THE WEEKENDER 25 | 2025
Collage News & Inspiration
WORDS TO LIVE BY
“You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.”
― Nina Simone
The latest collage news and inspiration!
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NEWS
Join us for the final days of the second edition of the Collage Notes exhibition, ending this Saturday. We invite you to a special event on Friday, June 20th, at 7 PM to celebrate the incredible contributions of over 400 participating artists. This finissage is a chance to connect, socialize, and celebrate creativity within the collage community.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated, and to the global artists who couldn’t be here in person, your work continues to inspire us all. Let’s come together to honor this vibrant art form and each other. We look forward to seeing you there!
Slinger has drawn from constants – her body, nature, landscape – throughout her career, translating the feminine into surreal collages and photographs. - Mystic, feminine and erotic: the power of Penny Slinger’s bodies as landscape - via Wallpaper*
Her work is easy to mistake as pressed flowers, but Imamura entirely invents her pieces on paper: painting petals, stems, and roots; meticulously cutting them out; and then applying them on paper. Creating collages, rather than paintings, and using ghostly, rumpled paper as her canvas, gives her pieces dimension—and intrigue. - Reinventing Nature: Fumi Imamura’s Magical, Entirely Handmade Flower Art - via Gardenista
“A lot of kids think I only make collages,” Hodge tells CultureMap. “And, also, I'm not making collages anymore like that. So, it's like the end of an era. I show where I started with these portraits and real paintings and drawings and how I kind of got into collage. It's a wide range of things I do, not just collage.” - Houston artist bids farewell, for now, with career-spanning new exhibit - via cutluremap
The show will take over the entire museum, spanning three floors and enveloping the viewer in a variety of media and conceptual ways of viewing Blackness. It highlights aesthetic practices, utilizing paintings, collage, glass art, and installation, while looking to celebrate and see the freedom that comes from the unknown. - Get a Peek at the New ‘UNBOUND’ Exhibition Coming to the Museum of African Diaspora - via My Modern Met
All of this year’s Open Call Catalogues are now available for sale on our website. These catalogues are not just collections of incredible art; they’re a snapshot of creativity that will serve as cherished memories for the future—especially when Instagram will have become a thing of the past.
A heartfelt THANK YOU to all the talented artists who participated in our open calls. Your creativity and passion made this journey so much fun! We wish we could have included everyone, but due to the nature of the project, we had to make some tough choices.
You can find the lists of chosen artists on the page of each open call catalogue on our website. Dive in and celebrate the amazing work that has come together this year!
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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