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	DATED MAILART CALLS last updated June 29, 2009 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 06 *** JUNE 2009 Corto Maltese (four perfs) Theme: Illustrate the Corto Maltese’s extraordinary world through his adventures, voyages and meetings. Format: free Technique: free Documentation and response to all participants. Artwork will also be archived on my blog: http://mailartpostal.canalblog.com Please include your name, mailing address, e-mail on the back of the work and website if one exists. Info: servanemorel@scarlet.be Deadline to be participation: - Open to all artists, national and foreign; Individual or collective participation; Maximum of 3 works per participant; Size: Maximum size of the work - A4; Technique: Free All work must be identified with title and name of the participant on the artwork. In addition it is mandatory that the following info be included: Name: Address: City: Country: E-mail: Number of works and titles: I declare that I have read and accept the rules of participation. Date: Signature: Exhibition: Online at the Museum's website at http://www.museudaciencia.pt beginning January 1, 2009, updated according to the reception of works. A selection will also be presented in the Museum during 2009. No jury, no returns Artwork will remain in the organizer’ s ownership and may be used to promote the initiative without payment of royalties. If so, the organizer is obliged to inform the author and to mention the name / title of the work. For more details see regulations http://www.museudaciencia.pt/gfx/bd/081218122150_REGULATIONS_MAIL_ART_English.pdf http://www.museudaciencia.pt/gfx//bd/081218122219_REGLAMENTO_MAIL_ART_Espanol.pdf http://www.museudaciencia.pt/gfx/bd/081218122137_REGULAMENTO_MAIL_ART_Portugues.pdf Info: joana.bvm@gmail.com Deadline to be sound: Futurist Luigi Russolo’s "Manifesto The Art of Noise" is a milestone in the history of the experimental and weird sounds that I have been promoting since the early Seventies. My journalistic work has appeared in a long string of publications (Rockerilla, Velvet, Vinile, Urlo, Sonora, Underground, Rumore, etc.). Music was also the theme of the first three issues of Arte Postale!, so I return to the subject in this open invitation to contribute to the hundredth issue. To participate in Arte Postale! 100 you must: Send a mail art work that produces futuristic sounds or music (works that do not produce actual sounds will not be accepted). and / or Create an experimental musical instrument and record an original sound piece, then send the recording (on cd-r) with a photo of the instrument and/or send the instrument itself: in the summer 2009 it will be played live by the BAU Artkestra in a public performance in Viareggio, documented in the magazine. and / or Send 100 copies in the size of a cd booklet (12 x 12 cm) of an original mail art work on the theme “Future Sounds & Music”. The materials submitted will not be returned. Documentation: A copy of Arte Postale! 100 will be mailed free to all participants. Info: vittorebaroni@alice.it Deadline to be theme: “LIBERTY” Technique and format: Free Exhibition: Selected entries will be shown during the international artcamp. Documentation: Every participant will receive material about the exhibition after the show. We’d like to take into consideration all your work and by mutual agreement, make them part of the INTER-ART Contemporary Art Museum. Info: info@inter-art.ro http://www.inter-art.ro DEADLINE TO BE Carabram: Brampton's Multicultural Festival, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada (a suburb of Toronto) on July 10, 11, 12. It will later move on to WAG: World Art Gallery, VAB's permanent postcard-sized art display space in Shoppers World, a mall in Brampton. Documentation: We'll post scans of all entries on http://twitter.com/wagpost Info: visualartsbrampton@gmail.com Deadline to be CALL: HOW DOES ONE SHOW THAT WHICH ONE CANNOT SHOW? SECOND CALL : WINE. Technique, size and media: free. No jury, no returns. Exhibition: Works will be exhibited during the 2009 edition of "Les Rencontres de l'Art Postal" ("Mail Art Encounters"), in Castelnau-Montratier, August 5-12, 2009. Documentation: They will also be exhibited on the "Mail Art Encounters" blog: http://montratier.canalblog.com/ Info: pissier.philippe@paganguild.org Mail Art activists, help us to create the first French village totally contaminated by Mail Art! Deadline to be is: The Bicycle. Renewable energy? Muscular energy! The aim of "Larzac, village d'Europe", is to bring together all the people of many nationalities who live on the Plateau du Larzac and to establish contacts with other associations and people in Europe, who wish to take part in cultural exchanges. In general we wish to participate, on our level, in the construction of a united Europe while respecting the diversity of its cultures, a Europe open to all and not inward looking. We hope you will participate. Media/Technique/Format: send mail illustrated in any way you please (drawing, painting, photograph, collage, object, sculpture, etc.), on the media of your choice and in the format that suits you best. The only requirement is the stamp, canceled, with the address of the recipient and your return address be contained within the illustrated portion of your mail art. You may, if you wish, send several creations. The works contributed will not be subject to any commercial exploitation, and will not be involved in any contest. Exhibition: We invite you to come and discover the works we receive from you, which will be presented from the July 30 - August 10, on the village square, in Le Caylar. The exhibition will then travel to several villages and cities of our region. Documentation: We will subsequently prepare a souvenir document listing the name and address of all participants. This will be sent to all involved. Info: eurolarzac@wanadoo.fr Deadline to be present: "Until death do us a part." For the occasion, I will exhibit a nuptial costume. This outfit will be created from all the responses I get to my mail art call. Your letters and envelopes must specify your wedding proposal to me. Don’t be afraid, it’s just a game to have fun with your imagination and creativity. Documentation: will be sent to all participants. Color restrictions: Black and Priority white Deadline to be by: July 31, 2009 Umbrella PO Box 3640 Santa Monica, CA 90408-3640 USA http://www.umbrellaeditions.com/issue.php?page=125&issue=12 If you would like to make a donation in support of Judith's Umbrelliana Collection at University of California, San Diego, please send a check to the Umbrella Collection; include a note stating that this is for the Mandeville Special Collections Library in Memory of Judith A Hoffberg and make the check out to UCSD Foundation, then mail to: UCSD Foundation 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, Ca 92093-0175 USA *** Milheirós Biennial Mail Art Call (four perfs) The Milheirós Second Biennial of Art will host an exhibition of Mail Art/Visual Poetry in September, 2009. Please send us your work. TECHNIQUE: free SIZE/FORMAT: Max. A4 (2D) no return; no jury; no fee EXHIBITION: all works will be exhibited during September 2009, at the Junta de Freguesia de Milheirós, Maia DOCUMENTATION: documentation to all participants and online. Please include your email address. DEADLINE TO BE Above: Impressions on Apartment Living (four perfs) Theme: Please send me your views about apartment life - your pet peeves, loves, and opinions in general. Media/Size: handmade postcards No jury, no returns Documentation to all participants. Submissions will also be posted online at: http://kath-coloredpencils.blogspot.com Exhibition: in one of Toronto's hotels or local galleries in early 2010 (Jan/Feb)- location to be announced. http://kath-coloredpencils.blogspot.com Info: chattykathy@rogers.com Deadline to be theme: "Stars in the sky". Documentation: A catalogue (paper/digital) will be published at the end of the project. Deadline to be WMD: Create a Culture of Peace Now! (four perfs) Theme: The Ribbon International, and Women’s Caucus for Art invite artists, mail artists, students, children, activists and concerned individuals, classrooms and organizations to create postcards for this year’s United Nations NGO Conference, “For Peace and Development: Disarm Now!”. Why? How? When?”. What does a culture of peace look like? How would you resolve conflict in peaceful ways? What does it mean to feel safe and secure? Why must we oppose the creation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction? How can we remove these weapons? What can happen if we remain silent? What can change look like? Media/Technique: please send only postcards that deal with any technique. Size: 4”x6” (10x15 cm) postcards. Please include your name and State/Country on the back of the postcard so we can acknowledge your submission on the blogsite. Exhibition: Online and displayed together with The Ribbon International at the United Nations Conference in Mexico City in September, 2009. Afterwards, this exhibition will travel to venues in the United States for further display and dialog. Documentation: http://wcaartwavesinternational.blogspot.com Info: mrpotani@yahoo.com http://www.kik-kultur.dk http://www.theribboninternational.org http://www.nationalwca.org Deadline to be advice: “Learn to swim!” SIZE/TECHNIQUE/MEDIA: Free - (video, sound work, postcard, poetry, 3-D, etc) NO RETURNS, NO SALES, NO JURY EXHIBITION – within the framework of the Latvian Contemporary Arts Center's project titled “the survival kit,” during September 2009 on the main streets of Riga, in one of the shops that closed its doors due to the economic crisis. DOCUMENTATION to all participants DEADLINE to be Enter: Please go to our website to read the additional details and then print the PDF entry form to attach to your submission: http://www.richmondartgallery.org/ATC-exhibit-2009.php http://www.richmondartgallery.org/atcs/pdfs/atc-call-for-entries-2009.pdf Size: Send in 9 Artist Trading Cards in a standard 9-sleeve plastic sheet (9 cards per sheet). Cards must each measure 2 ½" x 3 ½" in order to qualify. All works received that follow this criteria will be exhibited. Exhibition: September 18 - October 30, 2009 at the Richmond Art Gallery, BC Canada Documentation: All contributors who follow the show's criteria will receive a copy of the full-color exhibition poster featuring one of their works. Trading: Please see the entry form details. Info: contact us before sending if you have any questions ktycholis@richmond.ca Deadline to be free: collage, handmade postcard, original or drawing postcard, drawing No returns Artworks received will be keep in the archive of "Baiazzo" . Exhibition: Saturday, October 10th 2009 at Teatro Bajazzo in Via Giosuè Carducci, 36 in Imperia, Italy Info: gdonaudi@yahoo.it Deadline to be received September 15, 2009 GIANNI DONAUDI Via Doria, 5 8100 IMPERIA ITALY * THE DOOR (four perfs) Theme: We are students of 3° B of Polimodal. This is our first mail art call experience. Our theme for this project is "The Door". Technique: free Size/Format: 10 X 15 CM - postcard Exhibition: At the end of the school year, we will stage an exhibition with the received art works. Afterwards, the received works will be archived in the school library. Documentation: Please include your email address since we will send documentation by that means. Also include some brief data about yourself. Deadline to be data: Artist’s name, full postal address, telephone number and email address. All shipping expenses, customs and any other expense that may be caused must be covered by the Artist. Works will be selected by a jury composed of people with recognized outstanding artistic and intellectual capacity, selected by the Museum of Philately in Oaxaca, and by the Baseball Academy in Oaxaca, whose names will be announced in due time. Once the Jury completes the selection, winners will receive: 1st. place, US$5,000.00 (five thousand US dollars). 2nd. place, US$3,000.00 (three thousand US dollars). 3rd. place, US$1,000.00 (one thousand US dollars). The jury verdict will be issued on October 16, 2009, announced to the media, and the winners will be notified immediately. The prizes will be given at the exhibition opening on October 23, 2009, in the city of Oaxaca. All the selected works will be exhibited temporarily at the Baseball Academy in Oaxaca, and then at the Museum of Philately in Oaxaca –MUFI–. No returns Documentation: All participants will receive a copy of the exhibition’s catalog. Sponsor: Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca Foundation http://www.mufi.org.mx/ Info: difusion@mufi.org.mx Deadline to be DATES: SEPTEMBER 24 – OCTOBER 25, 2009. SHOW LOCATION: MADA SHELL GALLERY, ON THE PLAZA IN ASHLAND, OREGON DOCUMENTATION: Images will be displayed online at http://www.arteventproductions.com RETURNS: Submissions may be picked up after the show, but will not be returned by mail. • For confirmation of receipt – put email address on back of postcard. INFO: Amy Godard madashellgallery@yahoo.com or Betsy Lewis betsy@arteventproductions.com DEADLINE TO BE Appropriateness: The Gallery is open to children and children will be invited to participate. Please keep this in mind when creating your piece. Only art submitted by regular post will be accepted. No electronic submissions please. Please indicate your first name and the city in Canada or the country in which you live. Exhibition: at the Harris-Warke Gallery in Red Deer, Alberta in December of 2009. There may be satellite spaces beyond the Harris-Warke Gallery, and all work that fits our guidelines will be shown in one of these exhibit sites. Documentation: If you wish to receive information about the exhibit (which will be sent in November/December of 2009), please include your email address with your submission. Artists who submit pieces and provide their email addresses will receive documentation for the show (including the web site address where they can view images). Please note that we will likely send an attachment as part of this email. Artists who submit their work agree that their art: 1. will become the permanent property of Arts a la Carte (the group organizing the exhibit); 2. will be used to prompt conversations during Arts a la Carte's "Belonging Project" and perhaps also photographed or scanned and displayed on the web. Info: Glynis Wilson Boultbee, Project Coordinator, Arts a la Carte artsalacarte.rd@gmail.com http://sites.google.com/site/artsalacarterd/ Deadline to be include: An exposition of Beatles recordings and memorabilia, conferences centered around the work of the beatles, a great concert performed by eight orchestras including 3 from Norway, Spain and Hungary, and a the mail art section devoted to submissions from all the mail artists who are interested in our theme. Media/ Technique: free. collages, drawings, paintings. .photos... envelopes, postcards and others... We leave it to your imagination… or with your memory… testify! Send to us your creations… Our only wish: please put your postage stamps and addresses on the illustrated side of your creation. No jury, no fees, no sales, no returns Exhibition: October 17, 2009, at l’Espace Charles Trenet, avenue Aristide Briand - Salon de Provence Documentation: http://beatles.e-monsite.com Info: micheline.serra@orange.fr Deadline to be attn: Rebecca Trawick 5885 Haven Ave Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737 USA 10 *** OCTOBER 2009 Beatles or not Beatles? (four perfs) Theme: Use a song or an image of the Beatles, to question the current state of our world. I am coordinating a mail art call as part of a new Artotem project in conjunction with AMA'TALENTS. Technique and format: free Exhibition: Artwork will be exhibited in November during a festival in Ouistreham that will include efforts by other associations. Artotem Blog: http://artotem.canalblog.com Info: http://www.beatlesweekend.fr Deadline to be called: PEACE ? YOU NAME IT! You decide what "peace" means for you. It's also a tribute to Lavona Sherarts whose first mail art project was MAIL ART? YOU NAME IT! Free medium. Poetry appreciated. Max size A4. Documentation to all participants. I am currently in the process of sending FRIOUR zine number 9, containing the documentation of the project "smiling and laughing for peace". Friour 9 has been a slow process. It is a 48 page zine A4 but with many reproductions in color. I glue them on the B/W xerox prints. So this will take some time before everybody is reached. Please be patient. Deadline to be Theme: "To the Edge". Technique: free Media: two-dimensional media. Size: 13 x 18 (centimeters). Exhibition: mail art shows will follow the 5SAR09 circuit starting October 23 and will include a show sponsored by the Fundación Centro Rosario starting November 23, 2009. Documentation: All artworks that adhere to the theme of a single face will form a part of a book that will be contained by a CD case (or several books if necessary). The book will be donated to the library of the Museo J.B. Castgnino. In addition, artworks will be documented on a blog and a catalog will be sent by email. Artwork must be sent by standard postal services and must be stamped and postmarked. Please include the artist's name, title and postal address on the reverse. Also an email address, since this is the way the catalog will be sent. Info: cesquivel@arnet.com.ar produccion@castagninomacro.org or Info@fundacioncentro.org Deadline to be ONLINE: http://www.gieffesse.it ALL WORKS MUST BE SENT BY POST WITH POSTAGE STAMPS DEADLINE TO BE address: http://floraraducan.blogspot.com/ Info: reflora@yahoo.com Deadline to be Art: A Communication Utopia (four perfs) Theme: How the mail art network is utopian in nature. To celebrate Maldonado City's 5th annual Display of Mail Art, we are calling for Mail Art related to topic of “Mail Art, a Communication Utopia”. No sales. No returns. Size/Format/Technique: Free Exhibition: Ediciones del Cementrerio will organize and exhibit that will take place December 2009 and May 2010 at Maldonado, Punta del Este and Montevideo; Uruguay. All the received works will be shown. Documentation: to all participants. Documentation of our prior call “Tribute to Ray Johnson” will be sent when to the exhibition ends in June of the 2009. For online documentation “Homage Ray Johnson” when the show ends and “Mail Art, a Communication Utopia”, please visit: http://edicionesdelcementerioutopia.blogspot.com/ Coordinated by Juan Angel Italiano under the auspices of Unión Latina Uruguay, Dirección General De Cultura/Municipio de Maldonado, Correo Uruguayo Maldonado Deadline to be LIMIT: December 1, 2009 CÍRCULO DE BBAA VALENCIA SAMBORIVALENCIA (a/a EDDIE (J. BERMÚDEZ)) C/CADIRES, Nº5 46001 VALENCIA SPAIN *** Citizen of Cardboard (four perfs) TECHNIQUE: FREE (collage, photography, poetry, drawing, printing, stamps, photocopy, assemblage). SIZE: A5 (half an A4). No Returns. Exhibition of work in the blog: http://www.2veis1.blogspot.com Catalog of work at the end of the call to all participants. Info: saulodias@terra.com.br DEADLINE TO BE technique: free - collage, postcards, envelopes and sculpture. Please include your name, address and email Exhibition: all year with the library and catalogues at the beginning of 2010 with all the participants. The library reserves the right to lend your mail art, for traveling exhibitions, by always quoting the artists. These exposures are voluntarily lent to requesting associations in order to promote postal art. No returns. Documentation: All artwork published on our blog http://mailartalabiblio2009ecologie.blogspot.com Information: bibliojean1@orange.fr Deadline to be Format: free Please include your name, first name, addresses, site and/or blog. Documentation to participants and works will be visible on the blog dedicated to this call. http://projetmucha.canalblog.com/ Info: http://www.canalblog.com/cf/contactAuthor.cfm?mid=361912&bid=420334 Deadline to be blog: http://arte-postal.blogspot.com Deadline to be author: name, title, mailing dress and email since that is the means the documentation will be sent. Works will also be posted on a blog. The received artworks will be made into a book that will be contained in a CD case. (if it is necessary, several books will be created). Info: muny2601@yahoo.com.ar Deadline to be technique: Free No returns Documentation: Catalog to all participants Exhibition: All artworks will be shown at the library of CARENTAN Square Hervé in MANGON. Artwork will travel to other locations in the future. Deadline to be blog: http://www.baconmovie.blogspot.com Exhibition(s) to follow. Additionally, a short film about bacon will include much of the received art. Info: scottrayrandall@gmail.com Deadline to be format: free Exhibition: at the Media Library of PLEGUIEN 22290 during June 2010 Documentation: on the blog at http://desvigne.blogspot.com/search/label/Galerie%20%22Le%20Bleu..%22 Deadline to be 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. 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