CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 18 August 2024. As a part of a year-long investigation of castles as buildings, metaphors, and programs of energy, Kolaj Institute will host a week-long artist residency in New Orleans centered on Plantations from 13-17 October 2024. Throughout this residency, collage artists come to New Orleans and discover the historical past of Plantations and discover ways to adapt their artist apply to choose up the unfinished work of historical past and make artwork that contributes to the civic discourse. By way of interactive classes, visits to plantations, and collaborative collage making, artists will discover their course of and apply; current a slideshow of their work; obtain supportive, essential, curatorial suggestions about their concepts; and focus on modern points. After the Residency, artists shall be invited to suggest art work for inclusion in Kolaj Institute’s Citadel Challenge, an exhibition, guide, and associated applications in 2025-2026 that invite viewers to contemplate how the historical past of castles, colonies, plantations, and companies relate to 1 one other and form the world we stay in right this moment. 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 know collage is to reshape one’s considering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.