// regarding the current times some of the promoted submission deadlines may be postponed
// some curators may take more time than usual to give you heads notice on received artwork as they may be putting it under quarantine
// when submitting artwork to the address listed as SUBMISSION ADDRESS in each open call, all artists are kindly requested to provide, by email or traditional snail mail, the following information
artist > profile picture | name | brief bio | email address | website | address
artwork > title | media details | brief text
// while addressing the artwork it is also important to identify it with the #open_call_name since the receiver may be hosting several open calls at the same time
☑ use the ballot box to check out stuff
Beautiful Flower
due date 2021-08-11 // 9 day(s) left for submission
submission address Magandang Bulaklak
| Renoca Lobo Art Gallery
| #84 B - Rincon Road
| Valenzuela City
| Philippines
maximum dimensions 200 x 300 mm | 7.9 x 11.8 in
LOVE FREEDOM SOLIDARITY
due date 2021-08-15 // 13 day(s) left for submission
show 2021-08-30 > 2021-09-30
show address Carrara
| Italy
submission address Morice Marcuse
| Via Venezia 2/a
| 54033 (MS) Carrara
| Italy
due date 2021-09-01 // 30 day(s) left for submission
submission address Pandemic Dream Project
| PO Box 39031 James Bay
| Victoria, B.C V8V2G0
| Canada
description
Have your dreams changed during the pandemic? Perhaps a recurring dream theme? Or a stand-alone pandemic dream that you just cannot forget? The Pandemic Dream Project seeks submissions that illustrate a significant dream you have had since the COVID 19 pandemic began.
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submissions will be displayed both digitally and in a local art exhibition
maximum submissions 1
required dimensions 102 x 152 mm | 4 x 6 in
Dante: ...a riveder le stelle
due date 2021-09-05 // 34 day(s) left for submission
show 2021-09-14 > 2021-12-31
show address Italian Post Office
| Monza (Lombardy)
| Italy
submission address Claudio Romeo
| Viale j. e R. Kennedy 144
| 20840 Villa Raverio
| (Monza e Brianza) - ITALIA
description
In 2021 we remember the 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, a character who does not need any introduction due to his universal greatness. Even though his times may be long gone, the message he left us is still current and alive. With this thought we invite all those who want to participate in this Mail Art Call: Dante citizen and contemporary witness of the world.
due date 2021-09-21 // 50 day(s) left for submission
show address Jorge Daniel Catalogna
submission address Jorge Daniel Catalogna
| 137th street n 1827 between 18 and 19 Berazategui
| province of Bs. AS
| ARGENTINA C.P. (1884)
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mounted on 21 x 21 cm cardboard
required dimensions 180 x 120 mm | 7.1 x 4.7 in
PostcART PHL
due date 2021-09-21 // 50 day(s) left for submission
show 2021-10-09 > 2021-10-09
show address First Unitarian Church, 2125
| Chestnut St. Phila.
| PA 19146 USA
submission address PostcART ℅ mcget, 627
| S. 27th St., Phila.
| PA 19146 USA
description
A MAIL ART call for work in postcard format, being held on the same day and in the same space as a Vintage Postcard Show and Sale. One goal is to make some connections between the collectors and vendors and modern-day mail art. We expect to have lots of interesting meetings between two very different groups of postcard fans.
The venue is a beautiful, historic church hall in central Philadelphia. The postcard sale will be on the floor of the hall; we will display the mail art up on the stage area. If you include your mailing address on your work, we will add it to a wall poster with mailing addresses of all participating mail artists.
Many postcard shows put the work submitted into archives. We approve of this practice, but for this show, we will do something different, more in the nature of how postcards and mail art as a pop practice.
In the weeks following the show, we will visit Philadelphia’s many good bookstores and carefully place the works inside art books. In this manner, the cards will be seen by a new audience, selected by fate.
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Artwork will not be sold. It will be secretly be placed inside art books inside the book stores of Philadelphia.
due date 2021-09-30 // 59 day(s) left for submission
submission address The Corona Postcard Project
| Karin Sumpf
| Zum Großen Zernsee 5L
| 14542 Werder (Havel)
| Germany
description
I collect personal Covid-19 stories on each kind of postcard and share them on my Instagram account, to connect the people and their experiences in covid-19 digital. It can be stories about life, work, family, quarantine, illness, and health... anything is welcome.
due date 2021-10-05 // 64 day(s) left for submission
show 2021-10-05 > 2021-10-21
show address AIRspace Projects
submission address Poste Restante C/O Airspace Projects 10 Junction Street
| Marrickville, NSW
| Australia 2204
description
Write a letter 'Poste Restante', to someone in your life that has passed, to the care of artist Ida Sophia and Airspace Projects (Australia). At the exhibition, the letters will be ritually delivered via live performance.
VI Exposición Internacional de Arte Postal en Avilés «el aire»
due date 2021-10-31 // 90 day(s) left for submission
theme air
show 2021-12-01 > 2021-12-31
show address Palacio de Valdecarzana
| Avilés
| Asturias
| Spain
submission address VI Exposición Internacional de Arte Postal en Avilés «el aire»
| Palacio de Valdecarzana
| Calle del Sol, 1
| 33402 Avilés . Asturias
| España
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Check the entire rules on the provided website.
CORREOS Filatelia will issue a stamp with one of the postal works selected among all those received for the VI
International Exhibition of Postal Art in Avilés, with the slogan «the air», and which will be put into circulation in the
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A multimedia catalog will be published in PDF format as an annex to number 11 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum. Number 11 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum will be published in January 2022.
This call is for the second Paint-Your-Own Masterpieces video, to be posted on the project's blog. Submissions are due on December 31 2021, or before, for inclusion in the video. You must start or include the original image of the Mona Lisa paint-by-number in some way - the video experience is meant to be an evolving image so consistency is needed. Pieces that do not include the Mona Lisa paint-by-number will not be included in the video but will appear on the blog, as well as any late arrivals.
due date 2021-12-31 // 151 day(s) left for submission
show address Museu Quinta da Cruz
| Estrada de São Salvador
| 3510-784 São Salvador
| Viseu PORTUGAL
submission address Museu Quinta da Cruz
| #viseucidadejardim
| Estrada de São Salvador
| 3510-784 São Salvador
| Viseu PORTUGAL
description
Quinta da Cruz - Centro de Arte Contemporânea is located at Viseu – Portugal, and was created as a dynamic center for art, culture, and identity. It is a cultural space oriented towards the exhibition of contemporary art, to the development of artistic practices, and is perceived as an engine of local artistic promotion. Intended for public enjoyment, culture, and leisure, it is integrated into a wide green space of excellence and remarkable biodiversity.
The Mail Art project promotes the democratic participation of artistic practices, through the reactivation of an expression that had its peak, in an alternative way to the conventional means of art exhibitions, in the 60s / 70s. Annually, an international open call is created and an exhibition is held with the received artwork.
It furthermore legitimates, that artistic production is a preponderant expression for the creation of dialogue spaces, places of "rupture", reinvention and boldness. Through this call, the transformative, inclusive and participatory role of art is implicit. The route of these works is interpreted and intervened throughout this postal journey. More than an annual call, this project claims a model of collaborative work with the goal of constituting and giving visibility to collections of this nature.
In 2021, VISEU values natural attributes and the relationship with the “environment”. The IV OPEN CALL is directed to the theme VISEU Garden - City.
We launch an invitation to artists and to everyone else interested in Mail Art to send their artwork and join in the IV Edition of this open call. Only artwork received by traditional snail mail will be displayed. We hope to receive drawings, collages, stamps, visual poetry, among others, at Quinta da Cruz - Contemporary Art Center of Viseu.
• Only one side of the artwork will be displayed.
• Artwork considered obscene or offensive will be excluded.
• All artwork, even those received after the deadline, will integrate the Quinta da Cruz Museum collection and may be exhibited at future Mail Art events.
• Artwork received after the submission deadline will not be part of the current open call.
• All artists are kindly requested to provide, by email or traditional snail mail, the following information for means of public display: artist > profile picture | name | brief bio | email address | website | address // artwork > title | media details | brief text
• All received content will also be displayed online at the digital platform www.quintadacruz.yzonk.com.
• During the exhibition, we will promote workshops entitled "Give and Receive" where artistic objects inspired by the received artwork will be created, with the purpose of being randomly offered to the public that visits this exhibition and / or sent to participating artists.
• Artists who do not wish to disclose private information, such as name or postal address, should not include them in their correspondence.
• If sending from abroad we advise you to add the words "SEM VALOR COMERCIAL" to avoid customs delay.
• No return | No jury | Free technique
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precise exhibition date to be set further on
this project has YZONK’s and Monsenhor enVide neFelibata’s support
curator QUINTA DA CRUZ - Museu de Arte Contemporânea
like it or not, www.mailart.pt lists active open calls sorted out by due date, as well as exhibitions, artists, links of interest, and so on ... but it may end up being much more
only after starting this listing, at 01_august_2018, we did realize the extraordinary amount of new open calls coming up all the time ... almost 20 new ones per month! and that's only those that we can grasp... from automatic bot searches, constant research, direct emailing, and from those special people that keep us updated on what is going on in the community
so, for all of those like us that enjoy stats and precise numbers ... since it began we're talking of around 500 open calls totaling around 1 new open call every other day
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