Visual Poetry and Color

Los Alamos, New Mexico August 15 - September 16, 2026

See Exhibition #1 & #2

The library, the gallery and reception area of the gallery

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.