#9of2021
December 20, 2021

Your top 9 of 2021 (according to Instagram likes) - because we (love to) give credit where credit is due:

Serena Giamè
ateljewjlhelm
Florencia Saltamartini
Anne Misfeldt
Tadas Klimauskas
Caro Saunders
Melanie Barnes
Oxana Tzarevskaya
Christina Confeiteiro



Workbook 2022
December 16, 2021

Better very, very late than never. Our work book for 2022 is out and available for purchase here

A lot of you had the occasional difficulties printing our image prompts, especially throughout past Covid lockdowns (and they seem to be coming back), or didn’t quite like the digital format of our challenges, so we decided to publish next year’s images in print form.

Our weekly creative challenge remains free and open to everyone and everything, digital or analog artists, French or not, for collage or anything else you can think of. Our workbook is an optional add-on. you can continue to download our image prompts for free every week.

The book is designed so that you can either take it apart to create individual collages or collage directly into it. Should be a fun project for those of you who like to do every single challenge.

It’s probably too late to get it in time for Christmas, sorry about that. But our on demand printer is doing a Christmas Sale (until December 25). Use FROSTY2021 at checkout for a 25% discount!




Birthday Giveaway Winners
December 5, 2021

We are happy to announce the winners of our birthday giveaway in collaboration with, or rather generously supported by the Kanyer Art Collection @kanyerartcollection and Laurie Kanyer @lauriekanyer - thank you so much.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed. Thanks a lot for your birthday wishes and creative self portraits. We always love to see a bit more of the actual people behind their art.

The five winners of a copy of Collage Care - Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage are:

Geoff Litchfield
L.M. Noonan
Jennie Mejan
Lynette
Maureen Letton

Congratulations!



Surrealist Dreams in print
November 29, 2021

The Surrealist Dreams print version is finally done and available for sale... here



November Meet-Up
November 29, 2021

We’re very happy, yet again, to announce our second post-pandemic, real life meet-up (texte français ci-dessous)

when: November 29, 2021 at 7pm
where: Le Bastille, 8 place de la Bastille, 75011 Paris

come and say hello!

to register, please send an email to hello@pariscollagecollective.com

organised by @petrazehner.art and @milkisa61



Nous sommes très heureux d'annoncer notre meet-up pour novembere!

quand: le 29 novembre 2021 à 19h
où: Le Bastille, 8 place de la Bastille, 75011 Paris

venez nous dire bonjour !

inscrivez-vous par e-mail: hello@pariscollagecollective.com

organisé par @petrazehner.art et @milkisa61



Surrealist Dreams
October 08, 2021

Kalle Ahonen, Natalia Arango, Simon Tajdina Balazs,Susana Belen, Patricia Benavides, Michelle Concetta, Margot de Korte, Olga de Bie, Beatriz Dominguez, Pilar Dominguez, Nereida Dusten, Holly Edwards, Melanie Garcia, Cornelia Greef, Deane Hodgson, Terry Hoffman, Martin Iraizos, Rebeca Jimenez, Sandra Jimenez, James Kearns, Regina Kim, Yar Kirsanov, Olga Klim, Joanna Kucia, Sander Kuipers, Babeth Lijzenga, Vij Master, Karyna McGlynn, Jennie Mejan, Michelle L. Miller, Anne Misfeldt, Mauricio Mo, Bea Montero, Neal Moran, Sharon Parolini,  Sarah Pedlow, Liza Petridou, Jenny Pieters, Carlo Pietrasanta, Maksim Polyakov, Daria Presnova, Adriano Pucciarelli, Amber Purdy, Laura Quevedo, Nadia Radic, Laura Raffo, Tonii Reed, Evamaria Reinhardt, Maria Sanchez, Nicholas Setteducato, Samantha Snyder, G. Stegelmann, Alina Stein, Christian Stork, Cherie Tintary, Ana Todorovska, Ian Tothill, Oxana Tsarevskaya, Carole Turini, Patricia Unger, Pim van Huisseling, Marga Vazquez, Monique Vettraino, Marta Villarroel, Koski Ville, Valeriya Vizha, Ivan Volyanski, Andina Weiler, Isobel Wiss, Bridie Wolejko


After unfortunately another Covid-related delay, we are happy to announce the finalists of the ︎︎︎ Surrealist Dreams Open Call [français].

There were so many beautiful submissions – almost 600, thank you so much – that we ended up choosing 70 artists (instead of the 50 initially planned) to be shown here on our website and to be included in the print publication.

PCC is all about collaboration and encouraging people to be creative. We don’t really like to judge, and choosing one piece of art over another is always difficult. But choose we must. Artists are shown in alphabetical order therefore, in an attempt to be as neutral as possible.

Despite what we thought were fairly clear instructions, quite a few submissions came with incomplete information, and a lot of collages weren’t named properly (or at all). It can be hard to tell a first name from a last name, especially when it comes in one lowercase word, so we hope we got everything right. If not, let us know and we fix it.  

A little word on the situation in New Zealand and the Dreaming After Dark event – for those of you who missed the announcements on Instagram. A selection of collages created for the Surrealist Dreams Open Call was supposed to be screened at the museum during an event on Friday, September 10, 2021. Unfortunately, two weeks before the event, New Zealand had its first Covid outbreak in over a year and went into a snap national lockdown. The Dreaming After Dark event was subsequently cancelled. Te Papa still wants to show a selection of our collages on their website, but the situation in New Zealand and the museum remains complicated, and we don’t know what the timing will be like. I’m sure a lot of you remember the joys of working from home (or are still doing it), and how hard it can be to stay on track. We wish them the best of luck and will keep you posted about any new developments.

The Surrealist Dreams print publication has gone for test printing and will be available in a couple of weeks. We’re unfortunately not in a position to give away free copies. Like our yearbooks, it will be available as print on demand.



October Meet-Up
October 19, 2021

We’re very happy to announce our first post-pandemic, real life meet-up (texte français ci-dessous)

when: October 19, 2021 at 7pm
where: Bastille (most likely a place called La Bastille - we will confirm the exact location once we have an idea as to how many people might be there)

come and say hello!

to register, please send an email to hello@pariscollagecollective.com

organised by @petrazehner.art and @milkisa61



Nous sommes très heureux d'annoncer notre premier meet-up post-pandémie

quand: le 19 octobre 2021 à 19h
où: Bastille (très probablement dans une brasserie appelée La Bastille - nous confirmerons le lieu exact une fois que nous aurons une idée du nombre de personnes qui viendront)

venez nous dire bonjour !

inscrivez-vous par e-mail: hello@pariscollagecollective.com

organisé par @petrazehner.art et @milkisa61




Thank you...
June 16, 2021

A big thanks to everyone who purchased one of our yearbooks. Your support and lovely notes and messages mean the world to us. Merci!




Surrealist Dreams - Open Call in collaboration with the Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa
June 12, 2021

Paris Collage Collective is happy to announce an open call in collaboration with the Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa -  Paris Collage Collective est heureux d'annoncer un open call en collaboration avec le Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa.

︎︎︎ more information - plus d'informations




Cut & Paste Open Studio
June 09, 2021

We are happy to anounce a series of monthly virtual open studios, hosted by art therapist Julia Volonts @julia.volonts

︎︎︎ every last Wednesday of the month, 6pm CET, 25 people, free to attend

dates:
June 30, 2021
July 28, 2021
August 25, 2021
September 29, 2021
October 27, 2021
November 24, 2021

Registration will start one week before each open studio. For more information, please sign up for our newsletter, keep an eye on our Instagram account or send an email to hello@pariscollagecollective.com



Yearbooks 2019 & 2020
May 10, 2021

And here they are! We are happy to announce that our PCC yearbooks are finally done [2019 delayed by a whole year thanks to Covid, sorry about that] and ready to travel the world. A big thank you to Puck van Doorn and Jennifer Sampson for their ongoing support, and to a couple of non-collage world people for their help and advice (you know who you are even though you'll most likely never going to read this). 

Both yearbooks are available for purchase on our website, and our website only (trying to stay away from GAFA... as much as possible for a collective that essentially lives on Instagram for the moment). They are printed on demand and shipped directly from and by the printer. This is maybe not the cheapest way to do this, but as this is, despite the ample help and support, still a one-woman show – switching to the first-person pronoun for a while – this has been the best solution for me under the circumstances. It would have been difficult, albeit maybe not impossible, to pre-finance the printing of not just one but two yearbooks, but really, really difficult and maybe impossible, to handle shipping. France is only slowly emerging from its third lockdown, with curfews most likely staying in place until the end of June [!], therefore only contemplating the logistics and the number of trips to the post office and the time this would take was giving me slight panic attacks. 

For full transparency, I added a small fee to the printer's base price to cover a part of the upfront expenses. I would love to give those yearbooks away for free, and organize a million more things for PCC, but I work for a living, and so I can't. At this point, my mother would ask me why I keep doing things no one asked me to do. I doubt anyone in this community would, but in case you are wondering, I do it because I think art and creativity are important, and because they can't exist in a vacuum. Community is important but often hard to come by. Thankfully, there are enough people out there willing to create these common spaces for all of us to meet. Last weekend's World Collage Day and all the different events and exhibitions put together were a great celebration of our community, and I'm grateful to be a part of it.

The list of artists included in the yearbooks – almost 200 between 2019 and 2020 – is by no means exhaustive. There are a lot more people participating regularly in our challenges than made it into the yearbooks, but that was all we could handle this time. We have learned a lot while working on 2019 and 2020, however, and will be able to include a lot more artists in the 2021 edition. 

I hope these yearbook(let)s will give you joy. I hope they'll outlast Instagram, and that twenty or thirty years from now you will flip through them and remember this little community and the people you met here.

With lots of love from Paris,
Petra




Yearbooks 2019 & 2020 sneak peek
April 25, 2021


Almost done! We are very happy to give a little sneak peek of a project we’ve been working on diligently behind the scenes [as some of you know already]: PCC yearbooks for both [!] 2019 [a tad late] and 2020. They went out for test prints this week and should be “done” done soon. We’ll keep you posted.



The Art of Being Alone - Collage as Therapy Workshop
April 3, 2021


In honor of World Collage Day, join us for a "Collage as Therapy" Workshop on May 2 + 9, 2021

This online workshop will be a space to connect with others, explore the benefits of art-making on mental health, and process shared feelings, such as isolation and uncertainty, associated with the pandemic. Let us nurture our well-being by cutting and pasting together.

While this workshop is provided at no cost, donations to the COVID-19 Response Fund are encouraged: https://covid19responsefund.org

For more information and to sign up please contact art therapist Julia Volonts @julia.volonts

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Thank You
June 2022

A big thanks to everyone who shared their 2021 yearbook images with us. Merci :)





June Meet-Up
June 23, 20222

Mieux vaut tard que jamais : voici l'annonce  officielle du meet-up / pique-nique PCC  qui aura lieu ce jeudi 23 juin, à 19h30, qu'il pleuve, qu’il neige ou qu'il vente !

Nous sommes toujours ravis de voir de nouveaux visages, alors n'hésitez pas et venez nous dire bonjour...

Où : Quai des Célestins, entre Pont Marie et Pont Sully

Quand : 23 juin à 19h30

Apportez nourriture et boissons (même s'il y a quelques bars le long du quai où vous pourrez acheter quelque chose de froid si besoin est)

Si le temps ne coopère vraiment pas, nous nous retrouverons chez Isabelle @milkisa61 (adresse communiquée ultérieurement selon besoin)

Nous attendons avec impatience cette dernière rencontre avant l'été!

À bientôt!



Better late than never: the official announcement / invitation of / to the PCC meet-up / picnic that will happen this Thursday, June 23rd, at 7:30pm, come rain or shine!

We’re glad to have a small group of regulars but we are always happy to see new faces, so don’t be shy and stop by to say hi...

Where: Quai des Célestins, between Pont Marie and Pont Sully

When: June 23rd, 7:30pm

Bring food and/or drinks (even though there are a couple of bars along the quai where you can buy something cold if need be)

If the weather really doesn’t cooperate we will meet chez Isabelle @milkisa61 (address on need to know basis 😜)

We’re looking forward to one last collage meet-up before the summer 🎉😘 

See you soon!



Yearbook 2021
May 20, 2022

BREAKING NEWS: our 2021 yearbook is finally done, dusted and available for sale. we managed to include over 150 artists from 40 countries. a huge thank you to everyone who submitted their work. a special thanks to everyone who labelled their image properly and sent their release form. you made life a little easier 😜

we unfortunately can’t include everyone and everything, and believe us, we tried, and we would if we could.

we already have some ideas for this year’s issue. if you do too, please let us know.

the book is available here. like last year, it’s printed on demand and shipped by a small printer in the Netherlands. it’s not cheap, we know, but we don’t have the resources or manpower to organise a bigger print run and ship this ourselves. 🤷‍♀️

thanks again to everyone who participates in our challenges, regularly or on and off, to everyone who only follows along, that’s totally fine too, and to everyone who comments, gives advice, shares and supports the work of fellow collage artists. you make this community what it is.




May Meet-Up
May 17, 2022

Notre prochaine rencontre approche à grands pas. Ce sera notre dernier rendez-vous avant la période estivale et nous espérons donc vous y voir nombreux.
N’hésitez pas à apporter vos derniers collages ou toutes autres pièces sur lesquelles vous travaillez actuellement.
De même, n’hésitez pas à venir accompagnés.
Alors, je vous dis à mardi !

It’s time for another collage meet-up, the last one before the summer (already!?) so we hope to see a lot of you. bring your latest collage, other things you are working on, or a friend for company. are you in?



March Meet-Up
March 22, 2022



Notre deuxième meet-up de l'année aura lieu la semaine prochaine :

Quand : 22 mars 2022 – 19h

Où : Le Kawaa, 24 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris

Pour vous inscrire, merci d'envoyer un mail à hello@pariscollagecollective.com

Il n'y a pas de limite de places et nous ne sommes pas très stricts sur les inscriptions. Si vous décidez à la dernière minute de venir ou d'amener quelqu'un, faites-le. Mais les inscriptions nous donnent une idée du nombre de personnes que nous serons et, surtout, la possibilité de vous informer si l'événement devait être annulé à la dernière minute…



January Meet-Up
January 19, 2022

Un “meet-up”, c’est quoi (certains ont posé la question) : Ce n'est pas un atelier ou une exposition, ni une conférence ou un cours. C'est une réunion décontractée de personnes partageant les mêmes passions, un endroit pour rencontrer de nouveaux amis, renouer avec les anciens, parler de collage (ou de tout ce qui pourrait vous venir à l'esprit), apporter votre dernier travail (si vous le souhaitez), échanger des conseils et des astuces et du matériel (si vous en avez de disponible) et passez une bonne soirée (raisonnablement, bien sûr).

Notre premier meet-up de l'année aura lieu la semaine prochaine :

Quand : 25 janvier 2022 – 19h

Où : Le Kawaa, 24 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris

Pour vous inscrire, merci d'envoyer un mail à hello@pariscollagecollective.com

Il n'y a pas de limite de places et nous ne sommes pas très stricts sur les inscriptions. Si vous décidez à la dernière minute de venir ou d'amener quelqu'un, faites-le. Mais les inscriptions nous donnent une idée du nombre de personnes que nous serons et, surtout, la possibilité de vous informer si l'événement devait être annulé à la dernière minute, ce qui, dans les circonstances actuelles, pourrait arriver.



What is a meet-up – because some of you asked? It's not a workshop or an exhibition nor a lecture or a class. It's a casual get together of likeminded people, a place to meet new friends, reconnect with old ones, talk about collage (or anything else that might be on your mind), bring your latest work (if you want), trade tips and tricks and materials (if you have any to spare) and have a fun evening in the process (reasonably, of course). 

Our first meet-up of the year will be next week:

When: January 25, 2022 – 7pm

Where: Le Kawaa, 24 avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris

To sign up, please send an email to hello@pariscollagecollective.com

There is no fixed number of places available, and we are not super strict about sign-ups. If you decide last minute you want to come or to bring someone along, please do. But sign-ups give us an idea of how many people we might be and most importantly a chance to let you know should the event be cancelled last minute because too many of us had run in with Covid.  




Save the Date: 2022 Meet-Ups
January 11, 2022

(texte français ci-dessous) We hope you all had a fabulous, or peaceful and quiet, whatever you prefer, start into the new year. Here at PCC we have a lot of plans and projects for 2022. To begin with, we would like to organize more meet-ups and live events. A lot of you are not in Paris though, and so to make it a little easier to plan for those of you who are able and willing to travel, we picked the dates for the first three meet-ups of the year. So, save the date!!!

When: 


January 25, 2022 at 7pm

March 22, 2022 at 7pm

May 17, 2022 at 7pm

Where: 


To be announced! (Here, on Instagram, and via our newsletter, but mostly Insta!)

Come and say hello! The more, the merrier!



Nous espérons que vous passez un bon début d'année. Nous, chez PCC, avons plein d’idées et de projets pour 2022. Pour commencer, nous aimerions organiser plus de rencontres et d'événements en direct. Cependant, beaucoup d'entre vous ne sont pas à Paris, et donc pour faciliter un peu la planification de ceux qui peuvent ou qui souhaitent voyager, nous avons choisi les dates de nos trois premiers rendez-vous de l'année. Alors, réservez la date !!! 

Quand:

 
25 janvier 2022 à 19h 

22 mars 2022 à 19h

17 mai 2022 à 19h 

Où: 


A définir ! (L’annonce sera faite sur Instagram, et via notre newsletter, mais surtout sur Insta !) 

Venez nombreux !