Collage on Screen Artist Residency 2025

RESIDENCY UPDATE

Collage on Screen Artist Residency

A five-week, virtual/online residency with Kolaj Institute in August and September 2025

Collage in Motion is a project of Kolaj Institute that explores collage and the moving image, a broad, loosely defined category that includes animations, film cut-ups, collage film, stop-motion, animated GIFs, documentaries about collage artists, and other forms of media in which collage–as medium or genre–is present. We see our role as not one of defining “collage in motion” but as one of asking what “collage in motion” can be. The project manifests as articles in Kolaj Magazine, an online directory, workshops, residencies, and screenings. Artists with practice of Collage in Motion are encouraged to submit to the online directory.

Collage on Screen Artist Residency is a five-week program designed to support artists who want to develop a practice that includes motion in their artmaking. In five virtual meetings over five weeks and through ongoing, online discussion, we will explore the history of collage on screen and the various ways that collage makes its way to the screen and how collage artists operate in the space of moving images and sound. Unlike two-dimensional art, collage on screen is temporal art, meaning it moves through time. Because of this, viewers experience Collage on Screen not as a linear series of images but as an immersive experience. This residency asks, How do we, as collage artists, make artwork that speaks to that?

Designed for collage artists, professional development sessions focus on artist practice, how to develop a story; and how to develop moving images and sound to tell that story.

Residents will make a 30 second film that will be considered for Collage on Screen at Kolaj Fest New Orleans, 10-14 June 2026. If selected, the film will be included in Kolaj Institute’s traveling screening program. Artists may also choose to make longer works which will also be considered. 

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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Kolaj Institute is excited to announce the eleven artists from Canada, India, and across the United States who were selected to participate in this five-week virtual residency.

Azura Booth (St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands) holds a BA in Africana Studies from Pitzer College, and Africana praxis has woven its way into her creations. Her senior thesis project “Blackness in the Internet: How Black Codes and Signifiers Became Embedded into the Machine” received the Dr. Agnes Moreland Jackson Service Award, awarded to “those members of the Claremont Colleges who have made a significant impact on the community”. Her thesis project included a traditional written thesis statement as well as a zine, meant to convey the emotions that were impossible to describe within academic text. The creation of this zine can be attributed to sparking her love of collage and visual story telling. It was also was the first time she used black paper, instead of white, as the background to her collages, which has now become her signature style. Her works aim to be circular in nature. A zine with three front covers, but no back cover. A visual book on film, with the first chapter sequenced at the end. Her stories resemble riddles, so the reader must view the story several times over, perhaps in different directions, in order to solve the riddle of the story. In this way, the reader/viewer becomes an active participant in the story and must fully engage with the work in order to understand it.

Dany Klotz (Munich, Germany) grew up in the tri-border region near Basel, Switzerland where overlapping culture and blurred boundaries shaped her early sensitivity for transition and in-between spaces. Her work explores the poetics of slowness, impermanence and mindfulness through hand-cut collage, drawing, and found paper. Currently, she is exploring new ways to expand her collage practice into other media–including stop motion, type animation, and zine-making–while preserving the tactile and poetic essence of her process. Her recent project, “Sending Flowers to my Younger Self”, brings together still collage and moving image as a gentle form of storytelling. Klotz has shown her work in exhibitions across Germany and internationally. In 2026, she will be Artist-in-Residence at the Fish Factory in Iceland.

Deepika Nandan (Bengaluru, Karnataka, India) uses media to create immersive, mystical, and magical scenes of the natural world with creatures big and small to inspire stillness, observation, and respect for the biosphere. Her work uses visual storytelling to suggest ideas, ask questions, and explore human–creature-land relationships. It often includes techniques such as scanning or projections, and physical and digital materials like paper, thread, photographs, and natural elements including leaves and seeds. Nandan has been a Creature Conserve fellow, and her work has been exhibited at Re-Examining Conservation at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and Psyche at Science Gallery Bangalore.

Jennifer Myhre (Sedona, Arizona, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working in collage, printmaking and alternative process photography. She received a graduate certificate in documentary filmmaking from George Washington University and edited two award winning documentaries. This foundation has shaped her current practice in collage and printmaking, as have her former day jobs as a sociologist and community organizer. Her mission is to produce work that generates wonder in the sense of curiosity–raising questions about our relationships to the systems that produce large scale human suffering and our own power and agency to confront and transform these systems–and in the sense of awe–delight and discovery both of the living world that surrounds us and of our own capacities, courage and creativity. Myhre’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Arizona, California, Louisiana and Oregon. She was a 2018 Belle Foundation for Cultural Development grantee in the visual arts and a 2025 participant in the Kolaj Institute’s Politics in Collage Artist Residency: Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide.

Jennifer Roche (Chicago, Illinois, USA) has authored two chapbooks of experimental poetry and non fiction, which were published by independent small presses. Roche’s poems and writing have appeared in multiple publications. She was named a “Writer to Watch in 2019 & Beyond” by the Chicago Guild Literary Complex and a 2016 Charter Oak Award Semifinalist for Best Historical writing. In 2022, Roche was accepted into Kolaj Institute’s first Poetry & Collage Residency, and in 2024, she was one of the Residency’s facilitators. Her artwork appeared in PoetryXCollage Volume 1, at Collage on Screen during Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2023, and was juried into the Roe 2.0 Virtual Exhibition at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago. Roche’s interview with Annete Sagal and sisters Katya and Olha Syta about CUTOUT FESTIVAL, an annual exhibition in Kyiv, Ukraine, that broke attendance records despite the ongoing invasion, appeared in Kolaj 40. She is the founder and facilitator of the Sunday Collage Club, a community of collage artists launched in 2022 who gather online every month to learn, experiment, support, and share. She also volunteers with the Chicago Collage Community.

Kamala Woods (Culver City, California, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist focusing in photography, performance, and video. She received her BA in Studio Art from Lewis & Clark College, where she graduated with distinction. After graduation she trained with the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) and studied contemporary performance. While with PETE she devised an original multimedia show VOID for their annual festival. Woods has completed prior artist residencies with COHO Theatre in Portland, OR, where she held a solo performance for her show FOUL. She completed her debut documentary feature, Homefree, in 2023, where she documented life in a homeless encampment up until a city sanctioned shut down. While she’s been developing her practice as an artist, Woods has also been engaged in social work through street outreach services and permanent supportive housing. This work inspired her documentary venture, and she continues to use her artistic path to connect with the stories of others. Transformation lies at the core of her artistic path, whether it’s working to transform social structures or transforming herself with her practice.

Kate Lavut (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an award-winning playwright and graphic novelist. Her debut play, A Little Bit Pregnant, which she both wrote and produced, toured internationally and won Best Drama at the New York City Fringe Festival in 2024. Her first graphic novel, Chico, was a finalist for both the Quebec Writers Federation Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in 2017 and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best Comic in 2015. Currently, she is developing TiT, an autobiographical project about living with breast cancer. This work, which began as a graphic novel, is now being realized as a series of one-minute animated videos expressed by a collage of cut-outs figures from her watercolor illustrations.

Kristina Lynae (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) is a writer and visual artist based, who earned her bachelor’s degree in film and media arts from the University of Utah in 2021. She started exploring collage in winter 2023 with the intention of creating a series of works based on her upbringing in the Mormon church. By spring 2024, she branched into more abstract works, experimenting with color, texture, and mood. Lynae has been part of three monthly showcases at Salt Lake City’s Urban Arts Gallery in 2024: “SLC Queer,” “Monster of the Mind,” and “Bite Sized.” A piece from “SLC Queer” inspired to her first commission, a 24″x36” companion to her piece To Succumb to Appetites. Her exhibit “Flesh and Sinew” is at the Salt Lake City Main Library, 23 August to 10 October 2025.

Lori Petchers (Fairfield, Connecticut, USA) works with film, video, photography, and collage. Her film work includes Mezzanotte Obscura (2009), Surviving (2010), Life Model (2010), Spirit Figures (2011), and Letting Go (2014) which have all played at film festivals worldwide. Her feature documentary, A Self-Made Man (2013) premiered on America ReFramed on PBS in 2015. She received an Artist Fellowship Grant in Film/Video from the State of Connecticut and a regional Emmy nomination for her work. Lori is also a co-creator of Old Bags, a multi-media art project exploring female identity and aging. Old Bags was exhibited in numerous galleries including RISD Museum and the Housatonic Museum of Art (part of the permanent collection) and was released as a self-published book Old Bags Taking a Stand. Stemming from her documentary filmmaking background where she often collected media from different sources to create a narrative, she now does the same with papers. She has been making collages for over a decade. Her collage work has been featured in Cut Me Up Magazine: Issue 11 and shown at the Albany International Airport and New Orleans Photo Alliance. Most recently, as part of the Kolaj Institute’s Politics in Collage virtual residency, Lori’s work was included in the book, Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide. Petchers’ work aspires to confront social norms and stereotypes through both traditional and non- traditional media.

Racquel Keller (Glenn Dale, Maryland, USA) holds a B.S. in Graphic Design, with a Fine Arts concentration, from The American University, and a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University. Her recent residencies include the ACI Artists, Writers and Scholars Residency in Corciano, Italy (2025), the Kolaj Institute Artist Residency in Sanquhar, Scotland 2024), Chateau d’Orquevaux in Orquevaux, France (2023), and a three-year residency with the City of Greenbelt, Maryland (2018–2021). Since 2023, she has served as an Artist-in-Residence at Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, Maryland. A three-time recipient of The Denis Diderot A-i-R Grant, she actively exhibits her work and it can be found in numerous private collections throughout the US as well as internationally.

Sui Jenneris (Kingston, New York, USA) has been making art and engaging in community-based creative activities since childhood, including contributions to a school literary journal and participation in high school art club. After leaving high school at sixteen, they returned to the arts as an adult, earning a degree in Fine Arts and later a Master of Science degree from the University at Buffalo in 2016. Alongside ten years of professional work as a counselor, Sui Jenneris has maintained a dedicated art practice spanning painting, illustration, comic work, collage, and digital media. Over the past six years, their work has been exhibited in numerous settings, including an installation at the Children’s Hospital of Colorado (2022) and a debut solo exhibition in 2024. Their art has also been featured in literary journals, online publications, and with multiple college institutions. Currently, Sui Jenneris is utilizing digital collage as a means to “break the fourth wall”—inviting viewers to experience the interplay between external perception and internal perspective.

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FACULTY

Robbie Morgan

Robbie Morgan holds an MFA in Film and Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Film Production from The University of New Orleans and a BS in Entertainment Industry with an emphasis in Audio Production from the University of Southern Mississippi. Morgan is interested in the power of visual storytelling and how film can move audiences. He also extensively researches film history and theory. He has taught film in a variety of settings, from school-aged children to university students. He believes anyone with motivation can learn to make a film and use this medium to express ideas. He won awards for Best Picture and Best Editing at the 2021 UNO Film Fest. His research interests include instructional design and pedagogy; Queer film theory; Kuleshov and Gestalt psychology and their role in movies; and applications of practical effects on modern productions. Robbie Morgan lives and works in New Orleans.

Nancy Bernardo

Nancy Bernardo currently lives in Rochester, New York and has been a practicing graphic designer for 25 years. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been an educator for 16 years. Bernardo’s work has been commissioned for book cover designs such as: Checking In/Checking Out (NO Books, 2010), New Orleans Review Art + Literary Magazine (2009-2014), Deconstructing Brad Pitt (Bloomsbury Press, 2011 and discussed in Kolaj #11) and History of Design: Beyond the Canon (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). Bernardo has been recognized and awarded honors through Graphis Design Annual, Print Regional Design Awards, Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers, HOW In-House Design Award, HOW Best of International Design and STA 100. Her work has also been exhibited in Rochester, New Orleans, Seattle, Chicago, New York City and in the United Kingdom.

Ric Kasini Kadour

Ric Kasini Kadour, a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow, is a writer, artist, publisher, and cultural worker. Working with the Vermont Arts Council, Kadour curated four exhibits: “Connection: The Art of Coming Together” (2017) and Vermont Artists to Watch 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2017, he curated “The Art of Winter” at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington, Vermont. In 2018, Kadour curated “Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage” at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, which bought together collage artists whose work represents the potential for deeper inquiry and further curatorial exploration of the medium; followed in 2019 by “Cultural Deconstructions: Critical Issues in Collage” at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, which furthered the conversation; and “Amuse Bouche”, also at LeMieux Galleries in 2023. Since 2018, he has produced Kolaj Fest New Orleans, a multi-day festival & symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society. As Curator of Contemporary Art at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, Vermont in 2019 and 2020, he curated three exhibitions, “Rokeby Through the Lens” (May 19-June 16, 2019), “Structures” (August 24-October 27, 2019), and “Mending Fences: New Works by Carol MacDonald” (July 12-October 25, 2020). He also curated “Contemporary American Regionalism: Vermont Perspectives” (August 17-October 20, 2019); “Where the Sun Casts No Shadow: Postcards from the Creative Crossroads of Quito, Ecuador” (November 1-30, 2019); and “Many Americas” (August 20-November 27, 2022) in the Wilson Museum & Galleries at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. “The Money $how”, co-curated with Frank Juarez, was presented at the AIR Space Gallery at Saint Kate-The Arts Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (April 10-September 12, 2021). For Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival in Birr, County Offaly, Ireland (August 13-20, 2021), he curated “Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream”, which traveled to the Knoxville Museum of Art in January-February 2022. At 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kadour co-curated with Alicia Inez Guzmàn two exhibitions: “Many Worlds Are Born” (February 19-May 14, 2022) and “Technologies of the Spirit” (June 11-September 3, 2022). In 2023 at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Kadour curated “Where the Sun Casts No Shadow: Postcards from the Creative Crossroads of Quito, Ecuador” (January 9-February 16, 2023) and “Mystical Landscape: Secrets of the Vale” (March 17-May 28, 2023). In September 2023, he curated “Word of Mouth: Folklore, Community and Collage” at A’ the Airts in Sanquhar, Scotland. His short film, The Covenant of Schwitters’ Army, debuted at Collage on Screen during Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2023. Kadour is the editor and publisher of Kolaj Magazine. He has written for a number of galleries and his writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, OEI, Vermont Magazine, Seven Days, Seattle Weekly, Art New England (where he was the former Vermont editor) and many others. Kadour maintains an active art practice and his photography, collage, and sculpture have been exhibited in and are part of private collections in Australia, Europe and North America. In January-February 2020, he was artist-in-residence at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar, Scotland. He holds a BA in Comparative Religion from the University of Vermont. Kadour splits his time between Montreal and New Orleans. www.rickasinikadour.com