THE WEEKENDER 17 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
REMINDER: The last Virtual Studio Series before the summer with art therapist Julia Volonts from Art Therapy Lab and the School of Visual Arts NYC will take place Sunday April 27. The theme is: Material as Play - Embracing the Inner Child. This is an online event and free to attend. To sign up, please contact Julia directly. All info below.
Meanwhile, for those enamored with the splicing of the physical and the digital, Mark C. Blanchard's digital blended collages in the Wall Case provide a fresh lens into surrealism. His work promises a "bright, fun, unique, and visionary experience," as per the City of Raleigh, redefining traditional collage through a digital reimagining bursting with color. - Cultural Fusion on Display as Sertoma Arts Center in Raleigh Presents Global Traditions Blended with Modern Innovations - via hoodline
The whole album has been a patchwork and a collage, but nothing here is more of a collage than this one. Perhaps these shifting sounds at the end of the record are called ‘Immigrant Songs’ because each vignette from this seven-minute closer didn’t find a home elsewhere in any of the nine other songs, but they contain some of the most uplifting, carefree and enjoyable minutes on the album. - Deerhoof – ‘Noble and Godlike in Ruin’ album review: a Frankensteinian feat of noise and invention - via Far Out
Borges’ concept of The Aleph—a point containing all other points—offers a conceptual framework for the show. Within these intricate mixed media collages, identity is not singular but infinite: a kaleidoscopic convergence of roles, references, and desires. Venus is not just a goddess; she’s a mother, a diva, a memory, and a mirror. Private gardens and pulsating dance floors become portals where these versions of self coexist. - Maria Yolanda Liebana Returned to Kravets Wehby with ‘The Venus Crusades’, New York - via Art Africa
Noble and Godlike in Ruin, either the noise-rock group’s 19th or 20th album (depending on whether you count the little-heard 1996 curio Dirt Pirate Creed), certainly is. It takes its unusual title from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a source of inspiration. Drummer Greg Saunier describes the album as “our low-budget, DIY Frankenstein: A sensitive, spurned, intelligent, dehumanized creature made out of people.” The record cover, a scraggly collage of the bandmates’ faces, stitched together, reflects the idea: a Deerhoofstein, if you will. - Noble and Godlike in Ruin - via Pitchfork
Kondakov’s work is more than a display of digital mastery — it’s a thoughtful reimagining of how classical art can exist within the rhythms of modern life. His collages blur the lines between past and present, inviting us to see timeless beauty through a contemporary lens. Each composition reveals that the emotions, narratives, and human experiences captured centuries ago still resonate today. With every surreal pairing, Kondakov challenges us to rediscover the poetry in the everyday and to find unexpected harmony in the fusion of eras. - When Centuries Collide: 30 Mesmerizing Blends Of Classical Art In Modern Life By Alexey Kondakov - via Bored Panda
Si elle a besoin de peu de place, c’est surtout parce que, chez elle, tout part du collage. La plupart du temps, il lui suffit d’un cutter, de pages de livres et de magazines dégotées ici et là, découpées et assemblées, isolées et transformées. - Dans les petits papiers d’Éléonore False, artiste qui chatouille l’imaginaire - via Beaux Arts
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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