THE WEEKENDER 20 | 2024
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.”
― Jonah Lehrer
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
Collage workshop by regular PCC participant mekbo-art in Hamburg. All info below!
Scissors-glue-paper: Collage-Workshop - In the collage workshop, we will spend a creative afternoon together and immerse ourselves in the world of collage. We will create new worlds on/from paper and introduce a few collage techniques. Grab your old magazines and photos and get tearing, snipping and gluing! The workshop takes place on the occasion of World Collage Day (11.5.2024) and no previous knowledge is required.
COLLAGE - O - RAMA - Collage-O-Rama is a celebration of our compulsion to cut, rip, tear, glue, mashup, and remix. Activities include an exhibition of 1000+ pieces of collage art from Special Agent Collage Collective, almost 40 hours of workshops, and free opportunities for anyone to drop-in and create collages with all tools and materials provided. May 10 - June 9, Seattle - All info here
CUT IT OUT - our last virtual collage-as-therapy workshop before the summer - hosted by Julia Volonts, founder of Art Therapy Lab - will be on Sunday, May 26th. It’s as always free to attend. All info below!
Tschabalala Self regards herself primarily as a painter, although her works can also be seen as collages. In addition to painting with various pigments Self incorporates textiles, threads and printmaking in her works. She uses recycled materials and often draws details with a sewing machine. Her life-size sculptures are like three-dimensional paintings that form narrative scenes together with the works the on walls. - Tschabalala Self Goes "Around the Way" @ EMMA in Finland - via Juxtapoz
Forrest is also a collector of objects, ideas and words, in order to create two dimensional and three-dimensional collages, paintings and sculpture, or what she calls visual poetry. But, the multifaceted artist is also trying to convey a story or feeling to the audience. Last year she and her friend and fellow artist Amy Walsh-Harris started an art crawl in Paris, Ontario, which was a huge success. - Mixed-media artist prepares for June exhibition in qathet - via PEAK
The Hyde Park Art Center is staging “The United Colors of Robert Earl Paige,” the largest exhibition to date of Paige’s work, through Oct. 27. Beyond fabrics, it spans clay, textiles, collage and paintings on walls and floors. To Paige, everything has the potential to be art, from a tiny scrap of cardboard to tree bark.
Paige recently sat down with WBEZ’s “The Rundown” podcast to talk about his path to becoming an artist, his advice for young creatives and why he still looks for beauty everywhere. - Chicago artist Robert Earl Paige is 'in pursuit of beauty' - via Chicago Sun Times
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 2024 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 and/or submit to our ‘other’ 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