Cut Me Up Issue 5: Envisioning Utopia
36 Pages
$14

**2nd Edition available now**

Cut Me Up Issue 5: Envisioning Utopia, curated by Valerie Hegarty, is a selection of 18 artworks that unearth optimistic possibilities from yesterday’s shattered world. These artists consider contemporary problems and create imaginative solutions, endeavoring to find the seeds for a hopeful tomorrow.

“For Cut Me Up Issue 5, artists tackled a range of contemporary problems such as climate change, the housing crisis, mental health, the novel corona virus, food distribution and spiritual bankruptcy in order to create imaginative solutions that are ripe with optimistic possibility. These dynamic collages of future utopias hint at balanced and ideal worlds where nature is protected and flourishing, housing expands exponentially, working systems cleanse resources, a vaccine is discovered and celebrated and Adam and Eve return to make a new choice: the tree of life. The artists’ collages of utopian worlds illustrate that the future’s solutions already exist at our fingertips, if their constituent parts can be salvaged, repaired and recombined from our current world’s ruin.” Valerie Hegarty, curator

About Cut Me Up:
Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a call—a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks. The newly created responses will form the content of the next issue.


Issue 5 Cover Artist:
Michelle Bowers

Issue 5 Artists:
Loren Abbate
Michelle Bowers
MJ Connors Davision
Paul Elter
Carrie Forman
Luciana Frigerio
Ellen Haines
Chad Martinez
Andrea Myers
W. David Powell
Billy Renkl
Laurent Seljan
Lydia Selk
Lisa Sheets
Rachel Singel
Maureen Wiliams
Al Wong
Holly Wong