Cut Me Up Issue 11: Souvenir, curated by Kathy Greenwood, is a selection of 18 artworks that expand upon the notion of the souvenir. While travel is often a reason for collecting such mementos, objects and images can signify all sorts of occasions and connections. Souvenirs can represent deeply personal experiences or be tokens of some shared public happening. They can even mark a fictional occurrence or something that is wished for. For this issue, artists were asked to mine their associations with souvenirs while incorporating elements of Cut Me Up Issue 10: Reconnect.

The works included in this issue, and its companion in-person exhibition at Albany Airport, expand upon the notion of a souvenir as a travel trinket. Magazine readers and airport travelers alike will discover new ways of thinking about the role objects can play in marking time.

Curatorial prompts for Issue 11 artists:

• Consider the potent connection between object and memory.

• Make a singular object, 2D or 3D, that signifies a special time or place.

• Responses may be in any media and may incorporate various materials.

• Optional: Tell us the story of your souvenir (in up to 150 words).

• Eligible submissions must incorporate some portion or portions of Cut Me Up: Issue 10.

Kathy Greenwood’s original curatorial call for Issue 11 can be found here.

Issue 11 Cover Art:
Monica Church

Issue 11 Artists:
Patty Armstrong
Sharon Bates
Todd Bartel
Laura Cannamela
Monica Church
Cheryl Chudyk
Susan Graham
Everest Hood
Tim Janchar
Stephenie Knight
Emily Marbach
Anthony Naimo
Michael Oatman with Tom Roland
Bradley Parsons
Lori Petchers
Lydia Selk
Lisa Sheets
Amy Talluto

All of the 76 response artworks made by 70 artists for Cut Me Up Issue 11: Souvenir can be found here.