⚡️✂️Intentional Selection – A Celebration of Collage✂️⚡️
Words in Motion: Collage Poetry and Publication:
(Panel Discussion& Showcase) on Saturday the 7th of September 2024.
3.30pm-6pm at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.
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Join us for an exciting panel discussion with Ric Kasini Kadour of the Kolaj Institute with artists Anthony D Kelly and Eve Kimmerling about the vibrant intersection between Collage, Poetry and Publication. As well as a showcase of beautiful collage and poetry books by Red Fox Press.
From 3.30pm: Achill based book makers Red Fox Press will also be in attendance the Linenhall Arts Centre, showcasing a selection from their wonderful array of limited edition handmade books. Their beautiful books have attained global renown and often explore themes of Collage and Visual Poetry.
At 5pm: Publisher, Collage Artist and Community Organiser Ric Kasini Kadour will join us live by satellite to share his insights and perspectives on the book as a place for Collage and Kolaj Magazines approach to publishing. This conversation will take place in the Linenhall theatre space with artists Anthony D Kelly and Eve Kimmerling. Anthony and Eve are both Collage Artists practicing in the west of Ireland and who use poetry and text as integral parts of their visual arts practice.
This promises to be a rich an interesting event exploring the worlds of Collage, Poetry and Publication. See you there!!!
For the live event, booking is encouraged by clicking here.
If you are at distance and don’t want to miss the Panel Discussion at 5pm (GMT) discussion then join the live stream by clicking here.
About the Contributors:
Ric Kasini Kadour:
Ric Kasini Kadour is a writer, artist, publisher, and cultural worker. He was the recipient of a 2020-2021 Curatorial Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His art-making crosses media and includes collage, photography, printmaking, installations, and art product making. Kadour sees ‘zine-making as an extension of his art practice.
His artwork has been exhibited in Georgia, Ireland, Louisiana, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Scotland, Tennessee, Vermont, and Wisconsin and is in private collections in Australia, Canada, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In addition to his art practice, Kadour is the founding editor and publisher of Kolaj Magazine and has written for a number of galleries and his writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, Vermont Magazine, Seven Days, Seattle Weekly, Art New England (where he was the former Vermont editor) and many others. He has produced a number of exhibits as a gallerist and curator.
His community organizing efforts have resulted in a number of large scale art events in North America and beyond. In August 2021, Kadour curated an exhibition of international collage artists, “Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream”, as part of Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival in Birr, Co. Offaly. The exhibition received a 2021 National Heritage Award. The exhibition moved to the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee and was part of a book of the same name, published by Kolaj Institute in 2022.
Kadour holds a BA in Comparative Religious Studies from the University of Vermont. Kadour splits his time between Montreal and New Orleans.
To learn more about Ric, visit www.rickasinikadour.com; for Kolaj Magazine, visit www.kolajmagazine.com; and for Kolaj Institute, visit www.kolajinstitute.org.
Red Fox Press:
Operating from a renovated cottage in Dugort on Achill Island, Red Fox Press have received global recognition for their handmade books and have become an integral part of the cultural fabric of the west of Ireland. Artists Francis Van Maele and Antic-Ham have generated a rich and wonderful array of artistic output and a history of supportive collaborative projects with practicing artists worldwide.
For more from Red Fox Press and to peruse their beautiful books visit:
www.redfoxpress.com
Eve Kimmerling:
Eve-Marie Kimmerling is a Group Analyst in private practice based in Co. Mayo in the West of Ireland.
Deeply rooted in her rural West of Ireland context, she was ‘astounded into being’ as a collage artist in a creative response to the often turbulent, fragmented, and disembodied nature of our recent times. While she has over 20 years’ experience working as a therapist, she is relatively new to her art making practice, having started in 2022. As an artist, she sees her collage work as an extension of her group analytic practice. The groups she belongs to and their wider social contexts inform and influence the collages she creates.
Creating her colourful pieces became a way of reflecting on, processing, and expressing themes arising in her work as a group analyst.
To delve further into Eve’s work visit:
https://collage-reverie.com/
Anthony D Kelly:
Anthony D Kelly is a Visual Artist, Writer, 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 currently based in Castlebar, County Mayo located on Irelands West Coast. He has extensive experience as a Gallery Administrator, Curator and Project Facilitator.
He is a proactive and experienced member of the Irish Collage Community. He was chosen as the Kolaj Institute’s World Collage Day 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 Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, Creativ Paper, Murze Magazine and Kolaj Magazine.
He has studied Arts Administration, Arts Participation and Global Development, and Humanistic Psychotherapy. Anthony is greatly interested in the Arts as an effective method for engagement with Social, Political and Global Development issues; and for seeking beyond the known to formulate the new. He is also deeply interested in the creative interplay between literature and visual art, and their roles as meaning making processes and in promoting positive mental health.
