CALL TO ARTISTS Collage the Planet: Trash as Material Artist Residency
Organization
Kolaj Institute · New Orleans · LARegion
InternationalFees
FreeCategory
ResidenciesDeadline
Sunday, August 31, 2025 · 2 days leftDescription
CALL TO ARTISTS
Collage the Planet: Trash as Material Artist Residency
Early Deadline to Apply: Sunday, 31 August 2025. A five-day, in-person collage artist residency in New Orleans in October 2025. You can call it refuse or detritus or reclaimed materials or recycling or you can call it what it is, Trash. In collage, materials are never neutral. From how they are sourced to how they are used, the material a collage is made of shapes the story and experience of the artwork. Alongside Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour, the residency will be co-led by Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom artist and Kolaj Institute Artist in Residence Jodie House who will present her project, "Discarded & Caught", inspired by plastic bags and other litter caught in roadside bramble in the English countryside. Artists will visit The Green Project, a salvage store and paint recycling program in the Bywater to learn about their work and explore ideas about how to use the materials on hand. They will also review an international, historic survey of artists that used trash in their work and consider how materials are never neutral in collage. During the "Collage the Planet: Trash as Material Artist Residency," artists will develop a practice of using trash as materials and make artwork for an exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans.