General Submission Guidelines:

Each published issue features a curatorial call for the next issue by a guest curator, asking artists to consider specific concepts and approaches to collage. Submitting artists always use the previous issue of Cut Me Up as raw material to cut up and transform, in response to the curatorial call.

Call for Issue 16: Winter 2026
Curated by Teri Henderson

Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2025

Ritual & Collage

What are the rituals that shape our lives, from the mundane to the miraculous, the sacred to the profane? For this issue of Cut Me Up Magazine, guest curator Teri Henderson invites artists to explore the multifaceted theme of Ritual & Collage.

We seek submissions that 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?

– Teri Henderson, Curator

All eligible submissions must:

  • Respond to and incorporate some portion of Cut Me Up Issue 15: Obstructions & Disruptions.

  • Be vertically oriented and sized at 10.25 x 8.25".

  • Be flatbed scanned at 600dpi and saved in .TIF format, or

  • Photographed with a digital SLR camera at the highest resolution setting — 600dpi strongly prefered; 300dpi minimum resolution.

Send submissions via the form linked here: submissionform

Issue 15 Curator Teri Henderson

Teri Henderson, a Baltimore-based independent curator, authored Black Collagists: The Book (2021) and is the Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat. Her writing has appeared in Artforum and The Washington Post. A 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Resident and a 2024 Poynter-Koch and Maynard Institute fellow, Henderson juried “Histories Collide” (2023) and consulted on “New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024” at NMWA. Most recently, she co-curated “LAYERS: The Art of Contemporary Collage” at MICA.

Instagram: @terimhenderson | @blackcollagists
Web: blackcollagists.com

Cut Me Up Issue 16 will be published on January 1, 2026