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	DATED MAILART CALLS last updated May 13, 2008 Selection for inclusion on this page is based upon a number of criteria. I have instituted a general review of the calls on this page purely as a means to aid those new initiates who have little or no experience with mailart. Some of the considerations that I use are if the call is targeted at visual art, whether the work will be exhibited, if there will be documentation, and if there is a known history of coordinating. If you like to explore, submit to any call purely for the sake of play and with no expectations. one perf - unknown or insufficient information given two perfs - may lack some of the qualities of a complete call three perfs - good call four perfs - known coordinator, or with artistamp history five perfs - exceptional If you have a call that you wish to have considered for listing here and it includes: a deadline to be received, an exhibition in a public space and mailed documentation for participants, please send it to me at the following address and include “mail art call” in the subject line. Listing is not automatic. METRICS CONVERTOR- for easy size/dimension conversion 05 *** MAY 2008 A to Z (four perfs) Theme: send us a letter of the alphabet, drawn, illustrated, collaged, cut out, painted, calligraphie... Size: A4 maximum Technique: free. Please incorporate the artwork, our address and stamps on the same face. Include your mailing address, e-mail, site or blog on the back or in the envelope. Documentation will be sent to each participant. Exhibit for all ages in Gradignan during June 2008, so please insure that images are appropriate to be viewed by children. No returns Deadline to be technique: free Media: photo, design, collage, etc. Exhibition: Artwork will be exhibited during the show "Fetish & Consumption" starting May 29, 2008 at the Akademie Solitude http://akademie-solitude.de/ Documentation: in my archive with links to your website (please include your name and website url if you have one). http://www.grn-mail.com info: mail@grn-mail.com Deadline to be school: liceuarteplastice_timisoara@yahoo.com or contact: Prof. Corina Mutu: corinamutu@yahoo.com Deadline to be work: http://lecourrierdhonorine.hautetfort.com or http://lewebpedagogique.com/5et4 Deadline to be include: Name, Return Address and Country of Origin Age may be included as well. Deadline to be Laura: lonesomeaesthetic@btinternet.com Cut off date for contacting me: June 1, 2008 *** Mail Ant (three perfs) Theme: ants in general SIZE: ATC (2.5 x 3.5 inches) to 1/2 Letter size (5.5 x 8.5 inches) DIRECTIONS: Send 2 works (originals or copies) and get two in return (one of mine and one of another mailartist) DOCUMENTATION: List of contributors to all participants and blog entries: http://ronsen.org/mailart DEADLINE to be forms: IN ALL LETTERS". Large letters, tiny, handwritten or calligraphic... of love, credit, invitation or thanks, intimate, public or anonymous, all your letters are good with poster. Be free with your imagination, dare originality, humour and poetry in order to create a strange postal work on the suggested topic. Received works will be exhibited at the time of the festival. The mall art (or postal art) is a free mode of expression, free and obliterated, which uses recycling, diversion and all techniques graphic and plastic. All is allowed within the limit of the Post office. Format and technique: free. More information on "mail art": http://www.lezardtimbre.com Deadline to be Soares: artista_silviasoares@hotmail.com Deadline to be Coast: 97411" (four perfs) Send 4x6 in. or 10x15 cm. postcard inside an envelope Documentation: Please include a SASE or self addressed envelope with IRC for mailed documentation Exhibition: July 2008 at Bandon Artist Supply, Bandon, Oregon Technique: free info: studioblue@mycomspan.com Deadline to be possibilities: In the first, your mail art may be on the topic of recycling. Secondly, your mail art may be on the topic of your choice but created only with materials which have been reused, in order to create a "recycled" work. Format et technique: free. Documentation: catalog to all participants and online with weekly updates at PROJET D'ART POSTAL 2007/2008 - LE RECYCLAGE http://projetartpostalrecyclage2008.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be Medium: Free No Jury, No Returns Mail Art & Documentation sent to all participants Deadline to be Size: postcards from 4” x 6” (or 10 x 15 cm), up to A5 size - about 5 ¾” x 8 1/4” (or 14.8 x 21 cm) maximum. Documentation: All received works will be exhibited and the artists listed on the blog: http://thumbingthrough.wordpress.com/ Please include your name, mailing address, and email address for acknowledgment and correspondence purposes. We will send a list of participants, and copies of any press coverage of the exhibition. Exhibition: In the true spirit of mail art we want your postcards to continue their communication journey off the blog and into the physical world with an exhibition at a local venue here in California (to be announced). At the exhibit we will encourage audience interaction in the form of written response to the art. Then the postcards will move on to – who knows? There is also the possibility that some of the images will be referenced on the blog and/or in the written thesis. Organized by: artist, Joan Desmond, http://www.joandesmond.com and writer, Ann http://www.annbeman.com/ and http://thumbingthrough.com No fee, no returns. The postcards will become part of the collection of Thumbing Through. All works must be sent via normal postal route. Remember: WE LOVE MAIL ART! We love the concept, the images, the sense of community and feedback it inspires. We look forward to your participation in this project. Questions? joan@joandesmond.com Deadline to be topic: painting, drawing, sculpture, photograph, video, original creation. Documentation to participants. http://artpostal.com/projet_le_cheval_s_illustre.html Deadline to be at: http://www.goddelijkegladiolen.com No fees, no returns Answer and interchange to everybody info: kat@goddelijkegladiolen.com Deadline to be max: 21 cm x 14.5 cm Technique: free Doc to all participants Deadline to be site: http://wandrefalk.multiply.com Artwork will also will be part of a gallery show at the University of Brasília (date to be announced). Please send postcards only. Technique: free Deadline to be line: http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/macchine.html deadline to be ON: http://neoisms.blogspot.com Deadline to be info: archivio@mailartmeeting.c http://www.mailartmeeting.com Deadline to be following: The Hand. It will be a part of the festival of Roc Castal au Caylar, starting August 1, 2008. We are seeking French language expressions employing the word "hand". We are pleased to invite you to take part in this mail art project. The purpose of the association, "Larzac, village d'Europe", is to create bonds between inhabitants all the different residents living in the area of Larzac and to establish contacts with other associations or people in Europe who wish to develop cultural exchanges. More importantly, we hope that these contacts and links will lead to a Europe that is more respectful of the diversity of its cultures, a generous Europe, open to the world and not closed in on itself. The CPIE Causses Méridionaux is a Permanent Center for Environment Initiatives. It is composed of elected officials, of socio-professional, agricultural and forest but also of associations of nature conservancy, environmental education and hunters. Technique: free (drawing, painting, photography, collage, sculpture, etc) Media: free. One requirement: the postal stamp, cancelation, the address of the recipient and your own address must be included on the illustrated part. You may send multiple artworks. Exhibition: August 1, in Cayiar; on the place of the village. The exhibition will then travel to several cities and villages of our area. No jury, no sales. Documentation: We will publish the name and addresses of artists to all participants Deadline to be Sponsor: Department of Tourism and Culture of the City of Chajari INFO: silvialissa@yahoo.com.ar DOCUMENTATION to all participants. DEADLINE to be read: - What is your favorite character from your bedside book? Documentation to all participants. Exhibition of the artwork on a special blog and during a coffee reading with the media library, for a reading festival in October, 2008 Project blog: http://lirenfete08.blogspot.com/ http://melimailart.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be technique: free. Documentation to all participants. http://www.mailartpostal.canalblog.com Deadline to be Biennial: An open call for submissions for an upcoming exhibition of all forms of mailart. Post Cards, ATCs, Artistamps, envelopes, or whatever will make it through the postal system. Exhibition Space; TBA Deadline to be Exhibition: Sala de Exposición del Boletín Oficial Santiago del Estero info: yenyverval@yahoo.com.ar Deadline to be technique: free Exhibition: October/November at Maldonado, Punta del Este and Montevideo City; Uruguay. All received works will be exhibited. http://edicionesdelcementerio.blogspot.com Documentacion to all participants. No sales. Info: edicionesdelcementerio@ya Deadline to be woman: facets, projections, illusions ... Size: A4 (cm 21 x 29,5) Technique: free no fees, no selection, no return Exhibition: presso Circolo Arcimontorio All works must be sent by post Info: inpuntadipenna2007@libero Deadline to be catalogue: http://itsonlymailartconcept.blogspot.com/ Please include name, surname, country, address and email address (and website if one exists). All works must be sent by post with postage stamps. No returns. Deadline to be blog: http://feet-hands-face.blogspot.com/ Documentation to all participants Info: mistuppi@gmail.com Deadline to be them: railway machines, wagons, signals, routes, tickets, etc. Free Technique Size: 10cm X 15cm postcard to A4 The works will be displayed at http://trenesyvagones.blogspot.com/ Please include your name, mailing address, and e-mail on the back of the work. No returns. Response to all participants. info: correoaxon@yahoo.com.ar Deadline to be constraint: Your mailart must be created using red and black. Documentation to all participants at the end of the project. Deadline to be submissions: http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/ "E" 38 GRANDE RUE 02300 GUIVRY FRANCE *** CLOWNS - SNAILS (three perfs) Format and technique: free. Response to all participants. Documentation on the blog - SNAIL ART - MAIL ART - http://snailartmailart.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be technique: free - (collages, postcards, envelopes and objects in 3 D). Do not forget your postal and email address!!! Exhibition all year at the library. Documentation at the beginning of 2009 for all participants. No returns. All the sendings are published on this blog: http://bibliothequesouvenirdecole2008.blogspot.com/ The library reserves the right to lend your sendings for road shows. Exhibitions will credit artwork with the artists' names. These shows are voluntarily efforts of requesting associations, for the purpose of promoting mail art. Info: bibliojean1@orange.fr Deadline to be visit: http://www.insectes.org Info: brunodidier@wanadoo.fr Deadline to be theme: "The Body". We are a body. The body is our instrument, our boundary and our identity. We want to know your body. Media/technique/size: Send 6 black and white (A4) copies of any part of your body: face, hands, chest, feet, etc. We suggest that you photocopy your body directly in your photocopier. Please include your email and postal addresses. Exhibition: Argentina - Brazil - Chile. In Argentina: National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires. Other venues possible in Europe. Works will enter the Hotel DaDa Archive. Documentation: Catalog to all participants in 2009. If you would like to help defray the costs of the catalog, please send a small amount of cash (up to 10 dollars) with your artwork. However, this is not mandatory. All submissions will be acccepted, exhibited and included in the catalog documentation. info: interferencias00@yahoo.com.ar http://www.hotel-dada.blogspot.com http://www.interferencias-action.blogspot.com Deadline to be here: http://artistamp2008.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be Note: "Litter is a waste type consisting of any tangible personal property which has been unlawfully scattered and or abandoned in a public place (usually outdoors)." Wikipedia Use the found item in a work of art. Or designate the item as ready-made. In either case, put your art in an envelope, or, if you'd like, affix it to a postcard. Alternatively: describe your merzwalk using words or pictures. After it has dried, send it to Merzwalk08. Only three submissions to Merzwalk08 per artist. But you may make as many merzwalks for yourself as you want and do it as frequently as you like. Documentation will include a catalogue that will be sent to all Merzwalk08 participants. There will be a show in January 2009. Deadline to be Out: Architecture and Interior Design Mail Art Event was made possible in part by a grant from the Modesto Culture Commission, the generosity of Jordi Camps, and the members of the Modesto Art Museum. See the museum web site for detailed information. http://www.modestoartmuseum No size limit. Documentation: to all adult participants plus listing on museum web site. Return: none, unless accompanied by a self addressed envelope with sufficient postage for return mail. International participants must include multiple postal coupons for return. Note: Include your mailing address and email address on/in your entry for acknowledgment. Questions: mam@modestoartmuseum.org Exhibition: March 2-28, 2008, Modesto, California. Deadline to be format: free exhibition: http://mailartpeinture.canalblog.com **Deadline to be
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