{"id":16184,"date":"2025-02-15T15:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T20:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2025-12-23T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:26:57","slug":"poetry-collage-residency-new-orleans-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/institute\/poetry-collage-residency-new-orleans-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry &#038; Collage Residency-New Orleans 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1480\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph-600x888.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph-700x1036.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph-300x444.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph-675x999.jpg 675w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph-260x385.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Collaborative Scanograph made by the participants of the Poetry &amp; Collage Residency-New Orleans 2025. The work was exhibited as part of &#8220;Collage as Art Movement&#8221; at Kolaj Institute Gallery, 14 June-31 August 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>RESIDENCY UPDATE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry &amp; Collage Residency-New Orleans 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8-12 April 2025, with two preliminary virtual sessions on 2 and 6 April 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A five-day, in-person collage artist residency in New Orleans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2022, Kolaj Institute has explored the intersection of poetry and collage throughout its history. In <em>Kolaj<\/em> 32, Rod T. Boyer\u2019s article \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/articles\/mind-the-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mind the Gap: Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage<\/a>\u201c compares the disjunction that occurs in haiku with a similar phenomenon in collage. Since then, Kolaj Institute organized a series of residencies to explore the intersection of poetry and collage. The artists heard from guest speakers Kevin Sampsell, Ren\u00e9e Reizman, Rod T. Boyer, and the Poetry Foundation\u2019s Fred Sasaki and were challenged to create page spreads to be included in <em>PoetryXCollag<\/em>e, a printed journal of artwork and writing at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world. To date, seven volumes of <em>PoetryXCollage<\/em> have been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support artists working at the intersection of poetry and collage, Kolaj Institute organized an in-person artist residency at Kolaj Institute Gallery that coincided with the New Orleans Poetry Festival. In daily meetings, artists shared work and received feedback from one another. Prior to the residency, artists met virtually where Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour made presentations on the history of the project, artist practice, and the ecosystem of Poetry &amp; Collage. Through in person discussions, artists explored how the art they make at the intersection of poetry and collage exists on the printed page and on the wall of a gallery. By participating in the New Orleans Poetry Festival, we hoped artists would connect with poets, editors, and publishers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Residency, artists were invited to submit work for the <em>PoetryXCollage<\/em> journal and for an exhibition on Poetry &amp; Collage at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PARTICIPATING ARTISTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1256\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading-600x754.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading-700x879.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading-300x377.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading-768x965.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading-260x327.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/adriana-gordillo-keep-reading-795x999.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Keep Reading <\/em>by Adriana Gordillo<br>11.69&#8243;x8.27&#8243;; collage. Courtesy of the artist. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adriana Gordillo<\/strong> is a Colombian poet, mixed media artist, and Spanish teacher based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. She has published two poetry books, <em>Hereticum<\/em> (2024) and <em>El tiempo al rev\u00e9s<\/em> (2025). Her creative work has also been published in Latin American and U.S. magazines. She was awarded the Victoria Urbano Poetry Prize (USA) in 2011 and Voces nuevas (Spain) in 2014. Her visual and installation work has been exhibited in &#8220;Latinx MN: Re\/claiming Space in Time of Change&#8221; at the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at St. Catherine Gallery (2024), &#8220;Art &amp; Memory Conference&#8221; at South Texas College (2024), the &#8220;Art Show Competition&#8221; (Finalist) at the Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community in Wyoming, Minnesota (2018), and the Paradise Center for the Arts Healing Arts Gallery at District One Hospital, Faribault, Minnesota. Learn more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/adrigordillo.myportfolio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"965\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems-600x579.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems-700x676.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems-768x741.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Julia-Johnson-writing-poems-260x251.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Julia Johnson writing poems during the artist talk for the exhibition, &#8220;A Montage That Tells a Truth in This Bound Flesh: An Ongoing Conversation: Drawings by Mariam Aziza Stephan and Poems by Julia&nbsp;Johnson&#8221;, at the Greensboro Project Space in Greensboro, North Carolina, January 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julia Johnson<\/strong> holds a BFA from Hollins College and an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Kentucky, she taught at Hollins University, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and in the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Johnson is the author of three books of poetry, <em>Naming the Afternoon<\/em>, published by Louisiana State University Press, which won the George Garrett Fellowship of Southern Writers New Writing Award; <em>The Falling Horse<\/em>, published by Factory Hollow Press; and most recently <em>Subsidence<\/em>. She served as editor of <em>Mississippi Review<\/em>, including a special issue on The Prose Poem, as well as an anthology, <em>30 Years of Mississippi Review<\/em>. She edited <em>The Collected Poems of Jane Gentry<\/em>. Her poems have appeared in <em>The Cincinnati Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry International<\/em>, <em>Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics<\/em>, <em>Smartish Pace<\/em>, <em>Conduit<\/em>, <em>Tin House<\/em>, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Johnson is currently Professor of English and was the Founding Director of the new Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Kentucky. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/julia-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg-600x199.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg-700x232.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg-768x254.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Miriam-Aziza-Stephan-169-22-jpg-260x86.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>#169-22<\/em> by Mariam Aziza Stephan, which appeared in <em>whirlpool of negatives<\/em> (2025), collaborative response poems with poet Julia Johnson<br>6&#8243;x18&#8243;; India ink on various papers; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mariam Aziza Stephan<\/strong> holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited in the US and overseas including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Mobile Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, and the Gezira Art Center in Cairo, Egypt, and is included in the permanent collections of the Raleigh Municipal Art Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama; and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, Cairo, Egypt. Stephan has received awards including the 2018 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Award, served as a 2010-11 Fulbright Scholar to Egypt, and currently serves as Professor of Painting at UNC Greensboro. Learn more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/mariamstephan.com\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1496\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at-600x898.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at-700x1047.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at-300x449.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at-668x999.jpg 668w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mori-Anderson-Hitchcock-whatcha-lookin-at-260x389.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Whatcha Lookin&#8217; At??<\/em> by Mori Anderson Hitchcock<br>11.25&#8243;x4.5&#8243;; sculpted mixed media collage on paper; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mori Anderson Hitchcock<\/strong> is a Black, Queer, and Nonbinary, Collage Artist from Chester, Pennsylvania with familial roots in Ohio, Georgia, and Jamaica. At Juniata College, they became a student of Art History and Criticism. After college, the artist lived in both Upstate New York along the Hudson River and also in Brooklyn, working as an archivist for both the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resistor\u2019s League, two Historic Peace and Justice nonprofit organizations. At Case Western Reserve University, they taught workshops offering comparative analyses of Black\/Black Queer popular media from 2016-2020. The artist also took part in the Irene Publishing Writing Residency in Sweden. Since starting their artistic journey, the artist participated in Kolaj Institute\u2019s Politics in Collage Artist Residency in 2021 and the Joy &amp; Grief Artist Residency in 2025, and had their artwork published in <em>Black Collagists: The Book<\/em> (2021) and <em>Politics in Collage<\/em> (2022). Their artwork was included in group exhibitions at The Domino in New Orleans (2022), and an exhibition at Understory in Cleveland (2024-2025). Learn more on Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/themayorofnegropolis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@themayorofnegropolis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1858\" height=\"2100\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin.jpg 1858w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-600x678.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-700x791.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-300x339.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-768x868.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-1359x1536.jpg 1359w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-1812x2048.jpg 1812w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-260x294.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rose-Menyon-Heflin-884x999.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1858px) 100vw, 1858px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>That Cacophonous Concerto of Resistance in My Mind<\/em> by Rose Menyon Heflin<br>22.5&#8243;x22.5&#8243;; handmade paper, thread, fabric, pins, found objects; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rose Menyon Heflin<\/strong> studied plant sciences for an agroecology graduate program and is an award-winning poet, writer, and visual artist working primarily in collage, papermaking, and printmaking. Her visual art has appeared in numerous state, regional, national, and international group shows, including the North American Hand Papermakers\u2019 2023 Juried Exhibition, &#8220;Triennial Sustainability in Chaos&#8221;, and in publications ranging from &#8216;zines to international journals to the Artists Beyond Boundaries calendar. She primarily creates at Artworking, a Madison, Wisconsin studio for disabled artists, where she enjoys helping autistic artists explore writing, in addition to making her visual art. Her poetry, which has been published over 250 times around the world, includes free verse, formal, performance, and prose. The artist lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Learn more <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.artworking.org\/rose-heflin\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child-700x934.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/zahirah-nur-truth-Mama-Noir-and-Child-749x999.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mama Noir and Child<\/em> by Zahirah Nur Truth<br>14&#8243;x11&#8243;; digital illustration; 2022. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zahirah Nur Truth<\/strong> holds an AS in Early Childhood Education, with an Arts Program focus from Bunker Hill Community College, and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\/Tufts University, Boston. She has collaborated with the community to develop engaging learning opportunities with arts organizations and others to focus on workshops and art curation that are inclusive to all, and so much more. She has developed community partnerships with The Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston Public Library, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston Food Forest Coalition, The Urban Farming Institute, The Food Project, A FAR CRY, Fenway Health Center, Wheelock Family Theater at Boston University and Little Uprising. She is also the co-creator of Un-ADULT-erated Black Joy, an all-Black mother arts collective dedicated to uplifting joy in motherhood and finding liberation in parenting. However her art manifests, it is always her voice\u2014her way of processing, healing, and calling others to embrace love, growth, and transformation. The artist lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zntarts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the New Orleans Poetry Festival<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From the organization&#8217;s website: &#8220;The mission of the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Small Press Fair is to create a space for an inclusive and diverse group of writers to collaborate, share and influence each other while also being immersed in the distinctive literary culture of New Orleans. Our goal every year is to bring in poets and performers from across the globe to share their work and research in topics not only specific to writing but to all aspects of the Humanities, including cultural, political, ecological and historical disciplines relevant to contemporary New Orleans, Louisiana, and the world. We showcase the best writers New Orleans has to offer to our visitors, and to the local community we try to offer the most compelling authors from across the nation and the globe. The Festival is highly participatory with events ranging from workshops where you will be generating writing to open mics where you can share your work, from formal readings and panels to the most informal and collegial interactions and collaborations. For both locals and visitors we invite the active inspiration of four days of poetry immersion and collaboration, hopefully fostering further explorations and creations that continue beyond the time spent here in New Orleans.&#8221; The festival runs 10-13 April 2025. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolapoetry.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.nolapoetry.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FACULTY<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1364\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes-600x818.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes-700x955.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes-300x409.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes-260x355.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-11-13-A-Stack-All-the-Homes-732x999.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Stack All the Homes<\/em>&nbsp;by Ric Kasini Kadour<br>15\u2033x11\u2033; book illustrations and collage on watercolor paper; 2024. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ric Kasini Kadour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ric Kasini Kadour<\/strong>, a 2020-2021 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: \u201cConnection: The Art of Coming Together\u201d (2017) and Vermont Artists to Watch 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2017, he curated \u201cThe Art of Winter\u201d at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington, Vermont. In 2018, Kadour curated \u201cRevolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage\u201d 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 \u201cCultural Deconstructions: Critical Issues in Collage\u201d at LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans, which furthered the conversation; and \u201cAmuse Bouche\u201d, also at LeMieux Galleries in 2023 and 2024. Since 2018, he has produced Kolaj Fest New Orleans, a multi-day festival &amp; 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, \u201cRokeby Through the Lens\u201d (May 19-June 16, 2019), \u201cStructures\u201d (August 24-October 27, 2019), and \u201cMending Fences: New Works by Carol MacDonald\u201d (July 12-October 25, 2020). He also curated \u201cContemporary American Regionalism: Vermont Perspectives\u201d (August 17-October 20, 2019); \u201cWhere the Sun Casts No Shadow: Postcards from the Creative Crossroads of Quito, Ecuador\u201d (November 1-30, 2019); and \u201cMany Americas\u201d (August 20-November 27, 2022) in the Wilson Museum &amp; Galleries at the Southern Vermont Arts Center. \u201cThe Money $how\u201d, 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 &amp; Arts Festival in Birr, County Offaly, Ireland (August 13-20, 2021), he curated \u201cEmpty Columns Are a Place to Dream\u201d, 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 Guzm\u00e0n two exhibitions: \u201cMany Worlds Are Born\u201d (February 19-May 14, 2022) and \u201cTechnologies of the Spirit\u201d (June 11-September 3, 2022). In 2023 at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Kadour curated \u201cWhere the Sun Casts No Shadow: Postcards from the Creative Crossroads of Quito, Ecuador\u201d (January 9-February 16, 2023) and \u201cMythical Landscape: Secrets of the Vale\u201d (March 17-May 28, 2023). In September 2023, he curated \u201cWord of Mouth: Folklore, Community and Collage\u201d at A\u2019 the Airts in Sanquhar, Scotland. His first short film,&nbsp;<em>The Covenant of Schwitters\u2019 Army<\/em>, debuted at Collage on Screen during Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2023. His second,&nbsp;<em>Joy Is Paper<\/em>, debuted at Collage on Screen during Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Kolaj Institute Gallery, Kadour curated \u201cKolaj Institute Grand Opening Exhibition\u201d (March 9-April 14, 2024); \u201cCollage the Planet: Environmentalism in Art\u201d (April 19-May 26, 2024); \u201cMagic in the Modern World\u201d (June 1-August 11, 2024); \u201cAdvanced Wound Healing Techniques: Collage by Robbie Morgan\u201d (August 16-October 6, 2024); \u201cTemporal Geolocation: How Place &amp; History Inform Identity in Collage\u201d (October 11-November 24, 2024; and \u201cCamera &amp; Collage\u201d (November 29, 2024-January 25, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kadour is the editor and publisher of&nbsp;<em>Kolaj Magazine<\/em>. He has written for a number of galleries and his writing has appeared in&nbsp;<em>Hyperallergic, OEI, Vermont Magazine, Seven Days, Seattle Weekly, Art New England<\/em>&nbsp;(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.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickasinikadour.com\/\">&nbsp;www.rickasinikadour.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESIDENCY UPDATE Poetry &amp; Collage Residency-New Orleans 2025 at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans 8-12 April 2025, with two preliminary virtual sessions on 2 and 6 April 2025 A five-day, in-person collage artist residency in New Orleans Since 2022,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/institute\/poetry-collage-residency-new-orleans-2025\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collaborative-Scanograph.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-4d2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18087,"url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/institute\/the-fragment-as-verse-poetryxcollage-in-person-artist-residency\/","url_meta":{"origin":16184,"position":0},"title":"The Fragment as Verse: PoetryXCollage In-Person Artist Residency","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"5 April 2026","format":"gallery","excerpt":"RESIDENCY UPDATE The Fragment as Verse: PoetryXCollage In-Person Artist Residency An in-person residency in New Orleans, Sunday, 12 April to Thursday, 16 April 2026 Poetry is an art form that uses language and rhythm to express ideas, convey emotions, and share stories. 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