⚡️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
💥✂️UPCOMING COLLAGE FESTIVAL: Intentional Selection at The Linenhall Arts Centre- Running from Saturday June 8th – September 6th 2024 ✂️💥
Opening Reception: Saturday 8th June at 5pm.
Runs: June 8th – September 6th 2024
The Linenhall Arts Centre, Linenhall Street, Castlebar, Ireland, F23 AN24
I am absolutely thrilled to announce the upcoming “Intentional Selection” Collage festival launching at the Linenhall Arts Centre next Saturday the 8th of June and running right until the end of Summer.
This festival will feature an exhibition of over 30 of the best collage artists practicing in Ireland today. A series of workshops catering to a wide variety of audiences, a screening of collage animation, a panel discussion and regular monthly meetings of the Connacht Collage Collective hosted at the Linenhall.
We invite you throughout this Summer to engage with the medium of collage and to join us as a welcome participant in all that this vibrant and exciting medium has to offer.
Full Programme Coming Soon.
From Anthony D Kelly:
“Collage has a rich history spanning from the advent of paper making in China in approximately 100AD; through being considered as a form relief sculpture during the renaissance period due to its layering and depth; being utilized as a foundational Cubist, Surrealist and Dadaist technique during the early twentieth century, featuring in the later Pop Art and Fluxus movements; to becoming the vibrant, versatile and engaging contemporary art practice that it is today.
To honour the versatility of this medium the Intentional Selection Festival has no unifying theme, but instead offers the audience an introduction to the range and possibility of collage as it is being practiced in Ireland today.“
Featured Artists:
Adrian & Shane, Adrienne Geoghegan, Alan Murphy, Aleksandra Schulte, Anthony D Kelly,
Aoife Carroll, Betty Gannon, Carol White, Cas Mc Carthy, Celina Buckley
Cheryl Murphy Kelly, Clare Walsh, Ciara O Connor, Colin Eaton, David Ryan, Derval Dunford
Eleanor Jones, Eve Kimmerling, Frantic Sally, Gavin Mc Crea, GUBU Man
Izabela Szczutkowska, Kate Hodmon, Mags Duffy, Micheal Mc Laughlin, Michelle Granville, Padraig Spillane, Paul Mac Cormaic, Red Fox Press, Ruby Staunton, Sarah Deane, Silvio Severino,
Sorcha Mc Namara, Tatyana Feeney, Tom Doig, Una Gildea, Valerie Asiimwe Amani.
Working hard behind the scenes have been the curatorial panel of:
Anthony D Kelly, Silvio Severino, Una Gildea.
Special thanks to the Linenhall Art Centre, Deirdre Melvin & Mayo Arts Office.
For more from the Linenhall Arts Centre Click Here.
🔸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.
🔸🔹🔸ANNOUNCEMENT: Accepted onto the Minding Creative Minds Mentorship Programme🔸🔹🔸
🔸🔹🔸Accepted onto the Minding Creative Minds Mentorship Programme🔸🔹🔸
I am really excited to have been accepted onto the Minding Creative Minds mentorship programme. While I have yet to be assigned a mentor I have been availing of their amazing workshop series these last few weeks. So far we have covered topics such as Personal Branding, Social Media for Creatives, Applying for Funding and Opportunities, and a three part workshop on Developing a Positive Mindset in your Practice.
I want to give them a big shout out as they are wonderful organisation to have available to the creative sector in Ireland.
Minding Creative Minds provide many free strands of support to those working within the Irish Creative Sector . You dont have to be a mentee on the programme to access these supports. They provide a Dedicated 24/7 Helpline in association with Spectrum Life giving access to an experienced team of trained counsellors and psychotherapists who can offer medium-term intervention and advice covering practical, day-to-day issues that cause anxiety and stress. (Up to 12 free sessions).
Contact:
ROI: 1800 814 244
NI/UK: 0800 0903677
International: +353 1 518 0277
Or Text/WhatsApp “Hi” to 087 369 0010
(when you receive a response please mention “Minding Creative Minds” or that you are in contact from the Creative Sector) You can call them or chat via text/Whatsapp on the numbers above. Or you can access their web portal.
Minding Creative Minds also provide other free forms of support and encourage the use of these great services:
Legal Assistance – Consultation with Irish solicitors, including those specialised in family law matters and property conveyancing.
Financial Assistance & Consumer Assistance – Consultation with qualified financial advisors who can offer advice on household budgeting, borrowing/debt management, retirement planning, saving & investments.
Career Guidance & Life Coaching – Access a panel of career coach specialists for career guidance.
Support for non-Irish nationals & their families – helping to make the transition into the Irish system as smooth as possible.
What a fantastic organisation and if you would like to find out more about their supports and mentorship programmes simply visit: https://mindingcreativeminds.ie/
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - MONSTER WORKSHOP- Saturday 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30- The Parochial Hall, Cappoquin,Co.Waterford, Ireland, P51 VY40 - At New Reality: Contemporary Collage in Ireland.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
MONSTER COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Cappoquin! Get your monster hunting hats on!!!
You are invited to join me in this swashbuckling, hair raising opportunity to explore with humour, the topics of fear, monsters and the healing power of storytelling, through the rich medium of collage.
I will be demonstrating the three basic types of monsters “The Ghostees”, “Giants/Miniatures” and “Chimeras”. I will then invite you the dazzlingly courageous participants to generate “Monster Reports” of your own. Join me if you dare!!!
To visit the Rare Monster Archives simply click here.
WORKSHOP TIME:
Saturday the 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30
LOCATION:
The Parochial Hall, Cappoquin, Co.Waterford, Ireland, P51 VY40
PRICE:
€7.50
REGISTER:
!!!Booking essential as places are limited!!!
To register for this event call 087 2187962 or through Eventbrite by clicking here.
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I also highly recommend the “Lets Dance” workshop hosted by the amazing Una Gildea & Marta Janik. During this fun workshop you will be invited create a collage inspired by your favourite dance moves!
Sat, 10 September 2022 between 12:00 – 14:00
To register for this event call 087 2187962 or through Eventbrite by clicking here.
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For the other amazing workshops "Cut it Out" with Alan Murphy & Tatyana Feeney Come along and have some fun creating your own collage at 10am 11.30am . Call 087 2187962 or register here .
Or "Collect/Cut/Compose/Paste" with Tom Doig at 16.00 - 18.00. Tom Doig's workshop is an introduction to collecting collage materials, the use of tools, materials and practical techniques used in the collage process. Call 087 2187962 or click here.
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For more from this fantastic festival visit: https://www.instagram.com/new_reality_festival
For more from Market House Craftworks visit: https://markethousecraftworks.ie/
Upcoming Festival: "NEW REALITY: Contemporary Collage in Ireland"- Friday the 9th of September – Saturday the 1st of October 2022 -at Market House Craftworks, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING FESTIVAL: NEW REALITY: CONTEMPORARY COLLAGE IN IRELAND”🔸🔹🔸
Opening Reception: Friday 9th of September 6pm - 8pm
New Reality Festival: Friday 9th of September - Sunday 11th of September 2022
Exhibition Running from: Friday the 9th of September – Saturday the 1st of October 2022
I am absolutley thrilled to be invited to take part in the upcoming - 'New Reality’ Contemporary Collage in Ireland festival and exhibition. Organised by the wonderful Silvio Serverino, Una Gildea, Jane Jermyn and the Market House Craftworks.
The ‘New Reality’ exhibition opens with a Festival on the weekend of the 9th-11th Sept. The festival will feature a series of workshops a the Parochial Hall, Cappoquin, P51 VY40. Each hosted by mega talented master collage artists, Marta Janik, Una Gildea, Tom Doig, Alan Murphy and Tatyana Feeny.
I am also inviting you to join me in a “Monster” workshop hosted by truly on Saturday the 10th of September at 14.30 -16.30. Workshops come at a small cost and booking is recommended either through Eventbrite or by phone 087-2187962.
Other events will include live music by 'Mamacha & the Forest of Sound', fabulous screenings of Moving Collage, a talk by the man himself Sean Hillen (Sean Hillen Artist), subject of the award winning documentary "Tomorrow is Saturday".
The exhibition itself will be open to the public from 9th Sept - 1st October at Market House Craftworks The Square, Green Street, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, P51 KD37.
For more on this rich and amazing event visit: https://www.instagram.com/new_reality_festival/
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 Exhibition: "MIGRACJE/MIGRATION" From July 29 - August 7, 2022 - at the 54th Vintage Week and the Arts Festival, Birr, Ireland, AND Praga Cultural Center in Praga-Północ, Warsaw, Poland
Image Credit: Marta Janik - Collage
🔸🔹🔸UPCOMING EXHIBITION: MIGRACJE/MIGRATION🔸🔹🔸
Less than two weeks to go!!!!
Running from: July 29 - August 7, 2022
Venues: 54th Vintage Week and the Arts Festival (Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival) in Birr, Ireland AND Praga Cultural Center in Praga-Północ in Warsaw.
I am so excited to take part in this fantastic exhibition on the timely topic of Migration. This exhibition is curated by the one and only Marta Janik.
The works will be presented during the 54th Vintage Week and the Arts Festival (Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival) in Birr, Ireland, on July 29 - August 7, 2022, and simultaneously at the Praga Cultural Center in Praga-Północ in Warsaw. Both exhibitions will be outdoor in the open air.
Made possible by: Caroline Conway and the Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival.
Supported by: Arts Council Ireland, CreativeIrl, Offaly County Council and the Irish Embassy in Poland (Zielono mi. Ambasada Irlandii w Polsce)
TO CHECK OUT THE PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AND TO READ MARTA'S WONDERFUL STATEMENT JUST LOOK BELOW.
Curator: Marta Janik
Artists:
Lou Beach (USA) | Jerome Bertrand (Kanada/Canada) | Yuliia Fareniuk (Ukraina/Ukraine)
Maria Filek (Polska/Poland)| Una Gildea (Irlandia/Ireland) | Domenico Goi (Włochy/Italy)
Anthony D. Kelly (Irlandia/Ireland) | Denis Kollasch (Niemcy/Germany) | Sherry Parker (USA)
Silvio Severino (Brazylia/Brazil) | Maryna Siliakova (Ukraina/Ukraine) | Steve Tierney (Australia) | Tanja Ulbrich (Hiszpania/Spain)
"Since February 24, the eyes of the whole world have been turned towards Ukraine, which was brutally attacked by Russia on that date. The UN Refugee Agency reported in early May that more than 6 million Ukrainian citizens have already fled their homeland to other countries, attempting to escape from the war.
The history of the world is the history of migration; and this is a phenomenon which increasingly affects each of us, in almost every corner of the Earth. People migrate for many reasons, some in search of peace and security, and others to earn more money and live better lives.
Often individuals and families are forced to move due to political and economic pressures and instability, and unfortunately as we see more often these days, a deteriorating climate.
Others simply go on the road because they are seeking out themselves and their place on this earth.
Nor is migration a uniquely human phenomenon, as it can be found throughout nature in the plant and animal kingdoms. Some birds can travel up to ten thousand kilometers at once, and a single dandelion seed will be carried on the wind for several kilometers! All in service of survival, exploration, and a better life.
The topic of migration is as broad as it is interesting, and it touches every living being; this surely encourages a timely investigation and reflection.
Collage is a process of fragmentation and recombination, pieces are seperated from their original images, finding their way from different places to make up something new and beautiful. In this way Collage is both an apt technique and an accurate metaphor for the experience of migration.
When we think in this way we realize that through migratory processes our countries and communities themselves are constantly evolving Collages of experience.
If we dare to look deeply enough we realise that we are each a Collage of experience. For those of us who live with migrants, and those of us who have migrated – either geographically or within our imaginations. We rise to new problems, and new challenges. We learn, we grow, we ask questions. „What does it mean to be at home?”, „What does it mean to be a stranger?”, „What does the word "homeland" mean?”.
Random elements appear in our lives from which we build meanings. Like in a collage. And from here it is only a step to the migration that each of us takes after all. Migrating inside ourselves. This is a one-of-a-kind, most personal journey.
As part of this project we invited an artist from Ukraine (Yuliia Fareniuk, a member of Kyiv Collage Collective), a war refugee, to come to Birr for the duration of the festival, and who will conduct workshops with the towns residents, joining with the people of the town and sharing the experience of creating a collage mural with them somewhere in the town environment."
For more of Marta Janik's amazing work blast off to: www.planetmarta.com
For the line up at this years Birr Vintage and Arts Festival visit: https://www.birrvintageweek.com/programme
For more from the amazing venue in Warsaw check out: Pałacyk Konopackiego
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 Festival - Collagistas #6 @ Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles, Parvis Saint Gilles 39, 1060 Sint-Gillis, Belgium, Brussels
Its almost time for Collagistas Festival #6. It is a pleasure to have an opportunity to participate once again in this fantastic festival of Collage Art. This years edition takes place in Brussles, Belgium at the amazing venue of Maison du Peuple de Saint-Gilles. This years theme is that of The Universal Language, a fitting and important topic during this time of division and strife. Check out the statement below:
Collagistas Festival is a celebration of contemporary collage. Our primary purpose is to create an opportunity where collage artists from all over the world can come together to share ideas and thoughts about their collage practise and to disseminate this information through workshops and presentations. We provide a platfom to explore and discuss how collage is made and the role of collage in contemporary visual culture. We do this through the organisation of an annual exhibition and the facilitation of workshops and presentations. Our aim is also to engage the general public and the wider art community in these discussions. Our principle objectives are to maintain an international network of collage artists and to bring collage to a wider audience.
Opening Night: Thursday September 5th 2019 18.00- 22-00
With a Full Programme of Workshops, Presentations and Short Movies running Friday 6th -Sunday 8th.
For More On The Festival: www.collagistas.com