⚡️Upcoming Roundtable Discussion- Writer’s Corner at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2025⚡️
Friday, 3.15- 4.45pm (CDT), June 27th, 2025,
At: New Orleans Healing Center Suite 250,
2372 St Claude Ave,
New Orleans, LA 70117,
United States.
In addition to the aforementioned symposium, I am delighted to be hosting this roundtable discussion with the great Kirk Read and Erica Trabold.
This informal workshop is a space for those with a writing practice to connect with one another.
Author and collagist Kirk Read (Portland, Oregon, USA) will kick off the space with an exercise centered on visual and word practices. He wrote, “We will explore how these language and visual practices inform each other, how they compete and argue and agree in our minds and hands. Using generative writing experiments, we will create titles, move past stuck places and animate our personal writing. We will use fast collage paste-up to breathe life into our writing practice and quickly tap into the weird parts of our creative landscape.”
In the past year, Erica Trabold (Lynchburg, Virginia, USA) has been using prompts to take her practice to unexpected places. “One collage prompt even resulted in an entire series I wouldn’t have other wise made,” she wrote. “As a writing professor, I assign and use prompts constantly—but I had never explored them in the visual art space.” Trabold will share what she’s learned.
Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland) often uses the cross activation of collage practices and literary mediums to spur on new moments of inspiration and to deepen the experience of both for an audience. He believes in both words and images as seeds which can give rise to each other and that by “changing channels” between these modes of expression we can nurture unexpected and exciting new works. Kelly will invite participants to consider this concept and lead a short playful visualization exercise along these lines to free up the imaginative process.
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Image: “A Dream of the Awakening Spring” (2020) - Digital Collage - Anthony D Kelly
🔸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/
🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: WONDERFUL COLLAGE WORKSHOP - Z10.studio, Zachariasza 10/lok. 11, 03-761 Warszawa, Poland🔸
🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: WONDERFUL COLLAGE WORKSHOP🔸🔹🔸
Join Collagista's Anthony D Kelly and Marta Janik in a playful workshop to celebrate World Collage Day 2023, connect with others and explore your own feelings of wonder.
Date: Sunday 14/05/2023
Time: 18.00CEST / 17.00GMT
Venue: Z10.studio, Zachariasza 10/lok. 11, 03-761 Warszawa, Poland
Thank you for hosting: mnustwo
"Wonder is a complex emotion coming from experiences of beauty, connection, natural phenomena, or through being witness to the incredible capacities, courage or talents of other human beings.
It would have been the emotion that Nicolaus Copernicus first felt when he looked up at the night sky and realized that he was small, but connected to everything he saw.
Wonder helps us to connect with each other, to find meaning in the world around us and the art of Collage helps us do the same."
!!!Attention: Booking is advised as places are limited!!!
Cost: 150 złotych a place. Or if you bring someone with you - 125 złotych for a place.
To book contact: contact@martajanik.com
ALMOST FULLY BOOKED
For more of Marta Janik's wonderful work visit.
To find a World Collage Day event near you visit the Kolaj Magazine directory by clicking here.
For more information and the Polish language version please click on the event page here.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - MIGRACJE/ MIGRATION COLLAGE WORKSHOPS - Monday 1st August @ 2pm-4pm & Wed 3rd August, @ 2pm- 4pm - The Arts Hub, The Courthouse Yard, Townsend Street, Birr, Co.Offaly.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
MIGRACJE/ MIGRATION COLLAGE WORKSHOPS
I can't wait to return to the town of Birr, County Offaly to take part in the upcoming MIGRACJE/ MIGRATION Exhibition. Not to mention feast on the delicous breakfast pancakes served at the towns wonderful Tin Jug Studio; and but of course to enjoy all of the celebrations taking place for this years fabulous Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival.
This year I am delighted to be delivering two seperate collage workshops alongside the amazing Marta Janik.
WORKSHOP TIMES:
Monday 1st August 2pm-4pm & Wed 3rd, 2pm- 4pm
LOCATION:
The Arts Hub, The Courthouse Yard, Townsend Street, Birr, Co.Offaly.
PRICE:
€10 (Per workshop)
REGISTER:
To register for this event, or any of the other fantastic workshops visit: https://www.birrvintageweek.com/visual-arts-workshops
We warmly invite you to join us in exploring your own responses to timely topic of Migration through the wonderful medium of collage.
We encourage you to bring along any photographs, images, magazines that you would like to work with or include in your collage. We will have additional material but it is always good to use things that are personal to you.
For more of the wonderful work of Marta Janik - Collage blast off to: www.planetmarta.com
(Workshop Image Credit: Anthony D Kelly Visual Art - Freeform Trouble & Marta Janik - Collage collaboration.)
Upcoming Lecture: A Collage Of Consciousness as part of Collagistas #6 @ Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
Every moment of our life, our senses drink in fresh experiences, ideas, perspectives and information about the world around us. Fragments of imagery, sound, taste and feeling are constantly woven together to form the rich fabric of our conscious experience. Each of us is infomed by our culture, our education, our peers, our memories and our own unique creative intelligences in the way we select and sort through information from the wider world.
As we reflect on our lives, we can make sense of what has happened to us, what has gone before and what may happen in future. We look to the vast mllieu of our past experience to provide us with a map of the world and how to operate in it. But we also do something else. . .
In our dreams, our daydreams and through intentional creative practices, our minds bend, collide, break, smash, blend, meld, forge and integrate together previously unrelated elements of thought, sound, memory, sight, concepts etc. Into new, unique and fantastic forms. We are never satisfied our old map, continously adding new and colourful territories. A synthesis of old forms into new, an innate creative drive which is elegently reflected in the process of Collage.
The skilled collage artist follows his/her own intuitive and aesthetic sense, selecting imagery, cutting, tearing, placing, playing, dicing, splicing and bracing. Filtering the infinite possible array of visual and textual source material through their own unique experiences of living in this world, with its triumphs and trials; andproducing in the end something new, a singular reflection on the times in which we live.
Join artist Anthony D Kelly for a lecture exploring The Collage of Consciousness:
Sunday 8th September 2019
11.00-11.30
Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Saint-Gillis, Brussels, Belgium
As part of Collagistas #6
Upcoming Workshop- The Unkindest Cust: The Revolutionary Politics of Collage @ Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin - Sunday 16th September 2018 at 3pm
*UPCOMING WORKSHOP*
The Unkindest Cut - The Revolutionary Politics of Collage
Presented By: Anthony D Kelly
Date: Sunday 16th : Time: September 15.00 - 17.00
Venue: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland
As part of: Collagistas Festival #5
Collage by its very nature is a medium that is uniquely placed to reflect, distort and even clarify social and political issues by virtue of its appropriation and reorganization of mass media imagery. Throughout the process of selecting imagery, cutting, placement and following his/her own intuitive and aesthetic sense to a satisfying composition, a skilled collage artist manages to pull in many various sources of digital and printed media. When the blades come out, the artist filters this vast array of visual and textual source material through their experiences of living in this world with its triumphs and trials, producing in the end a singular reflection on the times in which we live. Join artist Anthony D Kelly for a presentation and discussion on The Politics of Collage, Satire and Global Citizenship at the end of the discussion he will hold a One Hour Collage Salon in which he will invite participants to sit, work and discuss these themes with each other while making collage.
(If you want to participate send an email to collagistas@gmail.com)
Anthony D Kelly is a Freelance Illustrator, Writer and Visual Arts Practitioner. He currently bases his practice in Castlebar, County Mayo located on Irelands West Coast.He has extensive experience as a Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator from his time at Basement Project Space an artist led initiative which was based in Cork City, Ireland. The aim of this initiative was to generate an exhibition/project space independent of established institutions, to provide development opportunities for emerging artists and to encourage cutting edge experimental practice across a broad range of disciplines.
He has studied both Arts Administration and Arts Participation and Global Development and he is currently training in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy. Anthony is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for engagement with Social, Political and Global Development issues. He works mainly with Illustration, Collage and Assemblage techniques to create humorous, unnerving and deeply satirical imagery"