making even the tiniest cut, to glue sticks, and to the shadows created by layering of paper.
A Common Thread of Experience
Lisa Sheets | Kenmore, Washington, USA
“I often use repetition and digital manipulation of source images to emphasize key imagery and create symmetrical compositions,” wrote Lisa Sheets. Transportation infrastructure mingles with butterflies and jello in her Cut-Out Page.
When Safety Becomes a Prison
Robyn Bragg | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Robyn Bragg wrote, “My work is rooted in my love of storybooks, myths, and archetypal imagery. My practice is a part of the surrealist tradition, which uses the process of collage to connect to the world of dreams, emotions, and the unconscious.”
A Specific Theater of Events
Maria Filek | Wadowice, Poland
Maria Filek offered some advice to budding collage artists: “Creating collages can be compared to a laborious journey through the world of fantasies, associations, or through a specific theater of events.”
Joy Is Weapon
Marite Norris | Scarborough, Western Australia, Australia
Marite Norris constructs surreal collage worlds where eyes, symbols, and fragments assemble into narratives of feminine power and joyful resistance.
A Metaphor of Ourselves
Marta Janik | Warsaw, Poland
Shiny brass instruments, an antique victrola, stars and musical notes make up Marta Janik’s Cut-Out Page. When I see it, I hear old jazz and I feel collage.
Dense Compositions that Weave
Michelle Bowers | Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Michelle Bowers is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator, specializing in lettering and collage work that blends handmade and digital processes. “My studio art practice centers on experimental projects that move between conceptual inquiry and material exploration.”
Playful & Engaging
Phyllis Schwartz | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
The ever generous Phyllis Schwartz offers us a series of Cut-Out Pages: one of wrist watches, one of shoes and boots, and then an eclectic one where a pink sprinkled donut mixes with a woman laughing, a hot air ballon, an electric drill, a glass of whine, a mismatched pair of socks and a green cat licking his paw.
Butterflies in the Stomach
Stefano Carbone | Madrid, Spain
Stefano Carbone’s visual work is tied to his poetry, both of which are meditations on “introspection, solitude, and relationships.” He wrote of the queerness in his work that it “is not merely a theme but a method: a way of assembling divergent materials, emotions, and origins into new constellations of meaning.
Universal Emotional Burdens
Virginie Maltais | Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Virginie Maltais “operates both in abstraction and in symbolism. Her works embrace depth and invite viewers to discover her visual language full of polarity. Her universe is full of contrasting and nuanced colors, geometric and flowing lines, as well as overlayed and minimalist areas.”
Zoom Zoom Zoom
Ric Kasini Kadour | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA & Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ric Kasini Kadour’s Cut-Out Page draws on fragments from vintage Japanese lottery tickets, fabric swatches, and an old Jazz poster, elements that make their way into his graphic design and digital collage work.
Humanity’s Collective Psyche
Martin Došek | Pardubice, Czech Republic
Martin Došek spends his working life at a computer making advertisements. His collage work is a different passion. “This is just a play,” wrote the artist. “I enjoy the lightness with which anything can be composed, at the same time creating stories that I think up.”
Remaining Allegorical
Robyn Dansie | London, England, United Kingdom
Robyn Dansie wrote, “I aim to examine society’s lusts and the desire for fortune and fame and, consequently, to highlight our insecurities.” Her collage, Feast of Languages, goes from silly to serious real fast.
The Glabella & The Naison
Gayle Gerson | Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Gayle Gerson “enjoys the medium of collage because it allows her to use the stuff of everyday life in the form of the paper scraps, advertising, text and ephemera to embed evidence of our culture directly into the art pieces she creates.”