Locative Kolaj

Written By Monica d. Church

I attended the 2025 Kolaj Fest in NOLA. Kolaj Fest presents opportunities for artists to participate and push their collage practices. Andrea Lewicki’s Special Agent Collage Collective & Kolaj Institute’s challenge to make a locative collage caused me to think about my environment in a new way. When I travel, I constantly scan spaces for paste-ups or interesting litter that I either tear off walls or pick up from the ground. This material becomes the basis for my collage work. For this particular challenge, I used a book binding which had an illustration of a zipper on it which I placed in cracks and crevices in the sidewalks and doorways of the streets of New Orleans, some with more success than others.

“Locative collage requires three things: a collage fragment, a physical environment to create or suggest context and a way to capture the temporary arrangement.”

Everyone’s results from the prompt were exhibited during Kolaj Fest and then as part of Pictures at the Intersection of Photography & Collage at the Kolaj Institute in NOLA and in the Zine Locative Kolaj: The Dossier Issue 4.

Monica d. Church

Monica d. Church (b. 1964, Middlebury, VT USA) is an abstract artist who paints on repurposed sails. She lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley where she sails on the Hudson River in a 1966 Ensign. She also works in printmaking, photography and collage.

Monica has a BA in visual arts from Bennington College and an MFA in painting from The University of Kentucky. Her works are in numerous collections including Manugistics, Rockville, MD; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY.

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