⚡️✂️KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE: Frankenstein Book Launch - Saturday, December 7, 2024, 6-9PM GMT✂️⚡️

⚡️KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE: Frankenstein Book Launch - Saturday December 7, 2024, 6-9PM GMT⚡️

A cohort of international collage artists worked together to illustrate Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic 19th century novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus with the 21st century reader in mind. Artists created illustrations that connected Shelley's text to contemporary issues. Artists explored the role of science and artificial intelligence, queerness, intersectional identities, narcissism, and modern relationships. Seventy-six illustrations appear in a new publication of the novel and in a folio of twenty-four prints available for purchase and as a traveling exhibition. In this Kolaj LIVE Online, project art director Christopher Kurts will speak about the project and interview artists who contributed to it. "Shelley's timelessness is proven by our ability to use her novel to reflect on our world today," said Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour. "Collage artists, with their unique ability to transcend scale, place, and history, are well-suited to giving us pictures that bring vintage texts into the contemporary moment."

Featured creatures include:
Claire Dannenbaum (Eugene, Oregon, USA); Emily Denlinger (Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA); Suzanne Greenberg (New York, New York, USA); David Edward Johnson (Skaneateles, New York, USA); Marta Janik (Warsaw, Poland); Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland); Maureen Letton (San Francisco, California, USA); Rosie Lewis (York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom); Anissa Malady (San Francisco, California, USA); Rebecca Steiner (Lyme, Connecticut, USA); Jessica TranVo (Boston, Massachusetts, USA); Anthony Naimo (Spruce Pine, North Carolina, USA); Elzbieta Zdunek (Berlin, Germany)

ABOUT KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE

Kolaj LIVE Online is a series of virtual programs in the form of forums, panels, workshops, artist talks, studio visits, and other activities that allow people to come together, learn and talk about collage, and connect in real time to the collage community. Our goal is to bring the community together in a spirit of mutual support and fellowship.Kolaj LIVE Online manifests Kolaj Magazine and Kolaj Institute by bringing together artists, curators, and writers to share ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. Learn more at the SERIES WEBSITE.

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🔸🔹🔸 COLLAGE & ILLUSTRATION: FRANKENSTIEN RESIDENCY - AUGUST - OCTOBER 2023🔸🔹🔸

🔸🔹🔸 COLLAGE & ILLUSTRATION: FRANKENSTEIN RESIDENCY - AUGUST - OCTOBER 2023🔸🔹🔸

I am absolutely delighted to have been accepted to take part in the Kolaj Intitute's Collage & Illustration Residency which is focused on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and hosted by the illustrious Kolaj Institute over the course of August - October 2023.

If you follow my work you may have had the dire misfortune of witnessing the frightening annual Rare Monster Sighting reports posted every October, and will know that I am very interested in the intersection between visual art, poetry and literature, and how these different creative practices can act as engines to spur each other on. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been a joy to research and is so much more than a gothic horror novel. The novel itself is a poigniant reflection on the danger of humanities efforts to subjugate nature through science and technology; but also on loss, abandonment, alienation, loneliness and at times the restorative power of relationship. Its a novel of great depth and as we have started to share our ideas on the residency new perspectives and nuances arise.
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The organisers have this to say:
"During the Collage & Illustration Residency – Frankenstein, artists will work to visually interpret Mary Shelley’s 1818 proto-science fiction novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. As part of Kolaj Institute’s ongoing Collage & Illustration project, this virtual residency aims to explore the themes of creation, identity, and the boundaries of human imagination through the captivating mediums of collage and illustration. Kolaj Institute will publish Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus using the illustrations made during the residency as a way of bringing this important, historical book and the themes it raises to 21st century readers. A selection of artwork will be exhibited at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans. "

To find out more about the Kolaj Institute and their residency programmes visit: https://kolajmagazine.com/content/institute/collage-illustration-frankenstein/

🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: TALKING COLLAGE ONLINE TALK & WORKSHOP - Kindly hosted by The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.🔸

🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: TALKING COLLAGE ONLINE TALK & WORKSHOP🔸

Join us for an engaging, online discussion on all things collage. We will hear from Artists Valerie Asiimwe Amani and Anthony D. Kelly on what attracts them to the medium. The artists also invite you to have collage materials to hand if you would like to create something small during the event. This promises to be a playful and enriching experience in the presence of two incredibly talented artists! 

Date: Wednesday 17/05/2023
Time: 19.00GMT
Venue: (ONLINE EVENT) Kindly hosted by The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland, F23 AN24.
Adm: €3
For booking click here or call: (+353) 094 9023733

More on the Artists:
”Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice interrogates the ways in which body erotics, language, place and perceived reality are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community. She has exhibited internationally including group shows in Lagos, Paris, Cape Town and Leipzig with recent shows being a solo performance at South London Gallery in collaboration with the Roberts Institute of Art as well as a solo exhibition at Alliance Française, Dar es Salaam. Amani holds a MFA from The Ruskin School of Art and is the recipient of the 2021 Ashmolean Museum Vivien Leigh Prize for a work on paper. She is a winner for the 2022 Ingram Art Prize and received commendation for the 2022 Dentons Award. She was The Linenhall Arts Centre International Artist-in-Residence 2022. She has been featured in Art Monthly, Hyperallergic and BBC amongst others. Amani has given various talks on Art and Activism including SOAS, University of London with The Royal African society. She is also an art writer focusing on emerging African artists, on Emergent Art Space.”

”Anthony D. Kelly is based in Castlebar, County Mayo. He is an illustrator, writer, visual artist and integrative psychotherapist. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create hopeful, humorous, and sometimes unnerving and deeply satirical imagery.

He is an active and experienced member of the Irish Collage Community and was recently nomitated as the World Collage Day poster artist 2023. He has exhibited across Ireland, Europe and in the U.S.A. and has delivered workshops and lectures at Collagistas Festivals 5 & 6 in Dublin and Brussels. His work has featured in many publications including Art Reveal, Creativ Paper, Murze Magazine, Kolaj Magazine and the recently released ‘Empty Columns are a Place to Dream' book from the Kolaj Institute and Kasini House.”

For more of the amazing work of Valerie Asiimwe Amani visit: https://www.valerieamani.com
For more from the Linenhall Art Center simply visit: http://www.thelinenhall.com/