SUMMER COLLAGE READING
The curators of the 96-page e book invited artists who use collage of their observe to place ahead a murals that provides a visible narrative that speaks to the unprecedented change unfolding in 2020. An essay by Ric Kasini Kadour displays upon collage’s distinctive capacity to think about new realities. Forty artists from 9 international locations and a number of Indigenous peoples—Salish-Kootenai/Métis-Cree/Sho-Ban, Tlingit/Nisga’a, Oglala/Lakota, and Seneca Nation—supply quite a lot of views. The voices of Black, Latinx, Native, and white People mingle with these from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Canada, France, and Germany. Paintings is accompanied by a press release through which artists describe how they wish to reimagine the world. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new considering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.