KOLAJ INSTITUTE NEWS
Artists Tyler Allen (La Marque, Texas, USA); Rashad Ali Muhammad (Clinton, Maryland, USA); Alicia Saadi (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA); Jennella Younger (Brooklyn, New York, USA); and Karin Williams (Socorro, New Mexico, USA) gathered at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 13-17 October 2024 for a week-long artist residency targeted on Plantations as buildings, metaphors, and techniques of energy. On Monday, the artists visited the Whitney and Laura Plantations. On Tuesday, they heard a presentation from Jeanna Penn (Oakland, California, USA) about Reconstruction and the way she incorporates historical past, materials tradition, and archives into her paintings. Penn additionally spoke about up to date artists who use historical past of their paintings. Ric Kasini Kadour introduced a curatorial framework for the bigger Castles challenge to which the artists are invited to contribute paintings. Click on Learn Extra beneath to study these particular person artists. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full colour, print journal, exists to indicate 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.