CALL TO ARTISTS
Big Orange Monster: An Emergency Collage Exhibition
at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
10 September-25 October 2025
Deadline to receive work: Thursday, 4 September 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.
“The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.” –Ken Livingstone (source)
CALL TO ARTISTS
Kolaj Institute invites collage artists to make a big orange monster collage for an exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans that will take place in September and October 2025. 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
Artist must complete online submission form.
If you want the artwork returned and the artwork is larger than 10″x8″, the packaging must be reusable.
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.
Those with artwork not meeting these specifications or artists with questions or concerns are invited to EMAIL the curator an image of the work for consideration
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana
Opportunity Region
International
Commitment
Non-Applicable
Contact Email
gallery@kolajinstitute.org