Art Calls Big Orange Monster: An Emergency Collage Exhibition
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: September 4, 2025 – You mix fear (yellow) and anger (red) and you get a Big Orange Monster. What’s the emergency? There are a lot of Big Orange Monsters on the loose. Monsters only have power if you are afraid of them. So let’s create a space where we can slay our fear of Big Orange Monsters. Art helps us exorcise our demons. Monsters can be glorious and wonderful or horrible and evil. Let’s not cast aside the good Big Orange Monsters because some other Big Orange Monsters are well…unpleasant.
On display at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, 10 September-25 October 2025.
CALL TO ARTISTS
Kolaj Institute invites collage artists to make a big orange monster collage for an exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orlean. A selection will be featured in a small publication. The exhibition is being curated by Ric Kasini Kadour.
To participate, the collage must meet the following specifications:
- No larger than 16″x20″
- Unframed; shipped flat or in a tube
- Limit one collage per artist
- Arrive no later than 4 September 2025
- Envelope must say, Big Orange Monster inside
This is an open exhibition and those artworks that meet the specifications and arrive by the deadline will be exhibited. Analog collage is preferred. Digital collage with an inherent material sense will be accepted. Prints and reproductions will not be accepted. The curator reserves the right to exercise their discretion.
CURATOR
Ric Kasini Kadour, a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow, is a writer, artist, publisher, and cultural worker. Working with the Vermont Arts Council, Kadour curated four exhibits: “Connection: The Art of Coming Together” (2017) and Vermont Artists to Watch 2018, 2019 and 2020. In 2017, he curated “The Art of Winter” at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington, Vermont. In 2018, Kadour curated “Revolutionary Paths: Critical Issues in Collage” at Antenna Gallery in New Orleans, which bought together collage artists whose work represents the potential for deeper inquiry and further curatorial exploration of the medium.
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About Kolaj Institute
The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage’s standing in the art world.
Kolaj Institute is a 501c3 Non-profit organization registered in the State of Louisiana, USA.
