⚡️✂️KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE: Frankenstein Book Launch - Saturday, December 7, 2024, 6-9PM GMT✂️⚡️

⚡️KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE: Frankenstein Book Launch - Saturday December 7, 2024, 6-9PM GMT⚡️

A cohort of international collage artists worked together to illustrate Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic 19th century novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus with the 21st century reader in mind. Artists created illustrations that connected Shelley's text to contemporary issues. Artists explored the role of science and artificial intelligence, queerness, intersectional identities, narcissism, and modern relationships. Seventy-six illustrations appear in a new publication of the novel and in a folio of twenty-four prints available for purchase and as a traveling exhibition. In this Kolaj LIVE Online, project art director Christopher Kurts will speak about the project and interview artists who contributed to it. "Shelley's timelessness is proven by our ability to use her novel to reflect on our world today," said Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour. "Collage artists, with their unique ability to transcend scale, place, and history, are well-suited to giving us pictures that bring vintage texts into the contemporary moment."

Featured creatures include:
Claire Dannenbaum (Eugene, Oregon, USA); Emily Denlinger (Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA); Suzanne Greenberg (New York, New York, USA); David Edward Johnson (Skaneateles, New York, USA); Marta Janik (Warsaw, Poland); Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland); Maureen Letton (San Francisco, California, USA); Rosie Lewis (York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom); Anissa Malady (San Francisco, California, USA); Rebecca Steiner (Lyme, Connecticut, USA); Jessica TranVo (Boston, Massachusetts, USA); Anthony Naimo (Spruce Pine, North Carolina, USA); Elzbieta Zdunek (Berlin, Germany)

ABOUT KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE

Kolaj LIVE Online is a series of virtual programs in the form of forums, panels, workshops, artist talks, studio visits, and other activities that allow people to come together, learn and talk about collage, and connect in real time to the collage community. Our goal is to bring the community together in a spirit of mutual support and fellowship.Kolaj LIVE Online manifests Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute by bringing together artists, curators, and writers to share ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. Learn more at the SERIES WEBSITE.

ADMISSION TO THIS EVENT IS FREE - REGISTER HERE
To purchase a copy of this magnificent book simply Click Here.

🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE EVENT - Saturday, March 11, 2023, 2PM EST/ 7PM GMT🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸 ANNOUNCEMENT: KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE EVENT🔸🔹🔸

Artists in the Archives: European Collagists' Perspectives on American Archives

Saturday, March 11, 2023, 2PM EST/ 7PM GMT.

Looking forward to speaking during this exciting event this coming Saturday with Marta Janik, Ric Kasini Kadour and others.

Join Us!

More on the project:

"On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Stewart-Swift Research Center, the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History invited an international network of collage artists to engage with historic material in the archive and to create a folio of collage prints that reflect on the idea of community in a 21st century world. Five artists who participated in the project did so from Europe. What did their unique perspective draw from the archive? Artists from Poland, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, and Ukraine will join project curator Ric Kasini Kadour for a conversation about European perspectives on American history and place."

Read more: https://kolajinstitute.org/kolaj-live-online/

You can register for free HERE

Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. Subscribe and get your copy today. http://www.kolajmagazine.com/shop.html

🔸🔹🔸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.

📢✒️ANNOUNCEMENT POETRY X COLLAGE JOURNAL LAUNCH ✒️📢

I am delighted to be invited (did that rhyme?) to present work and poetry that resulted from my recent time spent on the Kolaj Institutes Poetry & Collage Residency. I will be presenting alongside the other artists who took part to celebrate the launch of the new Poetry X Collage Journal publication.

This will be a great event, see details below:

KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE

PoetryxCollage Journal Launch

Thursday, August 11th, 6PM EDT / 11PM GMT

"In January 2022, we issued a call to artists for a Poetry & Collage Residency and received so many excellent responses that we organized a series of three residencies. The artists heard from guest speakers Kevin Sampsell, Renée Reizman, Rod T. Boyer, and the Poetry Foundation's Fred Sasaki and were challenged to create page spreads to be included in a forthcoming book of collage and poetry.

In the residency, 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. Christopher Kurts named it PoetryXCollage and said, “How do you pronounce it? You can say the letter ‘X’ or it can stand for the words ‘and,’ ‘in collaboration with,’ or ‘featuring.’ The X is an intersection, a crossroads, or an equation. X marks the spot.”

Join Kolaj Institute and several of the contributing artists— Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland), Carla E Reyes (Astoria, NY, USA), Cathy Greenhalgh (London, England, United Kingdom), Cheryl Chudyk (Kirkland, WA, USA), Janice McDonald (Denver, CO, USA), Jennifer Roche (Chicago, IL, USA), Samantha Brown (Blackrock, Co. Louth, Ireland), Thomas Mayer (Berlin, Germany)—in a discussion surrounding the residency, their artwork, and the intersection of collage and poetry. Artists will share images of their work and read their poetry. The event is free & open to everyone. Registration is required.

To register for this amazing event click here:

For more from the wonderful Kolaj Institute visit: http://www.kolajinstitute.org/

For more of the work of Anthony D Kelly follow the words: www.freeformtrouble.com

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/