WELCOME TO JUNIPER RAG | an Art Advocacy Project of Atelier ID Global
Contemporary art to elevate + enrich our spaces—
Juniper Rag strategically blends editorial, exhibition, community, collaborations and artist development into one ecosystem.
Michelle May and Payal Thiffault bring a rare combination of art world excellence and marketing strategy. Founded and led by both of us--working artists, each with over two decades of experience in design, curation and cultural programming. We understand both the creative and business sides of art. Juniper Rag bridges two major elements—bringing thoughtful curation, real artist networks and strategic visibility. Our virtual exhibitions create new pathways and open logistical and financial barriers to all artists globally.
Our programming, exhibitions and partnerships emerge from real artistic networks and community engagement and strategic planning of collaborations, that capitalize on timing--ensuring that every project reflects lived creative experience rather than purely commercial or institutional priorities, which we are not beholden to as independent advocates.
Juniper Rag sits at the intersection of: exhibition platform, cultural network + marketplace.
Juniper Rag is backed by our marketing agency, Atelier ID Global, also co-founded by us— We understand the art market landscape, the needs of artists and strategic business collaborations that widen your network. We also provide artist services, branding, website builds and manage collaborative events.
Juniper Rag has built a strong reputation in presenting high-caliber art in all media by some of the best emerging and mid-career artists, and proudly we have juried and curated some of the highest attending shows for our creative partners. Locally, we are active in many Massachusetts artist communities, which gives all of our talented artists strategic footing in New England.
Learn more and visit us at juniperrag.com
BASIC SUBMISSION DETAILS:
- Eligibility: All international artists are welcome to apply to all virtual shows with works in any medium. Each in-person exhibitions have specific logistical guidelines to follow.
- Requirements: Artists may submit up to the specific limit of art for each call, which may vary. In some cases you can submit more for a small fee. High-quality, cropped, unframed images, a well-written bio and a statement (300 words each) are required
- Optional marketing items can be submitted as well. Include a headshot, + an optional short video of a studio or process shot or comparable
- Juried calls mean that not all art or artists may be selected.
REQUIREMENTS
- Submission Fee: $35 USD (non-refundable)
- Limit of Submitted Artworks: depends on call requirements, please read.
- Bio Word Limit: 300
- Statement Word Limit: 300
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COPYRIGHT & USAGE AGREEMENT
By submitting your work, you attest that it your submission is your own original work. Artist retains full copyright of the work and will be credited. By submitting you give permission to Juniper Rag to use your images by JUNIPER RAG or affiliated partners on our websites, print and digital, advertising, interviews and of course, social media posts. We do reserve the right and hope to use your content again at a later time.
By submitting your work, you attest that it is your original artwork, 100% and if you are creating digital art you have diligently checked all copyright information. Any questionable submissions that we ethically cannot support may be omitted.
Thank you for sharing your work with Juniper Rag.
Michelle May and Payal Thiffault
TORN
CALL FOR ART | JURIED BY DAVID CARSON
Award-Winning, Legendary Graphic Designer + Artist
Presented by Juniper Rag
DEADLINE: JUNE 8, 2026
COLLAGE ARTISTS WANTED
Forget clean lines. Forget permission. This is where instinct wins.
TORN seeks collage and montage work from visual artists, graphic designers, photographers—anyone cutting, tearing, layering, distorting, and pushing collage or montage. Looking for innovative work and risk taking as well as brilliant compositions and clever use of collage. Raw edges, straight edges, original thinking. Strange juxtapositions. Beautiful accidents. This show celebrates rule breaking and creativity.
Incredibly—we’ve got David Carson as guest juror. A true original. A rule-breaker who turned graphic design into his own visual language the world couldn’t look away from. David has the kind of eye that won't just judge work—he'll feel it and contemplate it.
Super flex-- an epic opportunity to have your work elevated by a total legend.
Cut it up. Tear it. Layer it. Submit it.
Juniper Rag is calling in the X-Acto cutters, the paper tearers, the assemblers of beautiful wreckage.
TORN is an open call for all collage, physical or digital, mixed or mutant. We have handed the keys on this one to David Carson. Yeah, that David Carson. The guy who blew up the rulebook in the '90s and never looked back. If you know, you know. If you don't, look him up asap.
What we're looking for: Work that is honest to the cut. Analog, digital, or somewhere in the bleed between. Collage, photomontage, assemblage, documentation, mixed media — if tearing, cutting, layering, and recontextualizing are in its DNA, we want to see it. No size restrictions. No style restrictions. Restrictions are for someone else's show. We must honor originality and continuously challenge conventionality in art and design by not following trends, but to use our imaginations and reinvent them by challenging the viewers and most importantly, ourselves. Artists, do not feel that your work has to look like a grunge rock album cover. We want to see YOUR narrative, your way.
David Carson will jury the work. We trust the collection will be epic.
ABOUT DAVID CARSON
Before David Carson ever touched a layout, he was reading waves — a ranked professional surfer who cracked the world's top ten before stumbling into a two-week design workshop and never fully coming back. He came to graphic design the way most great things happen, sideways, through a side door, on his own terms. Channeling the kinetic, anti-establishment energy of Southern California surf and skate culture, he moved through Transworld Skateboarding and Beach Culture before landing at Ray Gun, where he didn't just art direct — he detonated. His layouts were collage in motion, fractured, layered, typographically feral and gloriously indifferent to readability.
Newsweek said he changed the public face of graphic design. Creative Review called him the art director of the era. What followed was a career too big for a page — his anti-grid gospel taken to Nike, Pepsi, Levi's, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Nine Inch Nails, and beyond, proof that authentic rebellion is the most persuasive language there is. His books — The End of Print, 2nd Sight, Fotografiks, Trek — have lived on design school shelves ever since, and his most recent work, nu collage, strips away every client and brief, leaving just Carson doing what he's always done, tearing the world apart and reassembling it into something that lands somewhere beneath the rational mind. He holds the AIGA Gold Medal, the field's highest honor, and he is still creating, with recent collabs for Macallan and Porsche proving he hasn't softened an inch.
He spends winters on a surf break in the islands and he still surfs. A few years back, a friend introduced us to David over a few cold Caribs in a sandy beach bar. When the idea for a collage exhibition took shape and one of his reels surfaced, it was obvious. He is jurying TORN because collage is, and always has been, where he lives — and we couldn't imagine anyone better.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Submit up 3-5 original collage works.
Deadline: June 8, 2026
Exhibition opens: Late June and will be shared all summer and will be online until fall.
Open to: All international visual artists, everywhere. Virtual means borderless.
File Name Convention: Last Name_First Name_Title_Size_Price (Ex: May_Michelle_Reef_30x40_2400)
Juniper Rag is an independent art platform rooted in the belief that the margins are where the interesting stuff lives. We were founded to elevate international artists, creating new pathways to collectors, without the overhead of a gallery and the extreme logistical costs of typical exhibitions.
APPLICATION FEE: $35.00 USD For 3 pieces of art, $5 for each additional up to 2. Allows for total uploads of 3-5 cropped artwork images, 1 headshot , 1 bio/statement document, 1 pitch blurb and 1 video file (optional). We may use this video file for reels to promote your work. 1 to 3 pieces may be chosen. Submission fees are non-refundable.
PRICING, COMMISSIONS & FEES:
ART PRICES: There is no cap on pricing. NFS is also acceptable.
ARTIST COMMISSIONS: Artists receive 65% commission, JR 35%. Payment is made within 30 days of sale.
JUNIPER RAG SUBMISSION FEES: Your submission fee contributes to keeping the lights on at Juniper Rag, overhead for Squarespace and Submittable, processing submissions and stipends. We work for hours organizing, creating spreadsheets, design, labels, planning the call, hanging the installations and putting our virtual shows up, marketing, promotion and social media and the submission fee supports all the artists we work with. We only exist because of you. Thank you.
Long-Term Impact – Many past exhibitors have gone on to sell works, secure commissions, and gain future exhibition invitations, solo shows and acquisitions into large scale corporate purchases as a result of their Juniper Rag participation.
We are thrilled and grateful to be working with David Carson on this opportunity. All artists selected for this opportunity will be able to update their CV with this exhibition.
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As always, thank you for your support.
Michelle May and Payal Thiffault
Co-Founders of Juniper Rag
Our local art communities are Worcester/Boston/Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
We are based in Paxton & Easton, Massachusetts.
Juniper Rag is a project of Atelier ID Global
Please contact info@juniperrag if you have any issues or questions.