Collage Weekly Update for Jan1-6

"Soar" ©NKD 2008

Between my packed social calendar :) and the rather erratic internet service in Beirut, I find myself catching a few minutes here and there to check my mail and my favorite blogs. Hope you are all doing well (Bobbie and Deb, merci beaucoup for tagging me, and I will respond this week). In the meantime, here's my weekly updates.

Note: If you would like to add a listing for a collage related event (open calls for submissions, challenges, exhibitions of note, etc.), please email me early enough and I will try to include the news in my weekly updates. There are no restrictions on geographical origins and/or locations for the announcements, just my aesthetic and/or personal preferences :)

This week's Illustration Friday theme is --- you guessed it--- "Soar," while The 2 Things Challenge is about "home/health."

Upcoming events for 2008/09 : Collage Mania is accepting submissions now for its spring exhibit. The New Zealand-based Tenth Annual Collage Exhibit will be held during the month of April, please see the guidelines here. The French museum of collage, Artcollé, is calling for collage/assemblage submissions to be featured at its 15 th Salon International du Collage in Paris ( France ). The American National Collage Society has posted its deadline for its 24th annual exhibit to be held next year. The African Zimbabwe Harare International Festival of the Arts invites collagists and other artists to participate in its "Art on Purpose" project.

In the mood for some collage browsing? If you live in California, check out Nancy Goodman Lawrence's collage art at the VIVA gallery in Sherman Oaks (image on the left), and The Collage Artists of America exhibition at the Burbank Creative Arts Center happening now. Visiting Chicago, Illinois? Swing by the Union Street Gallery, take a look at the Midwest Collage Society members exhibit entitled "white on white."

And of course, do not forget Switzerland's long-awaited "exposition" of Max Ernst - In The Garden of Nymph Ancolie at The Tinguely Museum in Basel (sigh!).