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Kolaj Fest at NOMA
Thu, June 13th at 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kolaj Fest New Orleans, a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society heads to the museum for a day full of conversations, tours, and film. Museum visitors are invited to join in on the day’s programs.
This event is free with museum admission.
Schedule
Tour of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
11 am–12 pm
Immediately following the Daily Collage Congress, Jennella Young, LaVonna Varnardo Brown and Aisha Shillingford will introduce the exhibition Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined and lead a tour. Speakers will highlight “how the exhibition explores Mutu’s evolution as a collage artist, as she pursues an inquiry related to the representation of Black women’s bodies.”
Symposium | Rending, Mending, & Reusing: Art, Justice, & the Environment
12:45–2 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Art is a unique technology that can distill complexity into simple human gestures that, when experienced, facilitate a deeper understanding of our world, perhaps one that can lead to a greater sense of agency around environmental issues. In this panel, artists Phil Irish, Naomi White, Madera Rogers-Henry, and Christopher Kurts will speak about the way they use collage as a tool to think through and think with climate justice issues and how we can use art to engage viewers around shared concerns.
Symposium | 1-2-3 Bop! Collage, Jazz & Collaboration
2:15–3 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Chicago-based Paloma Trecka and Watertown, Massachusetts-based Todd Bartel will speak about the intersection of collage and jazz in light of the upcoming collage exhibition, “BOP!”.
Film Screening | Return to Sender: Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & the Politics of Representation
3:15–4:15 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Return to Sender: Women of Color in Colonial Postcards & the Politics of Representation is a short, experimental film directed and produced by Mara Ahmed. It pushes the documentary medium in unexpected ways by opening with three contemporary South Asian-American women who recreate British colonial postcards from the early 20th century.