More Is Required Workshop at Kolaj Fest New Orleans 2026

"More Is Required" is a collaborative collage project inspired by the life and legacy of Barbara Jordan, and by the making of The Inquisitor, a documentary film by Angela Lynn Tucker that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and on PBS' Independent Lens in February 2026. "Barbara Jordan was a trailblazing congresswoman, orator, and constitutional scholar from Texas who became one of the most powerful voices in American political history," wrote Tucker. "Collage is central to The Inquisitor itself—animated stop motion collages are woven throughout the film as a visual language for Jordan's story.

"More Is Required" extends that language into a communal practice. The project began as a solo exhibition at The Front in New Orleans in January 2026, and is now expanding into a participatory, traveling initiative that invites collage artists everywhere to respond to the prompt: More Is Required. What does it demand of you? What does it demand of us collectively? In this workshop, participants will use collage to respond to the project's prompt—assembling images and text to define what "more" means in their own terms, and to surface what remains unaddressed. Tucker wrote, "Kolaj Fest would be a founding community event of this project—the place where it opens up beyond one artist and becomes many voices."

Workshops at offer participants the opportunity to engage with their process or materials in a new way; explore subjects or themes; or practice a new collage technique to make. Over a dozen workshops take place during the festival.

This Workshop is Free and Open to the Public. NOTE: This event will neither be streamed nor recorded.

Angela Lynn Tucker's film, The Inquisitor, will be screened at Cafe Istanbul on Thursday, 11 June 2026, 7PM as part of Collage on Screen at Kolaj Fest New Orleans.

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