Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans
Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans is an exhibition gallery, residency center, artist studio, library and archive. Located at 2374 Saint Claude Avenue, Suite 230, at the corner with St. Roch Avenue above the Peach Cobbler Factory. The Gallery is open Thursday-Saturday, Noon-6PM or by appointment. Join us on Second Saturday for the Bywater Art Walk from 6-8PM.
VIRTUAL ARTIST RESIDENCY
Call to Artists
Early Deadline to Apply: Monday, 10 November 2025. A four-week, virtual collage artist residency in November and December 2025.
TRASH AS MATERIAL ONLINE FORUM
Kolaj LIVE Online
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 6PM EST
on Zoom.
TRASH AS MATERIAL
Exhibition
at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 25 October-29 November 2025
UPCOMING EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
COLLAGE MAKING & NETWORKING
Collage Artist Meet-Up
Last Tuesdays, 6-8PM CST
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Collage the Tarot
Second Wednesdays, 7-9PM CST
COMMUNITY WORKSHOP
Queer Collage
Saturday, 8 November 2025, 3-5PM CST
CALL TO ARTISTS
Trash as Material Virtual Artist Residency
Early Deadline to Apply: Monday, 10 November 2025.
A four-week, virtual collage artist residency in November and December 2025. In the post-use life of materials, what role do collage artists play? And what happens when collage artists use trash as material? Taking the premise that Trash is not simply a material, but an idea, artists will virtually assemble to explore art made with or about Trash. Themes that have already emerged through Kolaj Institute’s inquiry into this subject have included Trash as Archeology; the role of labor; litter and other street Trash; food waste; the history of sanitation; picking and hoarding; class, race, and questions of social justice; Trash and place; planned obsolescence; e-waste; and how to develop relationships with sources of particular Trash material and then physically process Trash into art materials. In this residency, artists will hear about these themes; about how artists made art about them; and identify new themes.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Kolaj Institute Solo Artist Residency
Submissions are reviewed on an ongoing basis
Kolaj Institute’s solo residencies in New Orleans are designed to provide artists, curators, and writers with dedicated time and space to work on a project. We are open to your ideas. We are looking for artists with an articulated goal for their time in New Orleans. That goal need not to be explicitly related to New Orleans, though priority will be given to those artists whose projects need time in New Orleans. These Solo Residencies are taking place at Kolaj Institute’s home in the New Orleans Healing Center and help further Kolaj Institute’s mission to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, and disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Collage Publishing Workshop
Next Deadline: Sunday, 2 November 2025.
At Kolaj Institute, we see the book, not just the gallery, as a place to experience collage. This sentiment has broad implications for how collage artists work and how their work is received by an art world whose orientation is decidedly fixed on the gallery wall. In this four-week workshop, artists will turn a body of work or a project into a zine, art catalog, monograph, or book. We will explore different models of publishing and types of book projects. We will walk through the steps and support one another as we create publishing projects and prepare to put them out into the world. Participants will present and receive feedback on page spreads. Presentations will speak to issues around copyright and appropriation, getting the book printed, and launching and marketing the book.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Artist Development
Kolaj Institute’s Artist Development Program is a collection of three core workshops for self-motivated artists, at any stage in their career, who want to develop and expand their collage-based artist practice and work towards professional goals, particularly in the areas of exhibitions and publishing.
Our philosophy is that if we bring artists together, explore ideas and concepts, share knowledge, we can stretch and develop as artists. When we bring that knowledge and skill into our communities, we raise the standing of collage and contribute to the civic discourse. To that end, we offer three core artist development workshops that are designed to support artists gain a deeper understanding of their art practice and to develop their practice so that they can achieve their professional and artistic goals.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PoetryXCollage
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing that operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. Artists and writers interested in submitting should prepare 3-5 page spreads for consideration. Page spreads must conform to exact specifications and include a general artist narrative and a short page spread narrative. Submissions are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
NEW PUBLICATION
Frankenstein
This new version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic 19th century novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus features seventy-six illustrations by International Collage Artists who delved into the novel’s rich narrative and visual potential and created thought-provoking artworks that reflect the essence of Frankenstein in a 21st century context.
NEW PUBLICATION
Magic in the Modern World
Taking a broad view of magic and drawing from multiple histories, the book, Magic in the Modern World by Ric Kasini Kadour, proposes a way to think about magic in the 21st century, what it means to communities, and how it negotiates itself in systems of power. Generously illustrated, the book features the artwork of fifteen collage artists and dozens of historical images. The book asks, What role can artists play in nurturing and supporting magic traditions?
NEW PUBLICATION
Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide is a collage. The book combines the text of a Polish human rights activist Martin Mycielski with the artwork of seven collage artists to create a space in which we can think about the rise of authoritarianism and how to navigate the troubling, difficult times in which we find ourselves. Organized as a series of lists, the book illustrates what to expect under authoritarianism and offers rules for surviving authoritarian regimes and engaging their supporters. The introduction traces how the text came into existence and how the artists came together to make collage about it. Ric Kasini Kadour shares historical examples of artists responding to authoritarianism; John Heartfield’s anti-fascist collage and a 1979 exhibition in East Germany that was described as a “victory over false consciousness.” Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide is a testament to the role art can play in our communities.
CURRENT ISSUE
Kolaj #42
Since 2011, Kolaj Magazine has documented, reported on, and explored the amazing artists who make up the international collage community.
Inside Kolaj #42, we present G.E. Vogt’s collage project responding to Project 2025. Valeri Clarke reviews the kaleidoscopic work of American artist Dana Hart-Stone. British collagist Mark Murphy took his animated collage to the Glastonbury Festival. Irish collagist Anthony D Kelly interviews his sometime collaborator, Polish collagist Marta Janik. Karen Hirsch reflects on her mother Elinor’s decades of collage making. We profile Montreal collagist Maria Schamis Turner’s book, The Life & Fashion of Frédérick Le ShoeShoe and review Aqualamb’s survey of thirteen contemporary collage artists, Transformation, with an introduction by Paul Loughney. And so much more, including Artist Portfolios and more artists from the Kolaj Institute’s Curating Collage Workshop curating work from the Institute’s collection.
Our goal with every issue is that Kolaj Magazine is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of contemporary collage in art, culture, and society.
CURRENT ISSUE
PoetryXCollage:
Volume 7
PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world.
Each issue presents six movements of work by artists and curators. Page spreads are meant to be free zones of thinking where the contributor has chosen all elements of the layout: font, image place, composition, etc.
ABOUT KOLAJ INSTITUTE
The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world.
Kolaj Institute works in partnership with Kolaj Magazine to communicate, market, promote, publish, and distribute the work of the Institute. Kolaj Institute is the recipient of Kolaj Magazine‘s archives and collections.
Kolaj Institute is decentralized and works in partnership with a number of art venues and other organizations around the world to manifest its programs.
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