On Stage
Marlene Weisman is an Emmy award winning collage artist & graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. As the Lavish Lounge’s official 2025 Artist-in-Residence, this year Marlene has been commissioned to create a collage with the themes of HOPE & LOVE.
Last summer, Marlene was selected as our 2024 Latitude Women’s Contemporary Artist, and presented a solo exhibition in the Big Oak Shrines area of the Lavish Lounge Arena. She says: “What an amazing opportunity to be associated with the Latitude Festival as a visual artist and present my original collage art work at a large scale for visitors to enjoy at the Lavish Lounge! So when the Lavish founder Ami Cadillac offered an opportunity this year to become an Artist-in-Residence and create a brand-new wraparound mural for my beloved Lavish Lounge— (a fave “home away from home” as one attendee told me she always refers to it as) my response was a resounding yes!
For this year’s mural design, I was inspired to embrace some of the magical visual aspects I was so taken with at Latitude last year; a flurry of iridescent colors and patterns for the backgrounds, even incorporating parts of photos I’d taken last summer for the upper “sky” area of my design. I added some vintage collage elements and nature visuals, interplaying with my Pop Art-style type graphics that express my hopeful wish for a world of love, music, art, equality & gratitude. Among the historic collage visuals, I chose a few personal favourites— silent film star Buster Keaton, 1960s Motown sensations The Supremes (a childhood favourite!) and the ground-breaking 1920s-era dancer Josephine Baker, who later in life made contributions to a better world through her activism and optimism— an inspiration to us all”.