World Collage Day is May 9, 2026! Collage brings different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Celebrate World Collage Day with Berkshire Art Center and Berkshire artists. We’re offering collage classes and inspiration throughout the day! Sign up for one or all of the workshops and events in our World Collage Day series! ABOUT WORLD COLLAGE DAY From Kolaj Magazine: In 2018, Kolaj Magazine initiated World Collage Day, an international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. We invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. We saw fifty events in twenty-five countries and thousands of posts on social media using the hashtag, #worldcollageday. The following year, the event continued to grow. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.” Kolaj Magazine invites artists, art centres, museums, galleries, schools, and communities to celebrate the day by hosting events that bring communities together. Ideas include collage making meet-ups, docent-led tours of collage in a museum or gallery, activities for kids, slideshows or talks that appreciate collage’s role in contemporary art & art history, exhibitions of collage, and more. We invite people to come together around collage in their own communities and to connect to the world digitally using the hashtag #WorldCollageDay. Schedule of Events Sign up below! 9:00am-10:00am: Welcome Workshop: Collage Prompts to Jumpstart World Collage Day with Karen Arp-Sandel (VIRTUAL) 10:30pm-12:00pm: Reclaimed & Reassembled: Intuitive Collage Workshop with Jody King Camarra - IN PERSON - Stockbridge 1:00pm-2:30pm: Circular Collage for Delight and Insight with Karen Arp-Sandel - IN PERSON - Stockbridge 3:30pm-5:00pm: Collage in a Noisy World with Katie Malone-Smith - IN PERSON - Stockbridge 6:00pm-7:00pm: Collage Club Hosted by The 97 Collage Project (VIRTUAL)
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