Friday, May 10, 2019

World Collage Day

World Collage Day, World Collage Day 2019, collage making, paper collage, Mrs. Grosvenor Contemplates the Evolution of Her Next Tea Party and Owl #1 by June Anderson of Under The Plum Blossom Tree blog

Friends, World Collage Day is Saturday May 11th, 2019. The first World Collage Day was held last year when the publishers of Kolaj Magazine declared the second Saturday of May to be a day for artists to celebrate art making and to raise awareness about the art form.

More specifically and in their own words, Kolaj states:

World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking.

We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honor this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.

World Collage Day, World Collage Day 2019, collage making, paper collage, Mrs. Grosvenor Contemplates the Evolution of Her Next Tea Party and Owl #1 by June Anderson of Under The Plum Blossom Tree blog

Collage is a medium that I have been exploring for the past few years. For me, collage provides an emotional connection to the world that is unseen, felt on a very personal level, and difficult to describe in words. I am, after all, an introvert...

World Collage Day, World Collage Day 2019, collage making, paper collage, Mrs. Grosvenor Contemplates the Evolution of Her Next Tea Party and Owl #1 by June Anderson of Under The Plum Blossom Tree blog

Owl #1, for example, was created out of a concern for the health of birds and the relationship we humans have with them. There are about three more in this series in various stages of completion.

World Collage Day, World Collage Day 2019, collage making, paper collage, Mrs. Grosvenor Contemplates the Evolution of Her Next Tea Party and Owl #1 by June Anderson of Under The Plum Blossom Tree blog

Mrs. Grosvenor Contemplates the Evolution of Her Next Tea Party features an Aesthetic Movement (1870s -1880s) teapot in the form of a woman holding a flower. Her bent right arm serves as the handle and her left arm extends out forming the spout. It made me chuckle a bit when I cut her out of a Sotheby's art auction book and positioned her whimsically bobbing about on a wild flower waiting for her eggs to hatch while geese fly by in the background. (What, do you suppose, is in those eggs?!!!)

World Collage Day, World Collage Day 2019, collage making, paper collage Owl #1 by June Anderson of Under The Plum Blossom Tree blog

So you see, collage can be serious and emotional but it can also be humorous and quirky. Fostering ideas in visual form from disparate parts can, indeed, "create new forms and new ways of thinking."

Happy World Collage Day!


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