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Mail Art Call 2020: Coronavirus
3rd "Estoy acá para vos"
ALPHAMAIL
What does it mean to be a man? What is masculinity?
How does one become a man?
How much of being a man is physical? Biological? Social? Psychological?
How are men today different from their ancestors?
How do men think? Feel? Act? Talk?
Answer any of these questions with your art, or just send something manly.
Open to everyone, male or otherwise.
LET YOUR MIND TRAVEL
Mailart Correspondence
Open mailart call for mailart correspondence to share techniques and inspiration.
Memories
The Association Dance Project organizes the international mail art project dedicated to the theme of "Memories".
Every experience we have lived turns into a memory ready to return in mind even without our will. A particular scent, a place, a situation similar to something already lived or experienced, can bring to the surface a whirlwind of past emotions, emotions to be immortalized in a postcard.
NO PLASTIC
Post-It for Hong Kong
Asking for Post-It notes with art or writing addressing human rights and democracy in Hong Kong.
Post-It notes will be affixed to the walls in and around my home, with periodic documentation on the web and on Facebook.
Postcards
I am planning on having an exhibit in Austin, Texas of all the Mail Art post cards I have received over the years. I don't know exactly when or where this will be. But if you would like your unique post card to be in the show, send to me.
I will send you a handmade post card in return after the show. After a long illness where I haven't done much visual art, I am finishing up dozens of started projects.
Some Art of Quarantine
How has the pandemic affected your life? What influence do the corona restrictions have on your art? What are the advantages or risks of digitalization? What do you need to live a meaningful life? How will society change? Please send us a postcard with the subject Some Art of Quarantine in naked mail!
The exhibition is visible from the street in a storefront, accessible without entering the gallery, and online.
Souvenirs From The Future. A Global Exhibition About What’s Next.
SpaceWhale
The CAT
The Golden Twenties
The New International Mail Art-Call 2018/20
V Mail Art OPEN CALL – my paper tile
Viseu 2020 - Light, Camera, Action
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 MailArt Open Call is an annual project that promotes a contemporary art form of expression that emerged as a correspondence exchanged between artists during the 60s and manifested itself as an alternative to the conventional means of art exhibitions on the 70s. It integrates the strategic line - territory and identity, of this space and its relationship with the community and the city, fulfilling the objective of constituting a small format collection.
In 2020, Viseu chooses cinema and photography as motives and expressions of cultural valorization, territorial marketing and tourism promotion, guiding programs and projects under the theme, "Viseu 2020 - Luz, Câmara, Ação" [ Viseu 2020 - Light, Camera, Action ].
Quinta da Cruz – Centro de Arte Contemporânea challenges once again, artists and everyone interested in MailArt to send their artwork through the Postal Service, for our third edition, under the theme "Viseu 2020 - Light, Camera, Action". #viseusemfiltros
We wait for your drawings, collages, stamps, visual poetry, among others, at Quinta da Cruz - Centro de Arte Contemporânea. Only artwork received via snail mail will be displayed.
the present open call has the support by YZONK.com and Monsenhor enVide neFelibata
20VEINTE – of pandemic and other demons
Friendship
2nd electronic call for Experimental Poetry Procedimentum 2021
A multimedia catalogue will be published in PDF format as an annex to number 10 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum. Number 10 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum will be published in January 2021.
5th electronic call for Postal Art Procedimentum 2021
LISTEN ALBUM AT » https://plustimbre.bandcamp.com/album/cr-ptico
A multimedia catalogue will be published in PDF format as an annex to number 10 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum. Number 10 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum will be published in January 2021.
GENDER DIFFERENCE
Chácara
Choose a word at random and create something with it. Let's see what it will end up to be.
Pandas
Absurd Mail Art Show
Artist Matter #2: Mail Art for Future
Birds
Fauna de mi país en peligro.
Escuela 12
Villa 18 de Julio Rocha
Uruguay
I see I see .. you can not see | I spy with my little eye
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No52. Maszkok / Masks
1. Save the mma file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Create artwork.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
MELISMA's CHRISTMAS
ReAct for Change
Call for action regarding equality/change in our world currently.
CoNVoCaZioNe iNTeRNaZioNaLe Di aRTe PoSTaLe // eSSeRCi SeNZa eSSeRCi 2020 (XIII edizione)
The images of the works sent may be used by the organization in the manner and with the ends deemed appropriate without any economic pretexts by the artists invited to participate. In particular, the right to use them in communication and advertising material is recognized.
VOTE!!
What does voting mean to you? The cornerstone of a democracy is the citizen’s right to vote. On November 3rd Americans will VOTE for the next President of the United States. Let’s say this mail art is your ballot - what are you VOTING for? What would you like to see changed?
The project will be donated to the Special Collections at Vanderbilt University Library in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Amanita Bunker #7
At this 2020’s edition, the Amanita Bunker exhibition returns to the streets of this small village reinforcing the artistic bombings of the previous editions. Authors are invited to create artwork regarding the requested theme and join the yearly Mushroom Festival.
Amanita Bunker, wears robes of a fictional political party. The Amanites manifest themselves and demand distinction and promise improvements on the village. In the form of stickers, pins, posters, slogans, political propaganda and other equally ridiculous but serious paraphernalia ... artists are invited to participate by sending works that will eventually be scattered through the streets in the form of propaganda.
we do ask you to add somewhere on the artwork or address, the hashtag #AMANITABUNKER
POSTAL OUTLIERS
Calling for Postal Oddities, Contemporary Curiosities, Unlimited Useless Information, Historical Absurdities and Non-Machinable Mail.
WE ARE HUMAN FABRIC
Cruz-Diez Kinetic Art / Op Art
Give me a hand
artwork will be published on zine "PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA nº3"
Send Me Nude Letters
The imaginary of technology-mediated sex (dick picks, "send me nudes" memes, AirDrop, widespread porn, etc.), gender violence and finally the great theme of nude – both academic and daily, personal.
Visual Poetry and Mail Art after Covid
Death is a dream
Team of Geese
Da zero all’infinito – dalla Galassia all’Universo
The postcards arrived by the end of April will be also exhibited in another event at Palazzo Esposizioni in Faenza from the 9th to 23rd May 2020.
The Unleashed TheARTre
ALBENE
Día Mundial de los animales
Hans Hess
Hans Hess (1951-2019) was one of the most original artists in the mail-art-network and various projects were started by him.
With your help we would like to create an exhibition for him. It will be shown in our art-cellar in 2021 to celebrate his 70th birthday.
Marlies Steinau, his wife, is looking forward to your email.
International Student Art Exhibition 2020
The International Student Art Exhibition is part of the Hong Kong Visual Arts Education Festival (HKVAEF), which is held annually by the Hong Kong Society for Education in Art (HKSEA). The theme of this year's exhibition is "Mail Art". We really look forward to your post, especially after so many months of worldwide self-isolation. Students from kindergarten to high school outside Hong Kong are welcome to join. No participation fee required!
Latin America
Mail Art Book Project
Received artwork will be part of a book on mailart history and role.
NEW YORK – BIG APPLE VI :: MAIL ART SHOW
Adjusting
Creativity and the Impact of Environmental Crisis
GREECE GOT MAIL: a letter to the refugee camps
The idea is simple, what would you send if you could get in touch with someone currently stuck in one of the settlements?
Joyful adoration
ATC - cards
Mail Art 2020
MareArte
The "MareArte" project was born from an idea of the artist DIEGO RACCONI as a collective artistic initiative of works in small format, traveling through the postal system. The works of different artists from different regions and from foreign countries focus on the varied relationship between Man and the Sea. Art can represent a valid awareness tool, through which to send a message to the community, stimulating virtuous behaviors and recalling the ancient customs and traditions of our countries. The numerous participation of the artists in the project led to continue the initiative through the creation of a traveling exhibition associated with a solidarity initiative, giving a implication of concrete help towards external environmental non-profit associations, which they dedicate themselves to the recovery of marine animals. The exhibition is structured through an installation and is presented during thematic events and manifestations, in collaboration with organizations and institutions that promote the various stages. The initiative, whose participation is free, is open to all artists who wish to send their message through their sensitivity, creativity, inventiveness and artistic originality by donating a small work of their own, sharing the philosophy and purpose of the initiative. All the works transferred for the initiative will become permanently part of the historical-cultural archive of the initiative, structuring over time an ever richer and wider collection of artists who love the sea.
AMÉRICA LATINA
BUG Mail Art Show
Fantastic Herbarium
Drawing a great invented herbarium, a hymn to the imagination that plays with nature.A project inspired by the botanical herbarium volumes of the past to create one made up of new figures architectures and imaginary taxonomies.
Exhibition to be held on 2021 ... further notices soon.
According to the success of the project it is possible that a paper publication is also produced in a volume. Postcards after the show will remain at my studio filed as “Fantastic Herbarium Project”, no return will be provided. The images will not have any other type of use if not the purpose of the project itself.
ICTUS
ICTUS is the leading cause of Acquired Brain Damage (DCA). On the other hand, on October 29, the World Day to Fight against Stroke (ACV) is commemorated.
In rehabilitation, after two months of a Stroke, the "Taller de Zenón" has decided to request the collaboration of all the mailartists in the world and their grain of sand for recovery.
PANDEM POEM POEM ART CALL
PANDEM POEM (within Festival TO (LE) DO ES POESY. A reflection of cities after the pandemic.
IS POEM POSSIBLE AFTER THE PANDEMIC?
1945
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No51. Cipők / Shoes
1. Save the mma51 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Create artwork.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
Homenaje a Blue Demon
THE AMAZON MUST LIVE
In 1979, after some travels to the South American Forest, I've planned an Archive dedicated to Amazon in order to highlight, by means of some art projects, the systematic destruction perpetrated by landed proprietors with the connivance of the some governments to build the sadly "famous" trans-Amazonian highroads – real deep cuts on the forest's skin – and for a devastating plan of industrial agriculture which has "taken flash off" the forest. Forest, which has not finished crying and has not ended to be sacrificed to favour even today the more wicked interests of unscrupulous persons.
After 40 years the AMAZON ARCHIVE invites you to send one or more works dedicated to this theme exclusively by post.
We must cultivate our garden
Witches
From the repulsive image of the old, ugly and nasty woman in fairy tales, to the tens of thousands of women who were burned and tortured to death during the "witch hunts", passing by those of modern times using this symbol in a political and spiritual process ...
What is your representation of the witch?
Tremble, the witches are back!
Only works dealing with the theme and with decor, address and stamp on the same side will be exhibited.
Fluxus International Mail Art Open Call
plant a tree / seed something beautiful
Make art in the mood of your planting / seeding, write the plant type, the date of plant and the place (geographical coordinates).
Have fun, creating something awesome!
Example of mail art can be reproduced for advertisement.
Digital online documentary for all plant and seed projects with name, date, place and plant.
There will be an exhibitions and further notice will inform you of such. Online and digital catalogs will be made available.
da STAZIONE a STAZIONE
Favorite Book
Grandpa & Me
The Network needs new YOUNG MailArtists. So please support my MailArt class of 15 to 18-year-old Syrian refugees. Their grandfathers were killed in the war. Now they have adopted German seniors as their new grandfathers - and they teach them how to do MailArt.
Honour to all mothers of all times!
Rebirth - International Digital Art Project
REJOICE
WITH THE MOUTH WELL COVERED
Cleaning Rag
In 1875 the first cleaning rags were industrially produced in the former Friese factory in Kirschau/Upper Lusitia in Germany.
Fuori di Testa
SYNERGY in the Days of COVID
The Postal Worker
Quarentena
“Add e Return” 70 YEARS RUGGERO MAGGI
Quarantine
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Mass Mail Art Shooter
Art your thoughts on the many mass shootings in the USA.
How would you stop them from happening ever again?
1st MÓS mailart open call
Design a stamp, glue it and send it.
Add "Mós" and "45" somewhere on the stamp.
Celestial Lepidoptera
CONSCIENCE
MOUNDZA
The MOUNDZA is an insulting gesture widespread in Greece. The Ministry Education in Greece announce that the lessons of visual Arts and music at High Schools is completely PROHIBIT, insulting the work of teachers, the desires of students and Greek culture. Hundreds of deputy art teachers are being laid off... It deprives students of the necessary education, for the comprehensive development of their personality, their aesthetic cultivation, the development of their perceptual ability, the development of creative thinking and the spiritual and emotional formation of their personality. If you want to protest with the Greek art teachers, create your "MOUNDZA".
projetM@MottattoM
By submitting, you are agreeing to donate your mail-art to projetM@MottattoM as a fundraiser. Each artwork will be for sold during the exhibit for 20 CHF benefiting the programmation of the non profit
gallery projetM.
Any unsold pieces will not be returned following the exhibition. (unless you ask for it and cover the postage).
The three most impressive mail-art pieces receive a mystery prize.
FLORA
The Unicorn
What is a unicorn for you? Can you catch it?
Did you know that unicorns in antiquity were known for their wildness? That they were able to kill elephants? That they haven't been rosa and glittering all the time?
We are a group of students and teachers who read some latin texts about unicorns in our classics course – and now we are curious about your thoughts on the unicorn!
There will be an exhibition in fall 2020.
Building a better planet. More space to women!
Mail Art Underground
PO-MO II (POSTMODERN)
Postmodern is the name given to the understanding that emerged as a criticism of modernism after 1960. The most important feature is the ”eclectic“ structure that we can describe as ”eclectic En. Postmodernism can be defined as an area of freedom that does not recognize rules and boundaries in art.
”Everything has a beauty but not everyone will see in
Andy WARHOL
Due to Covid 19, our event's deadline was extended. The new exhibition date will be announced at a later time.
Re-volver
You are not alone !
As part of this project, one can connect and share their art with a global network of artists. Our hope is that through the act of sharing, deep, rich, and meaningful connections will develop that will not only bring us together but may help build bridges of friendship and understanding. No one is immune to this pandemic and we hope this will help us to get through this time by allowing us to share our stories, celebrate our diversity, mourn our losses, and heal as a planet.
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No50. Képeslapok / Postcards
1. Save the mma50 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more machines on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
my view from home
One day I had sex
Yesterday I started a new art mail project - "One day I had sex". Everything is simple.
1) you can download a file and print 1 or 2 postcards. (2 submissions per one person - max)
2) you recall one of those sexual experiences or fantasies that you'd like to remember - and share
3) fill the postcard with your text
4) send it to me
At the end of June, I will issue the final results as an online exhibition on onedayihadsex.site and will share an online catalog with all participants, who took part in this project. All texts can be written in your own language, but please, write it clearly so that it can be read and translated into English afterward :)
1st International Mail Art Call PohtoGraphein
Seeing allows us to frame the world and register it. The look represents a attentive perception of details, the marks that historical time leaves in our daily routes, making it possible to evaluate the present and plan the future.
bookMARKED
Call for mail art representing a book that has impacted you! We’ve all read books -- some we’ve loved, some well, we haven’t. Whether you read it because a teacher assigned it or read it simply for pleasure or curiosity, what’s a book that has made an impression in your life? No envelopes.
Tribute to Jiří Kolář
humanité "sustainable humanity"
LaLuetteGalerie Bordeaux
Poetry #1
Stop Bullying
The Abyss
Monsenhor enVide neFelibata ( YZONK.com ) [ PORTUGAL ] and Corrado Leoni ( LEONIART ) [ ITALY ] prepared a mutual artistic interchange where traditional MailArt and DigitalMedia dive into a melting pot to create the INEDIT Visionary MailArt.
Check the FORM and the SAMPLE for more details on how to join.
Who are you today?
The number of persons affected with dementia is increasing worldwide, But every society is treating this issue differently. Open minded or repressing? With fear, perhaps hysteria or wit a naturally calm handling ...
art in quarantine
Following the outbreak of COVID-19 recently declared as pandemic by World Health Organization, and the consequent application of quarantine measures by many countries, portuguese artist collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 announces the call for e-mail art / art by e-mail “ART IN QUARANTINE”.
Having in mind the potential of this initiative to constitute a unique and artistic historical archive, as well as its interdisciplinary nature in the promotion of bridges between arts and health, we invite you, during the next 40 days, to send your contribution (textual/visual, sound and/or multimedia), via the following e-mail: artinquarantine@gmail.com
Presenting an alternative chain of transmission, this initiative is a laboratory for sharing, reflection and artistic creation on a critical moment in terms of public health, on a global scale, and with visible cultural, social and economic impact for us all.
All contributions will be gathered in a digital gallery hosted by wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 (wreading-digits.com).
The files to be sent cannot exceed 10 MB and must be identified with the respective title (if any), authorship and provenance.
#STAYHOME, #STAYSAFE and #BECREATIVE!
3ª Convocatória Mail-Art Y Escuela
must add the following sentence in any language "beyond the borders"
World Collage Day 2020
Horizontal landscape orientation.
Help Sofonisba Anguissola have a street in San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Add the sentence "Yo soy Sofonisba y quiero una calle en San Lorenzo de El Escorial".
Monochromatic
Our idea is that when we exhibit the artwork, we can arrange it by color to create a beautiful rainbow effect! Thank you so much if you choose to participate! We will also post all the art we receive on our Instagram account; @sequoiapostalart. We will tag you if you send your account name along with your art! We will also e-mail pictures of the exhibition should you send your e-mail along with your art!
Festival d'Art Postal à Vienne - 18ème édition
All artwork will be sold in profit of the sick kids.
FRESH WATER
EXIT
The experience of living abroad, changes as an infinite journey and also as hope and universal desire for a world and a better life for all.
all received mailart won't be opened so have that in mind
nothing
"Nothing" was beyond time. Alone even in the light. It was the other name of finding yourself. The last point that you ever dreamed of being. Taking his age from here to there and every single possession that he has never had. The last stage, a single syllable "nothing".
Pinocchio2030
Are you a professor, a student or an artist? Join the "Pinocchio2030" project where the characters of Collodi's fairy tale become ambassadors of the environment, inspiring virtuous actions and behaviors. Make your own postcard with the characters of Pinocchio's story and take part in this mail art initiative dedicated to safeguarding our planet through the world of fairy tales.
other exhibitions are being scheduled in Italy
8th INTERNATIONAL POSTAL ART BIENNIAL - “History in Comics and the Graphic Imaginary”
Egg Project 2020
MIDECIANT | I CONVOCATORIA ARTE POSTAL | MAIL ART
All artwork will become part of the mailart archive of Museo Internacional de Electrografía, MIDECIANT.
POST RAY JOHNSON
Star Wars
Create mail art on the theme of Star Wars to mark Royal Mail's recent stamp issue and release of the film The Rise of Skywalker. All entries will be displayed on the Positively Postal website.
V Convocatoria Internacional de Arte Postal en Avilés
There will be a digital catalogue.
Poetry & Art IX, A Mail Art Exhibition
CON (BOCATORIA)
Poetize masks and send selfies. Experimental poetry, visual, collage, photography, drawing, painting... over the mask.
The first 8 photos will be published in two special issues: Conbo Viral, from the Hojas Poéticas A-4. The rest will be displayed on paper, in the IV Festpoviber, OJO!2020, on May 23, after postponement. All works received will be published at "Centro y Festival de Poesía Visual de Berja" and Festival / Group / Facebook on Saturday March 21, World Poetry Day.
Woman and Earth
All year is Carnival
100 Year Old Fred Arsenault
Fred Arsenault is a WW II veteran turning 100 years old. Send him a birthday card.
Let’s Collaborate
This image isn’t finished and it needs you to complete it. Download the hi-resolution image and create a new piece that will be a collaboration between the two of us.
Include your name and a link to where we can find your artwork on the internet. Add Making Music to the subject line of your email. The artwork I receive will be included in a free publication that you will be able to download from my website.
Maria
Mujer, Soy tu fan!
Send us a picture of a woman who inspires you!
Your image will be part of a collective mural for 8M.
Portraits with Hats 2020
Water
A Rocha nº 3
Rocha nº3 presents one of the most artistic compositions of all Côa complexes. A goat with two heads is the dominant and emblematic figure, with two heads and respective ringed horns (typical of the Iberian ibex) in perfect symmetry, represented with such sensitivity and plastic rigor by Paleolithic hunters.
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No49. Lámpák / Lights
1. Save the mma49 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more machines on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
ATCs - Artist Trading Card
"the ABSURD" resides within the normal and outside it
Dealing with any aspect of the theme.
alternative submission address: Taivaanvuohentie 3 B 13, 00200 Helsinki, Finland
Valores en Rotary
9 revista ensamblada
Gazette for the 16 participants. After closing, those that arrive are not returned and go to the Annex.
VISION 20-20
GREEK FE-MAIL . ART
no such thing – Taiwan International Mail Art Festival
design your favorite cover
dogs in all forms
Works received will be exhibited progressively as an installation. A photo gallery is being created and will be visible on the Internet soon. A response with photos will be provided to each participant by postal mail.
Draw your Cover! 2020
Postcards to Brattleboro: Forty Years of Mail Art
LE DISOBBEDIENTI
Tribute to six great artists of art history.
In the book "Le Disobbedienti" published by Mondadori / Le Scie, the writer Elisabetta Rasy tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Berthe Morisot, Suzanne Valadon, Charlotte Salomon e Frida Kalo. Six different women from age to age, family situation, character. However, they share the talent and the will to not bow to the rules imposed by the society of their time, penalizing and marginalizing rules for women. In the portrait-tale that Elisabetta Rasy portrays each of them, the boldness with which they fought and won the hard battle to assert themselves emerges with strength and passion. Despite the prohibitions, obligations, misunderstandings and prejudices. These artists have forever changed the image and place of women in the art world with their work.
Cut/Paste/Resist: A Pop-up Exhibition
Aunt Rebecca turns 90
On Jan 20 2020 my Great Aunt Rebecca will be turning 90 years old. I thought it would be great if she received 90 birthday cards from around the world. She saves her cards and revisits them and reads them over and over.
Mailart network... please participate and share for me.
Love in the Time of Extinction
The grim reality of the Climate Crisis and the Sixth Extinction is getting clearer every day. How do we dream, hope, act, care and love in spite of (and because of) this?
IXª Biennale Internazionale Mail Art 2020
2nd "Estoy acá para vos"
A Touch of Japan
Against Repression
Can art be a form of struggle and resistance?
What can Art do against forms of Repression, forms of control, of persecution?
How can you fight against Repression, through Art and Creativity?
exhibitions, on tour, start at 2020's January
ATCs - Artist Trading Card
Black Mermaids
Haiga
"Haiga" is a poetry/image art form that uses three lines of text ALONG WITH on image to describe a moment. Because English syllables differ from Japanese phonemes, the lines do NOT have to be 5-7-5 syllables -- they can be much shorter and still be English "ku". Preferably, there are no run-on sentences; no verbs; and the text alone would not evoke the same thing as the text/image together.
Traditionally haiku is about nature and senryu is about humans or human-made objects. Either haiku or senryu is welcome in HAIGA.
Below is one of mine.
for a pdf do contact by email
My forest
NO PLASTIC
Nothing
All tests will be graded and handed back.
PROJEKTO KULTURO
all artists 15yo and above
RAY JOHNSON DOUBLE ADD AND RETURN
REVISTA URBANA 2020 "PATRIA SUEÑO"
It is a non-traditional magazine because of its size, its circulation and also because it is a traveling magazine given that each year we send the copies to different cities.
write on the package "revista cultural y sin valor comercial"
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
If you have heard of "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by Edward Gorey and you have the mind for the weird, creepy, dark and disturbing things, then this open call is for you !!
This is an international mailart exhibition of your take on his alphabet. Choose one or more letters and send as many pieces you wish to for each chosen letter.
Exhibit to be held the next year of 2020. Date, time and place to be determined. Once the exhibit wraps up in Ontario Canada, all pieces will make their way to Portugal for another show.
Train №1
The Museum of the Railroad History at Alexandrov railway station invites you to take part in the mail art project “Train №1” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the first passenger-train arrival on the 1st of January 1870.
I don’t know you, but I wish you have a wonderful year.
The public who attends the exhibition, can freely take a postcard.
You can write a message for the anonymous recipient on the back of the card.
4th electronic call for Postal Art Procedimentum 2020
Beatriz Ferreyra is a composer of electroacoustic music (Córdoba, Argentina, 1937). He studied piano in Buenos Aires with Celia Bronstein. In Paris she studied harmony and musical analysis with Nadia Boulanger. She started in concrete / electroacoustic music with Edgar Canton, and took composition courses with Earl Brown and Georgy Ligeti. She worked in the Musical Research Group (G.R.M.) of the Investigation Service of the O.R.T.F. under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer (1963-70). Her works develop unique climates that evoke the richness of her sonic textures. She currently lives in France, giving concerts in France and abroad. From 2011 to 2014 she improvised four concerts with four open tape recorders and a computer, with the French composer Christine Grould and her electronic system based on keyboards, cassette players, pads...
A multimedia catalogue will be published in PDF format as an annex to number 9 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum. Number 9 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum will be published in January 2020.
International MailArt In Sant'Oreste
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No48. Keretek / Frames
1. Save the mma48 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more machines on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
ARTSAVEARTH
Can art save the world?
STAMP DESIGN 2019
Print the starter or use it digitally.
Tristan Da Cunha is an Island Far Far Away
Send some artwork to create a permanent exhibition on the Island for them and for all who will pass by to visit the Island.
Unveiling the Unspeakable to Awaken Hope: SAY
6th AMANITA BUNKER
At this 2019’s edition, the Amanita Bunker exhibition returns to the streets of this small village reinforcing the artistic bombings of the previous 2018's edition. Authors are invited to create artwork regarding the requested theme and join the yearly Mushroom Festival.
Amanita Bunker, wears now robes of a fictional political party. The Amanites manifest themselves and demand distinction and promise improvements on the village. In the form of stickers, pins, posters, slogans, political propaganda and other equally ridiculous but serious paraphernalia ... artists are invited to participate by sending works that will eventually be scattered through the streets in the form of propaganda.
"Fires continue to plague the country and our memory is short. When we take down forests or take other actions that can deplete fungal populations, this does not only affect fungi - it ultimately affects Homo sapiens as well. Fungi is an ignored realm, but this kingdom is more important than many of us imagine." -- Nicholas Money
We do ask you to add somewhere on the artwork the hashtag #AMANITABUNKER.
ACRO-GYM
playful agility is SUPER
... and my favourite sport
ARTIST’S MENU
Appetizers, first courses, second courses, pizzas, side dishes, desserts, ice creams, wines, beers, spirits, ... and drawings, colors, memories, signs, paper (any type), suggestions, emotions, fantasies, objects, illusions, thoughts, words...
Bauhaus 100 years (1919-2019)
El Cactus
I'm not the plastic man
From the infinite universe to the infinite sea, that’s an invitation to all the artists to submerge into the abyss of a magnificent world.We are offering you a very important chance to talk about a problem that plagues the entire planet. The sea is suffocating because of the plastic pollution. Oceans cover most part of our Earth, they’re fundamental for us to survive, they regulate the climate, help the plants’ growth. A surprise is coming from the sea, but it’s a death sentence. We’re all in danger but we can still try to do something. Think about it. WE’RE NOT THE PLASTIC MEN. Fortunately we’re not yet on a boat and closed into a bottle with no escape. Let’s save ourselves from the monster that plastic have became through the years.
Lighthouses that illuminate the World
Digital catalog and participation certificates will be sent to all the artists.
Postal Art Exhibition
That´s my milieu
On the occasion of Heinrich Zille and the 90th anniversary of his death we remember the socially critical artist Heinrich Zille (1858-1929).
The Wall
VOYAGE - TRIP
Travel in all its forms, real, imaginary or fantastic.
Migrantes
Falling Walls
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, and the UK is exiting the EU. We are planning to create an exhibition of mail art that responds to the theme of 'Falling Walls'.
The theme is inspired by the historical event of the Fall of the Berlin Wall but artists are invited to respond freely to the concept of 'Falling Walls'.
'Falling Walls' is a international mail art exhibition hosted by SVA as part of the project 'Berliner Zeitgeist' in Stroud, England. 'Berliner Zeitgeist' is an extensive Autumn program with films, talks and artist lead events responding to the theme of the historical event of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and how it had so many effects on a personal and international level. This project is also a creative response at a time of critical political transition, in a time of Brexit, to build positive connections between artists and communities across Europe.
During the exhibition we will host a Soup Versammlung in the gallery where we will facilitate a discussion around one of the themes of the project.
The exhibition will move to the Nau gallery in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire where they will also host a Soup Versammlung.
Anything Goes... Everything Shows!
Uncensored free-style mailart show using the postal system as a medium. ALL submissions received by mail WILL be exhibited. ANYONE can enter!
Original
A venue is currently being sought where the works can be Exhibited. Details of this will be made available later.
Our Body
What’s Living Under my Bed?
Evans City’s Oktoberfest and Night of the Living Dead Weekend
6th Mailart Art Event - Argentina
Ax arte CORREO
Dare a Colour Square Dance
printed edition will be made
Happy Birthday 49 + 1 Roberto Scala
15th Contemporary Art Day in Italy
HUMANS
Because life is a right and we all have to enjoy it.
Because every human being has the right to live.
Because we're all the same.
Because there must be no differences.
Because we have to stay human.
MOTHER story in a box, a frame
New York Big Apple V Project
The New York Boyer Foundation will send online documentation to all artists. A movie of the project will be done, complimentary to all artists.
Postal Art Exhibition at Akane Workshop
As part of the reopening of the Atelier d'Akané and in the framework of the Open Days of Artists Workshops of Pas de Calais in October 2019, we propose an exhibition of letters in Postal Art.
These letters will be yours :) It's your turn to write to us in any form whatsoever. You will create the exhibition :)
What matters is the envelope that can take the most diverse and original forms :)
You do not have to write a text, or a word . It's really the "container" that counts :). But of course the texts will be read with great pleasure.
WHO IS ANIMAL?
Women of Bauhaus
Point a Book
EUREKA!
Man on the Moon - 50 years
Alternative economies ... what are yours ?
Theme "alternative economies" is both a healthy survival mechanism and a tacit means of protest. One can participate in the "alternative economies" in many different ways, according to their taste.
WHAT ART YOURS? Interested artists are urged to develop an economy of means, offering cultural agency in accessible and proliferative form for an age where culture is often consumed in byte sized pieces.
For ideas articulating your visions for alternative economies, including proclamations, manifestations and more. The mail art project aims to proposition positive strategies to Neo-liberal dogma whilst generating dialogue between different opinions involved.Forces beyond our control have changed the economic rules while we continue to play by them in the old game.Your participation will help to locate and establish alternative visions) strategies, providing a comprehensive snapshot of contemporary social, political, cultural and ethnic aspirations.
Works will be bound into a book and will have a home in the local Zine library. Some participants may chose to be keep anonymous.
Coffe on the Mountain
HUMANITAS
We are parts of the same great body.
Nature created us from the same source and to the same end.
She imbued us with mutual affection and sociability, she taught us to be fair and just, to suffer injury rather than to inflict it.
She bid us extend our hands to all in need of help
(Publius Terentius Afer, 190/185 B.C. -159 B.C.)
NO ESTAS SOLX, ESTOY CON VOS
Postcards!
Postcards from wherever you go on holiday or from cities where you are left to die of heat, draw, hack, stick, ... There is no limit of form or intention. We are not critical and we do not make a critical or preference speech: the only complaint can come only from the Post Office itself and from those who work there, which is another reason to explore the rules and, why not, personal tastes.
So, Happy?
50º ANIVERSÁRIO WOODSTOCK
EUREKA!
Dada / Fluxus / Mail Art
Legends and Myths
Evans City’s Oktoberfest and Night of the Living Dead Weekend
Faros que Iluminan el Mundo
After the War / Nach dem Krieg
Peter Netmail teaches Mail Art to refugees from Syria. What shall their country look like after the war?
no black & white and no xerox
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No47. Táskák / Bags
1. Save the mma47 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more machines on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
Fight your Windmills, Demons & Depressions
Heart of Jesus
Once upon a time ...
Artwork, address and stamp on the same side, not inside an envelope.
The Moon
La Escupida: El arte de arrojar los despojos
When we will stop being normal to just be / V Convocatória de Arte Postal
This phrase brings us the old theme of normalization x madness, updating certain confrontations so necessary in the contemporary context: How can we not allow such patterns to rob us of the beauty of existence? How to undo the asylums in each of us? How to experience difference as our primordial human condition?
II International MailArt Open Call | Quinta da Cruz | PORTUGAL 2019
Quinta da Cruz - Centro de Arte Contemporânea is located in Viseu, Portugal, and is a cultural space oriented to the exhibition of contemporary art and to the development of artistic practices. It’s a space destined to public enjoyment, culture and leisure, inserted in a green space of excellence and a remarkable biodiversity.
In 2019, Viseu assumed the motto of “National Destination of Gastronomy” and that is why, for this challenge, the theme "Food, Wine & Culture" was selected.
We launch an invitation to artists and all interested in MailArt to send their works, through the Postal Service, and join the 2nd edition of this event. Only works received through traditional mail will be displayed. We look forward for your drawings, collages, stamps and visual poetry, among others, at Quinta da Cruz!
this event has the support of Monsenhor enVide neFelibata and www.mailart.yzonk.com
Only one side of the artwork will be displayed.
Artwork considered obscene or offensive will be excluded.
Submitted artwork will become part of Quinta da Cruz’s mailart collection and might be shown during other future mailart events.
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 on a digital platform.
During the exhibition, there will be a workshop entitled “Dar e Receber” (Give and Receive) were, inspired by the works on display, participants will create objects to be randomly given to visitants.
Artists that do not wish to share their private information, such as name or address, must not include it on the mailart.
You may add to your work the words “SEM VALOR COMERCIAL” in order to avoid any customs delay.
No returns | No jury | Free technique
International Postcard Project Exhibition
Consider the themes of belonging and home whether cultural, social, or creative. We want you to share your home with us. This exhibition will present diverse perspectives, including examinations of the land and the urban, industrialized environment and personal reflections on one’s home environment. This theme can be interpreted in any way you think is appropriate. We will only accept original works, no copies, and no ordinary manufactured postcards unless it is over 80% modified by the artist.
#KGPostcardProject2019
Structures
As part of that project, Ric Kasini Kadour is curating the exhibition “Structures” that introduces contemporary art into the landscape and buildings of Rokeby. “Structures” repurposes historic spaces as platforms for contemporary art and asks the viewer to contemplate the role that structures play in shaping our experience of the world and how structures can inform and shape the experience of others. All of the work in the exhibition reflects, responds, or contrasts with structures on the site.
We ask that artists send a work that reflects or responds to their home or a building in their home community. We envision postcards from artists visiting the tourist cabin bearing messages from home.
The Nature is an Art
10th Anniversary Edition of Ray Johnson's A Book About Death - The Last Waltz
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH is an open, unbound book produced by artists worldwide. Artists are invited to create a “page” in the form of a postcard about death– any aspect about death. Works can be of any design, personal or conceptual, color or black and white.
The original work about death stays with you, the artist. The 500 postcards produced from the work is for the exhibition, and are sent to the museum.
Artists can include any information about themselves on the cards, front or back. There are no age limits, no areas or ideas that are prohibited. The exhibition organizers only ask that you submit good work, worthy of an interesting and exciting page in this global book.
A BOOK ABOUT DEATH takes its inspiration from the late, underground American artist Ray Johnson (1927 - 1995). Ray Johnson’s unbound “book” of the same title was mailed to his New York Correspondence School “students” and included pages in his idiosyncratic style that were funny, sad and ironic “one-page essays” on death. With the A BOOK ABOUT DEATH project, artists are invited to plunge into subject in creating their own pages that score the dramatic final dance of death.
Each artist 's contribution will be displayed at the Islip Art Museum in New York. Visitors will be free to take cards and create their own book about death. As the cards are removed, the exhibition will disappear.
HOW TO SUBMIT
1. Produce an artwork about death. Make 500 postcards and mail the package to Islip Art Museum. All submissions will be accepted if they arrive in time. Artists may produce more than one card design if they wish.
2. Once images are produced, a light-weight jpg should be e-mailed to LUANN PALAZZO, along with the artist’s name, country of origin, and URL (artist web site address) for publication on the blog. This will allow the organizers to archive the works and artist details. Other artists will also be able to visit the exhibition in progress.
You can either produce the cards yourself or upload the file to any number of printers for delivery to the museum. You, as the artist are in complete control of your artwork and cards.
The organizers will not collect cards for the artists. We ask that those visiting the museum only take one set per person, leaving enough for others.
Institutions who wish to have a complete book will have to come to the museum space and get their own pages/cards or assign someone to do it for them. The organizers are not responsible for the cards, but will see to it that all cards received are displayed and available to visitors. The organizers are not responsible for the return of any remaining cards; should there be any remaining cards, these will become part of the Islip Art Museum archives.
WHEN YOU SEND IN YOUR IMAGES IN JPG FORMAT, SEND LARGE IMAGES (about 300K each; 900 x 600 pixels). THIS WAY THEY WILL BE HIGHLY VISIBLE ON THE BLOG.
Opening reception to be lived streamed, performance artists will be at reception. A Mail Art guest book will be created at the show and every ABAD artist will receive a post card from this book in the mail!
past, present and tomorrow
The artwork must include, something textile related, as for instance: tissues, buttons, thread , lace, embroidery, etc ...
DETOURNEMENT
DETOURNEMENT: turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself —as when slogans and logos are turned against their advertisers or the political status quo.
…. a variation on previous work, in which the newly created work has a meaning that is antagonistic or antithetical to the original. The original media work that is détourned is somewhat familiar to the target audience, so that it can appreciate the opposition of the new message.
Send the Robot anti-corporate/anti-capitalist/anti-brand/anti-media (…. or whatever you are against) mail art.
All participants will receive an appropriately subversive linoleum block print from The Anti-Robot Inundation Army.
draw me your favorite book
Everybody (or almost everybody) has a favorite book. Or an author. Or a book character, poem or quote. Send us your mail art inspired by your literature favorites!
Multiple submissions may be subject to selection.
At the beginning of the 21st century
18 year old and above
Oniric Landscapes
Poetry
Woman
the DAdá Dice / daDa-istmo
SEA, FIRE & HUMAN / 3 STRONG ELEMENTS OF LIFE & DEATH
The sea, at the same time that it nourishes man, animals and fishes, swallows swimmers, seafarers and migrants who venture into freedom.
The sun, fire in the sky, gives life, but a fire in a tree, can become the hell itself.
Human can be the one who creates life, but with the war, fights and choices, takes it back.
ARTSAVEARTH
Can art save the world?
Against War
exhibition to be set
ANACHRONISM
Arte, Inclusión y Transformación III Edición 2019
Identify the artwork by adding somewhere "Arte e Inclusión Social".
Correspondance
fill up the agreement and put it inside the envelope
It's been a while since I've felt this way.
Check the online FORM.
Mail Art: Enterramiento final
Durante los últimos años, y coincidiendo con la llegada del correo electrónico y los canales cibernéticos, el mail art ha sido sentenciado a muerte en múltiples ocasiones.
A partir de estas sentencias, y dado que no acaba de morir, pensamos que el Mausoleo de Morille podría ser un buen lugar para su enterramiento definitivo, confiando en la resurrección de las almas y el renacimiento posterior en la otra dimensión.
La exposición previa al enterramiento tendrá un formato atípico, con actos rituales, festejos y romería, finalizando con la introducción de las obras en el objeto volante no identificado (de la fotografía) y traslado al cementerio de arte, Museo Mausoleo Morille, perteneciente a Red Museion, plataforma transfronteriza de Museos.
Como acto final y previo al enterramiento se procederá, a través de conexiones del sistema UFO2x24, a agradecer a los habitantes de la galaxia , por los servicios prestados a través de la oficina postal interestelar y el sincero deseo de que en el futuro sigamos colaborando en la otra dimensión. ¡El Arte Postal ha muerto! ¡Viva el Arte Postal!
projetM@MottattoM
By submitting, you are agreeing to donate your mail-art to projetM@MottattoM as a fundraiser. Each artwork will be for sold during the exhibit for 20 CHF benefiting the programmation of the non profit
gallery projetM.
Any unsold pieces will not be returned following the exhibition. (unless you ask for it and cover the postage).
The three most impressive mail-art pieces receive a mystery prize.
Fluxus and Gay Pride
Censorship is anathema to the Fluxus spirit. However, exhibited works cannot violate Canadian law. Fortunately, the laws protecting artistic freedom of expression are relatively strong in Canada. Basically, anything goes, except child pornography and hate speech. Hate speech includes, "advocating genocide", "publicly inciting hatred", and "promoting hatred".
Given the history of persecution of sexual minorities, the curators are committed to including artworks that may depict or document manifestations of homophobia, provided that such works do not violate the law.
It is illegal to produce, distribute, or possess child pornography in Canada, as such work deemed to be such by the curators, will be destroyed upon receipt.
NOTICE: The curators reserve the right to refuse to exhibit and/or document any submission at their absolute and sole discretion.
Island
The day goes by,
In the scent of new nets out of the sea.
This island, this island,
Pursuit of the birds soon.
There are worlds, you can not think;
Flowers open loudly;
Get out of the smoke smoke from the soil.
Seagulls, especially seagulls,
Every single feather ...
The day becomes blue, by myself;
The day becomes sun by myself;
Day is like crazy.
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No46. Virágok / Flowers
1. Save the mma46 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more machines on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
LOVE, LIEBE, AMORE
Visual Poetry
Galileo Galilei
Vizant
Visual Arts Center
Dimo Narednikot, 58
7500-Prilep
Republic of Macedonia
the birds of the air
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns .... Sermon on the Mount
PO-MO (POSTMODERN)
Postmodern is the name given to the understanding that emerged as a criticism of modernism after 1960. The most important feature is the ”eclectic“ structure that we can describe as ”eclectic En. Postmodernism can be defined as an area of freedom that does not recognize rules and boundaries in art.
”Everything has a beauty but not everyone will see in
Andy WARHOL
18 year old participants or older
TRENTATRE PIU 5 Edizione
Attic Zine - The International Book of Colour
ATTIC is an international assembling zine compiled by Nicola Winborn. It is also an international exploration of colour and each issue will be dedicated to a particular pigment.
All pages submitted to ATTIC ZINE must be handmade and original. This call is focused on the colour PURPLE: this means that your pages must make predominant use of purple in any shade or tone. This does not mean that you cannot use other colours too, but if you do introduce other pigments, purple must still be the most significant one. (If you have any questions around this, please do not hesitate to ask.)
Work from the following genres will be accepted for Attic Zine: Visual Poetry; Asemic Writing; Collage; Rubber Stamp Art; Dada; Fluxus; Mixed Media; Abstract/Experimental Comics; and Abstract/Non-Representational Art.
Once you are ready to post your pages to Nicola, please contact her through Messenger on Facebook and she will give you the full postage address for Attic Zine.
Each participant will receive their very own copy of the issue in which they are included. If you want to make a donation to cover the cost of return postage, this will be most gratefully received.
Artist Matter
Documentation and zine to all participants.
Freedom
Freedom is a great thing. In our society you can think, say, organize your personal life the way you want without being afraid of punishment. Because that freedom has become normal, you do not really think about it anymore. Yet it is something precious. You will notice that soon when you lose it. Once a year we celebrate Liberation Day in the Netherlands.
What is freedom for you? And why is it important? Do you have ideas, do you want to share that, send it to us.
"Leonardo da Vinci 500 years after his death" for TRAXPO' 2019
TRAXPO' wants to be a translation / transliteration between different artistic fields and was born in 2014 from an idea by Giancarlo Padovani, completing with a collective exposition of visual languages in an artistic transpositions path.
An artistic call by invitation that in the last five editions has seen the alternation of national and international authors obtaining broad consideration from the mass media. It is set up every year in the month of May in a creative and dynamic space made available free of charge by the independent bookshop "Moby Dick" in Faenza.
For the sixth edition of May 2019 TRAXPO' opens to mail art for an intuition of Monalisa Valmori and the collaboration of Roberta Savolini with an invitation to transpose the genius of Leonardo da Vinci in a postcard drawing from every field of his vast production both artistic and engineering, inventions, aphorisms , quotes ...
14th Edición del "Salón Internacional de Arte Postal en Homenaje a El Libro 2019"®
1824: German Immigration in Brazil
Arte Correo por las Aves en libertad sin contaminación
Leonardo da Vinci
500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo (Archiano, 15 April 1452 - Amboise, 2 May 1519) was an Italian engineer, painter and scientist. A man of genius and universal talent of the Renaissance, he fully embodied the spirit of his era, bringing it to the greatest forms of expression in the most disparate fields of art and knowledge.
He dealt with architecture and sculpture, he was draftsman, treatise writer, set designer, anatomist, musician, designer and inventor.
He is considered one of the greatest geniuses of humanity.
Digital catalog will be made and exhibitions are to be set.
No to censorship of human body in social media
If you’ve ever were in situation, when your work was censored in any social media: facebook, Instagram, twitter, flickr, 500px, tumblr or any other social platform. If you’ve ever had your art removed because the content wasn’t ‘appropriate’, if an institution where you studied silenced your work for any reasons – then your work is worthy of being exhibited in our exhibition.
Oppression of Mapuche People
WE DADA WONDERFUL SHOZO
Postcarded
One postcard will be selected as Best in Show by the Anton Art Center Exhibition Committee, and will serve as the design for a collection of folded notecards available for purchase in our Gift Shop! The winning artist will be credited in the card design. This artist will receive 100 notecards of their winning design.
La Saison 2018/2019
6x6x2019 - The International Small Art Phenomenon
Support Contemporary Art in Rochester, NY!
Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) is a venue for the exchange of ideas and a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) that was founded in 1977. As a center for thoughtful contemporary art, RoCo provides unique encounters for audiences and extraordinary opportunities for artists. Your 6x6 purchases support our contemporary art programming throughout the year. Thank you!
Habla mi Espejo
GIANT KITTY SAVES THE DAY!
Cat by Kat!
This kitty may have claws…. or not. We love cats and kats and kitties, and, well, you get the idea.
But wait! There’s more!
AS A BIG OL’ BONUS, WE WILL REPLY WITH A LIMITED EDITION HAND-MADE LINOLEUM BLOCK PRINTED POSTCARD OR OTHER MAIL ART.
Extra super bonus: Include/combine robots for more swag! Giant Robot Kitty?
IV International Avilés Mail Art Exhibition
A digital catalog will be made.
1st Edition Commemorative Mail Art / 10th Anniversary
8th Egg Project 2019
Similarly to the previous years, the entire collection will be donated to the Budapest Stamp Museum where – by the way – you can find the most stamps in the world. Since they just established their mail art section therefore these mails and postcards will be kept for the after-world and can be seen any time during opening hours.
email only mail art show
one file per email sent
IS THERE A MONK IN YOU?
In our municipality of Alphen-Chaam still exists the remains of an old and the only Commandery in the Netherlands of the Knights Templars, a monks order dating back to the Middle Ages; they were crusaders. The inhabitants of our region were liable to a monastery of yet another monks order, 50 kilometers away. The monks had a predominant role in life in the past times. They managed the lands, they built the monasteries, the churches and the hospitals, protected the pilgrims, farmers and the citizens. They made the rules, wrote the books. They preceded in the rituals of spiritual life and were the guards of civilization and morality. Throughout the world and in all religions and civilizations are people like our monks. Both men and women. Even in each human being lurks a monk, a moralist, a dedicated person and with the desire to live in peace and regularity, occasionally in the seclusion of the surrounding world. There is also being mocked with this misunderstood eccentrics. For example, in the works of Hieronymus Bosch many a monk and saint are represented, for good and for evil. Antony in temptation, John as a scholar and writer, a flying monk, a drunken monk, etc. Not every monk was a good guy, not every bad guy was a monk.
Pequeña Convocatoria de Poesía Visual 2019
To be used on the book "Babilonia Happening" by Paco Pérez Belda.
Open only to submissions sent from Spain. Each participant will receive a copy of the book. Everyone else can buy it for 5€.
The open call ends at the promoted date or when 30 artworks are received.
Dragons
Real or imagined, scary or fairy tale, monster or mouse? What does dragon look like?
All sales will support the 2019 St. George Day Festival.
Landscape
Hate Mail? for ya Fat F#ck
Fellow artists, be aware that although this website deals with sensitive subjects that should concern all of us... please be alerted that it may contain language and imagery not suited for all humans.
On previous curated mailart and artbymail open calls we've dealt with similar content... at "desAMORes" (www.desamores.yzonk.com) we've worked around the concept of unmatchable loves and at "QUEIXA-TE" (www.queixate.yzonk.com) I've asked artists to complain about whatever subject they weren't pleased with. At the present open call, entitled "Hate Mail? for ya Fat F#uck", I'm getting in touch with artists and asking them to give their support to fellow artists that continually see their artwork being censored again and again. These censored artists are exposing severe situations of our present lifetime, touching subjects considered triggers that are listed on international trigger lists, but they are indeed helping us out by means of expressing themselves through art that creates awareness about these matters. "Ignoring it won't make it go away" is the concept above all.
I'm just fed up that remarkable artwork is being censored because of its theme or, even worst, because it simply presents nudity.
It is not uncommon for us to miss flagging content that might be identified as triggering. Perhaps the trigger seems suitably mild to you and you believed it didn’t need to be flagged or it simply seems silly. Or maybe you are just dealing with a snowflake.
Snowflake is a term for someone that thinks they are unique and special but really are not. It gained popularity after the movie "Fight Club" from the quote "You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else." Began being used extensively as a putdown for someone, usually on the political left, who are easily offended or felt they needed a "safe space" away from the harsh realities of the world, but now has morphed into a general putdown for anyone that complains about any subject.
Nowadays there are so many people being triggered by somewhat reason that it became too common to have artists creations being reported and consequently censored on networks such as Instagram and Facebook. It seems that we regressed to past times when clothes had been ordered to be painted and sculpted over artwork, but now through the use of pixels and black bars. I do hope that through this open call, we do start to freely start to talk about these subjects/problems and stop being a prude.
I'm not promoting illegal actions nor soliciting illegal content but ignoring it won't make it go away.
It was already proved that talking about these subjects do trigger some folks since this open call was targeted of censorship by fellow artists.
So, to confront this matter, all submitted artwork should deal with the offensiveness of itself, or nor, in some sort of way or approach/discuss/deal with these issues. Work with the common trigger warnings and freely express yourself through art.
Only similar content, to the following list, will be considered valid and used on the exhibitions: abuse (physical, mental, emotional, verbal, sexual); animal cruelty or animal death; blood; child abuse / pedophilia / incest; classism; death or dying; depiction of pornography (including child pornography); eating disorders, body hatred, and fatphobia; excessive or gratuitous violence; homophobia and heterosexism; incest (including any and all elements of romantic or sexual relationships between family, tonal in theme, though, or activity); Islamophobia; kidnapping and abduction (forceful deprivation of / disregard for personal autonomy); mental illness and ableism; miscarriages / abortion; needles; pornographic content; pregnancy / childbirth; racism and racial slurs; rape and sexual assault; self-harm, and self-injurious behavior (self-harm, eating disorders, etc.); sexism and misogyny; sexual assault; suicide; transphobia and transmisogyny; violence; …
Exhibitions on tour through Portugal are ALREADY confirmed. We'll keep you updated by email. There will be a digital book as well as a physical printed one to be shared and spread around free of charge to all artists and partners.
The Postman on the Postal Route
Communication is the fundamental tool that tells the story of humanity.
Our homages to the POSTMAN, that for long distances and times is our messenger, Mercury of the Gods.
For more than 100 years, great artists already communicated informally by the Post Office. Normatized in the sixties, Mail Art / Postal Art, is a pioneer of the exchanges of the current SOCIAL NETWORKS.
The Courier is a Cultural Heritage, for its seal, its history, for the memory and affection stamped in the hearts of men. It must be preserved even in times of virtual connections, for correspondence is a basic necessity for the development of civilizations.
All the collaborations received will be photographed and published in the ALBUM of the page MARIA FLOR Mail Art, giving visibility to the work of the correspondent.
Exhibition of the postal arts to be held in the first half of 2019.
The exhibition will later be incorporated into the ARCHIVES of Mailartist Maria Claudia (Maria Flor in the postal arts) and will be available to curators and exhibit projects on the theme POSTAL ART, PAPER ART, POSTAL ROUTE when requested.
Poetry & Art VIII, A Mail Art Exhibition
April is National Poetry Month, and libraries, bookstores and other venues will have special exhibitions and events to honor it. The Good Tern Café Gallery is planning a mail-in exhibition of poetry and art again this year, since the past seven annual exhibitions and related events were so well received. The exhibition will run for the month of April.
The Good Tern Café Gallery usually features work by members, but opens to the larger community for the mail-in exhibition. Past years' entries have come from as far away as South Carolina, Florida, the West Coast, the United Kingdom, Australia and western Canada.
Traditional Culture
Our center is named after Antonio Fraguas, a prominent figure of Galician culture and who are dedicated AS LETRAS GALEGAS 2019. Therefore, we decided to open a window to the world with this call for mail art (the first one we do) with the aim of facilitating artistic and cultural communication, without losing sight of the educational framework in which it is to be developed, within the multiple activities of the Cultural Week.
The theme proposed for this call for postal art, the traditional culture, will allow all participants to value the constitutive elements of their culture and traditions, strengthening, in many occasions, the discovery of their roots, the importance of memory and respect for elders as repositories of popular wisdom.
The people most related to Galicia, and all those who so wish, can incorporate to their artistic work those aspects of the legacy of Antonio Fraguas that they consider of their interest: anthropology, ethnography, cultural heritage, etc. In these links you can expand information.
REVISTA URBANA 2019 "LAS MEMORIAS"
It is a non-traditional magazine because of its size, its circulation and also because it is a traveling magazine given that each year we send the copies to different cities.
write on the package "revista cultural y sin valor comercial"
Non-figurative Mail Art Call
Do not use figurative forms, symbols or compositions (representing different objects).
I International Biennial of Mail Art Zeca Afonso
The theme chosen for the I International Mail Art Biennale Zeca Afonso, organized by the José Afonso Galiza Association (AJA Galiza), focuses on minoritized languages. This should be understood as a term which refers to a language which has been marginalized, persecuted or even prohibited at any time in history, which implies a cut in its use and different problems to its conception as a useful element or as identifier of a collective reality.
Minoritized languages and minority languages are not the same, since the latter only refer to a lack of users. Minoritized languages, however, have seen restricted their possibilities of social use. That is to say, minoritized languages cannot be used as main languages in concrete uses, in comparison to the large possibilities of using that characterize a dominant language. In addition, minoritized languages tend to suffer unilateral bilingualism of speakers, which means that, in practice, these people have in their repertoire the language of their own and even the dominant language, but generally not on the same level. The minoritized linguistic community thus becomes a subset of the dominant and therefore is subordinate to the dominant community and thus is perceived. Works sent to the I International Mail Art Biennale Zeca Afonso should reflect any aspect of this conflicting reality.
The decision to choose this topic has to do with the very reality of Galicia, whose own language is lessened by the pressure of Spanish despite having a great development in the Portuguese speaking countries of the five continents. However, since AJA Galicia, we encourage you sending works that reflect other situations in other parts of the world, being aware that it is a problem that threatens other languages all around.
At the end of the period, AJA Galiza will publish a digital catalog with all works, which will be sent to the participants by e-mail.
Mandible
A la Decouverte de L'Arte Postal
MAAV - magazine Nr. 1 - DREAMWORLDS
Every quarter of the year there´ll be a mail art call with a new theme.
Each artist is invited to send one piece related to the theme. All submissions will be presented on the MAAV – facebook page. Selected pieces of the submitted works will then be featured in a magazine.
AUGURI TOSCANELLO
1. The theme is: "Congratulations Toscanello!", therefore the postcards will have to be inspired by the
Toscanello d'Oro (the Chianti Rufina Wine Festival), its 50 years of life, or the theme of wine and viticulture.
2. Everyone can participate, with a maximum of three postcards for each.
3. The technique is free. Painting, drawing, collage, poetry, prose and everything that can be compatible
with a postcard capable of traveling by ordinary post is allowed.
4. Postcards can be of any size as long as they fall within the standards set by the ordinary postal service
5. The cards must be received by 31/3/2019 at the following address Proloco, via Ghiberti n.113
Pontassieve (Fi), I-50065, Italy.
6. Alternatively, the postcards can be delivered by the same date to the volunteers of the Proloco during
the events (Olio Nuovo, Festa del Patrono, Carnevale dei Ragazzi) in Pontassieve.
7. All the postcards will be exhibited at an exhibition during the Toscanello d'Oro 2019, 50th edition, except
those excluded from the regulation
8. Some postcards will be selected for an award ceremony at the discretion of the jury
9. The works may be used for publications or may be offered for sale for purposes compatible with uses
useful to the community (charity etc)
10. The jury is made up of representatives of the organizing association, of the Proloco and of qualified
subjects.
11. All works submitted must be signed and include a contact (email address or phone number) of the
author. The contact will be used only for the purpose of the present project.
12. The works will not be returned.
13. Cards that are contrary to decency or offensive or manifestly off the subject or those that the jury will
exclude for reasons similar to the previous ones will not be accepted.
Auguri Toscanello!
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No45. Ablakok / Windows
1. Save the mma44 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more sporting goods on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
Landscapes
This is a project to remember a great landscape painter and friend Silvano Drei, founder of “Associazione Acquerellisti Faentini” (“Faenza’s Watercolourists Association”) who disappeared in April 2017. The sign you left in our hearts will never fade.
MailArt at School
Present, produce and send mailart in school! Your participation in our call will help students to understand the mailart and join the great network. We will also produce and send mailart. Thank you!
The Face of Jesus
Artists are asked to be respectful but as creative as they want in their interpretation of the Face of Jesus.
No blasphemy and any work promoting hate to any individual or group will not be accepted.
International Women's Day
Write name, address, email, title, year, technique and website on the back.
Open to every female professional artist.
Works will be auctioned after the exhibition to finance future art projects and helping to start a woman artist network. Every participant will receive a professional pdf catalogue of this event.
l’air
The works received will be the subject of an exhibition on the Villejean campus in the spring. If you wish to receive an invitation do not hesitate to tell us your email.
Chaos
Errors, Fakes, and Oddities
There will be an art exchange opportunity on the last day of the exhibition. Only art received in the mail will be included.
Onward! Anything & Everything
ARTLIFE is the pre-eminent mail art publication founded by Joseph Cardella
Tea
Several years ago, we sent Patricia lots of Mail Art to celebrate TEA. Her shop Cary Town Teas has moved to a new location.
Let's send her more Mail Art so she can put up another display.
Postcards
For its inauguration, Artefato studio and art school is promoting an exhibition on postcards. Open to all ages and countries.
It will be exhibited only the front part of the postcard.
Concours d'ART POSTAL
Che-Ché somewhere over the Rainbow
"Che-Ché" was a beautiful white cat, a Turkish Angora, my beloved Pet [Feb.14,2013 ~ Mzo.17,2018] (05 years old). Unfortunately, he suddenly crossed the Rainbow during his romantic persecutions. It was a very sad episode that left the heart desolate in our Home!
... the time passes and the pain softens with resignation, remembering beautiful moments and the satisfaction of having given it a "nice life".
In my return to the Visual Arts, after 18 years of absence, "Che-Ché" has been that inspiration engine to translate and tribute him in several illustrations of Postal Art where I have participated in several Countries of the World during 2018. Many have been the Mail Art Organizers that have allowed me (jointly and severally) my participation in a Digital manner due to the non-existence (temporary) of the International Public Mail in Venezuela and for reasons beyond our control. For this reason, I have had the great motivation and the endeavor to summon all those Visual Artists, Cat Lovers and people with plastic interests (of any age) who wish to participate in this Project of "Virtual Postal Art on Facebook®" ... I do not know if someone came up with the idea before but I think it's great, something different and new!
The artwork must include a white cat.
Library
what's wrong with my city
Link will be available after exhibition. Please, include your email so we can send you the link later.
Mail Love Not Bombs
By submitting, you are agreeing to donate your mail art to be sold during the exhibition as a fundraiser for the The dA Center for the Arts.
Each mail art piece will be for sale in a silent action. This is a unique opportunity to own a one-of-a-kind piece of art!
Sold pieces will stay on display through the end of the exhibit and then mailed to the buyer. Unsold pieces will not be returned following the exhibit, but you can buy it back for $5.
The Vagina Monologues
Please send your artwork of love, honor, healing, and celebration for the vagina, all connected organs, and the women to whom they belong.
Exhibition during our production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues". All pieces available for sale. Event profits will benefit a local organization working to end violence against women. Pieces not sold will become part of our mail art archive. Thank you for donating to our cause.
Misogynistic pieces will be destroyed without comment.
Thespis Project // Theatre
The Thespis Project invites artists from Greece and the world to participate in the 1st Online MAIL ART Exhibition.
The inspiration theme is Theatre (from plays, writers, characters, architecture to costumes, set design, tickets, photos, programs and stagecraft).
All works must be sent through the postal system (stamps and addresses), including the artist’s name and a title.
The technique that may be employed is free.
All submissions should be original and will be exhibited online in a website created specifically for that purpose.
If they will be shown in a short of gallery, all participants will be notified in advance.
Upon submission all participants agree to any kind of reproduction.
IS THERE A MONK IN YOU?
In our municipality of Alphen-Chaam still exists the remains of an old and the only Commandery in the Netherlands of the Knights Templars, a monks order dating back to the Middle Ages; they were crusaders. The inhabitants of our region were liable to a monastery of yet another monks order, 50 kilometers away. The monks had a predominant role in life in the past times. They managed the lands, they built the monasteries, the churches and the hospitals, protected the pilgrims, farmers and the citizens. They made the rules, wrote the books. They preceded in the rituals of spiritual life and were the guards of civilization and morality. Throughout the world and in all religions and civilizations are people like our monks. Both men and women. Even in each human being lurks a monk, a moralist, a dedicated person and with the desire to live in peace and regularity, occasionally in the seclusion of the surrounding world. There is also being mocked with this misunderstood eccentrics. For example, in the works of Hieronymus Bosch many a monk and saint are represented, for good and for evil. Antony in temptation, John as a scholar and writer, a flying monk, a drunken monk, etc. Not every monk was a good guy, not every bad guy was a monk.
Project Int. Mail art . Mail art is a river river is not a line org. Mini Galleria
A Call for Art[ist] dedicated to the "most famous unknown artist" of New York and its non-shape.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995) a seminal figure of Pop Art in the 50s was a pioneer of Mail Art.
His works reflect his encyclopedic erudition, his promiscuous range of interests and a mysterious proto-Google ability to discover connections between a myriad of images, facts and people.
This project aims to stimulate visual research through an extraordinary means of communication: invisible, underground, nostalgic, subversive, poetic, playful, unofficial and unconventional. He wants to draw attention to a code that guarantees the transversality and multidisciplinary nature of the languages and the antagonist of the commodification prevailing in art.
"Where can we go with imagination and creativity?"
"Be extremely thin to the point of not having a shape"
All the material will be cataloged to set up a workshop + seminar + an "invisible" exhibition.
Art's Birthday
A POP-Up Exhibition to the 1.000.056th Birthday of Art.
Send Your Compliments!
!Typical German?
What is typical for Germany and Germans!
ARTISTIC RE-action
Many post offices in Ticino are being closed by the GIANT YELLOW-SWISS POST, including the Balerna post office starting as from December 2018.
The closure of the post offices that are considered "peripheral" will definitely cause problems for the people especially for the elderly and the disadvantaged.
Would you like to express your opinion in an artistic way on the closure of post offices?
During the autumn we will be organizing an exhibition in Balerna with all submissions received, which shall remain property of the recipient, and will be available for any other future events.
This will be followed by a press release with information.
La Niñez
Representations of "Niñez" and youth are a social construct. Boys and girls must be social understood as people with full rights. We invite you to reclaim the emotion and joy of when you were a kid, or contest a vulnerable right relationed with being young.
Artwork will be show at public spaces, libraries, schools, hospitals, ..
Loss
Mailart will remain in the archives following the exhibit.
MailArt at School
Present, produce and send postcard art in school! I need your help, send a postal art for our school and we'll send you another one back.
This call is part of the practice in my master's degree in art.
Miniature Art
MINIMALISM
My passport
send one postcard for each of the address
landscape orientation
MYSELF
microbo.net has always investigated the relationship between virtual and real, using the Web to promote the visual arts.
The Web, an open space par excellence, is the natural place where every single artist can promote his work to a potentially planetary audience; this is why the initiative is called MYSELF: we intend to offer everyone the opportunity to tell each other - through their own work of art.
The format is mandatory that of the simple, small box that each artist must build following the instructions and the attached template .pdf, which must be printed in A4 / letter format, on any media: paper, cardboard, glossy sheets, colored, photo paper, adhesive paper, etc. ...
Each artist can use the box itself as a support for his work (drawing it, painting it, using it as a base for collage, etc.) or inserting one or more small works inside it.
Realize your MYSELF BOX starting from the provided file, printed on any support, in A4 format and build it following the assembly instructions » https://photos.app.goo.gl/SS5Eqoz41gWDXDpe6
Turn it into a work of art or use it as a container for one's own work or more work.
Fill in the appropriate form (https://goo.gl/forms/itj2QwKRuOblt4h63) and send the job to the address (which is shown after completing the form with your data and clicking on "send").
All submitted work will be digitized and processed into electronic books (eBooks) issued under the non-commercial creative commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 IT, which will be published on our website and disseminated by us through our social areas.
The works must not be protected by copyright (otherwise microbo.net would be unable to spread the initiative on the net and print the images on posters etc. ...).
The material sent is intended to be donated to microbo.net, which undertakes not to derive any commercial benefit from the materials supplied, which are used exclusively for the realization of exhibitions, print and web spread (through microbo.net), via e-mail (invitations and press release) and on their social profiles, in order to ensure the success of the initiative.
microbo.net reserves the possibility of organizing subsequent collective exhibitions, in different exhibition spaces. Also, for these and subsequent exhibitions, no contribution will be required for the participating artists.
Science Fiction
the color moves
2nd International Mail Art Exhibition Kafkas University
The exhibition date will be announced to the participants later.
If sending digital art products keep in mind the following: video and sound should have a maximum of 1 minute.
Homeworld: Interplanetary Migration
Dispersal’s mission is to cultivate the exchange of tactile ideas between individuals across physical distance with the hope of producing greater empathic connections.
You have been chosen out of infinite possibilities in the multimegaverse.
If you are reading these words your vibrational signature and eighth dimensional true essence has brought you to this specific moment in the time-space continuum.
Dispersal Collective seeks your dreams, cellular memories and vibrations in the form of images, words, and artworks for Homeworld (Interplanetary Migration).
Dispersal asks correspondence artists to address migration through an imaginal and real lens. In the future, and already having occurred in the past, people perform interplanetary, intergalactic and inter-dimensional migration. You are migrating from your Homeworld, hometown and shifting your state of being to a new planet, relative place or dimension….
Through images and/or words…
Share with us your dreams, cellular memories, and vibrations that you would like to add to the collective web of consciousness.
Work will not be returned but will be re-dispersed and all artists will receive a mailing from the show.
3rd electronic call for Postal Art Procedimentum 2019
A multimedia catalogue will be published in PDF format as an annex to number 8 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum. Number 8 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum will be published in January 2019.
Magna Matter
Collective exhibition want to be a homage to the Nature of the planet Earth: animals, seas, lakes, rain, wind, clouds, mountains, deserts, forests, flowers…
Selected works will be permanently documented online on the art web gallery Lys d’Or.
El Taller de Zenon // MailArt CALLS 2018
The mailbox feeds on what arrives trough this channel. El Taller de Zenon tries to classify it, but this does not always coincide with the author's vision.
The border between the different artistic areas is becoming more blurred by the minute and theoreticians do not agree on the boundaries of each field.
After years of research and study to get to know the differences, we have decided, that only the author is authorized to decide where to lace their work.
El Taller de Zenon // VISUAL POETRY CALLS 2018
The mailbox feeds on what arrives trough this channel. El Taller de Zenon tries to classify it, but this does not always coincide with the author's vision.
The border between the different artistic areas is becoming more blurred by the minute and theoreticians do not agree on the boundaries of each field.
After years of research and study to get to know the differences, we have decided, that only the author is authorized to decide where to lace their work.
neighborhood
About the neighborhood and for the neighborhood (reflections on the dynamics of daily life).
Recycling Xmas
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No44. Sportszerek / Sporting goods
1. Save the mma44 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more sporting goods on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
Celebrate ... this is a calling
Certificates of participation emitted by the University shall be sent.
IV BIG – Guarulhos International Biennial of Small Format Artworks
This call opens the subscription to artists and interested people to exhibit art works in the IV BIG – Guarulhos International Biennial of Small Format Artworks, to be realized in Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil and by the Internet, at the provided address.
The open call is rather complex so you are required to read the provided file.
In the act of the subscription, picture(s) of the work(s) must be sent, with minimum resolution of 120DPI, by email:.
The whale's route
The work must contain a picture of a whale and if the work is text based it must contain the word ballena/whale somewhere.
At the end of the exhibition, all works will be added to the whale tummy so that it may travel the world.
What makes you happy!
A joyful mailart out of your imagination in your own style.
International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Black and white vertical artwork.
100 Postcards
When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
An exhibition of works looking at how language fails us.
Lídia Baís
Lídia Baís (1900-1985) was a modern art brazilian female artist.
1968
What do we remember from that year.
After 50 years, what we remember of that year, of the great themes of that period.
All submitted artworks must be all vertical or all horizontal.
Stamp in the World
Evento artistico-culturale Europeo ed Internazionale - 9 °edizione/2018.
5th AMANITA BUNKER
At this year’s edition, the Amanita Bunker exhibition returns to the streets of this small village yet in the form of art bombing. Authors are invited to create artwork regarding the requested theme and join the yearly Mushroom Festival.
We truly don’t know if mushrooms are looking for a hideout, inside the local’s mailboxes, from all the hungry stomachs at this festival. Maybe they are running away from the constant fires that overwhelm our Portuguese forests and their natural habitat. Or perhaps they are just growing so much that they spread all the way from the forest till the habitant’s mailboxes and the village streets.
This being said… artists are invited to join in by sending artwork to the curators or by sending it directly to the village addresses.
All the artwork sent to the curators will end up being spread around the streets and all the work sent directly to the habitants will create a vaster bombing and mushroom invasion.
If sending directly to the habitants, do go on Google Street View and grab address from the city center of “Alcaide Fundão Portugal”. Do also send a scan of that same artwork to the provided email address so that we can archive it online and print a few more to spread on the streets.
We do ask you to add somewhere on the artwork the hashtag #AMANITABUNKER and the website www.amanitabunker.yzonk.com so that the receiver may go online and learn about this project.
BARRACA VORTICISTA 1988 - 2018 // 20th Anniversary of an Art Space
In April 2018, the art space "Barraca Vorticista" celebrates 20 years since its opening, and with the give starter, I invite you to join in on an international exhibition commemorating its anniversary.
Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano
The Movement Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte honors Casa Museo Boschi Di Stefano launches an international mail art call.
Nowadays a true relationship between the Artist and the Art Collector is missing, the new logic of the art market ends up confusing the economic value of a work with its artistic value.
The choice of this “resistant” art form is determined by the desire to introduce the virtuous model of the Boschi Di Stefano spouses’ collecting to the greatest number of international artists and encourages to an art networking with the aim of reflecting on the role of the collector today. An enquiry that starts from an example of the past: Stefano Boschi and his civic sense which lead him to donate his collection to the City of Milan, transforming his private home into one of the most interesting Houses – Museum in the world.
FOTOAPPOSTA
mushrooms
Documentation will be sent to all participants.
Un 25 de Noviembre
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
black and white portrait orientation
VISIONS
Ideas of visions of the past, present or future. In the heart of the storied Ozark Mountains.
All entries will be exhibited and archived except those deemed deliberately offensive.
Visual Disturbances
SELFIE SEARCHING FOR IDENTITY
For this event, the Spazio Ophen Virtual Art Gallery in Salerno will organize from 13 December 2018 until 30 March 2019 a virtual international collective exhibition as an international event, with the relative press release, the critical text and the communication of the exhibition to the most important magazines. art, newspapers and contemporary art sites. The exhibition will then be archived and can be visited permanently in the "exhibitions held" space of the Salerno Virtual Gallery.
The works will be published permanently in virtual room 31 of the Bongiani Art Museum Collection in Salerno.
Sapanca: route (Flyway) of migratory birds
Artworks will be offered for sale at symbolic prices as an aid to Sapanca Association of Children, and unsold artworks will be retained in archives of Sapanca Association of Children.
In the Midway
The Instituto Imersão Latina invites poets and visual artists of any nationality to participate in the Project NO MEIO DO CAMINHO (In The Midway) - International Mail Art Exhibition, from October 25 to December 08, 2018, at the Fundação Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in Itabira (MG), Brasil. The action is part of the cultural program of the I I-Poem@ International Literary Encounter for Migrant Writing, to be held in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Ipoema and Itabira, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The theme IN THE MIDWAY is a reference to the poem of the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "I had a stone in the middle of the path / Tinha uma pedra no meio do caminho".
Some suggestions of reference words as inspiration for the creation of your Postcard: Paths, Migration, Emigration, Immigration, Route, Itinerary, Trajectory, Border, Customs, Map, Territory, Clandestine, Refugees, Hope, Compass, Latitude / Longitude, Sovereignty, Integration, Xenophobia, Geopolitics.
Postcards will be accepted in any techniques, such as Drawing, Painting, Engraving, Collage, Assemblage, Digital Printing, Text etc.
There will be a nominal digital certificate, to be sent to the e-mail that appears on the back of the Postcard. A photographic report of the exhibition will be published on the Internet. There will be a virtual version of the exhibition and the possibility of traveling through other cultural spaces in Brazil.
STAMPZINE
Stampzise is a Assembling Rubber Stamp Zine published in the samizdat tradition (hand made) edited in a limited edition by: Picasso Gaglione and Darling Darlene.
To contribute send 20 hand stamped copies of original rubberstamp art signed and numbered. No photocopies.
All contributes will receive a copy.
XIV Giornata del Contemporaneo AMACI
Democracy
CALL FOR WORKS WHICH EXPLORE THE THEME OF DEMOCRACY
This International Mail Art Call opens a channel to reflect on the current struggle for democracy, both in Brazil and in the international scene. In Latin America, postal art emerged and developed in the context of military dictatorships which, then, dominated many countries of this continent, including Brazil.
Considering this historic aspect of Latin American postal art, as well as the current Brazilian political and institutional crisis, which has worsened since the impeachment process of former President Dilma Rousseff, and more recently with the increase of political violence in Brazil, we invite proposals that reflect on the democratic values we are fighting for.
LINKS // Heterogeneous connections for a cartography to and from the peripheries
From the Project of University Extension of the UNLP "Building Social Ties" we launched a call to participate in an art mail experience. The call is mainly oriented to projects dedicated to art in perspective of human rights, community transformation and working in contexts of greater social vulnerability. Also, any interested person can participate, without age limits and from anywhere. It is not a requirement to be an artist.
Postcards received within the dates of the calls will be exposed, in principle, in a sample to develop in the city of La Plata during the month of October. Once said sample is finished, they will become part of the file of the "Building Social Ties" Project.
Audiovisual instance: each participant can share the audiovisual record (video-films) of the moment they are producing their postcards and / or the delivery of them at the post office. From this material we will edit an audiovisual to project the day of the inauguration and spread through social networks. MP4 video format or MOV.
2nd TRANZA // Encuentro Federal de Gráfica
Artists should work with at least one of the theme words.
The artwork will used as poster on the streets and glued onto the walls.
Send a scan and artists details by email so that it can be compiled on a fanzine.
Art without Death without Art
Classic Horror Films
Evans City is where the classic horror film Night of the Living Dead was filmed. In October a Living Dead Weekend (festival) is held in this small town located in western Pennsylvania, U.S.A. This year the local library is hosting a mail art show honoring movies that keep us awake at night!
Free Translation
Prison Outside & Translation is Dialogue invite submissions of artworks from incarcerated people, ex-convicts, and anyone affected by imprisonment. The multi-disciplinary exhibition Free Translation will showcase international works in November 2018 at MAA-tila Gallery in Helsinki and online.
Drawings, paintings, animation, photography, video, textiles, poems, texts, or art in any other medium. On the artwork, please write your name or pseudonym, date and place. Please include
any special requests on how you would like your piece to be presented.
By sending us your artworks you give consent to putting them on Prison Space and Translation is Dialogue websites, social media outlets, and including them in the exhibition in Helsinki and online. If for any reason, you wish to be anonymous, please state that clearly. We reserve a right to exhibit a selected number of works.
Please ensure your packaged artwork fits in a standard mailbox. To discuss transportation of larger works, please email us.
My Mail Art Archive/Museum HOW? Context ARTdemocracy 2
ATC366++
The ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) are, as the name suggests, works of art created with the intention of being traded. They were used for a long time, in the artistic medium as business cards that represented the artist's capacities and were exchanged, in hand, among artists, gallerists and art dealers and others. With this small catalog of artworks, it would thus be possible for anyone interested to learn techniques from other artists, to own a small private collection of art or even to use them as real business cards at the time of commissioning works.
You may also send as many Buddy Jams as you wish. These Buddy Jams are intended to be finished by collaborator artists or by youngsters during workshops. And yep... they will be returned and I'll be thankful for it.
LA MUERTE // MIENTRAS LA VIDA NOS DURE
Regarding the Celebración del Día de Muertos at Pto. de Veracruz, we invite all artists and general audience that enjoy the artistic creation, national or international, to be part of our exhibition "Mientras la Vida nos Dure".
The imagery may be used to promote the event but with no commercial intent.
Creation of a digital catalog with all the artwork of the participants.
All participants will received a certificates of participation from the City Town Hall.
NEW YORK – BIG APPLE IV
An important event that, promoted by The New York Boyer Foundation, invites all around the world artists to participate on this international art exhibition.
All work will be permanently archived at The New York Boyer Foundation.
At the end of the exhibition, The New York Boyer Foundation will send documentation to all artists.
The work of art will have to be presented individually identified, with a label in the back of the same with artist’s name, title, media, size and year. Please provide also e-mail and website if the artist has one.
The woman in 2018
A participation certificate will be sent via email.
It will be considered the possibility of making exhibitions in other external exhibition spaces, citing the authors of the same for the purposes of advertising, promotion and dissemination of the event.
In no case said publication will have a commercial or lucrative character for the entities calling the contest or for the participants in it.
The authors of the works submitted to the contest will always keep their intellectual property rights and, in turn, cede to Lever du Soleil, without time limit, all the exploitation rights of the same, present and future, always without lucrative nature and effects of advertising, promotion and dissemination of the contest and of the participating artists themselves, by any support known or that may be developed in the future, including as an example and not exhaustive the rights of reproduction, public communication, printing, publication, dissemination and communication, by any procedure and modality, in any support and as many times as necessary, both in Spain and abroad, which in any case must always mention the origin and authorship of the same.
Convocatoria Arte Correo 2018 Jolgorioso Jolgorio
After being exhibited, the Works will be protected and will become part of the Collection of Ivana Medeghini and will not be used for economic purposes.
12th Annual Anything Goes… Everything Shows
It's just that, an uncensored free style mail art show. Mail art is art that uses the postal system as a medium. Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters; zines; rubberstamped, decorated, or illustrated envelopes; artist trading cards; postcards; artistamps; faux postage; mail-interviews; naked mail; friendship books, decos and three-dimensional objects.
CoNVoCaZioNe iNTeRNaZioNaLe Di aRTe PoSTaLe // eSSeRCi SeNZa eSSeRCi 2018 (XI edizione)
The images of the works sent may be used by the organization in the manner and with the ends deemed appropriate without any economic pretexts by the artists invited to participate. In particular, the right to use them in communication and advertising material is recognized.
In the Forest of Symbols / A game to meet each other
"Like echoes off and for a long time tend to a deep unity..."
- Baudelaire
Do you want to be found in the forest of symbols?
“Symbol” comes from Greek σύμ-βάλλω, «put together».
If you d’like to be found by someone who traces back your footsteps, the symbols you have left for him/her to find you, join us.
You can keep your name secret, or just a message, it is up to you. The important thing is that you disguise yourself. Because only the initiates, who are able to hear you, can find you. This game is about recognizing each other.
Where and how you want to be found it's your decision.
What can’t be reached by rationality and science, agape and love will find it naturally, let others decipher what you have hidden and only through a spontaneous intuition it will be possible to come to you.
Is there a code in art? No! Art is free. References, memories, colors, sounds, smells, fragrances, associations... thanks to their sensibility artists are able to make the forest of symbols, where they hide their concepts and their correspondences, understandable.
Everyone has his own code to communicate. Find someone who knows your code and knows how to decrypt it, because it vibrates within himself too. It's like a genetic code.
The genetic code is the set of rules contained in our deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
Communication is the center of everything. Art was meant as an instrument of communication since the beginning of human history, when cavemen started painting on the cave walls, matching symbols to objects and concepts for the first time. Creating meaning is an artificial process but communicating is an innate process.
Communication is an animal feature, it's pure existence and Art comes from the instinct of a direct grip on reality, a desire to reproduce ourselves in Reality and Beauty. So, the mission is to communicate with symbols, with images and alchemy that refer to other of ourselves.
Join in and lose yourself in the forest of symbols, an emerald dark forest, behind the shadow of an apparent misunderstanding and, let the your message be deciphered, look for the messages you have left.
Whoever finds you, he/she speaks your same language.
Do you want to play?
The works will be preserved as a heritage of the City of Sant’Oreste and later will be exhibited in art galleries, museums and elsewhere.
POST STORIES
Postal stories are short and long journeys in memory, hidden tragedies, myths that embellish everyday routine with mysterious appearances and disappearances of objects.
Behind any action or act in the past, lies a mystery, which is a happy ending in today time.
They all have a common link to the postal postage and are evolved as narration / text / sound poetry / text sound etc.
Sound and text submissions can be sent also at : mellifera.action@yahoo.gr written in the theme: Post office stories.
All submissions will be included in the exhibition in Athens of the Project: "THE POST".
Tales // Childhood Dreams
Mail art encourages people to express themselves and communicate. This contest is open to everyone : amateurs and professionals, young and old, those living with mental health disorders and those who do not. All forms of mail art are accepted from painting, drawing to sticking.
To take part in the contest please submit an illustrated envelope.
The contest has a category for children and adults, winners and runners-up will be chosen from these two categories.
Black to the future // The Time of Dreams of the Australian Aborigines
The Project is open to all Mail-Art artists with the vision of open-source and sharing, which is an essential part of the Mail-Art itself as it is also in the traditional laws of the Australian Aborigines.
The project aims to disseminate the Australian Aboriginal cultural, a World Heritage, and to present artistic works on the occasion of the 1st National Fluism Festival to be held in October 2018 en Ancona.
Works can also be sent by email.
Experimental Project Book-Object
Book is a concept, a format, a support, type of structure, a construction, it is a container, it is a resource ... ultimately it is an object and basically it is communication space.
Territory that has historically been occupied by the word, the artist takes, appropriates it and includes it among its own expressive resources. Experience your way by deploying personal baggage and unique creative skills.
Shapes, textures, texts, colors, objects, images, etc. All kinds of techniques and materials. The possible forms are endless.
By dispensing with the unidirectional rigor imposed by reading, the journeys can be surprising and more like our own world, infinitely complex, fragmented, with successive layers and mysterious folds.
Artwork submitted by traditional mail won't be returned but instead another artwork will be sent to the artists.
Certificates will be issued to all participants.
A digital catalog will be published, which will also be available for download in PDF format.
A hand catalog will be printed for the visiting public with the list of participants.
Homeless
Collective exhibition dedicated to the anxiety of living homeless, without country, without a place or conditions that permit a dignified life.
Mariposas // Artist Book Compilation
Book is a concept, a format, a support, type of structure, a construction, it is a container, it is a resource ... ultimately it is an object and basically it is communication space.
Territory that has historically been occupied by the word, the artist takes, appropriates it and includes it among its own expressive resources. Experience your way by deploying personal baggage and unique creative skills.
Shapes, textures, texts, colors, objects, images, etc. All kinds of techniques and materials. The possible forms are endless.
By dispensing with the unidirectional rigor imposed by reading, the journeys can be surprising and more like our own world, infinitely complex, fragmented, with successive layers and mysterious folds.
Also send a small bio (maximum of 150 words).
Mastica vento // Chew wind
From the wind that was pulling at Gelagna
To the intangible force that is, everywhere, in us
To the earthquake neighbors
To J.K. who gave me a wonderful card!!!
Modus Mutandi
Make your own artwork on the back side of the provided image.
A STAMP FOR AZZURRA (Fiat 500 brand Unicef)
The works will be used:
a) for public exhibitions whose locations are yet to be defined. The participating artists will be notified by calendar time, by e-mail.
b) at the end of the exhibition, with an adequate voluntary donation, free (entirely devolved to Unicef) it will be possible to take possession of the original works.
c) the remaining envelopes will be kept at the headquarters of the Club Ruote d'Epoca Riviera dei Fiori and will remain available for other temporary exhibitions requested by public or private bodies
Invent a stamp to help the children of the world!
The photographic documentation of the works received and the subsequent exhibition activities will be published on the official website of the Club Ruote d'Epoca Riviera dei Fiori.
All participants will receive the book: La cinquina di Anna.
VENTIPERVENTI
International exhibition of small format twenty twenty.
Angry Old Man Editor #5 // a magazine of experimental art & poetry
AOM accepts visual and concrete poetry, short stories, art, photography, collage, asemic writing, blackout poetry, conceptual writing, flarf, found poetry, spam lit, flash fiction, mail art, typewriter art, computer/digital art, etc. Please submit up to five works. Work should be attached separately via email. AOM accepts jpegs for visual work (no greater than 4Mb), and .doc/.docx/.rtf for text-based work. AOM also accepts audio/ video/animation submissions. Hypertext/electronic literature/e-poetry are also accepted.
Essays/non-fiction/journalism are (heartily) accepted (especially related to contemporary art/poetry). AOM indulges the non-mainstream. If you have something to say that bucks accepted (and acceptable) dogma (especially within so-called experimental circles), and is (probably) considered unpublishable by both mainstream and “experimental” outlets, please feel free to submit.
Experimental work only. Experimental=complete & absolute flights of fancy. Again, AOM indulges the self-indulgent, so go for it. Mags often say they want “experimental,” but don’t actually mean it. AOM wants your insane stuff, emphatically so!–the stuff that won’t be published in “respectable” academic lit/poetry mags. The goal of AOM is not to promote a house style; this is probably a pipe-dream, but try we must!
AOM is open for submissions year-round.
Nothing previously published. No simultaneous submissions. Copyright remains with the author/artist.
Angry Old Man publishes 4x year.
Please include a short bio with your submission. AOM will try to reply within a month. Submit all work electronically.
What I saw at the library!
TRISTAN TZARA
Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No43. Gépek / Machines
1. Save the mma43 file into your computer.
2. Open it using a graphics program.
3. Place one or more machines on the surface.
4. Save changes.
5. Send your work by email.
PRO MEMORIA // 90º B-Day Ray Johnson
show in autumn in Milan
Portraits with Hats 2018
Send a portrait with a hat.
Viseu 2018 - Cidade Europeia do Folclore
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 MailArt Open Call is an annual project that promotes a contemporary art form of expression that emerged as a correspondence exchanged between artists during the 60s and manifested itself as an alternative to the conventional means of art exhibitions on the 70s. It integrates the strategic line - territory and identity, of this space and its relationship with the community and the city, fulfilling the objective of constituting a small format collection.
Pug-Dogs for Winnenden
"E" Ambassadeur d'Utopia