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	DATED MAILART CALLS last updated July 26, 2010 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. Calls with a “money” element will not be published here, nor will calls that provide only a blog posting for combined exhibition and documentation. A NOTE TO STAMP ARTISTS: You might like to check out a new forum for artistamps, cinderellas, faux postage (whatever you call it). The Cinderella Stamps Forum is a space provided by Colin Edwards and others to discuss creation, selling, trading, buying, history and other aspects of non-philatelic stamps. Drop in and look around. Easy to join. METRICS CONVERTOR- for easy size/dimension conversion 07 *** JULY 2010 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT (four perfs) Theme: Interpret the subject any way that you like and also include a recipe. Technique: open Media: Works should be on the package, card or envelope, not inside. What is mailed is the entry. Size limit: 12x12 inches max. No fee Please include your email address on entry. Exhibition: Work will be displayed at An Art Affair Gallery and Art Studio. Documentation: On line documentation at http://www.anartaffair.com and our blog http://bsloveproduction.wordpress.com Info: trippur2001@yahoo.com Deadline to be received: July 29, 2010 You Are What You Eat c/o An Art Affair 7606 North 83rd Ave Glendale, AZ 85303 USA * Tarot Artist Cards (foru perfs) 1st International Call From EL Escarabajo MAIL - ARTE POSTAL Mexico. Theme: We invite mail artists from around the world to participate in mail art exhibition covering the Tarot. The artist must create their own cards or in part on the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. You may submit from 1 to 22 cards. Format: May be mailed in an envelope but the cards should be either 10cm x 15cm or 13cm x 18cm. Technique: Free No Returns, No Jury. Please include your name, address, email and website or blog. All work will be exhibited in a Toluca Museum. Documentation to all participants. Submitted works also published on our blog: http://escarabajointernacionaljvs.blogspot.com No sales, but the works may be reproduced by the organizers for informative or educational purposes, as well as making printed reproductions for the purpose of organizing additional exhibitions. The call is not competitive, no jury or prizes. Participation in the competition implies full acceptance of all conditions. More information: maxjvs@gmail.com Deadline to be received: July 30, 2010 Jorge Valdes APT. Postal # 4 C.A.P. Toluca # 3 Central Camionera C.P. 50141 Toluca, México * space of liberty (four perfs) Size: 10 x 15 cm postcard Please include email and address on reverse. No jury no sales Exhibition: received works will shown at the university student National Institute of the Art, in August, 2010. Documentation: Catalog will be published Deadline: July 30, 2010 Expo Mail Art IUNA Av. The Heras 1749 C. Aut. Buenos Aires ARGENTINA * a representation of your favorite city (one perf) the images will be used to illustrate an article on mail art in a brazilian travel magazine technique: free (collage, painting, photo, illustration, etc) format: Postcard 14x10cm Info: lilabotter@gmail.com http://curativo.wordpress.com deadline to be received: July 30, 2010 lila botter praça benedito calixto, 86 ap 42 cep 05406-040 são paulo-sp * 23 August: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition (five perfs) Theme: In partnership with a project by UNESCO, August 23, 2010 marks the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition. The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project "The Slave Route", this project should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean. Submissions are sought from mail artists throughout the world. No jury, No returns, No sales Size: Postcards that can be hung on the wall (10 x 15 cm, max) Technique: free Exhibition: August 23, 2010 Documentation: All works will be posted on the blog: http://memorialdotraficonegreiro.over-blog.com/ Info: inezolude@yahoo.com.br Deadline to be received: July 31, 2010 Inêz da Silva Rue Saint Bernard, 17- bte 54 1060 Brussels Belgium * UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (four perfs) Theme: What is a universal language for you? In which manner do you communicate your dreams, energy and wishes to other people? What is the easiest way of communication and what does communication mean for you? Please send me your interpretation of this phenomenon and give your creative energy to all people who will see this exhibition. Technique: free Size/Media: Preferable the work will be handmade on paper, (max. 2 works, size: 10 x 15 cm/up to 21 x 29 cm Snail mail only. No jury, no return, no fee. Exhibition: during August 2010 in CEH (Centro de Estudios Hispanicos), Sarajevo Documentation: Artworks will be permanently displayed on my blog http://universalartlanguage.blogspot.com/ Images of exhibition will also be e-mailed (include your e-mail address, name, surname, country, address and web site one exists). Info: natasastanisic@gmail.com Deadline to be received: July 31, 2010 Nataša Stanišić Asima Ferhatovića 1 71 000 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina 08 * AUGUST 2010 UR TOY STORY (three perfs) Exhibition: I plan on having a mall art show at a gallery next fall similar to the one I had this past August. Art will be documented on my mail art webstie... http://www.jenniferzoe.blogspot.com Info: jenniferzoe@juno.com Deadline to be received: August 1, 2010. Jennifer Zoellner UR Toy Story 665 Jasmine Way South St. Petersburg, FL 33705 USA * Our Planet (four perfs) Theme: 2nd annual mail art exhibition in Pereira, Columbia. This call is focus upon "our Planet". Size: Postcard - 10x15 cm. Send one or two postcards without envelope. No returns. Please include your name address and email on back. Documentation: to all participants via email on on our blog. Exhibition: October, 2010, simultaneously in various exhibition halls in Pereira. Artwork will also travel to various cities as part of the 1st Postal Museum of graphic art. Info: grabadopostalpereira@gmail.com http://www.mailartnuestroplaneta.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: August 15, 2010 Nuestro Planeta Juan Carlos Vargas Balcones de Villa del Prada Pereira M6 C 22 Columbia * Your Doctor in Mail Art Theme: How do you see your doctor? Is he/she a good help to you and do you feel blessed by having this good health care giver? Or are you afraid, angry and/or distrusting whenever you visit your doctor? Or is he/she invisible to you as until now you didn’t need any medical care at all? How would you translate your thoughts, vision, feelings, opinion about him or her into Mail Art? Size/Technique: All media are okay, preferable on postcard size (10x15 cms), maximum A4 (about 20x30 cms). Exhibition: A selection of the mail art will be part of an exhibition in a location where doctors have access to, probably in October 2010. Documentation: All artwork will be shown in an online exhibition as long as your mail art which shows your doctor... a portrait, a situation, special things or whatever is welcomed, as long as it's clear that he/she is Your Doctor! All entries will be published on http://yourdoctorinmailart.blogspot.com Deadline to be received: August 17, 2010 My Doctor in Mail Art Postbus 581 1180 AN Amstelveen the Netherlands * THE OWL (one perf) Theme: The Owl size: free no returns documentation online at: http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/pagine/theowl.html all works must be sent by post please include a photo of yourself, some lines of biography, postal and e-mail address Info: claudiograndinetti@yahoo.it deadline to be received August 25, 2010 The Owl Claudio Grandinetti Via Popilia 208/B 87100 Cosenza Italia * The Origin of Addresses (three perfs) Theme:** The use of street signs and house numbers was introduced in The Netherlands about 1795. Before that time a house was indicated by anything that might be notable about it. In most cases reference was made to a particular distinguishing mark that had often been fitted on to it for this purpose and had the additional property of being a sort of emblem for the occupant. How were addresses indicated in other parts of the world in the days when house numbering had not yet been introduced? PLEASE HELP ME MAKE RESEARCHES INTO THE ORIGIN OF ADDRESSES * send a description of the former system in your town or country * images of the remnants of the system * old maps of your town with indications of addresses Size and technique: free Documentation to all participants Online gallery on: http://www.colori.nl/mii/addresses/addresseng.htm Info: mii@colori.nl http://www.colori.nl Deadline to be received: August 30, 2010 ColoriMii The Museum of Instant Images Beckershagen 15 - Chaam - 4861SE Pays Bas The Netherlands *** Places I've been greeted from (four perfs) Theme: A sign from your vacation address. Find typical images of the place you have never been before. Find anything that can hold a stamp. Edit it into a 'visual page from a diary'. Make it a feast for the eyes and for the mind. Size and technique: free Exhibition: September 11 and 12, at The Museum of Instant Images. Documentation to all participants. Online gallery on: http://www.colori.nl/mii/greetings http://www.colori.nl/mii/addresses/addresseng.htm Info: mii@colori.nl http://www.colori.nl Deadline to be received: August 30, 2010 ColoriMii The Museum of Instant Images Beckershagen 15 - Chaam - 4861SE Pays Bas The Netherlands * Mail Art Call (two perfs) To introduce mail art in Indonesia ,we, Bantul National Museum (BNM) an independent mini museum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, invite all of you mail art activists and mail art lovers to promote our program to introduce mail art works in Indonesia. BNM hopes the project will communicate that mail art can foster mutual respect, acceptance and understanding for everyone, everywhere without differences. Exhibition: October 10, 2010. Size: min. 10x15 cm; max 25x30 cm You can send it as postcard or as a letter in envelope. Please include your name, address, e-mail, contact person, and CV Info: bantulnationalmuseum@yahoo.com or curator_bnm@yahoo.co.id Deadline to be received: August 31, 2010 Secretariat BNM c/o YAKSA AGUS RT. 06, Bangmalang, Cepit , Pendowoharjo, Sewon , Bantul Yogyakarta, 55185 INDONESIA 09 * SEPTEMBER 2010 Learning Differences (4 perfs) Theme: Please send mail art on the topic of learning disabilities. Size/Media: free Exhibition: Elgin Art Showcase in September 2010 Documentation: to all participants No returns In addition, we would appreciate very much if you would complete this survey, to be displayed with your artwork. As someone with learning differences: 1. What in particular made school difficult for you? 2. What could have made your experience better? 3. How has overcoming these difficulties helped you later in life? 4. How has LD affected your career/life choices? 5. What advice would you give a young person struggling with LD currently? Info: friendlyfeline@sbcglobal.net Deadline to be received: September 1, 2010 LD 407 South Liberty Street Elgin, IL 60120 USA * Recipes ... (three perfs) Theme: Museum of Ornamental Post East Gallery Cafe call for recipes for pies, desserts, poetry, mail art, disaster or your best food p0rn Media/Technique: free Exhibition: Sept 1 to Oct 1. Info: dewi.arts@hotmail.com Deadline to be received: September 1, 2010 MOOP 457 Craven Road Toronto, ON Canada M4L 2Z5 * Mailmania 4 (four perfs) 4th Biennial: An open call for submissions for an upcoming 4th Biennial exhibition of all forms of mailart. Media/Technique/Size: Post Cards, ATCs, Artist stamps, envelopes, or whatever will make it through the postal system. This will be the final exhibition in this biennial event. Exhibition: Studio J, Victoria, BC, September 16-30, 2010 and Slide Room Gallery, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC, CANADA, October 8th - November 8th, 2010 - 2549 Quadra Street, Victoria, BC, CANADA Documentation: Online at http://mailmania4.blogspot.com/ Info: kenndal@gmail.com Please include name, address and email Deadline to be received: September 4, 2010 Dale Roberts Studio J - 1324 Broad Street Victoria, BC V8W 2A9 CANADA * Currency (four perfs) Theme: Mail art call for our Inaugural International Mail Art Show with a theme of “Currency”. This is a subject on almost everyone’s mind these days. At one time or another, in one place or another, virtually every kind of object has been used as currency - coins, paper, gold nuggets, shells, goats, chocolate, brides, baseball cards, IOUs – the possibilities are endless. Also please note that “currency’ doesn’t necessarily refer to a medium of exchange. For example, events can have currency (current events); rivers can have currency ( if you want to stretch the meaning a little and make a pun) and of course there’s always currency jelly ( or is that currant?) So you get the idea right? Take the idea of ‘currency’ and stretch, fold, bend and mutilate it to come up with your own interpretation. Media/Size: Submissions can be any shape, any size – as long as they have the appropriate postage attached. They do NOT have to be flat two dimensional works, and they do NOT have to arrive in an envelope – although of course they can be two dimensional and be sent in envelopes if that’s what the artist wants. Exhibition: September 10 through October 6 at the Guadalupe Art Dogs Gallery artists colony, located in the Old Ingram Loop on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Ingram Texas. This show will be conducted in accordance with the principles that guide the Mail Art Movement worldwide. There is no entry fee, and no limit on the number of pieces that can be submitted. There will be no prizes – other than the “Peoples’ Choice” awards. Documentation: As with all our shows, the Mail Art show will appear online approximately two weeks after the opening, so if you can’t come to see the show in person just log on and enjoy browsing. Entries will not be returned unless the appropriate amount of return postage is sent along with the entry and the piece is clearly labeled that it is to be returned, with your full name and address. Those entries not returned will be distributed at no cost to area hospitals, nursing homes, schools, homeless shelters, and other places where they can brighten some person’s day. Info: If you have any questions please email us or call between 10AM and 5PM at 830-367-7420 (U.S. Central Standard Time) Wednesday through Saturday. mermania@hctc.net http://www.guadalupeartdogs.com Deadline to be received: September 4, 2010 Guadalupe Art Dogs Gallery Mail Art Show 217A Old In gram Loop Ingram, TX 78025 USA * What the sea means to me (four perfs) Theme: mail art call on the them of the sea or oceans Media/technique: free Exhibition: Art work will be exhibited at a teacher education workshop on Terceira island, Azores, Portugal. Info: aneilson@uac.pt Documentation: http://edumar.ning.com Deadline to be received: September 10, 2010 Alison Neilson University of the Azores 9701-851 Angra do Heroismo Portugal * SEND ME A POST CARD (three perfs) theme: open Technique, size, support: free Exhibition: at Salón de Actos del Ayuntamiento de Carbonero el Mayor Opening hours will be afterward communicated. Documentation: online at http://www.enviameunapostal.com Deadline to be received: September 14, 2010 Monse del Campo Juan Carlos I, 19 Carbonero el Mayor 40 270 (Segovia) Spain * Recycling lost words (four perfs) Theme: forgotten, remote, unusual, hidden words forgotten letters, poems in a drawer, old norms, rhymes and….. free format technique: free, but only on recycled materials no return, no fees, no selection, no jury send by mail only, no e-mail Please provide your name, surname, nationality and e-mail address Exhibition in Verona, 2010. Date to be announced. Documentation on-line: http://annydances.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: September 15, 2010 Donne inpuntadipenna c/o Circolo ARCIMONTORIO Via dei Peschi 6A 37141 VERONA VR ITALY * The Myth of Power (four perfs) Theme: Open call for artists to submit artwork that responds to the theme of POWER. Explore and interpret individual conceptions of “power,” whether used for harm or for good; in regards to social doctrine, hierarchy, gender or racial inequity, or other forces of power, influence, or domination. Artists are encouraged to demonstrate or explore imagery of physical strength, heroism, idols, sovereigns, icons, etc. Sizes: up to 11” x 17” Technique/Media: All media will be accepted including mixed media, Collage, Digital art, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography. Collage and/or the use of imagery are encouraged. No returns. Exhibition: All submissions will be exhibited in the Myth of Power art Exhibition from October 16 – November 12, 2010 at 1310 Gallery, Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts, Ft Lauderdale, Florida. Opening night of The Myth of Power exhibition on October 16, 2010, will be part of the First Annual ART FALLOUT art tour and will be featured in a catalogue and news reports. Documentation: all submissions will also be viewable online on my blog at http://lisarockford.com/news/ Info: nunsopink@yahoo.com http://www.lisarockford.com Deadline to be received: September 15, 2010 Lisa Rockford 1310 SW 2nd Ct., Apt 301 Ft Lauderdale, FL 33312, USA * Environment (two perfs) Theme: 2010 being the International Year of Biodiversity, we chose the environment as the theme of our mail art project: flora, fauna, renewable energy, protection of oceans and forests, recycling ... Media/Format: collages, paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, slogans, poetry ... Envelopes and packages but decorated objects (pan, shoe, toy, piece of wood) ... everything is permitted within the rules of the post. Please use normal postal services. Exhibition: Artwork will be exhibited at SleepWell from September 15 through October 5, 2010. Deadline to be received: September 15, 2010 Sleepwell Youth Hostel 23, rue du Damier 1000 Brussels Belgium * Hileia : Hyleia, green hell, lost paradise, world lung, Eldorado..." (four perfs) THEME: Send your work about trees, sun, water, animals or people related to the Amazon" Technique: free No returns and no sales EXHIBITION: Silvia Matos Ateliê de Criatividade, Campinas, SP, Brazil DOCUMENTATION: all works will be published at http://antropoantro.blogspot.com Info: olivia2@uol.com.br http://www.olivianiemeyer.com.br DEADLINE to be received: September, 30, 2010 Grupo Antropoantro - Olivia Niemeyer Av. Deputado Gioia Junior 342 - cond. Rio das Pedras CEP 13085 125 Campinas, S.Paulo Brazil * World Without Water? (three perfs) Technique: free Size: postcard Exhibition: during a festival for children (Thanks for taking into account the targeted public). Deadline to be received: September 30, 2010 Pascal Minart - Artotem 43, rue Saint Exupéry 14150 OUISTREHAM FRANCE 10 * OCTOBER 2010 Octopus (three perfs) Theme: Collective book of mail art. Send 18 works that are numbered and signed, for making up a series of volumes with different artists in each. Each volume will contain a minimum of 14 artworks, one per artist. Modify each copy in order to make them unique originals. Size: 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical) Technique: free - printings, drawings, paintings, photographs, collages... Documentation: Each participant will receive a volume. Info: http://www.carlosibotana.blogspot.es Deadline to be received: October 1, 2010. Carlos Botana General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º 15006 A Coruña Galicia - España/Spain * MOURNFUL DEMON - SPIRIT OF BANISHMENT (LOVE STORY) (five perfs) Theme: "Fruits of our own fantasy – that’s what we can love truly and worship..." This is a mail-art project devoted to 200 year anniversary of Russian poet of the 19th century Michael Lermontov. The image of Demon is one of the most important in Lermonov`s art. His Demon is an angel banished from the sky but not accepted by the earth. Obsessed, impassioned, rejected by everybody rushing over the sinful earth between the good and the evil. Demon is doomed to create the evil but his heart is opened for love. The image of Demon is a personification of the inner world of Lermontov himself who was killed in a duel in 1841 at the age of 27. Lermontov's Demon is the solitude and the estrangement, the anxiety and the depravity and at the same time the intellect and the craft. The image of Demon is infinitely contradictory and many-sided. Many poets, painters and composers addressed to the topic of demonism in their art. The basis of this mail-art project is a peculiar historical art parallel of Lermontov`s Demon with the creative process of Russian talented painter Michael Vrubel which he had at the beginning of 20th century working over his masterpieces devoted to the image of Demon. Exhibition: Kazan, Actor’s House. November 2010. Format: free. Technique: free. Documentation to all participants. Deadline to be received: October 1, 2010. Valery Shimanovsky P.O. Box 804 Nizhnekamsk 423578 RUSSIA * AMAZONS (four perfs) Theme: L'Association "L'Art'Grange" is organizing a mail art on the theme of "AMAZONS" to raise awareness and encourage screening for breast cancer. FORMAT: Free TECHNIQUE: Free. Drawing, collage, calligraphy, photography, painting, stamp .... SIZE: Free. Formats and materials in compliance with current postal regulations. PARTICIPATION: Open to all TERMS: No jury, no prizes, no returns EXHIBITION: October 8 - 30, 2010 in City Hall Longlaville (F54) Documentation: http://www.myspace.com/LARTGRANGE Cards / Items received will be reused in the context of other events to support "October Rose" and the prevention of disease. Deadline to be received: October 4, 2010 L'Art'Grange MAIL ART AMAZONS MAIRIE 18, Place du 24 Juillet 1897 54810 LONGLAVILLE FRANCE * EARTH (four perfs) Format/Technique: Free Documentation to all participants Exhibition: Letras & Cia Storebook On Line: http://firemailart.blogspot.com Info: nadia@ufrgs.br http://nadiaartepostal.blogspot.com Deadline to be received: October 10, 2010 Nadia Poltosi AV JERONIMO DE ORNELAS 188/1004 90040340 Porto Alegre RS Brasil * Day of the Dead Exhibition (three perfs) Theme: Life After Death - (Whatever that means to you!). Background: Dia de Los Muertos is an ancient celebration of the lives of the dead, combining European and Indigenous Indian traditions in Mexico. Revolving around the notion that the dead, both adults and children, return to visit once a year, preparations are made by the living to help guide the souls back ( from wherever), and welcome them with food, drink, and festivities and ritual. While this may be the inspiration for the mail call –we ask artists to be creative, inventive and true to themselves . The question is: How do people…cultures….you, deal with death and the memories of loved ones? What happens to the dead? What happens to those of left behind? How do you honor and remember those who have gone before? Media: free Format: Postcards only - size free Requests: Please put the title, image (artwork) and stamps on the front of your entry. Please include your name, e-mail address & physical address and any other information you would like to share on the back. This exhibit will be in a city facility open to the public, including families and children. Please submit work suitable for this type of venue. Exhibition: Work selected based on space and suitability, will be exhibited in conjunction with an annual “Dia De Los Muertos” Exhibit at the Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum, opening October 29, 2010. (Help us out here- we do not want to censure artists and will make every effort to include ALL entries) Documentation: A digital presentation will be compiled of the work, and will be posted on the museum website. http://www.myharlingen.us/default.aspx?name=museum.home Info: scamarillo@myharlingen.us Deadline to be received: October 10, 2010 Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum Day of the Dead 2425 Boxwood, Harlingen, TX 78850 USA * Open call (four perfs) Send us your artistic work. Media/technique/size: free Exhibition: October 15 till November 30, 2010 in Centrum Kultury Zamek gallery Documentation: All projects received will be published on http://www.mailusart.blogspot.com Info: mailusart@zamek.wroclaw.pl Deadline to be received: October 10, 2010 Centrum Kultury Zamek pl. Swietojanski 1 54-076 Wroclaw Poland *** MAIL US ART (four perfs) Theme: Mail Us Art - any example of your artistic work Technique, size: free (all subjects and forms are acceptable) No returns. Exhibition: lasting from October 15th till November 30th, 2010 in Centrum Kultury Zamek, Wroclaw, Poland Mail Us Art call is held as a part of the Wroclaw Mail Art Project 2010. This project includes mail art workshop, meetings and an exibition. Documentation: All works will be published on the website: http://www.mailusart.blogspot.com/ Info: mailusart@gmail.com mailusart@zamek.wroclaw.pl Deadline to be received: October 15, 2010. MAIL US ART Centrum Kultury Zamek pl. Świetojański 1 54-076 Wroclaw Poland *** A book about Death - next step (four perfs) Theme: An Open Call to Artists to Contribute to RAY JOHNSON & A BOOK ABOUT DEATH. WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS ABAD SHOW? “RAY JOHNSON AND A BOOK ABOUT DEATH” is a new exhibition that will, for the first time, feature a copy of the original 1955 ABAD project by American artist Ray Johnson–the inspiration for this entire series of exhibitions. It will set the stage for all 480 cards from the original Emily Harvey Gallery exhibit together with new submissions created especially for this show. Media/Size: Submit one 4"x 6" artwork in any media on the theme of death/life. Please include the words “A BOOK ABOUT DEATH” on the front and your name and your e-mail address/website URL on the back. The work may be sent in an envelope for protection or mailed as a postcard. No returns. Exhibition: Curated by Joan Harrison, LuAnn Palazzo and Constance Wolf, the new ABAD show will open in the SAL Art Gallery at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, NY, and run October 31 to November 4, 2010. All submitted work will become part of a permanent Ray Johnson ABAD Archive. You must submit both a physical work and a virtual one to be part of the project. Submit a 4x6 jpg of the image with your name and e-mail and or web URL to LuAnn Palazzo at: DesignDivaNY@gmail.com Documentation: Every submitted piece will be posted to the exhibition blog at http://rayjohnsonandabookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: October 15, 2010 Mail 4" x 6" artwork/card to: Prof. Joan Harrison Art Department C.W. Post Campus, LIU 720 Northern Boulevard Brookville, NY 11548 USA * MY PLACE IN THE WORLD (four perfs) Theme: Area, region, stall, area, place of belonging, residence, may be given endless definitions of where one chooses to be, by place of birth, which spends much of life, gestate emotions, situations, feelings, making we like being there. It is possible that we move for various reasons, which makes us to stop taking it in another physical space and its place in the World. Or that our place in the world a small space like a room, house or a landscape. One and only one set and choose where to belong. Where he expresses his wishes, his family or weapon projects. So we always have \"our place in the World, by choice or fate or whoever that knows things, we were up there. Wherever we say \"this is my place in the world\" How, why and what\'s yours? Technique: Free Format: Mail Art - Maximum A4 Exhibition: Sharing my place in the world with all participants, will be an exhibition of all work in my beloved San Fernando in \"plural\" - San Fernando. There will be a 2nd exhibition of works in a room located in the City of Buenos Aires on a date to be determined. Documentation: sent to all participants. Info: http://www.artecorreo-claudialigorria.blogspot.com Deadline to be received: October 31, 2010. Claudia Ligorria / Mail Art Constitution 1742 PB \"A\" (CP 1646) San Fernando Provincia de Buenos Aires ARGENTINA 11 * NOVEMBER 2010 Airmail 100 Mail Art Invitation (four perfs) Theme: Airmail, the beginning of airmail, future airmail, some aspect of airmail, faux historic airmail, zeppelins, space airmail, fantasy airmail, etc. You are invited be part of the historic 100th anniversary celebrations by creating a piece of airmail mail art and sending it to the Modesto Art Museum for the international exhibition in January and February 2011. Just follow the directions below. Media/Format: Envelopes (letter, legal, DL, or C6 envelopes, maximum size 4.5 x 9.5 inches, 115 x 245 mm) post cards (same size limits), and stamps. We will frame and display only the side with postage and address. The postage and address should be part of the art work unless it is a stamp. Exhibition: January and February 2011. Modesto, California, watch for details. Also online exhibit. Documentation: online at the museum web site and sent to all adult participants. Viewers and artists will be able to comment online about the art. No Returns. Mail art will become part of the museum's collection. Info: modestoartmuseum@yahoo.com http://modestoartmuseum.org Deadline to be received: November 15, 2010 Airmail 100 Modesto Art Museum 404 Patrick Lane Modesto, CA 95350 USA * Caffeinated Correspondence (two perfs) Theme: Most of my ideas are caffeine inspired on sleepless nights I fill my art journal with sketches and catch phrases hoping to remember the reason I thought it was a good idea in the morning. What ideas come to you when you are wired? Media/Size: free as long as it is mailed through traditional mail systems. No returns Exhibition: I have a traveling mail art collection, goes to open art shows, hospitals, kids art classes. If you would like a response or credit then please include necessary information. Documentation: If you would like a picture and brief message updates of who enjoys looking at your piece of art then include your email on what would be considered the back side. Info: liz0047@gmail.com Deadline to be received: November 30, 2010 Buggurl Productions / E J Terrian 1403 Howland Kalamazoo, MI 49001 USA * ART FOR DIVERSITY (four perfs) Theme: The world has all colors Send an original. Technique/Size: free No jury selection Exhibition: at the Museum of Fine Arts of Paraná, coordinated by Silvina Luchi and the Art Department of Inadi Entire Rios. Documentation: to all participants . Info: silvialissa@yahoo.com.ar Deadline to be received: November 30, 2010 ART FOR DIVERSITY INADI 25 de mayo 114 Paraná CP 3100 Entre Ríos Argentina 12 * DECEMBER 2010 No Commercial Potential (five perfs) Theme: The production of an art that fits exclusively one’s own creative needs without stooping to compromises to make it into consumer goods. Format: free Technique free: 2 & 3 d, music, video, performance, poetry and small stories(on digital support) no return, no fee, no selection, no jury (No pornography please) Please include name, surname, country, address + e-mail address (for notification of final documentation) and web site if one exists. All works must be send by post with postage stamps. Documentation: pdf catalog by Claudio Romeo and online catalogue on the website: http://itsonlymailartnocommercial.blogspot.com/ Exhibitions: Galleria Terre Rare - Bologna Garage N.3 Gallery - Venezia Mestre Spazio espositivo "Barrique" - Scriò di Dolegna del Collio GO Info: maurizio.follin@alice.it Event organized in collaboration with: DodoDada Arte Postale - http://dododada.ning.com/ Terre Rare - http://http://www.terrerare.net/ Ambasciata di Venezia : http://www.artistampnews.com/dated_calls/html/italian_calls.html Reantà Non Ordinaria - http://realtano.it/ Deadline to be received: December 10, 2010 Maurizio Follin Via M.te Cervino, 27 30173 Favaro V.to Venezia Italy * "Planet of Love" and/or "Inspiricy" (three perfs) Theme: The word inspiricy means the opposite of a conspiracy. Send mail art based on your interpretation of either topic. Media/Technique: Free - drawings, paintings, illustrations, photographs, poems, visual poetry, songs, sounds, objects, etc. Please sign the front of your art and put name, address and email on the back. Exhibition: I will attempt to arrange a public exhibition, but that will depend on how much art comes in and finding a location in 2011. Documentation: A DVD with some "Planet of Love" music that's been composed for me, and video of the artwork will be provided to all participants. Info: planetoflove@tx.rr.com Deadline: December 30, 2010 Denise Hunley 13303 Kit Lane Dallas, TX 75240 USA * Otto von Bismarck (four perfs) Theme: send your mail art on the famous politician Otto von Bismarck. Technique/Size: free Exhibition: In 2011, there will be a Mail Art Exhibition in Bad Kissingen, Museum Obere Saline - Bismarck Museum (Germany). Documentation: A Press release of the event will follow the show. Info: Roland.Halbritter@web.de http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010. Roland Halbritter Muehlweg 15 97720 Nuedlingen Germany * Brain Cell (five perfs) Media/Technique: Please send me your stamp design, rubberstamp, or 150 stickers or seals. Brain Cell is always seeking a change, does not intend to settle and care of it’s extension of the Network. So... don’t mail a lump of stuff for several issues. Please send them to me one issue at a time, Thank you! Documentation: I will print or paste these materials onto the A3 size paper, creating 150 sheets. I will then send a sheet back with a list of addresses to each participant. I will publish at intervals of 8 to 10 days at that time will include 60 people or so. info: braincell@k6.dion.ne.jp http://www.ryosukecohen.com/ http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~cohen/info/ryosukec.htm http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~cohen/fractal/franctal050607.htm Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Ryosuke Cohen c/o Brain Cell 3-76-1-A-613 Yagumokitacho, Moriguchi City Osaka 570 Japan * 10 Years of Boxes and Envelopes (four perfs) Theme: a collective and continual time capsule project Technique/Media: Within a box, envelope or other container place an item or items that you wish to include in your personal time capsule. This may come in the form of a letter, drawing, photo or object. You may wish to include something that is significant or symbolic of who you are at this time, or the way you perceive the world around you. What you place in your time capsule is completely up to you (please do not include any illegal, organic or dangerous materials as customs may confiscate them). Seal your vessel. Label the outside of your container with the project title, your name (or alias), addresses and the date it was sealed. Exhibition: Each capsule will remain sealed until the project concludes on September 1, 2019 (all work that arrives before this date will be included). On the day of the Grand Opening (location and times to be decided at a later date), visitors will be invited to open the capsules and the contents will be documented and exhibited (locally and on-line). Documentation: All participants will receive an official certificate of participation, project sticker and post card once your capsule has been received. Please feel free to design and decorate your capsule as you please. Upon being received they will be photographed and documented progressively at: http://nerradas-mailart.blogspot.com Info: send_to_nerrada@hotmail.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 neRRaDa PO Box 15 ARANA HILLS QLD, 4054 Australia * The Seven Wonders of the world (four perfs) Theme: Illustrate one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World :Pyramid, Hanging gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, lighthouse of Alexandria... or any other wonder of the medieval or modern world : Mont Saint Michel, Taj Mahal, Leaning tower of Pisa, Channel Tunnel, Empire State building, Millau Viaduct etc... Technique: Free No jury - No returns All creations will be published online http://merveillesdumondemailart.blogspot.com/ Documentation: will be sent to each participant at the end of the project. Info: servanemorel@skynet.be http://mailartpostal.canalblog.com/ Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Servane Morel Avenue Wellington, 4 1180 Bruxelles Belgium * ALL THAT JAZZ !!! & STILL NO FREEDOM ??? (five perfs) Theme: This will be the new FRIOUR project. Personally I don't know any music that embodies more the thirst for freedom than jazz music. Jazz includes the notions of improvisations and excitement. It liberated the soul and hearts of many, opened new roads and ways of playing music and listening to music. In recent years I've become a huge jazz fan and became even friends with a few Belgian jazz musicians, attending concerts and festivals as much as I could. Despite all that jazz there is little room for improvisation in business life, personal life and society as a whole. Do people need a worldwide crisis to be controlled? Blow all fear away and send your contributions for the next Friour Review issue. Free medium. Maximum size: A4. Info: Signsstones@yahoo.com http://friour.multiply.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010. Friour #11, All that Jazz & still no Freedom Guido Vermeulen Vinçottestreet 81 B-1030 Brussels BELGIUM * ANY PENNY (five perfs) Theme: Mail art call for the 1st South-Russia Biennale of Contemporary Art in Rostov on Don to be held May-June 2010. The theme of the Biennale this year is: Communication Session. As part of the Biennale, we are conducting a mail art project on the theme: ANY PENNY, to celebrate the 170th anniversary of first postage stamp called THE PENNY BLACK. The project is dedicated to stamps as a visual communicative Image, Its "Any" looks of artists to stamp–money and art-stamp. Any Penny - Any stamps! Technique: Artworks about stamps, from stamps, artistamps or any artworks that maintain a stamp-style. Art-money is also welcomed. Size: from 2x2cm to 20x30cm All artworks will be exhibited No returns. Answer to all with “Any Penny” Deadline to be received: for Moscow (and maybe St. Petersburg) Exhibition December 31, 2010 ANY PENNY Project Konstantin Kalendaroff Lihov per. 2/3-8 Moscow 127051 Russia * Random Generation Postal Project (two perfs) Theme: We would like to set up a project that enables people to ‘generate’ a random address for them to write to. The big idea is to send people letters, and receive letters yourself. You won’t know this person but they may have something interesting to say, they may not. We think it will be fun, who knows what will happen? We will create a website that anyone can join. After an individual joins, a random address from those submitted will be provided. This will be the address the new member will write to. Those who join will also be able to create a profile to which they can upload/scan in received letters. From this archive of people's posts, we would like to create a publication, which could be in the form of a magazine or a book. If the project grows to be very popular, we would like to publish yearly annuals. FIRST AND FORMOST! We thought it would be a grand idea to have an event of address swapping, to start the ball rolling, and to begin our archiving of addresses for the random generator. Media/Size: Postcards can be of any size and contain any artwork/text/visuals but must have your postal address on them. Exhibition: Your postcards/addresses will be exhibited at an event in York, England (date TBA). People who attend the event will choose an address from the exhibition-style event, and they will send you a letter! Documentation: We will post everything we have received, and the pics of the event via our tumblr page; http://postalproject.tumblr.com Info: jadelblood@hotmail.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Send your postcard to any of the following addresses: J BLOOD Flat 4a Low Ousegate York YO1 9QU, UK L GORTON 47 Elm Road Burscough, Ormskirk Lancashire L40 7RJ, UK M ALEXANDROU 59-61 Sunderland St., Unit 8 Macclesfield, Chesire SK11 6HN, UK * A Mailart Zine Theme: Now envisaged as a glossy digital magazine in the style of Oprah's O magazine! Early editions available at http://www.dragonheartpress.com The new zine will be available from http://www.planetdada.co.uk For my project please send me any medium that deal with any technique: artworks, essays, reviews, poetry, photography etc. Info: t3kton@gmail.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 191 : Planet Dada 11 Menin Road, Allestree Derby DE22 2NL UK * PEACE (two perfs) Theme: What does PEACE mean to you? Size/Technique: All art must be on one standard letter postcard sizes: 6 x 4¼, 7 x5, or 8 ½ x 6 inches. Artwork can be either horizontal or vertical. All forms of artwork are encouraged - go wild. All artwork can be mailed as a postcard or sent inside an envelope. Multiple submissions are welcome. The back of the postcard must include: artist’s name, full mailing address, and title of artwork Documentation: All artwork will be posted on my website. Exhibition: Planning to have an exhibition in January 2011 in Newport, RI. Info: nrafi@hotmail.com http://www.artisticheart.tumblr.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Nancy Rafi 25 Fairfield Drive North Kingstown, RI 02852 USA * The Wise Monkeys (four perfs) Theme: The emblem of the City of Chauny (Aisne - France) depicts The Wise Monkeys. The origin of the monkeys of Chauny is rather unclear. Some local historians thought that they represented the tumblers, jugglers and trainers of diverse animals which were established in the brotherhood to Chauny. Rabelais, who certainly saw the jugglers of Chauny, speaks about them in Gargantua. This project is opened to all. Technique: free. All techniques are accepted. Size: 21 cm X 30 cm, bound support (able to be bound in a book). You must represent your vision of the "monkeys of wisdom". You can use the back of your work to write a biography or information concerning yourself. Exhibition: An exhibition of the received works will take place in the cultural center of Chauny, the Forum, at the beginning of the year on 2011. The precise dates of exhibition will be posted on our blog. At the conclusion of the exhibition the works will be manually bound by "E" to create artists' books which will be given to schools and media libraries of the region. The works will also have a second life in an itinerant exhibition in 2011. The works will not be sent back to the artists and will remain the property of "E" for the other itinerant exhibitions … Documentation: We will post the received works on our blog and provide information on the progress of the project. Http://expositionsingeschaunois.blogspot.com/ Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 " E " – Ambassade d’Utopia 38 grande rue 02300 Guivry France * Florence is innocent (four perfs) Theme: Justice, Freedom, Political/Police Corruption - Postcards should bear the mention : Florence is innocent. Please read: http://www.mailartflo.agsahosting.com We want to raise awareness and support for Florence Cassez in the region of Wervik and around the world and engage participants to reflect upon the importance of freedom and the need for an honest judicial system. Size : Postcard, maximum size 10.5 x 21 cm or US half letter. Technique: Free - Drawing, collage, calligraphy, stamp, painting, etc, Participation : Open to all. No jury, No sales, No returns Exhibition: -Postcards will be displayed in the window of the Florence Cassez Steuncomitee. An exhibition will take place in February 2011 in Wervik, Belgium, at the Sint-Janskapel, Steenakker 30, 8940 Wervik. Postcards will later be shown at various other events in support of Florence Cassez. Documentation: Postcards will be posted on our website. We will publish only your name and country of residence, unless you allow us to give more information (street, city). Info: mailartflo@gmail.com http://www.mailartflo.agsahosting.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 Florence Cassez Steuncomitee Magdalenastraat 67 8940 Wervik * who I am (four perfs) Theme: Show who you are, what you are, what you will be = what makes you yourself? format: max. A 4 technique: free no fee, no jury, no returns exhibition: may 2011 in Greifswald, Germany documentation: http://www.swinxgrafix.de Info: post@swinxgrafix.de For my project please send me all postal objects that deal with any technique. Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010 cindy schmid guetzkower str. 70 17489 greifswald Germany * Expression in motion: dance and ballet (four perfs) THEME: "Expression in motion: dance and ballet in the world." FORMAT: A4 (297x210mm) or A5 (148x210mm). TECHNIQUE: Free. No limit on submissions. No sales. EXHIBITION: First showing at DANCE STUDIO Bayamo (Ourense - SPAIN). The artwork expected to be a traveling collection to be shown at other dance schools, local and public spaces, passing later to be archived as part of the collection of BAYAMO DANCE STUDIO. DOCUMENTATION: online. Info: http://www.pandecalleiro.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010. Expression in Motion PO Box No. 1 CP: 32 660 Allariz OURENSE SPAIN * FASHION (four perfs) Theme: Send me your visual views on clothing, fads and fashions. Technique/Media: create your artwork on an envelope. Please make your envelope a fashion statement. Then stuff it with tissue paper, wrapping paper and ribbon that has been printed with any kind of advertising or logos. Old clothing labels would be great too. Samples posted on the blog. Size: free Exhibition: I will be making a dress with everything you send - stamps, envelopes, paper, ribbon and labels. With luck the dress will become part of a fashion show on recycling. Documentation: to all participants in the spring of 2011. All mail will also be posted on: http://paperandpostage.blogspot.com Info: pixelkart@gmail.com Deadline to be received: December 31, 2010. Lorraine Kwan #202, 3580 West 41st Ave Vancouver BC Canada V6N 3E6 01 * JANUARY 2011 Artist STAMPS (one perf) Theme: State stamps or mail art stamps? Make artistamps and send them on an envelope. Size, media and technique: free No returns, no fee, no jury Answer to all with a paper assembling car model DEADLINE to be received: January 30, 2011 Giovanni Lattuca Viale Italia, 36 I-93017 S. Cataldo-CL ITALY * Collecting (four perfs) Theme: Thousands of people have special collections which vary from stamps, coins, wrappers of cigars to meaningful words and fond memories. Why do we collect? And how? Many contemporary artists use ‘the collecting’ to visualise their artistic concept. They also have the ability to put the principles of collecting into one postcard. Size: 10 x 15 cm, postcard, maximum 2 postcards per artist. Technique: free No returns, no fee, no selection by jury (erotic images, violent, racist or insulting works will not be included in the show). All works works must be send by post All participants will receive a message, please provide your name, surname, address and nationality. Exhibition: February 20, 2011 to March 11, 2011 in the library of the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL). Documentation: All works will be posted on blog: http://vanabbebibliotheek.blogspot.com A modest catalogue will be published in limited edition. All artwork and documentation will be archived in the collection of the library of the Van Abbemuseum. Info: mircard@hotmail.com Deadline to be received: January 31, 2011 Miranda Vissers Verzamelingen Jo Goudkuillaan 2 5626 GC Eindhoven The Netherlands 02 * FEBRUARY 2011 There is a "Message in a Bottle"....for you (four perfs) Theme: my new mailart project is an invitation to bottle your thoughts, visions, messages, images, dreams... and let that inspiration flow freely into an ocean of ideas. Format and techniques: free Please send only by conventional snail post Documentation: Sent to each participant. All mail art received will also be kept and posted on our blog http://messageinabottle-tictac.blogspot.com/ Info: ptrzia@gmail.com Deadline to be received: February 18, 2011 PC (TICTAC) Postfach 1140 82319 Starnberg Germany * The Face of Jesus Christ (four perfs) Theme: Send your Creative Portrait of the Face of Christ ONLY - Please do not use this mail art call to bash Christianity or for political purposes to hurt anyone. Medium : Open Size : Open No jury, No fee Artists may submit up to 4 pieces of MailArt Exhibition: Art Gallery to host International MailArt Exhibit in March 2011 - Documentation: in printed form sent by snail mail as well as on Website Exhibition Page. All participants will receive documentation. Info: silvermanarts@comcast.net Deadline to be received: February 20, 2011 Sharon Silverman P.O. Box 1212 Haverhill, MA 01831 USA * Tree (four perfs) Theme: The Association for Arts and Culture of Mailhat in France is organizing a mail art call on the theme of the tree. Technique/Format: envelopes, cards and other art that can be mailed. No returns. Exhibition: starting March 19, 2011 in Mailhat 63 Puy de Dôme. Documentation to all. Deadline to be received: February 28, 2011 Françoise Soupel Mailhat 63570 Lamontgie FRANCE 03 * MARCH 2011 TULIPS (four perfs) Theme: tulip is the flower which always brings to mind Holland. Magda has been working on this theme since the 20th century… Size and technique free No returns, no fees, no jury Documentation: to all participants. Please include your address. DEADLINE to be received March 30, 2011 Magda Lagerwerf Weenderstraat 23 NL-9551 TJ Sellingen HOLLAND 05 * MAY 2011 LOOKS (two perfs) Technique/Size. Free. No fees. No jury. No returns. Exhibitions in 2011 and later. Documentation: A blog will soon be conceived for the project. Please send all mail art by conventional post.. Deadline to be received: May 25, 2011 Sylvie Neveu route de Molières F-46170 Castelnau-Montratier. FRANCE 09 * SEPTEMBER 2011 I love Brazilian Culture (four perfs) Theme: As part of the 3rd Biennale des Arts Brésiliens of Brussels, we are conducting a mail art project on the theme: I love Brazilian Culture. All artists, residents in Brazil and the world, Brazilian or not, are invited to send mail art on any aspect of the Brazilian culture for the exhibition at the Maison des Cultures de Saint Gilles in Brussels, Belgium. Send your work about all aspects of Brazilian culture : dance, cults, music, football, martial art, food, tourism, native and afro brazilian culture, nature, literature, popular art, cinema, people diversity, language, etc Size: Postcards 10 x 15 cm - maximum 3 postcards per artist NO RETURN – NO SELECTION – NO JURY (erotic images, violent, racist or insulting works will not be included in the show) Technique: collage, draw, painting… Exhibition: at the Maison des Cultures de Saint Gilles, in Brussels, Septembre 2011, as part of the 3rd Biennial des Arts Brésiliens de Bruxelles. I also plan on having a mail art show around Brazil in 2014 (world cup of football) and 2106 (Olympics) - Date to be announced. Documentation: All works will be posted on the blog http://www.bienalbrasileiradebruxelas.be/ all works must be sent by post Please provide your name, surname, nationality and e-mail address . Info: inezolude@yahoo.com.br Deadline to be received for the 3th Biennial: September 15, 2011 Inêz da Silva Rue Saint Bernard, 17- bte 54 1060 Brussels Belgium 10 * OCTOBER 2011 Mail Art Biennial "Desliz" 20 (four perfs) Theme: Mail Art Biennial is an event that hosts artwork from around the world and unites all in a single book that is displayed in a Cuban alternative cultural space. We have just published the Mail Art Biennial 2009 (convened in October 2007), which was presented in book form on October 29, 2009, the day of opening the call for the Biennial 2011. Check out the artwork. http://deslizbienalmailart.blogspot Technique/Media: Submit a visual artwork or literary work. Each mailart piece must be submitted on a crumpled sheet of paper signed by the author. Please include your email and mailing addresses in a separate document or printed on the back of the artwork. Documentation: All works submitted will be displayed as they are received on the Mail Art Biennial website starting July 15, 2011. Participants will also receive digital documentation via email. Exhibition: The collective book edition will be put on permanent display in a Cuban alternative cultural space. Deadline to be received: October 29, 2011** Bienal de Mail Art Desliz 2011 Enna 402 esquina Fábrica - Luyanó Municipio 10 de Octubre Ciudad de La Habana Cuba C.P. 10700