COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Saturday, October 26, 10AM to Midday | $50 for one or $75 for 2
Kolaj Institute is all about collage, collage, collage. However when Taylor Swift signed her endorsement of Kamala Harris as “Childless Cat Woman” we have been reminded simply how a lot we like cats. (I imply, we did put a cat collage by Matt McCarthy on the duvet of Kolaj #37.) With Taylor Swift coming to New Orleans for 3 live shows, we thought it could be enjoyable to host a Cat Collage Workshop in honor of Meredith Gray, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button (her cats).
We invite you to hitch us at Kolaj Institute Gallery for a morning of collaging with cats. All provides are supplied. Kolaj Institute has a wide range of provides, together with magazines, books, ephemera, substrates, X-acto knives, and naturally, scissors and glue. Attendees are welcome to carry their very own supplies or initiatives to work on. Donations of supplies are all the time appreciated.
For these new to collage, we are going to present instruction to get began. Contributors will depart the workshop with an 10″x8″ collage they will take residence with them.
This workshop is for ages 12 and up, however these beneath 18 should be accompanied by an grownup.
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, 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 pondering. To know collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.