Hello and welcome to the very first Weekender of 2023!
We hope all of you have recovered from the festive season and that your year started with peace, love and sunshine. Here at PCC, life is back to normal. We managed to sort our website issues just in time for the end of last year. The website and our email accounts have been running normally again since the 31st of December. Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
We are also happy to AGAIN announce the finalists of our Open Call in collaboration with PARIS ANIM’ Centre Rachid Taha. After last week's newletter and two separate announcements on Instagram you can now also find all collages neatly presented on our website by clicking here.
And now as always and without further ado, the latest collage news, webinars, workshops and inspiration.
Enjoy!
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WEBINAR: Thinking of place as an archive is fertile terrain for collage artists who seek to incorporate a sense of place into their practice. Panelists at a Sheldon Museum webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 11, at 7 p.m. will present artwork and discuss what it means to explore a place through the collage artist lens - ARTISTS IN THE ARCHIVES: COLLAGE & PLACE AS ARCHIVE - via Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
WORKSHOP: SELF -ACCEPTANCE: NEW YEAR, SAME YOU - our first bi-monthly art therapy workshops of 2023 - in collaboration with art therapist Julia Volonts and Art Therapy Lab. The workshop will take place on January 15th, 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET and is free to attend. To sign up, please email Julia at hello@arttherapy-lab.com
ARTICLE: Collage art is such an easily accessible but powerful medium. I’ve been inspired by working with fellow Black artists Kemi Craig and Jeffery Ellom, and the art that came out of the dream technology show I curated earlier last year at FLUX Media Art Gallery. My piece through my father’s eyes (currently featured in the group show The Stories We Belong To) uses weaving as a collage technique to refigure some of my own photography and explore identity, context, and perspective. Joshua Ngenda - via Akimbo
EXPO: A collage exhibit illustrating the beauty of complex systems like social networks, cities, the human brain, and even the entire universe is coming to the ACT Art Gallery - Collage exhibit on complex systems coming to Maple Ridge art gallery - via Maple Ridge News
EXPO: Petra Zehner at Centre Anim’ Rachid Taha in Paris: January 3 -28, 2023 - vernissage Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7pm
As always a little reminder: our weekly creative challenge prompts remain free to download and the challenges themselves open for everyone to join, but if you prefer to work with paper, our 2023 Workbook is out and available here
And last but not least, a selection of challenge submissions from last week is up on our website and can be seen here, the image prompt for next week is available to download here
If you have any news about exhibitions, publications or events you want so share with the community, please send an email with all relevant information and at least one link to a website or venue to: hello@pariscollagecollective.com
THE WEEKENDER 01 | 2023
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