THE WEEKENDER 15 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.”
― Henry Miller
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NEWS
Et voilà. The very first print of this year’s International Women’s Day catalogue finally (finally!!!) arrived - test prints always take ages… - and it looks good. Available, as always, on our website.
We take this as an opportunity to remind you that the 2025 Earth Day Open Call is currently ongoing. For a chance to see one of your collages in print, head over to our website for more info. If you just want to participate for the fun of it on Instagram, that’s ok too. It’s an important topic, so spread the word however you like. Think pink. Think big. We need colour in those crazy times, albeit maybe a little less orange and lot more of pretty much anything else!
We think we know what collage is: cutting up some magazines and pretty paper with scissors and gluing it into a new picture. It’s not so simple at “Telepathic Jungle,” a rousingly colorful, bright show of new works using “collage processes” at Skidmore’s Schick Art Gallery. Bring your sunglasses. - Collage art gets a colorful outing in Skidmore's Schick exhibit - via Times Union
A Music Video for Corridor Is a Frenetic Collage of Our Disordered Attention - via Colossal
As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, struggles, and triumphs. BLACK ENTERPRISE has chosen 19 Black women visual artists to honor and recognize their transformative work and re-echo the need for their artistic voices in the broader cultural landscape. - Get A Load Of These Black Women Artists–And Their Artwork - via Black Enterprise
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to the late artist Irwin Kremen’s collage works. This marks the gallery’s third show of Kremen’s work, highlighting the depth and subtlety of his intricate compositions made over the course of 50 years. - via Mutual Art
L’aspect collage remonte, lui, à très loin, certainement au début des années 1960, voire aux années 1950, et mon travail est aujourd’hui une sorte de mélange de tous ces styles et techniques différents. - Frank Bowling : « Exposer ici aujourd’hui signifie tout » - via The Art Newspaper
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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