Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab-October 2026 - Iowa Artist Directory
Artists interested in collage and place-based artwork are invited to apply for a five-day intensive lab in Montreal exploring how the city's architecture, streets, and histories can inform collage practice.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- 13 days left
- Entry fee
- $1000
- Award
- Artwork made during and after the Lab will be considered for a 2027 exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans and future Place as Archive publications; limited grants available to offset the Lab fee.
- Location
- Atelier Galerie 2112, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Exhibition window
- Oct 6, 2026 → Oct 11, 2026
About
Overview
Montreal: City as Archive Artist Lab is a five-day, in-person intensive at Atelier Galerie 2112 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, accompanied by two preparatory virtual meetings on Zoom and a post-Lab virtual reconvening. Organized by Kolaj Institute and led by Ric Kasini Kadour, the Lab is designed for collage artists interested in developing place-based artwork and contemporary art projects. Through presentations, site visits, walks, discussion, research, and studio work, participants will investigate the idea of place as archive and explore how Montreal's buildings, streets, public spaces, signage, material culture, communities, and histories can inform collage.
Key dates
- In-person Lab: Tuesday, 6 October to Sunday, 11 October 2026
- Early application deadline: Sunday, 30 August 2026
- Final application deadline: Sunday, 13 September 2026
- Dates for preparatory virtual meetings: to be determined
Eligibility
Artists over age 21, at any career stage, may apply from anywhere in the world.
Lab content and outcomes
The Lab addresses appropriation, copyright, fair use, research, play, context, exhibiting, publishing, and the ways artwork circulates through the art ecosystem. Artists will explore multiple Montreal neighborhoods and reflect on the history of the Centre-Sud district through the Écomusée du fier monde. At the end of the week, participants will present their artwork and proposals for a larger body of work or project. Artwork made during and after the Lab will be considered for a 2027 exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans and future Place as Archive publications. Participants will become members of Kolaj Institute's Place as Archive Project.
Fee and funding
- Fee: $1050 CAD (approximately $750 USD) per artist
- Limited grants available to offset the Lab fee
- Travel, accommodations, and meals remain the artist's responsibility
Contact
Seth Ter Haar, [email protected], 6163370471
- Award
- Artwork made during and after the Lab will be considered for a 2027 exhibition at Kolaj Institute Gallery in New Orleans and future Place as Archive publications; limited grants available to offset the Lab fee.
- Entry fee
- $1050 CAD (approximately $750 USD) per artist; limited grants available to offset this fee.
- Theme
- The Lab investigates place as archive, exploring how Montreal's buildings, streets, public spaces, signage, material culture, communities, and histories can inform collage artwork and contemporary art projects.
- Eligibility
- Artists over age 21, at any career stage, from anywhere in the world.
- Audience
- Artists over age 21, at any career stage, from anywhere in the world.
- Contact
- [email protected]
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