CALL TO ARTISTS
Closing Deadline to Apply: Monday, 4 November 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 methods 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 executed by artists in Collage Artist Residency: Scotland and New Orleans the place artists explored feudal fort methods, manor homes, and plantations as buildings, metaphors, and methods of energy. After the Residency, artists will probably be invited to suggest paintings for inclusion in Kolaj Institute’s Fortress Undertaking, an exhibition, ebook, and associated packages 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 right now. Kelly Moran’s woven collage, Enjoying the Sport, invite us to contemplate what queer life might have been like. She accomplished this collage as a part of Collage Artist Residency: Scotland in September 2024. READ MORE
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, 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 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.