Collage Retreat at Kolaj Institute
Monday, 9 December to Friday, 13 December 2024
At Kolaj Institute, we believe there is great value in artists having dedicated, focused time to work on their artwork while being in community with other artists. To that end, we are hosting a Collage Retreat for artists to come to New Orleans and spend a week working at Kolaj Institute Gallery. We invite artists to work on a series of collage artworks, explore and make art about New Orleans as a place, work on a book project, create a collection of collage poetry, prepare art for an exhibition, or use the time to review, organize, and document one’s art practice.
From 10AM Monday to 4PM Friday, artists will have 24-hour access to the studio space which will be shared with five to seven other artists. Supplies (scissors, cutting knives, mats, and glue) and Materials (books, magazines, and paper) will be provided. Artists are welcome to bring their own supplies, especially if they want to work with specific materials.
After an orientation on Monday morning, artists will meet once a day as a community to discuss goals and progress for the week. On Friday afternoon, artists will make a presentation to the group about what they accomplished and how they hope to build on this work when they return to their own community. Artists will have the option for one-on-one curatorial support with Kolaj Institute's director. A clinic on documenting and imaging artwork will be held on Friday morning. Large format printing is available for an additional fee.
Collage Retreat is intended for those artists working in analog collage whose practice lends itself to working in a shared, communal space.
RETREAT FEES & HOUSING OPTIONS
The fee for the residency is $950 with housing included or $550 without housing.
Artists on Retreat are housed in two off-site locations that are less than a five minute walk to Kolaj Institute Gallery. One site is an enclosed bedroom and shared kitchen and bathroom. One site is a two-bedroom apartment that will be shared with another artist at the Retreat. Artists accepted into the residency will be presented with housing details and the option to select their housing.
Artists are responsible for their travel to and from New Orleans, as well as all meals and any additional artist materials they may require.
Limited financial assistance may be available to offset the retreat fee. Financial assistance is not available to offset the expense of travel or meals. Organizers will support artists as they seek additional funding as needed.
DEADLINE
Space is limited. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The Early Deadline to apply is Sunday, 20 October 2024. The Final Deadline to apply is Friday, 1 November 2024.
Kolaj Institute's Artist Development Program is a collection of three core workshops for self-motivated artists, at any stage in their career, who want to develop and expand their collage-based artist practice and work towards professional goals, particularly in the areas of exhibitions and publishing.
At Kolaj Institute, our philosophy is that if we bring artists together, explore ideas and concepts, share knowledge, we can stretch and develop as artists. When we bring that knowledge and skill into our communities, we raise the standing of collage and contribute to the civic discourse. To that end, we offer three core artist development workshops that are designed to support artists gain a deeper understanding of their art practice and to develop their practice so that they can achieve their professional and artistic goals.
Note: You do not have to commit to all three workshops. Use this form if you are interested in Collage in Practice, Curating Collage, and/or Collage Publishing.
Read the full program details here: https://kolajinstitute.org/artist-development/
PoetryXCollage Open Submission
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing that operates 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.
Each issue presents six movements of work by artists and curators. Page spreads are meant to be free zones of thinking where the contributor has chosen all elements of the layout: font, image place, composition, etc.
Artists and writers interested in submitting should prepare 3-5 page spreads for consideration. Page spreads must conform to exact specifications and include a general artist narrative and a short page spread narrative. We strongly suggest reviewing a copy of PoetryXCollage prior to submitting. We also recommend downloading the PoetryXCollage Specs Doc pdf and reviewing its contents. You can download this Transparent PNG Template to make sure your submission is the correct size and accounts for the bleed and gutter.
Learn more about the PoetryXCollage project on Kolaj Institute's website HERE.
Questions? Send an email.
Virtual Artist Residency: Castles as Buildings, Metaphors & Systems of Power
A month-long, virtual/online collage artist residency in November
Early Deadline to Apply: Thursday, 21 October 2024
Final Deadline to Apply: Monday, 4 November 2024
As part of a year-long investigation of castles as buildings, metaphors, and systems of power, Kolaj Institute will host a month-long virtual artist residency focused on castles and the space they occupy in our contemporary imagination. The residency will build on the work done by artists in Collage Artist Residency: Scotland and New Orleans where artists explored feudal castle systems, manor houses, and plantations as buildings, metaphors, and systems of power.
The idea of castles dates back to the medieval period. Conventionally defined as fortified homes for seats of power, over time the idea of castles has evolved dramatically. Rich in mythology and folklore, castles appear in the 20th and 21st century as palatial estates renowned for their aristocracy and romance, centers of theme parks of the imagination. The idea that a "man's house is his castle" is one of the oldest principles in Anglo-American jurisprudence. The reality of castles is much more complex: Not homes, but villages where complex systems of power dictated rules and etiquette. As models of human organization, castle-like systems can be found in early colonial Americas and plantation culture where the romance of Lord of the Manor and Master of the House falls quickly against the realities of slavery, patriarchy, and class division. In 21st century late-stage capitalism, we see the castle system reproduced in the C-Suites of the corporate class.
In this virtual residency, we will examine 20th century romantic notions of castles in popular media and theme parks. Artists will make artwork that expresses ideas that connect history and folklore to contemporary manifestations of power.
Artists will learn how to develop contemporary art projects and adapt their artist practice to pick up the unfinished work of history and make art that contributes to the civic discourse. Through interactive sessions, artists will explore their process and practice; present a slideshow of their work; receive supportive, critical, curatorial feedback about their ideas; and discuss contemporary issues. The residency will speak to issues of appropriation, copyright, and fair use and explore how the artist’s choice and understanding of material shapes the narrative of the artwork. Additional topics will include understanding one's own artist practice and using history in one's work; collage in theory; what contemporary means and how contemporary art projects operate in the ecosystem of art; how to build context for one's artwork; and making exhibition proposals. Artists will complete the residency with a new perspective on their art practice.
After the Residency, artists will be invited to propose artwork for inclusion in Kolaj Institute’s Castle Project, an exhibition, book, and related programs in 2025-2026 that invite viewers to consider how the history of castles, colonies, plantations, and corporations relate to one another and shape the world we live in today.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
The Virtual Artist Residency: Castles as Buildings, Metaphors, & Systems of Power is centered on collage artists who want to develop their artist practice to include using history and cultural imagery to speak to contemporary issues. Residencies are professional development programs, intended for self-motivated artists, regardless of the stage in their career, who want to explore a topic or working method and collaborate with others. The focused goal of the residency is a proposal for artwork that may be included in a book and exhibition.
COST
The cost of the residency is $500 per artist. Kolaj Institute has a limited number of grants available to offset the cost of the residency for those in need. These grants are possible through the generous support of our donors.
RESIDENCY LOGISTICS
Dates: 24 November to 16 December 2024
SESSION DATES
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 2-4PM EST
Sunday, 2 December 2024, 2-4PM EST
Sunday, 9 December 2024, 2-4PM EST
Sunday, 16 December 2024, 2-4PM EST
The workshop will begin with an invitation to join the Slack workspace on Saturday, 23 November 2024. Introductions and Orientation will take place during our first meeting on Sunday, 24 November 2024, 2-4PM EST.
Artists are expected to attend all scheduled sessions and complete assignments.
QUESTIONS
If you have questions, send an email.
Kolaj Magazine‘s Artist Directory is a tool for organizing and cataloguing artists who work in the medium of collage. Its audience includes the general public as well as independent curators, art venues, and writers.
What Is the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory?
Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory is a membership-based directory and advertising program. The editorial staff of Kolaj Magazine uses the Artist Directory to select artists to feature in the publication and to select artists for various curatorial projects and the Artist Directory exists as a public resource for those interested in collage as a medium and is designed to put interested parties in direct contact with artists. Members of the Artist Directory are permitted and encouraged to refer to their Listing when responding to Calls to Artists as a way of facilitating their response. The Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory is the primary online gateway of the Kolaj Institute Artist Archive and is used to organize online information about artist members. We offer members an option for an Artist Advertisement in the printed magazine.
Sign-Up Options
OPTION 1: ONLINE ONLY
The cost of a 12-month membership to the online Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory is $30.00.
OPTION 2: ONLINE & PRINT EDITION
The print edition of Kolaj Magazine features a directory of collage artists. (see example here) Listings are paid advertisements that feature an image as well as the name; city, state, & country; and website or email of the artist. The listings appear in a box that is 3.7 inches wide and 3 inches tall. After you select and send the images to be featured, Kolaj staff will prepare the listing and send you a digital proof if requested. The cost is $60 per issue (or four issues for $160) and includes a 12-month membership to the online directory.
Sign-Up Process
The registration process will ask you for:
Artist Bio
Artist Statement
3-5 images & captions
Collage Books is Kolaj Magazine’s tool for organizing, documenting, and cataloguing books in which collage plays an important role. Our audience includes readers and collectors of collage books as well as curators, art venues, and writers.
We seek submissions of collage-related titles. We take a broad view of collage books and include trade editions, art criticism, coffee table books, ‘zines, artist books, catalogues, literary endeavours that feature collage.
We accept submissions from traditional publishers, small presses, and individual artists and writers.
Inclusion in the directory is at the discretion of the publisher. If you are interested in advertising in the “Collage Books” section of the print magazine, send us an email for details.
Take a look at some of the Directory pages before submitting so you can see how they are laid out and what information is needed for submission.
Sign-Up Process
The registration process will ask you for:
Title and author information
Publisher information
Book Details
An announcement or press release
3-5 images & captions
Review Copy
If you wish to submit a review copy, you can mail the book to:
CANADA
Kolaj Magazine
c/o Maison Kasini
PO Box 247 Station C
Montreal, Quebec H2L 4K1
UNITED STATES
Kolaj Magazine
c/o Kasini House
PO Box 1025
Burlington, VT 05402
Collage communities are collectives, meet-ups, ongoing collaborative projects, and groups whose focus and mission involves collage as a medium or genre in some way.
The International Directory of Collage Communities is a survey of artist groups who are coming together around collage. The directory exists online as a searchable website. Kolaj Institute publishes a printed directory that features and highlights communities every two years.
By documenting and mapping these communities, Kolaj Institute works to develop a picture of the collage movement: how collage artists are working together, how they are diffusing collage, and what challenges they face mobilizing an art community.
Kolaj Institute invites active collage communities to submit to the directory. The editorial staff of Kolaj Magazine uses the Directory to select communities to feature in the publication and for various curatorial projects.
The primary purpose of database is be a resource to people seeking information about Vermont contemporary art. Its audience includes the general public as well as independent curators, art venues, and writers.
Art presenters use the Artist Database to select artwork for their venues. Artists may also use the database to market, promote, and sell their work.
Kasini House uses the database to select artists for various projects such as artist portfolios in the Vermont Art Guide. Kasini House also uses the database to select artists for Kasini House Art Cards.
Kasini House promotes the Artist Database as a resource to independent curators and writers looking for artists for various projects, particularly those people interested in writing about and curating exhibitions of Vermont contemporary art.
The cost of a 12-month membership to the online Vermont Art Guide Artist Database is $20.00.
SIGN-UP PROCESS
The registration process will ask you for:
Artist Bio
Artist Statement
3-5 images & captions
Kasini House routinely promotes exhibitions in Kolaj Magazine and on its website. The purpose of this tool is to facilitate the submission of exhibition announcements.
Please note, this is optional. You are welcome to submit exhibition announcements and press releases via email.
Email Kolaj Magazine
In order to promote your exhibition, we will need at least one image of artwork in the exhibition and a caption of the artwork. Do not send posters, images of the exhibition postcard, or images with watermarks.
Materials will be reviewed by magazine staff. Please note, submission does not guarantee that we will promote or review an exhibition. You will be contacted for further information, if necessary.
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.
Kolaj Institute's Collage in Motion Directory is a tool for organizing and cataloguing artists who work in the medium of motion collage. Kolaj Institute uses the Directory to curate the Collage in Motion screening that takes place at Kolaj Fest New Orleans. The Directory's audience includes the general public as well as independent curators, art venues, and writers.
The mission of the Directory is to create more visibility, community, and historical understanding of the medium, and to create a future traveling program of screenings and opportunities. We hope to inspire more still image collage artists to explore motion in their work and that we find each other in an increasingly digital world.
Before submitting, take a moment to view a few examples from the Directory so that you can see how your information will be translated to the page.
Poetry & Collage Residency December 2024
A month-long, virtual/online residency with Kolaj Institute in December 2024
Early deadline to apply: Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Final deadline to apply: Wednesday, 13 November 2024
In January 2022, Kolaj Institute issued a call to artists for a Poetry & Collage Residency and received so many excellent responses that we organized a series of three residencies. In the residencies, we challenged artists to move beyond taxonomical debates. Ric Kasini Kadour said, “What is a poem? We do not need to have a singular answer to that question. Individually we must each answer that question for ourselves. In practice, every poem we make will be an example of what a poem is. In considering other people’s work, we should ask ourselves, How is this a poem?” During the residencies, artists interrogated each other’s artwork, collaborated, and shared ideas. And at the end of it, they sent us more page spreads than could fit into a single book. Impressed and moved by the volume and quality of cultural output and a deep belief that this practice, however you want to describe it, at the intersection of collage and poetry deserves a platform, we decided to create a new journal dedicated to it.
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing that operates 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.
After releasing several volumes of the journal and opening an ongoing call for submissions we are returning to this residency program as a way to help artists develop their ideas, explore the intersection of collage and poetry, collaborate and form community, and prepare submissions for the journal. This project-driven residency is open to artists and poets.
Kolaj Institute Coordinator Christopher Kurts will lead the residency and guide artists in collaborative activities, research and discussion, and understanding the technical needs of design and layout necessary to submit page spreads to the PoetryXCollage Journal. Ric Kasini Kadour will talk about artist practice, the book as a place for collage, and how Kolaj Institute works to diffuse collage and poetry. Rod T. Boyer creates art and poetry under the moniker our thomas, exploring themes of redemption, mystery, and transformation. In Kolaj #32, his article, "Mind the Gap," explored how collage and haiku share similar mechanisms of juxtaposition and disjunction. He will speak to these themes during the residency.
In four virtual meetings over the course of the month (see schedule below) and through ongoing, online discussion, artists will leave the residency with a deeper understanding of the intersection of collage and poetry. Individual participants will each be invited to create and submit 3-5 page spreads to the PoetryXCollage Journal.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Collage Artist Residencies are intended for self-motivated artists, at any stage in their career, who want to develop their practice by exploring a topic or working method and collaborating with others to produce a final product. Residencies are open to any artist over the age of 21 from anywhere in the world.
COST
The cost of the residency is $500 per artist. Limited financial aid is available to offset the residency fee. Organizers will support artists as they seek additional funding as needed.
RESIDENCY LOGISTICS
Dates: 2 December 2024 to 2 January 2025
SESSION DATES
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 4-6PM EST
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 4-6PM EST
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 4-6PM EST
Thursday, 2 January 2025, 4-6PM EST
The workshop will begin with an invitation to join the Slack workspace on Monday, December 2nd. Introductions and Orientation will take place during our first meeting on Tuesday, 3 December, 4-6PM EST.
The remaining sessions will take place on the 10th and 17th of December and the 2nd of January, from 4-6PM EST. After the final session, artists will be invited to submit page spreads to the PoetryXCollage Journal.
Artists are expected to attend all scheduled sessions and complete assignments.