CALL TO ARTISTS
Early Deadline to Apply: Monday, 21 October 2024. A month-long, digital/on-line collage artist residency in November and December 2024. As a part of a year-long investigation of castles as buildings, metaphors, and programs of energy, Kolaj Institute will host a month-long digital artist residency centered on castles and the house they occupy in our modern creativeness. The residency will construct on the work completed by artists in Collage Artist Residency: Scotland and New Orleans the place artists explored feudal fort programs, manor homes, and plantations as buildings, metaphors, and programs of energy. After the Residency, artists might be invited to suggest paintings for inclusion in Kolaj Institute’s Citadel Mission, an exhibition, ebook, and associated applications in 2025-2026 that invite viewers to contemplate how the historical past of castles, colonies, plantations, and firms relate to 1 one other and form the world we reside in in the present day. High of the Cultural Midden Heap by Ric Kasini Kadour considers the outsized function castles play in our historic creativeness. READ MORE
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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 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.