World Collage Day is 8 May 2027
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.
How You Can Get Involved
Organize an Event or Project
We invite artists, art centers, 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.
For artists, planning and hosting a World Collage Day event is an opportunity to build a relationship with institutions in your community. For institutions, World Collage Day is an opportunity to meet artists in your community and to engage with your audience.
The “Guide to Organizing and Submitting a World Collage Day Event” has tips for organizing an event and submitting the event to us. We will announce your event on the WORLD COLLAGE DAY WEBSITE and through our social media.
Deadline to submit events: Sunday, 4 April 2027
Make a Donation
Your donation to Kolaj Institute supports the coordination & promotion of World Collage Day. LEARN MORE
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:
2027 World Collage Day Poster
On World Collage Day 2026, Kolaj Institute Gallery hosted a marathon of collage making. Collage making was hosted at various times throughout the day by New Orleans collage artists Bethanie Mangigian, Jaclyn McCabe, Kira Cahill, Kristen Keeley White, Carol M Lynch, and Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour. In addition to independent collage making, volunteers and people from the community added fragments to a 24”x36” map of the world. Carol M. Lynch finished up the piece, which will be exhibited as part of the “Is This Your Chicken?: New Orleans Collage Artists” in August 2026.
COLLAGE ARTIST
2027 World Collage Day Poster Artist
Each year, Kolaj Magazine selects an artist from the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory to be that year’s World Collage Day Poster Artist. The artist’s artwork appears on the annual poster, in a set of postcards for the event, and on the cover the World Collage Day Special Edition in which they are profiled. We will announce the 2027 World Collage Day Poster Artist in January 2027.
2027 World Collage Day Special Edition
PRINTED PUBLICATION
World Collage Day Special Edition
In honor of World Collage Day, 8 May 2027, Kolaj Magazine will release 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 2027 World Collage Day Poster.
Those who purchase the Special Edition before 8 May 2027 will also receive a World Collage Day 2027 poster and a set of World Collage Day postcards designed by the poster artist.
Note: The World Collage Day 2026 Special Edition is not included in a regular subscription to Kolaj Magazine.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Cut Out Page
Deadline: Sunday, 3 January 2027. Kolaj Magazine seeks artist-designed Cut-Out Pages from current members of the Kolaj Magazine Artist Directory for the 2027 World Collage Day 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. Cut-Out Pages are an expression of one’s art practice, aesthetics, and approach to fragments. People use the Cut-Out Pages to make collage.
Past World Collage Day Events
