NY-native and New Orleans based artist Erik Winkowski creates wonderfully warm and humourous collage-based illustrations as well as printed works. See more of his animated works on High-Cool.

Kolaj is a quarterly print magazine about contemporary collage published in Montreal, Quebec, that brings together critical reviews and essays with artist profiles, event highlights, and articles on collage collecting, exhibiting, and making.

Kolaj publisher Ric Kasini Kadour will host a meet and greet for artists, writers, curators, gallerists, and the general public who are interested in collage as a fine art from 7 - 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, at the Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave.). Issues of the magazine will be available.

The opening reception for Nancy Bernardo’s Decorative Debris and Gerald Cannon’s Image Authenticity will be held this Thursday, January 24th, at Loyola University’s Diboll Gallery from 5-8pm.

Show runs through February 20th.

Michael Pajon is a collage-maker and printmaker, living and working in New Orleans. His hand-crafted work often employs Americana, identity and various found archetypal imagery.

above: The Dirt That Passed Beneath Her Feet Spoke of Burning and Betrayal, mixed media collage on cabinet card, 6.5 x 4.5 in.  

Chicago-based artist Tony Fitzpatrick has always had a love affair with New Orleans as well as his native Chicago. His work is a combination of drawing, collage and poetry. Essentially, a diary, sharing a story.

above: Uptown Dog. 2012