THE WEEKENDER 07 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
― C.S. Lewis
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NEWS
WORKSHOP: The February session of our monthly art therapy virtual studio series, organised as always by Julia Volonts of Art Therapy Lab, in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts New York, will take place on Sunday, February 23rd. To sign up, please send an email to Julia at hello@arttherapy-lab.com. All info below.
COLLAGE ART RETREAT: Travel to the heart of the beautiful Drôme region in the south east of France and immerse yourself in the French country landscape, surrounded by vineyards and lavender fields. Throughout this seven-day art experience, we will focus on letting go of perfection, being in the moment, and trusting the creative process. Our morning workshops are centered around collage techniques, printing your own collage papers, refining your composition skills, and using mixed media to enhance your artwork – all supplies are provided. All information here
WORKSHOP: Join our creative workshop connecting cultural heritage and contemporary issues. Through the art of collage, let's reflect on the media's role in representing women's voices. We will celebrate the progress achieved and acknowledge the challenges ahead, all while exploring materials from museums and archives.
Our collage workshop is an opportunity to engage with cultural heritage, contemporary issues, and personal expression. By creating collages, you'll gain new perspectives on women's roles in media, past and present and contribute to the ongoing narrative of women's voices in society.
This collage workshop will introduce you to a curated selection of materials spanning decades of media evolution and women's history. Give your creativity a go while reflecting on the evolving role of women in the media landscape, from historical archives to today's digital platforms.WHERE:
Espace Canopy, 19 Rue Pajol, 75018 Paris
WHEN:
March 8, 2025 from 2 to 6pmAll information here
Travel, too, was a source of inspiration. In the ’80s, Hood went to Egypt and brought back gorgeous papers she used in her collages, a medium she focused on for the next decade. She also used newspaper clippings, tissue paper, and other ephemera. - Dorothy Hood, a Giant of Texas Abstraction, Gets the Dazzling New York Show She Craved - via Vogue
On a grey February afternoon in London, the Hayward Gallery offers a welcome jolt of colour and shine with two new exhibitions – Mickalene Thomas: All About Love and Linder: Danger Came Smiling. Both shows take on the mainstream depictions of women’s bodies and beauty standards, yet their approaches differ. Thomas, an American artist celebrated for her bedazzled portraits of Black women, brings a high-gloss spectacle to the gallery’s largest space. Linder, the British punk-feminist icon, delivers a career-spanning retrospective steeped in subversive collage. Together, they create a compelling counterpoint – though Linder emerges as the more masterful collagist. - Linder & Mickalene Thomas at the Hayward Gallery - via The Upcoming
"I give the example of making a collage out of old photos. So there, imagine you find a box of photos that are 100 years old. They're out of copyright, nobody owns them, and then you make a two-dimensional collage out of these old photos. [That] collage that would probably be protectable under the Copyright Act, because even though the individual photos aren't protected, what you've done with them is creative and warrants protection," said Judd Lauter, special counsel at Cooley LLP, who worked on the copyright application for Invoke, in an interview. - This Company Got a Copyright for an Image Made Entirely With AI. Here's How - via CNET
While favoring an earthy palette of reds, yellows, oranges, and greens, Ms. Smith made drawings, paintings, sculptures, and collages that had “a sharp political and cultural edge,” as Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott wrote in 2023, but were “also sumptuous and visually enticing.” - Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, whose art centered Native life, dies at 85 - via Boston Globe
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is part of an international tour of this pioneering mixed-media artist’s work, and her first solo show in the UK. Her portraits of black women (Michele Obama, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington; Oprah Winfrey; Condoleezza Rice) combine painting and collage using rhinestones and enamel, seen against psychedelic backgrounds of primary colours. The figures leap out and challenge you with their confidence and power. Like Linder, Thomas’s work has adorned album covers, collaborating with Solange on her EP True, and also fashion runways, as seen at Dior in 2023. - Opening The Year With An Orgasm - via Country & Town House
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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
Our 2025 Workbook is out and available for sale on our website. Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not. The workbook is an optional add-on for those who prefer to work with paper and don’t want to print our images themselves. Like every year, the book is designed so that you can either take it apart or create your collages in the book itself. Week numbers and image sources are on the back of each image, so even if your books falls apart at one point, you will always know what’s what!
And last but not least, have a look at our second Instagram account Paris Collage Collective Unlimited where we showcase collages that have absolutely nothing to do with our weekly creative challenge.
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