Cut Me Up Issue 16: Ritual & Collage, curated by Teri Henderson, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore the rituals that shape our lives, from the mundane to the miraculous, the sacred to the profane.

Curatorial prompts for Issue 16 artists:

Explore the ways collage can document, depict, and interpret rituals in their diverse forms.

Consider:

• Traditional Rituals: How can collage represent established cultural, religious, or societal ceremonies and practices?

• Personal Rituals: What unique routines, habits, or actions do you perform in your daily life that hold personal significance?

• Invented Rituals: Can collage be used to visualize entirely new or imagined rituals, perhaps reflecting our hopes, fears, or desires?

We are also interested in exploring the act of collage-making itself as a ritualistic process.

Consider:

• Does your creative process involve specific steps, routines, or adeliberate selection of materials that feel akin to a ritual?

• Are there intentions or symbolic meanings embedded in your process?

• Does the repetitive act of cutting, arranging, and adhering become a meditative or transformative experience?

• How can the layering, juxtaposition, and transformation inherent in collage speak to the essence and significance of ritual?

• All eligible submissions must incorporate some portion or portions of Cut Me Up: Issue 15.

Teri Henderson’s original curatorial call for Issue 16 can be found here.

Issue 16 Cover Art:
Nellie Seigel

Issue 16 Artists:
Brook Allen
Ginnie Gardiner
Antonio Ingenito
Christine Karapetian
Hope Link
Rozali Mascuri
Sylvia Mueller
Stacey Phillips
Shanna Robinson
Katlin Schneider
Phyllis Schwartz
Nellie Seigel
Laurent Seljan
Louise de St. Jorre
Duane Toops
LaVonna Varnado Brown
Rosanne Walsh

All of the 121 response artworks made by 86 artists for Cut Me Up Issue 16: Ritual & Collage can be found here.