{"id":16573,"date":"2025-05-12T14:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=16573"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:12:23","slug":"where-are-we-collage-artists-a-sense-of-place-at-kolaj-fest-new-orleans-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans\/where-are-we-collage-artists-a-sense-of-place-at-kolaj-fest-new-orleans-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are we?: Collage Artists &#038; a Sense of Place at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1325\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1-600x795.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1-700x928.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1-300x398.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1-260x345.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1-754x999.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">untitled collage by Michael Eble. Made during his Solo Residency at Kolaj Institute, May 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SYMPOSIUM AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where are we?: Collage Artists &amp; a Sense of Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\">EVENT WEBSITE<\/a> | <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/1206160040149\" target=\"_blank\">REGISTER<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. Visit the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In<em> Lure of the Local<\/em>, Lucy Lippart wrote, &#8220;When we know where we are, we&#8217;re in a far better position to understand what other cultural groups are experiencing within a time and place we all share.&#8221; Where are we? Modern life is fundamentally diasporic in nature. So many of us are from somewhere else and yet, where we are and when we are shapes who we are at any given point in time. Understanding place is critical to survival and resilience in the 21st century where hostile factors of climate change, late-stage capitalism, and rising authoritarianism threaten community cohesion already stressed by Modernity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the four artists in the &#8220;New African Masquerades&#8221; exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art contribute to a sense of place in their communities. They draw on traditions, folklore, and religious practices. They use symbols and imagery familiar to their communities. Their performances bring people together and offer the opportunity to connect with ancestral traditions and create shared memories for the future. All of these things foster a sense of place. And each of these artists operate from the now, putting that sense of place in conversation with the Modern lives in which their communities exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lippard wrote about the fragmented nature of contemporary life. \u201cMost of us live such fragmented lives and have so many minicommunities that no one knows us as a whole. The incomplete self longs for the fragments to be brought together. This can\u2019t be done without a context, a place.\u201d Artists play a critical role in developing, expressing, and understanding a sense of place. Approaching the social, physical, and spiritual landscape in this way is fertile terrain for artists who can draw out elements of a place in ways that they are seen and thought about in new ways. During the Symposium at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025, we will hear from Paula Mans, Michael Eble, Laura Cannamela, and Rosanne Walsh, whose work speaks to a sense of place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1335\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making-600x801.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making-700x935.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making-300x401.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Paula-Mans-Of_Her_Own_making-748x999.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Of Her Own Making<\/em> by Paula Mans<br>40&#8243;x30&#8243;; mixed media on wood panel; 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington, DC artist <strong>Paula Mans<\/strong> creates &#8220;figurative collages that engage in visual discourse surrounding the (in)visibility and agency of people of African descent. The works subvert notions of power through the Gaze. Rather than being images to be viewed and consumed, the figures that the artist constructs look defiantly out onto the world&#8211;engaging, confronting, and challenging the viewer.&#8221; Her &#8220;Cotton Flower&#8221; project came about when Mans &#8220;read a short excerpt, which sparked my imagination about cotton as a symbol, because cotton is such a heavy and weighted symbol for African Americans, due to enslavement. The excerpt said that some enslaved women ingested cotton roots to abort pregnancies during enslavement. That really turned everything on my head of what I thought about cotton and using cotton as a tool of subversion, rather than oppression, rather than subjugation.&#8221; She will speak about how she views &#8220;the collage process as emblematic of identity formation within the specific context of the African Diaspora.&#8221; She will also speak about how visiting the Laura and Whitney Plantations with Kolaj Institute in October 2024 impacted the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1235\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY-600x741.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY-700x865.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY-300x371.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY-768x948.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY-260x321.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura-Cannamela-STONY-809x999.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Stony<\/em> by Laura Cannamela<br>5.5\u2033x4.5\u2033x0.25\u201d; cut paper relief collage; 2023. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Place and landscape are intricately linked. Maps are an abstraction of place as informed by the landscape. Artist <strong>Laura Cannamela<\/strong>, who splits her time between Upstate New York and Eastern Ontario, uses maps to connect our sense of place to its geologic history. &#8220;Living near a gorge carved from glacial flow and eroded by a creek, everyday I observe the interconnectivity of nature through small details that reflect the massive forces which shaped the environment around me,&#8221; wrote Cannamela. &#8220;In my studio, I research topographic maps along with geological events related to a specific location, and make relief collages from a variety of papers. My work focuses on representing the multi-layered process of land formation. Layers are integral to my subject matter and are visible, essential elements in my work. Making a connection between the landscape created through erosion by natural forces and the relief collage created through cutting away layers of paper is fundamental to my practice. In both nature and in my work, the process of layering indicates a state of transformation, a record of change over time.&#8221; Cannamela will speak about how place can be reflected in collage, using examples of her own work and her process of layering clay to suggest the topography and land formation of a specific location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1325\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2-600x795.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2-700x928.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2-300x398.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2-260x345.jpg 260w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-2-754x999.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">untitled collage by Michael Eble. Made during his Solo Residency at Kolaj Institute, May 2025. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During his Solo Residency at Kolaj Institute, Lafayette, Louisiana artist <strong>Michael Eble<\/strong> researched Mid-century Modern buildings in New Orleans and created artwork that reflected the design language of this architecture, both as they were intended by their creators and how they exist half a century later. Using a process of layering and sanding, Eble collages the shapes and colors of the era with the decay and patina of their present day state and in doing so Eble draws a connection to his family\u2019s history and his upbringing in the area. These works pay homage to the city while conveying themes of family, distance, time, and identity. Eble will present the series and speak about his process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web-600x421.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web-700x491.jpg 700w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/rosanne-walsh-october-in-madrid-vowel-sounds-web-260x183.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>October in Madrid: Vowel Sounds <\/em>by Rosanne Walsh<br>8.25&#8243;x11&#8243;; watercolor, acrylic, and street debris from Madrid; 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheshire, Connecticut artist <strong>Rosanne Walsh<\/strong> will speak about her experience of participating in Bettina Homann&#8217;s Berlinage in May 2024. &#8220;As someone who has long favored the solitude of interior life over the unpredictability of travel, I\u2019ve often found the most compelling landscapes to be the ones housed quietly within my own mind,&#8221; the artist wrote. That changed with Berlinage. &#8220;The premise was straightforward yet deeply generative: walk the city, absorb its textures, and create work in response. What happened was a quiet but significant shift in my understanding of both place and practice and a renewed sense of how &#8216;place&#8217; can act not just as subject, but as collaborator. What had once felt foreign\u2014both the city and the practice of working outside my comfort zone\u2014became, over time, part of my internal landscape. I\u2019m still working with the materials I collected there. But more importantly, I\u2019m still reflecting on the unexpected value of creative dislocation\u2014and how collage, at its best, allows us to reassemble ourselves piece by piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE PRESENTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Paula Mans<\/strong> is a painter, collagist, and art educator based in Washington, DC. While Paula is a native Washingtonian, she spent many of her formative years living in Tanzania, Mozambique, Eswatini, and Brazil. Her experiences throughout the African Diaspora shaped her identity and informed the development of her artistic voice. Mans\u2019 work has been curated into group shows in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, New York and Kranj, Slovenia. Three of Mans&#8217; collages were included in &#8220;Temporal Geolocation: How Place &amp; History Form Identity in Collage&#8221;, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour, at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, October-November 2024. Her work has been featured in the <em>Washington City Paper<\/em>, <em>Contemporary Collage Magazine<\/em>, <em>Suboart Magazine<\/em>, <em>CanvasRebel Magazine<\/em> and on WTTG (Fox) in Washington, DC. Mans is a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation grantee, a Vermont Studio Center Visual Arts Fellow, and a recipient of the 2024 Arts and Humanities Fellowship for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her work has recently been acquired by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank collection. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulamans.art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.paulamans.art<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Michael Eble<\/strong> holds a BFA in painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Mississippi. Eble is the Assistant Dean for the College of the Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he plays a pivotal role in nurturing and guiding the next generation of creative minds. Before his return to Louisiana, Michael contributed significantly to the arts community in Minnesota. He held the position of Associate Professor of Studio Art and Curator of the Morrison Gallery at the University of Minnesota, for thirteen years. His works have been shown in solo and group shows across the US and he is the recipient of many grants and awards. Originally from New Orleans, he now lives and works in Lafayette, Louisiana. He is represented by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans. Learn more at<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeleble.com\" target=\"_blank\"> www.michaeleble.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laura Cannamela<\/strong>\u2019s work has been displayed in galleries, museums, and non-profit spaces across the country and internationally.&nbsp; Recently her collage work was included in the US Department of State Arts in Embassies program in Timor-Leste, and shown in a solo exhibit at The Hammond Museum in North Salem, New York, at Albany International Airport, and in &#8220;Amuse-Bouche&#8221; at LeMieux Galleries during Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2024. Her ceramic installation, <em>Currents<\/em>, was selected for the Hudson Valley Artists Purchase Award and entered into the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art\u2019s permanent art collection. She has received recognition for her artwork through grants from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund&#8211;a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Platte Clove Artist-in-Residence Program, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) SOS Grant Program, the NYFA Mark Program, and the Freeman Foundation, along with the Five College Center for East Asian Studies, to travel to Japan. Born in New Jersey, Cannamela received her MFA from Queens College of CUNY. She resides in the Hudson River Valley of New York and in the Mississippi River Valley of Eastern Ontario, Canada. Learn more at the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauracannamela.com\">www.lauracannamela.com<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rosanne Walsh<\/strong> holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters from Lesley University. After a decades-long career as an art teacher in public schools, she is now focused on her studio practice. Her work has appeared in several issues of <em>Cut Me Up<\/em> and in the &#8220;Unconnected Yet&#8221; project produced by Boston Bengal Bridge and shown in Kolkata, India and Lorne, Australia. Her dimensional collage work was featured in &#8220;Imploding Meaning&#8221; at Vassar Collage&#8217;s Palmer Gallery in 2023. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosannewalsh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.rosannewalsh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. Visit the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajinstitute.org\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYMPOSIUM AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS 2025 Where are we?: Collage Artists &amp; a Sense of Place EVENT WEBSITE | REGISTER Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans\/where-are-we-collage-artists-a-sense-of-place-at-kolaj-fest-new-orleans-2025\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Elbe-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-4jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16103,"url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/calls-for-artists\/kolaj-fest-new-orleans-2025-call-for-papers-artists-projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":16573,"position":0},"title":"Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025: Call for Artists, Projects, &#038; Papers","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"16 January 2025","format":"gallery","excerpt":"KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS Call for Artists, Projects, & Papers Early Deadline: Sunday, 23 February 2025Final Deadline: Sunday, 16 March 2025 How do you want to manifest at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025? 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