la colle the collage zine

Knowledge Issue update (again)

2010-10-28T21:06:00.000-07:00

The Knowledge issue of la colle the collage zine will come out sometime in 2011. More details to come. Let's just say I learned a lot in 2010.

A Collage Night will be held.

So far I've received 2 collages (hooray for you two) but we need more for a full issue!

Format: the zine is photocopied in black and white on legal paper. While there is room for one center-fold (or I guess two if you think about the cover) 8 ½ x 14 other collages will be reproduced on 8 ½ x 7 spaces.Please email You your collage (a hi-res, 300 dpi image) to me.

Knowledge issue update & call for more collages

2010-01-02T14:01:00.000-08:00

the next issue of la colle the collage zine will come out sometime this winter- right now it looks like february.

i plan to hold a collage night sometime towards the end of january so if you're in the brooklyn area you can always wait for that night to make your collage. if not feel free to email or mail me your contribution!

so far i've received 2 collages (hooray for you two) but we need more for a full issue!

the theme this time around is KNOWLEDGE.

format: the zine is photocopied in black and white on legal paper. While there is room for one center-fold (or I guess two if you think about the cover) 8 ½ x 14 other collages will be reproduced on 8 ½ x 7 spaces.Please email You your collage (a hi-res, 300 dpi image) to me.

(image- http://www.jfsowa.com/krbook/)

issue 7- call for collages- KNOWLEDGE

2009-10-24T22:19:00.001-07:00

the next issue (#7) of la colle, the collage zine, will come out sometime this winter.
in order for it to exist it needs your collages and other contributions!

the theme this time around is KNOWLEDGE.

Main Entry: knowl·edge
Pronunciation: \ˈnä-lij\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English knowlege, from knowlechen to acknowledge, irregular from knowen
Date: 14th century
-the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association (2) : acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique b (1) : the fact or condition of being aware of something (2) : the range of one's information or understanding c : the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning : cognition d : the fact or condition of having information or of being learned a person of unusual knowledge.

-the sum of what is known : the body of truth, information, and principles acquired by humankind b archaic : a branch of learning

you can of course take whatever position you want on this theme. albert einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."

format: the zine is photocopied in black and white on legal paper. While there is room for one center-fold (or I guess two if you think about the cover) 8 ½ x 14 other collages will be reproduced on 8 ½ x 7 spaces. You can email it to my yahoo adddress, juliejeanus (a hi-res, 300 dpi image).

i hope to hold a collage night sometime in the near future too, so stay tuned for that.

i look forward to seeing what you will contribute!

julie jean

http://lacolle.blogspot.com/

Issue 6- Clothing and/or Fashion now available!

2009-01-25T20:16:00.000-08:00

Clothing and/or fashion is the theme for this issue because it was a subject I was reading about and thinking about myself....Hopefully this issue offers some new perspectives on clothing and/or fashion and offers new options for you to try on.

Issue 6 is the largest issue to date! It features collages by arists from North Carolina, Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois and California. Issues are being mailed to contributors, or you can purchase it at www.juliejean.etsy.com

Here are some of the links and resources in issue 6!

Artists who deal with issues related to clothing and fashion and resources

Terese Agnew’s large photo-based image of a textile worker made entirely of clothing labels

http://www.tardart.com/html/ptw.php

Bernadette Corporation, fashion label, 1995-98

http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/bcfashion.htm

Made in USA, issues 1-3, 1999 - 2001

http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/musa.htm

“We have always liked fashion for what it is--a seductive surface. Fashion magazines in general like to tell people, “this is cool, this is new, look at this.” New fashion magazines try to launch a new wave of cool. They are very fast. We are slow, slowing things down and getting lost in them. We are stuck on simple questions, like “What is a fashion magazine?” “What do they do everyday at Vogue?” When we think of a Fall Collection, we think of leaves on trees turning orange and red, of pumpkins and apples. When we think of fashion we think of an atom smasher the size of Texas, and the option of wearing smashed atoms to school, the office, a date, etc.”

Ryan McGuinness’s Destroy shirt and Jenny Holzer’s shirts at Printed Matter, www.printedmatter.org

Reap What You Sew http://www.reapwhatyousew.org/

Retail Action Project http://www.goles.org/rap/index.html

How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back

By George Packer http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E5DB153BF932A05750C0A9649C8B63

Sewing Rebellion- http://sewingrebellion.blogspot.com/

Lisa Anne Auerbach’s D.D.I.Y http://www.joaap.org/6/lovetowe/lisa.html

Andrea Zittel’s Smock Shop http://www.smockshop.org/

Lisa Anne Auerbach http://www.stealthissweater.com/

Jean Shin, Projects 81 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/projects/projects81/81_current.html

Cat Chow http://www.cat-chow.com/

Garment/research http://www.garmentresearch.org/wpress/

The Object of Labor Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production Edited by Joan Livingstone and John Ploof

Exhibitions- Collage or clothing/fashion-related

Pleasure Seeker Tory Wright

February 2009, Lump Gallery / Projects, Raleigh NC, www.lumpgallery.com/

The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End

September 30, 2008–April 5, 2009, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={6EB15EDD-CFF8-4E7B-AA28-573CAB5230D5}

Yinka Shonibare, 100 Years, 2000

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/african_textiles/view_1.asp?item=17

Sokari Douglas Camp, Nigerian Woman Shopping, 1990

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/african_textiles/view_1.asp?item=18

Podcast- http://www.metmuseum.org/podcast/detail.asp?eid={6EB15EDD-CFF8-4E7B-AA28-573CAB5230D5}

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary

September 27, 2008 - April 19, 2009, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

http://66.223.50.26/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse&currentrecord=1&page=search&profile=exhibitions&searchdesc=Current%20Exhibitions&searchstring=Current/,/greater%20than/,/0/,/false/,/true&action=advsearch&style=single&currentrecord=4

The Poetry of Scissors and Glue

Holland Cotter, September 14, 2008

The pre-eminent American poet John Ashbery makes his solo debut as professional artist at 81, with a modest but polished exhibition of two dozen small collages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/arts/design/14cott.html?ex=1378958400&en=32a7bca1bcd10cae&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Collage Night in Durham, NC and Deadline for collages

2008-12-14T12:40:00.000-08:00

For the next issue of la colle, the collage zine, there will be a... Collage Night in Durham, NC at the Golden Belt artist studios (Building 3- Studio 131) on Friday, December 19 from 6-9 PM! Details here: http://www.goldenbeltarts.com/newsEvents_Details.php?event_id=28
Address: 807 East Main Street, Durham (Main Street through downtown, turn left on Morning Glory on the left, soon after JC's Kitchen on the right).
Collage Night encourages people to take up scissors and glue and create. Source materials including paper, scissors, and glue will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring additional materials. Julie will be collecting collages for her zine's 6th issue, with a clothing + fashion theme. Anyone who submits a collage for this issue will receive a free copy. Stop by Studio 131 and make a collage!

If you can't make it to collage night, I encourage you to make a clothing (and/or fashion) themed collage and send it my way for the next issue of la colle! I have already received some exciting contributions and I think it might be the best issue of la colle yet! I would like to try to collect all collages by December 20th, but if you need some extra time just let me know. Additional details are here http://www.lacolle.blogspot.com/ or you can contact me through my yahoo account, juliejeanus

Call for Collages- Clothing is the theme for Issue 6!

2008-06-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

Clothing is something we encounter everyday. It can allow us to make statements (personal or even political), sometimes we us it to differentiate ourselves from others, while other times it aligns us and allows for group identification. The way clothes are made and who makes them, how and with what materials are also related issues that this theme allows one to explore. Maybe one of your parents sewed clothes you have worn or maybe you sew your own. Anything in this broad-ranging theme of clothing allows you to explore these and even other issues and ideas.
To parallel my own thoughts and investigations into clothing the next (the 6th!) issue of la colle, the collage zine, will be devoted to clothing. This year I am trying to sew any new clothes or purchase them from companies with fair trade policies after reading about the GAP’s use of slave labor to make skirts this past fall. Maybe you’ll just make a collage, but maybe this theme will bring to your attention larger themes related to clothing.

Does fashion factor into this theme? It can if you want. As Radu Stern has written in the fabulous book Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930, "...fashion appears to be not just a consequence of capitalism, but one of the factors that contributed to its rise." (some additional excerpts from the fantastic book are posted here)

Here are some related links and books related to this theme that I’ve come across lately that might offer some inspiration:
Andrea Zittel’s Smock Shop http://www.smockshop.org/
Lisa Anne Auerbach http://www.stealthissweater.com/
Jean Shin, Projects 81 http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2002/projects/projects81/81_current.html
Cat Chow http://www.cat-chow.com/
Garment/research http://www.garmentresearch.org/wpress/
The Object of Labor Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production Edited by Joan Livingstone and John Ploof

When preparing your submission keep in mind that the zine is photocopied in black and white on legal paper. While there is room for one center-fold (or I guess two if you think about the cover) 8 ½ x 14 other collages will be reproduced on 8 ½ x 7 spaces.This issue will come out sometime this winter, so submit you clothing collages by December 1, 2008. You can send your collage (a hi-res, 300 dpi image) to my yahoo address juliejeanus or if you prefer to mail it, e-mail me and I’ll send you my mailing address.

Also feel free to pass along any clothing-related songs, books, exhibitions, websites or exhibition reviews you’ve written along. If you submit a collage you will receive a free issue of la colle in exchange for your contribution.

la colle issue #5- MAPS- now out!

2008-04-21T19:59:00.000-07:00

The 5th issue of la colle is now out!

Exploring maps in 28 pages, issue 5 includes:

collages by 10 artists from Michigan, Illinois, Oregon California and North Carolina
questions answered by cartographer and collage artist Denis Wood
lists of intriguing books about maps
artists who work with maps
a list of maps in songs.
Current and upcoming collage and map exhibitions (also listed below).

If you submitted a map collage (THANK YOU!), your complimentary issue will be mailed soon.

If you would like to purchase this new and exciting issue it will be posted shortly on http://www.juliejean.etsy.com/ and will also be available at Quimby's in Chicago (http://www.quimbys.com/). Only with your support and/or collages will la colle continue to exist.

The next issue of la colle will be assembled sometime in Winter 2008 or early 2009. The theme will be Clothing (which could also, but does not have to, include fashion). More details to follow.

Collage and/or Map Exhibitions
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
March 16 – June 8, 2008, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MA
http://www.thewalters.org/maps/finding.html
Baltimore, like Chicago, is also having a Festival of Maps, March 16 - June 8, 2008 http://www.baltimorefestivalofmaps.com/

The Story of This Place: Charm City Remix, Kianga Ford, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore http://www.contemporary.org/exhibitions.html#kianga
http://www.contemporary.org/kiangafordfile.php

Jasper Johns Gray, Through May 4, 2008, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/jasperjohns/works.html

Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, The New Museum, NY
Exhibition closed March 30, 2008 but an exhibition catalogue was published. Images and audio available online. I was particularly impressed by Mark Bradford’s work, a dramatic presence when one stepped off the elevator, Martha Rosler’s series Bringing the War Home and John Stezaker’s Film Portraits. http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/5

Far From Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, through July 13, 2008
Includes the brilliant work by Jane Benson, Mirror Globe (Map of the World), 2006, who plays with the idea prevalent in older maps that they present an accurate reflection of the world, Benson updates this notion, using such a map as the base of her work, with a disco ball, reflecting, but only pieces, of the viewer and the immediate in front of the map. http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/farfromhome/art.shtml and a second link about Benson’s Mirror Globe http://janebenson.net/disco_globe/discoglobe5.html

Time is Of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum, NC
Through June 22, 2008
Includes Maya Lin’s Altered Atlas, 2007, made from a recycled atlas and a photomontage by Ken Fandell.
http://www.ashevilleart.org/current-exhibitions/time-is-of-the-essence-contemporary-landscap.html

Julie Mehretu: City Sitings
Previously at the DIA in Detroit (closed March 30, 2008)
April 19–July 27, 2008, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

August 17–November 30, 2008, NC Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
http://www.wcma.org/press/08/08_Mehretu.shtml
http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/upcoming.shtml

Call for Map Collages- Issue 5 of la colle, the collage zine!

2008-01-08T18:11:00.000-08:00

“A map is a dream, an idea, an action, an emblem of human endeavor. It instigates adventures... Careful perceptions of our surroundings have always been matters of life and death.” -From Vincent Virga's Cartographia
Virga has also said, “The science of mapmaking is still alive, but we’ve lost the art.”

This is a call to put the art back into maps!
Maps are fascinating and powerful.

A map is an abstract conception of a place. The person who made had to make choices about what to include as well as what to leave out. Each map is thus a reflection of its maker. While maps are made by people working for corporations these are tons of individuals making maps right now that are staggering, mind-blowing, poetic, helpful, revealing, beautiful, not interested in aesthetics, life-changing and more.

In my new-found love and fascination and excitement about maps, the next (the 5th!) issue of la colle, the collage zine, will be devoted to maps.

Below are some artists, maps, exhibits, projects and websites that I have come across recently and they may help challenge your notion of a map.

When preparing your submission keep in mind that the zine is photocopied in black and white on legal paper. While there is room for one center-fold (or I guess two if you think about the cover) 8 ½ x 14 other collages will be reproduced on 8 ½ x 7 spaces.

This issue will come out sometime this spring, so submit you map collages by March 31, 2008. You can send you map collage (a hi-res, 300 dpi image) to my yahoo address juliejeanus or if you prefer to mail it, e-mail me and I’ll send you my mailing address. Also feel free to pass along any map-related songs, books, exhibitions, websites or exhibition reviews you’ve written along. If you submit a collage you will receive a free issue of la colle in exchange.

Here are some ways other people have approached maps lately (some collage and some not) to inspire you:

Get Lost! Artists Map New York City- Francis Alys, Marcel Dzama, Thurston Moore and so many more!!!!
http://www.newmuseum.org/assets/general/getlost/index.html

'Cartographia' Showcases Maps as History, Art
Vincent Virga's Cartographia- where the quote above came from.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17173936&ps=bb2
and an interview with Vincent Virga http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/around-town/24170/i-am-legend

An Atlas of Radical Cartography
http://www.an-atlas.com/

Lia Perjovschi’s Globe Collection and Mind Maps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMkcZQEkIQ4 and
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/learntoread/artistinfo.shtm

elin o’hara slavic- Protesting Cartography or Places the United States has Bombed
http://www.unc.edu/~eoslavic/projects/bombsites/index.html

Saul Steinberg’s View of the World from 9th Avenue
http://www.saulsteinbergfoundation.org/gallery_24_viewofworld.html

3CS: Counter-Cartographies Collective
http://www.countercartographies.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

subROSA- Can you see us now?
http://canuseeusnow.refugia.net/

Creative Mapping- A blog dedicated to the creative use of maps in art!
http://creativemapping.blogspot.com/

Festival of Maps- A whole festival of maps in Chicago! Started in November and continues into 2008
http://www.festivalofmaps.org/index.aspx

Fallen Fruit- Maps can feed you!
http://www.fallenfruit.org/maps.html

This American Life of course has also been interested in maps:
Episode 110- Mapping- the episode where I learned about Dennis Wood’s book, The Power of Maps.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110
You can see images of Dennis Wood’s maps of pumpkins! Manholes! And street lights! http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisamericanlife/sets/72157602618985796/

Also, Episode 136 You are Here
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=136

Guillermo Kuitca (go in a few pages of his work to find his maps)
http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/artists/record.html?record=6

Map This!- Exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation January 10– March 21, 2008
http://www.architecture.org/exhibitions.html#buck

I am America. (And So?)
By Wyatt Mason, December 2, 2007, NY Times Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&ex=1197262800&en=9e9b87bdcecb1a62&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

Mapping the Self- November 3, 2007 - March 2, 2008, MCA Chicago
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=166

Making Maps- deals with questions like What is a Map? And Why are you making a map?
http://makingmaps.owu.edu/

And best of all, the fabulous map you are going to make.

Collage lecture with 3 artists in NYC!

2008-01-08T18:07:00.000-08:00

Collage lecture in NYC- Saturday January 19, 3 p.m.

Mark Bradford, Christian Holstad, and Wangechi Mutu discuss “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture”
Free with Museum admission*
Chief Curator Richard Flood leads a conversation with three artists from “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture.”
New Museum
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/116

An exciting talk to coincide with a collage exhibition I can't wait to see!
The exhibition, Collage: The Unmonumental Picture is on view January 16, 2008 - March 30, 2008

Theme for Issue 5- MAPS!

2007-12-03T15:32:00.000-08:00

The theme for issue 5 of la colle (to come out sometime next spring) will be maps!
Additional details about submitting map-themed collages will be posted in January, but to get you started here's an excellent article from the New York Times about the power of maps.

I am America. (And So?)
By WYATT MASON
Published: December 2, 2007
Five hundred years ago, our continent was given a name. We still don’t know what it means.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-lede-t.html?ex=1354338000&en=8116d27901603091&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Issues 1-4 are available to purchase at www.juliejean.etsy.com.

Issue 4 of la colle, the collage zine, out now!

2007-10-19T15:54:00.000-07:00

Issue 4 of la colle, the collage zine, is complete and now out!

If you would like to purchase an issue you can do so at http://www.juliejean.etsy.com/ for just $2!

Music is the theme of issue 4!

It is 2o pages of original music-themed collages by artists from California, Illinois, Oregon, North Carolina and Michigan, collage exhibit listings and reviews, a list of record album covers that were created with collage and random notes about collage related things.

The theme for the next issue is mentioned and it will be maps. More details to come. Collages welcome at any time contact my yahoo address juliejeanus.

Current and Upcoming Collage Exhibitions

2007-10-19T15:53:00.001-07:00

Collage Exhibitions (published in Issue 4 of la colle, the collage zine)
Tricks or Treats The Art of Craig Bostick
Through November 4, 2007, Magpie, Somerville, MA http://www.magpiestore.com/news.html

Tony Swain
Through November 21, 2007, Venice Biennale http://www.scotlandandvenicebiennale.com/

Neither New nor Correct: New Work by Mark BradfordThrough November 25, 2007, Whitney Museum of Art www.whitney.org

Danny Lyon: Montage, Film, and Still PhotographyThrough December 2, 2007, Whitney Museum of Art www.whitney.org

States of Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi
Through January 6, 2008, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University www.nasher.duke.edu
Collage has been used by Dan Perjovschi in his series, Postcards from America, and by Lia Perjovschi in her timeline, Research File. General Timeline: From Dinosaurs to Google Going China, 1997-2006.

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Through January 06, 2008- SFMOMA http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=264
Interactive website from previous installation at the Peabody Essex Museum http://www.pem.org/cornell/#

Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945Through January 13, 2008, Guggenheim http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/foto/foto_2.php
Previous venue website- http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/foto/preview.shtm
One of eight thematic sections is dedicated to photomontage.

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy My Oppressor, My Love
Through February 3, 2008, Whitney Museum of Art http://www.whitney.org
While there is an element of collage in many of Walker’s works, the seventh slide caught my attention. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/12/arts/20071012_WLAK_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Tony Fitzpatrick
October 21, 2007 - January 7, 2008, PS.1 http://www.ps1.org/ps1_site/content/view/308/102/

The Secrets of Glue: Exploring Collage and Assemblage
October 27 – December 16, 2007 (Scene) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI http://www.scenemetrospace.com/
Curated by this zine’s founder and includes the work 18 artists including Amanda Wyse, Joel Wyse, Liz Cohn and John Tanghe, whose work is also in this issue of la colle.

Cliff Evans: EmpyreanNovember 9, 2006 – January 13, 2007, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp
From their website: “Cliff Evans treats images like found objects, mined from the vast reference library that is today's Internet. His exhibition Empyrean is a digital polyptych with photomontage animation which recalls the form of 15th-century Northern European altar-pieces merged with contemporary advertising narratives.

Martha Rosler’s much discussed collage in WACK!: Art and the Feminist RevolutionFebruary – May 2008, PS.1 but for now visit LA MoCA’s website http://www.moca.org/wack/
More info about Martha Rosler’s photomontages http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E3DC1E30F937A15751C1A9629C8B63
More info about Rosler and images http://home.earthlink.net/~navva/photo/index.html

Victorian Photocollage
October 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010, Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/VictorianCollage

what this is all about

2007-09-22T21:29:00.000-07:00

la colle is a zine about collage! The name comes for the French word for glue. It all started about two years ago in a town with one stoplight...

It comes out at least once a year, sometimes twice. Anyone is welcome to submit a collage. Any person who submits a collage receives a free issue. la colle includes collages from across the United States (and sometimes abroad) as well as information and reviews about collage exhibitions and related info. It usually only costs a few dollars to purchase- additional information is available by contacting me. To date three issues have been published and the fourth is nearing completion.

So how does a zine fit with a blog? It seemed like a blog would be helpful in getting the word out about la colle to a larger audience. Collages or info in the zine will not necessarily appear here, but calls for collages, info about issues and how to purchase them, as well as random tidbits about collage will likely appear here.

Back to the zine. The next issue has a theme of music. Here was the call for submissions sent out earlier this summer:

Since it is summer and it has been a while since the last issue of my little collage zine la colle came out it seems like this is the time to ask for more collages!

Since there have been quite a few issues already I thought this one could be a little different. Perhaps a theme. Perhaps a theme of music. No, not perhaps, definitely. Definitely a theme of music.

Since the theme of music is a large one the ways that collages adhere to it can also be broad.

Since people sometimes think or tell me but I'm not creative I can't make a collage, I realized that while people may have similar thoughts about making music (I can't sing), they likely sing to songs in their car. Since sometimes when people who can't sing do, the result can be a good thing (it can be bad too but we won't go into that). Following this line of thinking whether you sing in your car or not making a collage is actually quite easy, so I ask you to make one.

Back to the theme- music. Think musicians, think instruments, think I play in a band so that makes anything I touch about music. Think about Dolly Parton. Think about Linder whose photomontage graced the cover of a Buzzcocks's single. Think about Mingering Mike who also partly inspired this idea- he made his own albums from cardboard (ok not collage, but he could have used it)- http://www.mingeringmike.com/ Think about Christian Marclay who has used collage in many ways- a few examples of his works using album covers can be seen here http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/8/works_2.htm

In addition to collages that have something to do with music, it would be great to come up with a list of album covers that reproduce collage or photomontage works. So send those too.

The format for la colle is 8 1/2 x 14 paper folded in half reproduced in photocopy. If you submit a collage you received a free copy of la colle. Send a hi-res scan/image (300 dpi) to my yahoo account, juliejeanus.

Get those scissors, glues, images, start staring at those record covers and get to it!
Tell your friends- the more the merrier!
julie jean