World Collage Day is 10 May 2025
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”
Read the commentary, “Acts of Hope: World Collage Day 2022” on Kolaj Magazine‘s Website.
KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE
Getting Ready for World Collage Day 2025
Saturday, 1 March 2025 at 4PM EST (1PM PST; 2100 UTC)
World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. In 2025, it is on Saturday, 10 May. In this online event, Ric Kasini Kadour will share the impetus for the day’s creation and its philosophy. We will introduce the 2025 World Collage Day Poster Artist Rosita Schandy from Montevideo, Uruguay, who will speak about the concept behind the poster and the series of postcards she designed for the day. 2020 World Collage Day Poster Artist Emma Anna will join us from Colombia to speak about the events she is planning in Tasmania, Australia. Bring and share your ideas, questions, and thoughts about your own plans for World Collage Day 2025. The virtual event is free. RSVP required.
2025 World Collage Day Poster
COLLAGE ARTIST
2025 World Collage Day Poster Artist
Kolaj Magazine is pleased to announce the 2025 World Collage Day Poster artist is Uruguayan artist Rosita Schandy.
Schandy grew up and currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, enriching herself with the illustrations and drawings she sees in books and those her dad made. Throughout her life, she has explored techniques in a wide array of media. Her creativity took her to paint on canvas and leather, then to decoupage on canvas until she fell prey to the ‘passionate technique’ of analog collage, as she describes it. In June 2024, Schandy debuted a large-scale mural collage as part of her first solo exhibition, “Imaginarium”, which took place at Sala Saez in Montevideo, Uruguay.
The artist wrote, “My collage work is completely manual, I cut from magazines, books or from printed images from the web. I work with bright color backgrounds and glue. For temporary murals displayed at exhibitions, I use a ‘putty’ type of reposition-able adhesive. I enjoy working on very colorful and generally busy pieces depicting fantasy, touches of surrealism and irony, whimsical details. I love to catch the viewer’s curiosity to keep them exploring a piece to discover more in it. In my pieces, such concepts as the feminine shape, ornaments, fantasy and surrealism, intertwine with religious icons, flowers and comic characters in some sort of playful dance, with a touch of protest, sarcasm and balanced ridiculousness.”
The World Collage Day Poster is free for anyone to use. Click the image on the left to download a high-resolution pdf suitable for printing on an 11×17 piece of paper.
How You Can Get Involved
Call to Artists: Cut-Out Page
Deadline: Friday, 28 February 2025 to be considered for the World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition
A Cut-Out Page is a selection of fragments that one can use to make a collage. The feature reflects artists’ styles and approaches to collage making and shows how artists select and organize fragments. People use the Cut-Out Pages to make collage. Go HERE to see some examples.
Kolaj Magazine invites submissions of Cut-Out Pages for an occasional feature in the magazine or for the World Collage Day Special Edition.
Deadline: 28 February 2025 to be considered for the World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition.
Organize an Event or Project
One of the many remarkable things about collage is its ability to extend across borders and barriers and to involve people regardless of skill level. Professional artists at the top of their game sit side by side with members of the general public who are picking up scissors for the first time. This is unique in an art world that often trades on hierarchy and status. The collage community is generous and kind and welcoming. It is one of our greatest strengths. World Collage Day is one day we show the world how we do that.
We encourage everyone thinking about a World Collage Day event or project to take responsibility for educating themselves about the needs of their community. We encourage you to follow guidelines set out by health officials and be mindful that these may evolve and change over time.
If in-person gatherings are safe and possible in your community, we invite artists, art centres, museums, galleries, schools, and communities to celebrate World Collage Day by hosting events and projects that bring communities together. Ideas include collage making meet-ups, docent-led tours of collage in a museum or gallery, activities for kids, slideshows or talks that appreciate collage’s role in contemporary art and art history, exhibitions of collage, and more. Consider a project that manifests the spirit of World Collage Day in a safe and responsible way. This may take the shape of a Window Exhibition, sharing Collage Starter Packs for your neighbors, or organizing an online Collage Happy Hour. To get inspired, check out past events and projects from previous years (see below on this page).
In February 2021, Kolaj LIVE Online hosted a forum, “How-to World Collage Day.” You can watch it HERE. In February 2023, we hosted another Kolaj LIVE Online forum, “Get Ready for World Collage Day 2023.” You can watch it HERE. Both of these videos are great ways to familiarize yourself with the event and learn how other artists have organized events in the past.
Now is the time to plan and whatever you decide to do, we want to hear about it. After you submit your event, we will announce your event on the World Collage Day website and through our social media. We invite people to come together around collage in their own communities and to connect to the world digitally using the hashtag #WorldCollageDay.
Make a Donation
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Spread the Word
You don’t have to wait until the second Saturday in May to use the hashtag #WorldCollageDay. Hop on social media. Post images. Share what you will be doing to celebrate World Collage Day. Contact your local media and let them know about World Collage Day and ask them to cover the event in your area. Follow Kolaj Magazine on Social Media:
2025 World Collage Day Special Edition
MAGAZINE
2025 World Collage Day Special Edition
In honor of World Collage Day, 10 May 2025, Kolaj Magazine is releasing a special edition of the magazine. The Special Edition is full of Cut-Out Pages and stories from inspiring collage artists.The printed magazine also includes an interview with 2025 World Collage Day Poster Artist Rosita Schandy.
Those who purchase the Special Edition before 11 May 2025 will also receive a World Collage Day 2025 poster and a set of World Collage Day postcards designed by the poster artist.
The World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition ships in April 2025.
Note: The World Collage Day 2025 Special Edition is not included in a regular subscription to Kolaj Magazine. It is automatically sent to April members of the Silver Scissors & Golden Glue Members of Kolaj Institute.
Past World Collage Day Events
