About the advisors
The Kanyers have enlisted the assistance of key international advisors to support the collection. The advisors are all practicing artists, authors and museum professionals. The collagists who are advising the Kanyers have years of experience in the field of collage—through collage publishing, exhibition and features in Kolaj Magazine.
The advising collagists’ work is featured in the collection. Their work meets the 30 point criteria required for admission in the collection. The advisory panel’s intention is to promote a broad representation of artists from all over globe. By establishing an advisory group, many who are experts in collage, the collection expands collage’s collaborative, community-driven tradition. The advisors will be recommending new artists for the collection and will be involved in selection of works for the collection.
One advisor is a site reviewer of the American Alliance of Museums Accreditation Commission and has extensive experience as both a successful applicant to, and grant reviewer for, the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Capital Projects For Washington's Heritage. He will be contributing to the archival process in the preservation of the collages and any supporting material.
John Baule
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Allan Bealy
Allan Bealy is a Canadian artist living and working in New York. He was a member of Vehicule Art, the Montreal cooperative art and performance space in the ‘70s and has had solo shows in Montreal, New York and Sweden, as well as being represented in numerous group shows. Bealy published the pocket arts journal DaVinci in Montreal and Benzene, an arts magazine, after moving to New York in the ‘80s. He has spent the last 30 years as a graphic designer and advertising art director and associate creative director, from which he has recently retired.
His art practice now focuses on collage and mixed media as well as continuing to publish, occasionally, under the Benzene Editions banner. His book of collages, Le Reve, has just been published by Redfoxpress in Ireland. He lives with his wife and two sons in Brooklyn.
Zach Collins
Zach Collins was born in Grinnell, Iowa and received a BA from Upper Iowa University, an MA from the University of Iowa, and MFA from Minneapolis Collage of Art and Design. He currently calls Albuquerque, New Mexico home. He is pursuing several art-related projects.
“My work, which is shown extensively in the U.S. and internationally, is about memories–tragic, humorous, and everything in-between. I experiment with ironic and often unrecognizable imagery. My work is an investigation of the unexpected associations that are created by combining fragmented materials through collage.”
He is the author of a number of books about collage including We Said Hello and Shook Hands, Acute Angles coauthored with Bruce Schauble and Recycled Trophies coauthored with Aaron Beebe.