Mail Art Calls

Hi,I would like to inform you about my new mail art call:

Otto von Bismarck.

http://bismarck-mail-art.blogspot.com/

send your mail art on this famous politician Otto von Bismarck.

For 2011 there will be a Mail Art Exhibition in Bad Kissingen, Museum Obere Saline - Bismarck Museum.

Press release will follow next.

Send your submissions to:...Roland Halbritter

Muehlweg 15

97720

Nuedlingen Germany

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LEARN TO SWIM!

THEME: Learn to swim!

The project of the Bolderaja group - an answer to those planners of Riga and politicians of Latvia who think that they can fool the floods with laws. While politicians are trying to invent and implement schemes on how to bypass the Flood directive and create laws and regulations that would benefit the Big Port Business, people who live near the water and know how helpless they are when faced with floods, can only be given the following advice: "Learn to swim!" SIZE/TECHNIQUE/MEDIA: Free - (video, multiples, sound work, poetry, visual poetry, objects…) NO RETURNS, NO SALES, NO JURY EXHIBITION - within the framework of the Latvian Contemporary Arts Center's project titled "the survival kit," on September 2009 on the main streets of Riga, in one of the shops that closed its doors due to the economic crises. DOCUMENTATION to all participants DEADLINE to be received: SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

send to: Bolderaja group

a/k 42 Riga, LV - 1016 Latvia

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we ask You to participate in the No7. summer series: Ordinary buttons.Details here:http://arnolfini-mma.blogspot.com/2009/06/no7-kozonseges-gombok-ordinary-buttons.htmlWe are waiting for Your work!Have a creative Summer,best, Ervin Zsubori, Hungaryhttp://arnolfini-mma.blogspot.com/

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the LOVE mail art project

Theme: LOVE

Format: anything that will fit in a mail box

Technique: no limitations, just feel free to express yourself

Deadline: 1 November 2009

No return. Documentation to all after exhibition. Please insert full address!

Works will also be displayed at this address: http://floraraducan.blogspot.com/

Send by post to:Flora Raducanthe LOVE mail art project Splaiul Corneliu Coposu Nr. 6 Ap. 4305500 Lugoj ROMANIA

The July issue of The Postal Press will be about personal transitions & 'starting over'. It seems to me that many people are in the process of reinventing themselves, their careers, and their relationships right now & I'm looking for mail art that illustrates that journey. Consider imagery like stairs, doors/portals, windows -- or dusk (the transition between day and night), a horizon (the visual line between water & sky, or land & sky) -- or ghosts (entities caught between life and death). Think outside the box. Please submit mail art of any shape, size and medium to:

Seren -- Transitions Art Call
PO Box 3246
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

All art will be documented on my blog: www.serendipityart.squarespace.com and some of it will be included in issues of The Postal Press (specifically the next issue, which has a projected print date of July 23, 2009). There is no final due date for this call.

The July issue of The Postal Press will be about personal transitions and 'starting over' and GREEN and PURPLE seems to be the colors of renewal for me. I am looking for mail that uses green and/or purple to express a sense of newness/rebirth/reawakening. Please submit mail art of any shape, size & medium to:

Seren -- Renewal Art Call
PO Box 3246
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

All art will be documented on my blog: www.serendipityart.squarespace.com & some of it will be included in issues of The Postal Press (specifically the next issue, which has a projected print date of July 23, 2009). The is no final due date. If some other color represents renewal/transition to you, I would love to receive that art work too, however, please include your thoughts on your color choice.
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Exhibition: 50 Artists, 50 States, 50 Mediums
One artist or designer from each state in the USA will represent a different medium, bridging the gap between the traditional fine art world and other arts disciplines, including craft, design, architecture, performance art, etc. I am interested in these intersections and how they translate into everyday life. This show will not only represent the importance of all art disciplines, but will also stress the importance of all working artists regardless of their location.
How to Apply:
Open to all professional artists living or working in the United States. Open to any and all mediums in the art, craft, and design communities. See below for examples of accepted mediums.
Send a short biography (including your address & e-mail), artist statement, a few words about why you want to be in this show, 10-20 images & information (including medium, dimensions, & price), and any links to your work on line to sarah@theeclipsegallery.com. Important: You must write “Submission for 50 Show” in the subject line of the e-mail or I will think it is spam. Attachments are fine. E-mail submissions are preferred.
Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2009. Show is scheduled for September 12, 2009– January 1, 2010 at
The Eclipse Gallery, 507 Fourth Street (Hwy 42), Algoma, Wisconsin, 54201.
Mediums accepted, but not limited to: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Digital, Ceramics, Mixed Media, Knitting, Jewelry, Metals, Found Object, Glass, Plastic, Photography, Crochet, Paper, Quilting, Felt, Wearables, Architecture (such as models, plans, photos), Graphic Design, Film/Time Based, Installation, Furniture, Baskets, Typography, Performance, Music, Spoken-Word, Text, Artist Books, Zines, Mail Art, Encaustic, Watercolor, Sewing, Mosaic, Graffiti, Illustration, Altered Book, Printmaking, Silk Screen, Product Design, Wallpaper, Textiles, Etc.
NOTE: The following Mediums and States are already taken:
NY, NJ, CA, PA, AL, WI, MI, OH, CT, IN, TX, ME, MA(Christine Tarantino, artist books)
Silkscreen, Lighting Design, Embroidery, Paper, Community-Based, Ceramics, Digital Collage, Music Books, Multimedia, Paper Bags, Artist Books
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A BOOK ABOUT DEATH: AN UNBOUND BOOK ON THE SUBJECT OF DEATHOpening, Thursday, 10 September 2009. Exhibition: 10 - 22 September 2009 Emily Harvey Foundation 537 Broadway New York City, New York 10012 USA 1000 Artists Produce Each An Edition Of 500 Postcards In A Sprawling Unbound Book About Death. 1000 pages, edition: 500.An Open Call To Artists Worldwide To Contribute To A BOOK ABOUT DEATH.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 should be of any design, personal or conceptual, color or black and white. The original works, and the postcards produced for the exhibition, should address the topic of death. 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 the subject in creating their own pages that score the dramatic final dance of death. EXHIBITION & EVENT: Each artist contribution will be displayed in the Emily Harvey Foundation gallery space 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. During the exhibition, a lecture/panel discussion will take place with a number of leading writers, curators, artists and collectors bringing together a number of salient ideas about death, books, mail art works, Ray Johnson and the global nature of A BOOK ABOUT DEATH. The panel list will be announced when it is finalized this summer.There will also be a website, http://abookaboutdeath.net/, serving as the portal for the exhibition.HOW TO SUBMIT1. Produce an artwork about death. Make 500 postcards and mail the package to A BOOK ABOUT DEATH c/o Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery 537 Broadway New York City, New York 10012. All submissions will be accepted if they arrive in time. Artists may produce more than one card if they wish.DEADLINE: Postcards should be in the gallery no later than 5 September 2009.2. Once images are produced, a light-weight jpg should be e mailed to http://us.mc903.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=MATTHEW.ROSE.PARIS%40GMAIL.COM, along with the artist's name and URL (artist web site address) for publication on the blog – http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ This will allow the organizers to archive the works and artist details. Other artists will also be able to visit the exhibition in progress.Note: An “official” website will be created by artist Caterina Verde at the address: http://abookaboutdeath.net./ TECHNICAL DETAILSThe artist is 100 percent responsible for her/his image and card and delivery to the gallery. FORMAT: Postcards should be at least 4 x 6 inches or 10 x 15 cm, but can be any size, but no larger than A4 or 8 1/2 x 11 inches. To help unify the edition, please include the words A BOOK ABOUT DEATH on your printed post cards. We have also included an image/text by Ray Johnson that could be printed on your cards. PRINTING OPTIONS: You can either produce the cards yourself or upload the file to any number of printers for delivery to the gallery. You, as the artist are in complete control of your artwork and cards. Option 1: A very inexpensive online printer offers extremely reasonable prices for a 4 x 6 inch (or 10 x 15 cm) card. PDF upload or online design is possible. Payment directly to the printer via MasterCard, PayPal, VISA are options. Please see: http://www.overnightprints.com/main.php. Please note: The exhibition organizers are not working with this printer but in our research have determined that their prices are some of the lowest on the market, their print quality is high, service is good and delivery to a NYC address via United Parcel Service is a very good option. Option 2: Alternately, artists are free to produce their own cards locally if they need to supervise print and image quality. Artists can sign and number their cards if they wish.Option 3: Artists can also produce handmade cards, however, these cards must be in an edition of 500 to ensure continuity with other images. Artists can sign and number their handmade cards if they would like. Variety in paper and material is encouraged.COST/FEESUnfortunately we cannot pay any artist or production fees. Each artist has to finance production and delivery. Like in life.LASTLY: The organizers will not collect cards for the artists. Institutions who wish to have a complete book will have to come to the gallery 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 EHF archive.SPREAD THE WORDThis kind of exhibition functions best when one artist contacts another and encourages participation. We would like to have a large and inclusive "book," one that touches upon the broad subject of death in many languages and cultures. There are no taboos here, 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. Please note that A BOOK ABOUT DEATH is not a commercial venture. The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery has generously donated the exhibition space for the duration of the exhibition.INFORMATION:DOWNLOAD PDF, SEE FACE BOOK GROUP, BLOG : http://matthew.rose.paris.googlepages.com/abookaboutdeathhttp://abookaboutdeath.net/http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/http://www.emilyharveyfoundation.org/http://rayjohnsonestate.com/Hope you can ALL PARTICIPATE. .. Best,MATTHEW ROSEART:

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FLUXUS NOW!

mail art and fluxus have been closely connected for over 40 years. as a celebration and exploration of the continuing vitality of both practices we are planning a mail art exhibit entitled FLUXUS NOW!. please send visual poems, soundworks, fluxus boxes, event scores, objects, images, books,booklets, TLPs, broadsides, manifestos, videos, and any other fluxus materials you find and/or create. critiques of this proposal are also welcome and will be included in the exhibit.the exhibit will be presented as a part of the 2010 roanoke marginal arts festival. dates for the festival are february 11 - 16, 2010. the deadline for submissions is february 1, 2010.Size/Medium/Technique: Free No jury. No fees. No returns. Documentation: on Flickr, the blog zine textimagepoem, and as a pdf of theblog zine (please include your email address for notification ofdocumentation)all work will become part of the textimagepoem archive of mail art and visual poetry.

send mail to jim leftwich

525 10th st

s.w.roanoke, va 24016usa

or

mailto:24016usaorjimleftwich@gmail.com

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MAIL ART CALL THEME : BOTTLE CAPS

SIZE : FREE

TECHNIQUE : FREE

DOCUMENTATION TO ALL

DEADLINE : FREE

SEND : C/o JOSÉ APARECIDO NOGUEIRA DE SOUSA CAIXA POSTAL - 2921 AGÊNCIA CENTRAL CEP : 01031-970 SÃO PAULO / SP BRASIL

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ARTISTS FOR PEACE INTERNATIONAL ART ACTION PROJECTMail artISTANBUL 2009CONCEPT :"Our goal is to realize international visual art actions by taking PEACE as the main theme in promoting ART & FRIENDSHIP & SOLIDARITY and PEACE, not violence, and an active attitude against War. We aim to come together in İstanbul with our artworks; within sounding by our unique feelings, thoughts and ideals for the world peace. We issue the beauties and forces of arts instead of wars and violences, by the concepts of peace; Love, Freedom, respecting of human rights, political and cultural pluralism within a global context, throughout the worldwide."Contact adresses:e-mail:http://us.mc903.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=artactionistanbul%40gmail.com\

Office&Studio Address ARTSTUDIO Taksim Fırı n Sok. No:8/1 Taksim/Beyo& #287;lu/Istanbul /Turkey

http://artistsforpe%20ace-artactionist%20anbul.blogspot.%20com/

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Call For Art :
Send us your Mailart,
Fluxus, Sound Work,
Visual Poetry, Images,
Books, Objects, Etc……
In Conjunction with the Open Studio
Tours of Fluxus/St. Louis, sponsored
By the Museum of Contemporary Art
In Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

We are hosting a Mail art exhibition.
All works will be shown. No limits.
Please send work by July 1st, 2009.
Exhibition will take place July 25/26,
2009 With Additional Venues to
Follow. All work will be permanently
archived at Fluxus/St.Louis.
Documentation to all participants.
Send work to :
Fluxus St. Louis
c/o Keith A. Buchholz
4615 Oregon Ave.
St. Louis, Mo. 63111 U.S.A.

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Welcome to Heebee Jeebeeland
When I was a kid, there was an old cartoon I saw many times on TV. While a child was sleeping, the unusual wallpaper all over his room came to life and began to dance back and forth, up and down in a rather fanciful symmetry accompanied by a sort of goofy graveyard mischief music. All manner of mayhem went on until the sun shone again at dawn and the dancing pranksters rushed back to their original spots and the wallpaper became still again. It is in the vicinity of that realm that Heebee Jeebeeland exists.

Please send Mail Art that needs to live here and be shown on this blog.

Showing to be announced 2010.

No returns / Doc. to all leaving an address.
Snail mail only please.
A sort of Voodoo Fueled Funhouse for Mail Art.

Please feel free to send something twistedly suitable for Heebee Jeebee Island (located here, in the 4th dimension).

Test Tower / Heebee Jeebeeland / 1201 W. Main Street / Centralia WA / 98531 USA

http://heebeejeebeeland.blogspot.com/_

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Let's make 2010 calendar together!

You can choose one month from January to December and create the month's calendar on one page.
People will choose each other month and the works may be various. Even if you choose the same month, the outcoming work will different and unique.
* size : A5(148mm x 210mm) * any medium that deal with any technique
At the end of the year, I will make several 2010 calendars collecting your works and you can see that on this webpage.

Choose your own significant month and make the month's calendar!

It'll be interesting experience.
Please send me your creative work and I will send you a postcard if you provide an address.
Deadline: 30.11.2009
Send to: In-young.Hong / #902-305.
Cho Won Dea Won APT.
Pyung An Dong.
Dong An Gu / An Yang City.
Kyung Ki Do.
431-743 / South Korea
hiy.spring.girl@gmail.com

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The Self-Portrait Mail Art Project, Art Museum, RUSSIA

(click to enlarge to read)

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VISUAL POETRY/MAIL ART CALL

Cracking World’s Walls & Codes

Concrete & Virtual VISUAL POETRY/MAIL ART CALL

No Sieges, Tortures, Starvation & Surveillance

GAZA-GUANTANAMO-ABU GHRAIB—THE GLOBE

Deadline/Fecha Limite: SinsLimite/ongoingSize: No limit/Sin LimiteNo Limit on Number of Works sentNo Limit on Number of Times New Works Are Sent
Documentation: on my bloghttp://davidbaptistechirot.blogspot.com/
Addresses: david.chirot@gmail.com
David Baptiste Chirot
740 N 29 #108
Milwaukee, WI 53208 USA

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Wilma Duguay and le Centre d'Artistes de Rawdon (CAR) will be presenting next August, 2 mail art exhibits.
The first one will be held in Port-Daniel on August 7-8-9 and the theme will be"The Sea".The second one will be held during the Rawdon Intercultural Festival on August 14-15-16 and the theme will be, of course, "The Festival."
The Festival will be travelling to The Sea and then The Sea will travel to the Festival.
All Sea entries must be sent to:Wilma Duguay11-102 BeaumontBonaventure (QC)CanadaG0C 1E0
All Festival entries must be sent to:CAR5114 DoloresRawdon (QC)CanadaJ0K 1S0
all entries must be received no later than August 1st, 2009

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THEME :Your favorite writer ( literary , comic , contemporary or not ) .

Please, write or stick, legibly , the author's name and an extract from his work, in your own language .
SIZE AND TECHNIQUES :free

DEADLINE :September 2009

DOCUMENTATION to all

Please, SEND your creations to

PAGE BLANCHE12, Place MugnierF-71590 GERGY( France )