I went out to visit with the gallery director this week to look at the space and go over details for the show next month. If you would like to participate, now is the time. The sooner it get here the better so I can process everything.
Visual Poetry and Color in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Call for Works
All works accepted and exhibited.
What you need to do…
Buy an 8 x 8 x .75 inch birch cradled panel from dick blick
https://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-premier-wood-panels/
(does not need to be Dick Blick but the same sort of panel and the same dimensions)
Make a collage on it that somehow has to do with the theme and mail it to me to arrive in July. I’ll be driving the work over to the gallery in August and doing the install. The show will open August 15 and run through September 16. Then the works become part of the archives and shown in any future iterations of the show or used in other appropriate exhibitions in the future.
Be sure you write your name, title, contact info and online link on the back of the piece.
Here are other works in the show
Send to:
Visual Poetry - Cecil Touchon
4315 Rancho Largo Rd. NW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120
TO ARRIVE BY END OF JULY, 2026
Here is the poster of the schedule
https://stepupgallery.org/exhibit-schedule/
Press material
VISUAL POETRY AND COLOR - LOS ALAMOS, N.M.
EXHIBITION - Opening Reception - Saturday August 15 - 2:00 - 4pm
The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction presents Visual Poetry and Color: a traveling exhibition of Collage Artists and Visual Poets from around the world.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
International
Elena Marini, Italy - David Bircham - Canada, Lisa Blond, Canada - Flora Georgiou, Australia - Angelo Ricciardi, Italy - Roberto Scala, Italy - Emily Marbach, UK - Les Jones, UK - Vittore Baroni, Italy - Ryosuke Cohen, Japan - Luc Fierens, Belgium - Rose Frain, Scotland - György Galantai, Hungary - Julia Klaniczay, Hungary - Alexander Limarev, Russia - Ruggero Maggi, Italy - Lilian Nicholson, Sweden - Matthew Rose, France - Berty Skuber, Italy - Rod Summers, the Netherlands - Kjell Varvin, Norway - Mary Wallace, Ireland
USA
Cathy Zigrossi, Ana Soha, Amye Wake, Abigail Meredith, Annie Kartsotis, Kaitlin Oesterreicher, Alex Mena, Chris Davis, Todd Franke, Bella Moore, Laurie Kornher, Kathy Elliot, Lanny Quarles, Eric Breish, Charlie White, Katerina Touchon, Branko Majmunovic, Peggy Shepherd, Peggy Olivier, Edith Torres, Jasmine Yarbrough, Kerrie More, Don Abell, Zach Touchon, Diane Blumin, Elizabeth Bogard, Liz King, Mili Suleman, Mark LoVecchio, Allison Anne, Ray Beldner, Melissa Kulig, Susan Reedy, Rosemary Rae, Kelly C. Berwager, Deanna Lampe, Jonathan Stangroom, Lilly Hope, Nich St. Jam, David C. Donovan, Ann Dettmer, Pratima Aravabhoomi, Beth McCoy, Joan Schulze, Marlene Weisman, Rebecca Stuckey, Laura Speer, Mary Baumgardner, James Wimberg, Mim Golub Scalin, Janice McDonald, Kathy Elliott, Annie Kartsotis, Terry Garrett, Jay Sylvester, Laura Noe, Betsy Arizu, Judith Jasinski, Christine Jelson West, Jennifer DeSantis, Heidi Markham, Peggy Shepherd, Vicki Daigneau, Selena Dixon, Carmen Kolz, Clive Knights & Terriann Walling, Laila Rezai, Touri Strick, Joey Zanotti, Sona Nast, Marsha Balian, Andrea Burgay, Jane Helslander, Marian Hoffman Ting, Allan Bealy, James Gallagher, John Whitlock,
Additional names with incoming works for this show will be added soon.
Additional works will be on view by other regional artists.
WORKSHOP - Saturday August 15 -10am to 2pm
Please join us for a FREE one day collage workshop and make a work to contribute to the exhibition and the archives. All supplies provided. (but you are welcome to bring your own materials to use or share) Your contributed work will be hung the same day for the opening of the exhibition and become a part of the Collage Museum’s collection and used in future exhibitions of this show and possibly others.
ABOUT THE MUSEUM ARCHIVES
Started in the late 1990’s in the early days of the internet, the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction is an ongoing art project by collage artist, poet, writer and painter Cecil Touchon based in the Santa Fe/Albuquerque area of New Mexico.
Since that time Touchon has created multiple art projects including artists from around the world and has curated many large exhibitions and catalogs of which Visual Poetry and Color is the current ongoing project. The archive contains thousands of works given to the collection by participating artists.
THE MISSION OF THE MUSEUM
Among Ourselves: The Archive of Living Connection
Where traditional museums gather from the past, often from afar, the Collage Museum gathers from across the contemporary moment, from among ourselves. Artists contribute not because they are selected, but because they are in conversation - with each other and with the archive. It is a communal project.
This is not a collection in the institutional sense. It is a correspondence field - an archive of relationships, personal contact, synchronicities. Objects enter not through provenance, but through encounter. They arrive by call and responce, intuition, chance, or trust.
There is no acquisitions committee. No gate keepers. There is only the unfolding present and those who feel called to participate. In this model, gifting is not merely a transaction - it is a gesture of community. It is a ongoing record of a global network. There is no hierarchy of contribution. No speculation. No authority dictating worth. The museum does not collect - it remembers. It does not display value - it displays connection. The collections archive is the community’s physical proof of life and record of that interconnection.
We greeted each other, we interacted, and we left a memento safeguarded for the future.