⚡️Upcoming Roundtable Discussion- Writer’s Corner at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025⚡️
Friday, 3.15- 4.45pm (CDT), June 27th, 2025,
At: New Orleans Healing Center Suite 250,
2372 St Claude Ave,
New Orleans, LA 70117,
United States.
In addition to the aforementioned symposium, I am delighted to be hosting this roundtable discussion with the great Kirk Read and Erica Trabold.
This informal workshop is a space for those with a writing practice to connect with one another.
Author and collagist Kirk Read (Portland, Oregon, USA) will kick off the space with an exercise centered on visual and word practices. He wrote, “We will explore how these language and visual practices inform each other, how they compete and argue and agree in our minds and hands. Using generative writing experiments, we will create titles, move past stuck places and animate our personal writing. We will use fast collage paste-up to breathe life into our writing practice and quickly tap into the weird parts of our creative landscape.”
In the past year, Erica Trabold (Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) has been using prompts to take her practice to unexpected places. “One collage prompt even resulted in an entire series I wouldn’t have other wise made,” she wrote. “As a writing professor, I assign and use prompts constantly—but I had never explored them in the visual art space.” Trabold will share what she’s learned.
Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland) often uses the cross activation of collage practices and literary mediums to spur on new moments of inspiration and to deepen the experience of both for an audience. He believes in both words and images as seeds which can give rise to each other and that by “changing channels” between these modes of expression we can nurture unexpected and exciting new works. Kelly will invite participants to consider this concept and lead a short playful visualization exercise along these lines to free up the imaginative process.
For more about the Roundtable Discussions at Kolaj Fest 2025 CLICK HERE.
To learn more about about the wondrous Kolaj Fest and to download the festival events program
CLICK HERE.
For more from the Kolaj Institute and Magazine CLICK HERE.
Image: “A Dream of the Awakening Spring” (2020) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly
✂️Upcoming Symposium - Curiosity, Wonder, Joy, & Portals at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025✂️
⚡️Upcoming Symposium- Curiosity, Wonder, Joy, & Portals at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025⚡️
Saturday, 2-3pm (CDT), June 28th, 2025,
At: Cafe Istanbul, 2372 St Claude Ave,
Room 252, New Orleans, LA 70117,
United States.
I am really honored to be presenting research and work on my upcoming Lexicon of Wonder project at Kolaj Fest 2025 as part of a symposium on Curiosity, Joy, Wonder and Portals alongside the amazing Breasia Hayes, Savannah Greene & C.Joi Sanchez.
I have been formulating the Lexicon of Wonder project over the last number of years and it is soon to be completed and released in the form of exhibitions and a publication. The first iteration of the Lexicon of Wonder exhibition will take place at Áras Inis Gluaire later this Summer with details coming soon.
Check out a note below from the organizers about the Symposium and my part in it:
”With its roots and history in the Surreal, collage is a well-built path to exercise curiosity. What happens if I put these two things together? Collage’s ability to bridge time and geography makes it a vehicle to explore new realms. During the Symposium at Kolaj Fest New Orleans, we will hear from Anthony D Kelly, Breasia Hayes, Savannah Green, and C. Joi Sanchez, each who are engaged in projects that explore wonder and joy and how life experiences take one down creative paths.
Anthony D Kelly is an artist, writer, and integrative psychotherapist from Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. “At the beating heart of my art practice are both wonder and play. Collage is a way for me to connect with myself, my community and the world around me,” wrote the artist. “I often hold a concept, word or idea in mind until an image coalesces and presents itself internally. I then sit and begin to sift through materials both digital and analogue for something that resonates.” Kelly will present his project, “Lexicon of Wonder”. He wrote, “Wonder and Awe are complex emotions arising in response to experiences of profound beauty, connection, natural phenomena, or through bearing witness to the incredible capacities, courage or talents of other human beings. They can also arise at times of great personal crisis or fear such as witnessing the raw power of nature at a time of natural disaster.” Kelly will speak about project origins, his ongoing research into the emotional states of wonder and awe, the role poetry plays in the project, and his plans for an exhibition and publication.”
For more about the Symposium itself CLICK HERE.
To learn more about about the wondrous Kolaj Fest and to download the festival events program
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For more from the Kolaj Institute and Magazine CLICK HERE.
Image: “Communications Bananatron” (detail) by Anthony D Kelly
21″x9″; Digital Collage; 2024.
⚡️✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage - Words in Motion: Collage Poetry and Publication: (Panel Discussion& Showcase) on Saturday the 7th of September 2024. ⚡️✂️
⚡️✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage✂️⚡️
Words in Motion: Collage Poetry and Publication:
(Panel Discussion& Showcase) on Saturday the 7th of September 2024.
3.30pm-6pm at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.
F23 AN24
Join us for an exciting panel discussion with Ric Kasini Kadour of the Kolaj Institute with artists Anthony D Kelly and Eve Kimmerling about the vibrant intersection between Collage, Poetry and Publication. As well as a showcase of beautiful collage and poetry books by Red Fox Press.
From 3.30pm: Achill based book makers Red Fox Press will also be in attendance the Linenhall Arts Centre, showcasing a selection from their wonderful array of limited edition handmade books. Their beautiful books have attained global renown and often explore themes of Collage and Visual Poetry.
At 5pm: Publisher, Collage Artist and Community Organiser Ric Kasini Kadour will join us live by satellite to share his insights and perspectives on the book as a place for Collage and Kolaj Magazines approach to publishing. This conversation will take place in the Linenhall theatre space with artists Anthony D Kelly and Eve Kimmerling. Anthony and Eve are both Collage Artists practicing in the west of Ireland and who use poetry and text as integral parts of their visual arts practice.
This promises to be a rich an interesting event exploring the worlds of Collage, Poetry and Publication. See you there!!!
For the live event, booking is encouraged by clicking here.
If you are at distance and don’t want to miss the Panel Discussion at 5pm (GMT) discussion then join the live stream by clicking here.
About the Contributors:
Ric Kasini Kadour:
Ric Kasini Kadour is a writer, artist, publisher, and cultural worker. He was the recipient of a 2020-2021 Curatorial Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His art-making crosses media and includes collage, photography, printmaking, installations, and art product making. Kadour sees ‘zine-making as an extension of his art practice.
His artwork has been exhibited in Georgia, Ireland, Louisiana, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Scotland, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wisconsin and is in private collections in Australia, Canada, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In addition to his art practice, Kadour is the founding editor and publisher of Kolaj Magazine and has written for a number of galleries and his writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Vermont Magazine, Seven Days, Seattle Weekly, Art New England (where he was the former Vermont editor) and many others. He has produced a number of exhibits as a gallerist and curator.
His community organizing efforts have resulted in a number of large scale art events in North America and beyond. In August 2021, Kadour curated an exhibition of international collage artists, “Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream”, as part of Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival in Birr, Co. Offaly. The exhibition received a 2021 National Heritage Award. The exhibition moved to the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee and was part of a book of the same name, published by Kolaj Institute in 2022.
Kadour holds a BA in Comparative Religious Studies from the University of Vermont. Kadour splits his time between Montreal and New Orleans.
To learn more about Ric, visit www.rickasinikadour.com; for Kolaj Magazine, visit www.kolajmagazine.com; and for Kolaj Institute, visit www.kolajinstitute.org.
Red Fox Press:
Operating from a renovated cottage in Dugort on Achill Island, Red Fox Press have received global recognition for their handmade books and have become an integral part of the cultural fabric of the west of Ireland. Artists Francis Van Maele and Antic-Ham have generated a rich and wonderful array of artistic output and a history of supportive collaborative projects with practicing artists worldwide.
For more from Red Fox Press and to peruse their beautiful books visit:
www.redfoxpress.com
Eve Kimmerling:
Eve-Marie Kimmerling is a Group Analyst in private practice based in Co. Mayo in the West of Ireland.
Deeply rooted in her rural West of Ireland context, she was ‘astounded into being’ as a collage artist in a creative response to the often turbulent, fragmented, and disembodied nature of our recent times. While she has over 20 years’ experience working as a therapist, she is relatively new to her art making practice, having started in 2022. As an artist, she sees her collage work as an extension of her group analytic practice. The groups she belongs to and their wider social contexts inform and influence the collages she creates.
Creating her colourful pieces became a way of reflecting on, processing, and expressing themes arising in her work as a group analyst.
To delve further into Eve’s work visit:
https://collage-reverie.com/
Anthony D Kelly:
Anthony D Kelly is a Visual Artist, Writer, and Integrative Psychotherapist. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create hopeful, humorous, and sometimes unnerving and deeply satirical imagery. He is currently based in Castlebar, County Mayo located on Irelands West Coast. He has extensive experience as a Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator.
He is a proactive and experienced member of the Irish Collage Community. He was chosen as the Kolaj Institute’s World Collage Day Artist 2023. He has exhibited across Ireland, Europe and in the U.S.A. and has delivered workshops and lectures at Collagistas Festivals 5 & 6 in Dublin and Brussels.
His work has featured in many publications including Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Creativ Paper, Murze Magazine and Kolaj Magazine.
He has studied Arts Administration, Arts Participation and Global Development, and Humanistic Psychotherapy. Anthony is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for engagement with Social, Political and Global Development issues; and for seeking beyond the known to formulate the new. He is also deeply interested in the creative interplay between literature and visual art, and their roles as meaning making processes and in promoting positive mental health.
🔸🔹🔸 ANNOUNCEMENT - KOLAJ MAGAZINE - COLLAGE ARTIST TRADING CARDS PACK NO: 9 🔸🔹🔸
🔸🔹🔸 KOLAJ MAGAZINE - COLLAGE ARTIST TRADING CARDS PACK NO: 9 🔸🔹🔸
I am delighted to have been asked to participate in Kolaj Magazine’s Collage Artists Trading Cards Pack No:9. Its great to see my piece “Dreaming of a Foolish April” (2020) amongst such beautiful company. I love this idea as the deck is packed full of variety and has introduced me to new artists. It is also an extremely affordable way for people to own a wonderful array of collage art.
From Kolaj Magazine:
”Kasini House Artshop works with the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory to produce curated packs of the Collage Artist Trading Cards. Each card is a full color, 5.5” x 3.5” postcard with rounded corners. An example of an artist’s work is on the front of the card and the artist’s public contact information is on the back. Collage Artist Trading Cards come in packs of 15. You can frame the cards you like as mini-prints; collect and curate your very own exhibition. You can also use the cards for discovering contemporary, fine art collage. We think they are a great way to be introduced to the artwork of collage artists.”
Purchase Your Pack: https://shop.kasinihouseartshop.com/category/trading-cards
🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: WONDERFUL COLLAGE WORKSHOP - Z10.studio, Zachariasza 10/lok. 11, 03-761 Warszawa, Poland🔸
🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: WONDERFUL COLLAGE WORKSHOP🔸🔹🔸
Join Collagista's Anthony D Kelly and Marta Janik in a playful workshop to celebrate World Collage Day 2023, connect with others and explore your own feelings of wonder.
Date: Sunday 14/05/2023
Time: 18.00CEST / 17.00GMT
Venue: Z10.studio, Zachariasza 10/lok. 11, 03-761 Warszawa, Poland
Thank you for hosting: mnustwo
"Wonder is a complex emotion coming from experiences of beauty, connection, natural phenomena, or through being witness to the incredible capacities, courage or talents of other human beings.
It would have been the emotion that Nicolaus Copernicus first felt when he looked up at the night sky and realized that he was small, but connected to everything he saw.
Wonder helps us to connect with each other, to find meaning in the world around us and the art of Collage helps us do the same."
!!!Attention: Booking is advised as places are limited!!!
Cost: 150 złotych a place. Or if you bring someone with you - 125 złotych for a place.
To book contact: contact@martajanik.com
ALMOST FULLY BOOKED
For more of Marta Janik's wonderful work visit.
To find a World Collage Day event near you visit the Kolaj Magazine directory by clicking here.
For more information and the Polish language version please click on the event page here.
🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE EVENT - This Sunday 26th February at 6PM GMT/ 2PM EST🔸🔹🔸
🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE EVENT: Get Ready for World Collage Day 2023🔸
This Sunday 26th February at 7PM GMT/ 2PM EST
In this online event, Ric Kasini Kadour will share the impetus for the day’s creation and its philosophy. We will introduce the 2023 World Collage Day Poster Artist Anthony D Kelly from Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland who will speak about the concept behind the poster and the series of postcards he designed for the day. Kelly and Kadour will be joined by others planning World Collage Day events and activities. Bring your ideas, questions, and thoughts about your own plans for World Collage Day 2023 to share. The Virtual Event is Free & Open to All.
Kelly writes: “There is something inherently beautiful, courageous and profoundly valuable in this creative drive to recompose alienated parts into new, wonderful and unified realities; especially in the face of potential missteps, mistakes and failures,” writes Kelly. “As an act collage invites us to hold a vital middle ground, to navigate juxtapositions, disjunctions, conflicts, contradictions and clashes of context, as we seek to move towards understanding, and the creation of something meaningful and new.”
To download a high-resolution PDF of the poster, find out more about taking part in World Collage Day 2023, or register for the Kolaj Live Online event: https://kolajinstitute.org/worldcollageday/
For more from Kolaj Magazine visit: http://kolajmagazine.com/content/
🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: Selected as World Collage Day Artist 2023 🔸🔹🔸
🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCMENT: Selected as World Collage Day Artist 2023 🔸🔹🔸
WORLD COLLAGE DAY 2023: Saturday May 13th 2023
I am truely thrilled and honoured to have been selected by the Kolaj Institute as the World Collage Day Artist 2023. The Kolaj Institute alongside Kolaj Magazine do massive work in the exploration and expansion of the potential of collage, in promoting of collage as a medium on the international stage, as well as the training of collage artists through residencies and workshops. It was my honour this year to create the World Collage Day Poster (Seen above), Special Edition Magazine Cover and 8 Postcards to celebrate the day.
I will also be talking part in a Kolaj Live Online talk, this Sunday 26th of February AT 7PM-8PM GMT. I will be discussing the work which I created for for World Collage Day 2023 with Ric Kasini Kadour, and we will be hearing from others about the special events they have planned for the day.
Read more from the organisers below:
“World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”
To download a high-resolution PDF of the poster, find out more about World Collage Day 2023, or to register your event visit: https://kolajinstitute.org/worldcollageday/
Register for the upcoming Kolaj Live Online talk on Sunday 26th of February AT 7PM-8PM GMT by clicking here.
Residency: Poetry & Collage hosted by the Kolaj Institute - March 2022
🔸🔹🔸POETRY & COLLAGE RESIDENCY - MARCH 2022🔸🔹🔸
I am absolutely delighted to have been accepted to take part in the Kolaj Intitute's Poetry & Collage Online Residency hosted by the illustrious Kolaj Magazine over the course of March.
If you follow my work you will know that I really enjoy to pair visual work with both poetry and short stories. I am really excited to take part in this programme over the course of March, to meet the other international artists, writers and poets, listen to their perspectives and see their work; and of course to learn new things about the vibrant intersection between the written word and visual art.
The organisers have this to say:
"It says something that in the Poetry Foundation’s Glossary of Poetic Terms, “collage” is one of the few visual art terms they define. Perhaps this is because so many poets have also been collage artists.
This project-driven residency is open to artists and poets. Participants will work together to investigate the intersection of collage and poetry by exploring concepts of 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. Together we will create working definitions and document techniques."
To find out more about the Kolaj Institute and this residency programme click here:
Upcoming Exhibition - Empty Columns are a Place to Dream at Kolaj Live: Knoxville, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - 1st - 7th of November 2021
"Empty Columns are a Place to Dream" as part of Kolaj LIVE Knoxville.
Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee,
U.S.A
November 1-7, 2021
I am absolutely thrilled to hear that the "Empty Columns are a Place to Dream" project, which took place as part of the amazing Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival has won the County Award at the Heritage Week Heritage Council's awards yesterday.
Co-ordinated by Caroline Conway, and curated by Ric Kasini Kadour, It was a real pleasure to take part in this project and a big congratulations to everyone involved.
I'm also blown away by the incredible news that the exhibition will travel to the Knoxville Museum of Art where it will be part of Kolaj LIVE Knoxville, from November 1-7, 2021.
This project featured local and international collage artists and their interpretations of the empty column in Emmet Square which was formerly the site of a statue to the Duke of Cumberland. Infamous for his brutal oppression of a Scottish uprising. The statue itself has long since been felled, leaving an empty void.
The artists in engaging with this curious absence sparked a timely and creative debate about the role of monuments, the values we uphold, the things we choose to forget, and how this is decided.
To find out more about the tremendous Kolaj Live festival in Knoxville visit:
https://www.kolajinstitute.org/kolaj-live-knoxville.html
To visit the "Empty Columns Project Archives" and view the work you can go to: https://emptycolumns.weebly.com/
Magazine Feature - KOLAJ #32 - As part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage'
Magazine Feature - I am delighted that my piece 'A Dream for Transformation and New Growth' has been printed in this season's Issue 32 of Kolaj Magazine. This work was included as part of Rod T. Boyer's excellent article 'Mind The Gap - Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage' pg. 14 -19.
I really enjoyed reading about his proposition that disjunction as opposed to juxtaposition is the real driving force for making meaning throughout both the mediums of haiku and collage.
He eloquently posits that by leaving a disjunctive gap for our readers/viewers to intuit their own connections between elements of a composition, we allow them a fruitful space in which they become active members in creating new meaning from our work.
Intriguing stuff indeed, I certainly ended up saying "Hmmmmmmmmmm . . . Very interesting! " out loud to myself a number of times while reading this article.
To check out Rod T.Boyer's haiku & visual art visit: www.ourthomasart.com
To visit the illustrious Kolaj magazine go to: http://kolajmagazine.com/content/