THE WEEKENDER 13 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Creativity is a magic wand that works two ways. When you set it in action and seek to create something, it does not just brings into existence that object or work, it also raises in your heart a dream, a hope, and a will to achieve that creation. And when all else seems lost and steeped in hopelessness, the magic of creativity can still keep you going. For when all else seem dark, an urge to create something would still give you an aim to look forward to. And if you just take hold of this urge, it will take hold of you and see you through even the darkest times. Like it did to me.”
― Jyoti Arora
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NEWS
Welcome to the 5th edition of our Earth Day Open Call. In the tradition of choosing a specific colour each year, in 2025 PCC wants to turn its Instagram feed pink.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a collage or mixed media piece dealing with, in the broadest sense possible, environmental issues, climate change, endangered species and pollution.Earth Day is on April 22nd. The open call will remain open until May 6th though, to give you the usual six weeks to participate and us a couple of weeks to share your work.
Like last year, there will be a printed edition at the end of this open call. There are no participation fees to join (and before you ask, you can submit as many pieces as you want) but there will be no free copies at the end either. Please keep this in mind. All information here
In her latest book published by Workshop Arts, I Still Speak Southern In My Head, Nancy Richards Farese creates collages that incorporate threads, beads, buttons and cloth with family archive images and recent photographs to create a complex visual memoir in which Farese reexamines her childhood growing up in the South in the 60s. - Workshop Arts : Nancy Richards Farese : I Still Speak Southern In My Head - via The Eye of Photography
Photography, both analog and digital, is the medium with which I most frequently work. I also like working with pastels, despite how messy they are. Sometimes I even combine photography with pastels. Another related material I work with frequently is collage, again, both analog and digital. I’m an artist who appreciates crossovers between mediums; I think the results are greater than the sum of individual parts. This is as true between photography and drawing as between collage and video. - A View From the Easel - via Hyperallergic
Baltimore Beat is publishing photos from participants in Wide Angle Youth Media, which offers media arts education and amplifies the voices of Baltimore youth. These collages were created by students in Wide Angle’s high school illustration class, led by artist Beth Holladay. About the Project: Students explored contemporary collage artists and used their techniques to develop personally meaningful illustrations. They experimented with various materials and methods to create unique, layered compositions. - Photostory: Wide Angle Youth Media Contemporary Collages - via Baltimore Beat
In Finland, Smith’s work grew in ambition and scale. As he told Black Art, “it was the first time in my life that I felt a real, free man.” By the mid-1960s, Smith had expanded his material range. “He’s creating textile assemblages and textile collages and found-textile collages,” says Wolf. “You see his fluidity in media and his willingness to not be confined by the traditional categories of art making.” An untitled appliqué piece from around 1968 shows a black hand wiping away the tear of a birdlike creature rendered in green—it’s a poignant, unusual composition. - The CIA and the Collagist - via Alta
PCC
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
Estoy deseando crear mi obra para la Convocatoria del Día de la Tierra.