Opening Night Friday, November 15, 7-10P

Featured artist in the Chicago Collage Magazine Vol. 1 at the Fulton Street Collective, 1821 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL

We’d love to invite you to the Release Exhibition Party for the inaugural issue of the Chicago Collage Magazine! Come see the 37 artworks from 30 talented Chicagoland collage and assemblage artists featured in Volume 1.
Chicago Collage Magazine Volume 1 was curated and edited by co-founders Charlea Taylor, Christine Vilutis, along with fellow collage artist and curator Miranda Livingston.

Please RSVP here

Tuesday, October 29, 5:30-7p

Rip it Up Collage at The Mart, hosted by Redner Design Collective at the Nucraft Showroom.

Join us for the Rip It Up Collage workshop at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago, where creativity meets community. This hands-on workshop invites participants of all skill levels to explore the art of collage-making using diverse materials. Under the guidance of experienced instructors, you'll experiment with texture, color, and composition to create unique pieces that express your personal style. Engage with fellow art enthusiasts while transforming ordinary paper into extraordinary visual stories. Refreshments, and supplies will be provided, leaving you to focus on the art and enjoyment of the process. Discover the joy of ripping, layering, and assembling in this inspiring space.

Featured Artist

Bridgette Bramlage
Chicago, Illinois, USA

“Each composition is a conversation or ‘cautionary tale’ that uses humor, rhythm, balance and beauty to explore surreal aspects of feminism, control and power in American culture.”

Each issue of Kolaj Magazine features portfolios of contemporary artists alongside critical commentary as a means of developing a deeper understanding of collage as both a medium and a genre.

Kolaj Magazine exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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Opening Night August 3, 7-10p at Yes Project Space, Zhou B Art Center

Viewing Hours | Appts Gallery-Hybrid

Open: 1-5p, Sat/Su, Aug 10-11, 24,25, 31

Future Memories includes pieces from two ongoing series: Factory Girls and Trad Wives. Both are explorations into remaking mid-century images into cautionary tales and fantastical objects. The act of cutting, assembling and layering historical content frees it from the original biases and rigidities built into commercial marketing and advertising. 

Each creation becomes an exercise in looking back to observe cycles of society, while memorializing the absurdity of the old to create new modern composite works of recollection.

Saturday, August 24, 2-4p

Get ready to tear and paste your way to creative bliss at Rip It Up - With co-hosts Chicago Collage Community at Yes Project Space. Link Here

Magic in the Modern World at Kolaj Institute Gallery & Book Release in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Summer & Fall 2024

“In our scientifically-minded modern world, little room is left for the the mystical, the esoteric, and the magical, but we contend that such things, irrational as they may be, are fundamental to the human experience and necessary liminal spaces in which people experience joy, process trauma, or otherwise work through complicated emotions that a rationalistic society is not set up to handle, if it doesn’t actively reject them.”

Book for purchase here