Hello and welcome to the latest Weekender.
A lot of new people have joined our weekly challenge and signed up for our newsletter since the beginning of the year, so we wanted to take this opportunity to welcome you all and answer some of your most common questions (everyone who's been with us for a while, feel free to skip directly to the news section ;)
No, you don't have to do every weekly challenge. You also don't have to do them in any particular order if you have the Workbook. But please keep in mind that we always only share the current week's submissions in our Instagram stories and on our feed, so if you post your collages out of order, we might miss them.
Yes, you can print colour images in black and white (or black and white images in colour). Anything goes.
No, we don't prefer analog over digital or vice versa. Again, anything goes.
Yes, you can use different techniques or materials or even paint or draw the original image as part of your work. You may notice a theme here... anything goes.
And No, you don't need to use the whole image or even a recognizable part of the image. You got it... anything goes ;)
And now as always and without further ado, the latest collage news and inspiration. Enjoy!
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EXPO/ARTICLE: London-based Icelandic artist Kristjana S. Williams has branched out into a new medium as she launches her first new NFT collection, Head in The Clouds, which is currently on display in the artist's pop-store in Carnaby Street - Collage artist Kristjana S. Williams shakes up the medium with her new auto-generated collection - via Creative Boom
ARTICLE: From Tommy, Dickens picked up a lifetime habit of visiting rubbish tips and streets for objects to incorporate into her collage art. From her grandmother, a small Aboriginal woman named Myrtle, she got life advice, such as telling people she was Italian if asked about her complexion - Karla Dickens’ art of survival: ‘I was either going to jail or end up dead’ - via The Guardian
EXPO: Morton Fine Art is pleased to announce Creating a New Whole, a group exhibition of collage artwork by Michael Andrew Booker, Lizette Chirrime, GA Gardner, Hiromitsu Kuroo, Lisa Myers Bulmash, Amber Robles-Gordon and Prina Shah. Ranging in techniques, approaches and materials—from quilting, tapestry, fabric, paint and appropriated - CREATING A NEW WHOLE - via artnet
ARTICLE: A primal, glitter-fueled scream was unleashed with Cyclona, giving birth to generations of queer Chicano performers - The Founding Mother of Southern California’s Chicano Drag Scene - via Hyperallergic
EXPO: The exhibition Paris et nulle part ailleurs (Paris and Nowhere Else) immerses the public in the years of post-war tumult that saw the emergence of new artistic visions, in the fields of abstraction, figuration and kinetic art, between 1945 and 1972 - until January 22, 2023 at Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration here in Paris - with collage work by Dado, Erró, Daniel Spoerri and others
EXPO: Bill Miller creates his landscapes and domestic scenes using linoleum lifted from long-abandoned households. In a collage style akin to Romare Bearden or Hannah Höch, Miller weaves together gentle scenes of blue-collar life - Your Concise New York Art Guide for January 2023 - via Hyperallergic
ARTICLE: As part of “Black to Black,” a special supplement guest-edited by Roxane Gay for the Winter 2022 issue of the Quarterly, Ladi’Sasha Jones looks at the work of Black women artists who utilize archives - Commemorative Acts: Ladi’Sasha Jones - via Gagosia Quarterly
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