Call for Entries: July 27 – Aug 17

Iowa artists are invited to submit up to five original collaged creations for an exhibit selected by juror Alyss Vernon.

Collage as an artistic medium has long been used as a conduit for expression, whether that be social commentary or personal feelings, internal and external. Collage is a product of combining and recombining potentially disparate elements, but the way in which those elements come together is by divorcing them from their original context– cutting, and nesting them within new surroundings– pasting. A physical act. Although sometimes the process is intuitive and other times calculated, always intentional. Thought goes into each layer. Each scrap of ephemera placed thoughtfully amidst layers of paint, textile, thread, adhesive, pencil, pastel, organic and inorganic materials. Each element– written, drawn, painted, stitched, printed, transferred or photographed, has its purpose, an inherent emotion or message attached to it. 

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