From the world with love
Theme: an open call inviting people from all over the world to share your love through creative
visual pieces for an important exhibition as part of a movement to grow and preserve awareness for Human and Natural Green
Areas. To understand Global warming. To let the birds keep singing and our kids to enjoy the beauty of nature.
Size/technique
: Free, anything that can be posted
Documentation : online at http://www.savesos.blogspot.com . At the end of the project, all work received will also be documented
as a Multimedia documentary.
Exhibition: at the end of the year held by SOS Gallery, curated by Bandung Artist, Deden Sambas W.A.F
no return, no jury, no
fee
dont forget to include your name, email and if possible your picture.
Info: seniman_s@yahoo.com.sg
Deadline to be received: December 20, 2008
Deden Sambas
W.A.F
Jl.Gegerkalong Hilir No.18/ 173 B
Bandung - West Java
Indonesia
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Ten
Theme:
North York Visual Artists is celebrating 10 years of art, activity and community. As part
of our celebration, we are issuing a mail art call for entry. Ten. Is it ten years? Ten fingers or toes? Ten o’clock?
The top ten? The bottom ten? Network ten? The perfect Ten? The ten Commandments? Ten times? Ten little …? Ten dollars?
Ten pounds? Ten most wanted? To the powers of Ten? Ten colours? Ten textures? Ten by Pearl
Jam or Dr.Who? Do you hang Ten? Live in Ten Mile? Ten in Japanese has nothing to do with a number. Ten is everywhere.
What
is your ten? Focus your atTENtion and send us your version.
Format: 4 x 6, 5 x 7 or anything that will fit in a mailbox…
and go through the mail
Medium: free - collage, draw, paint, print, stencil, photography, stamping, etc. …
Exhibition:
Online exhibition. The mail art will be also be on display at NYVA's Winter Show in the Papermill Gallery, Todmorden Mills,
Toronto December 3 -14th, 2008.
Documentation: documentation
to all participants
Please remember to include your name and address, on the back, so that we can send documentation
http://www.nyva.ca
Info: digiwork@rogers.com
Deadline: November 1, 2008
TEN
51 Neddie Drive
Scarborough, ON
CANADA M1T 2T2
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Mail Art Project III
Theme & Technique = Free
size: postcard - A4
Exhibition Nov. 20-25 at Itami City Gallery
Deadline: November
10, 2008
Secretariat [BUT]
Mamoru Uemura
Ogino Itami - Shi 2-20-3
664-0002
JAPAN
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MINIATURE CHANGE CALL
Please send
two little works on canvas, photography or board
Theme : free
Technique: free
Media: please send two little
paintings, on canvas, cardboard, photographs, ...
SIZE: 10x7 cms
Your signature ! Your name, address, e-mail, ... on
the reverse
Please include your curriculum vitae
No Jury, no returns, no fee.
Documentations to all.
exhibition
in december 2008.
http://montoya.yolotl.org
http://nuriametzli.blogspot.com/
http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/montoyamuseo.html
Deadline to be received: November 30, 2008
Nuria Metzli
Montoya
Atelier La casita Xomolli
VIA MODENA 150
I-07026 OLBIA (OT)
ITALIA
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Change
Theme:
Nothing lasts forever neither in nature nor in course human beings, only change forever. But where are we going to?
Size:
postcard
Media: free - collage, photography, painting, drawing,printing, TTPO, etc.
Exhibition: will take place
in the gallery Colognialwaren in Dec. 2008.
Information: http://www.kulturgutkiez.de
Deadline to be received: November 30, 2008
Galerie Colognialwaren
Richardplatz
20
12055 Berlin
Germany
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International Aspects on Drawing
Exhibition:
at The Galeristic Space (future art gallery) , Sintra, Portugal
Send
handmade works of drawing/painting ( old or new, 1 or more, colored or not).
Documentation: catalogue to participants for
each 25 drawings received.
Deadline: December 1, 2008
Rita Da Costa
Av. combatentes lt 3 - Abrunheira
2710
Sintra
Portugal
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EMBASSY OF VENICE
- THE REPUBLIC OF ARTISTS
Theme: Embassy
of Venice
Size: A4
Technique: free
No return, no
fee, no jury
Exhibitions
Documentation to participants
Please, do not send works by e-mail. All works must be sent
by post, inside envelope or not, but please affix regular postal stamps, not prepaid or automatic-machine stamps.
Info:
daliobaracchi@hotmail.com
http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/pagine/repubblicartisti.html
http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/pagine/ambasciatadivenezia.html
http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/pagine/ambasciatadivenezia2.html
DEADLINE to be received: December 8, 2008
GIANCARLO
DA LIO
AMBASCIATA DI VENEZIA
VIA CAVALLOTTI 83 B
I - 30171 VENEZIA MESTRE
ITALY
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CONCEPTUAL
CONTINUITY
Theme: That tenuous thread that, outside and above individual projects and personal experiences
connects the work of Ray Johnson to the current Mail Art Network.
Format: Free
Technique: Free
Online catalogue:
http://itsonlymailartconcept.blogspot.com/
Please include name, surname, country, address and email address (and
website if one exists).
All works must be sent by post with postage stamps.
No returns.
Deadline to be received:
December 10, 2008
Maurizio Follin
Via M.te Cervino, 27
30173 Favaro V.to
Venezia, Italy
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MAIL TRAIN
Theme: Mail Art call
to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Historic Steam Train to and from Minden,
Germany.
SIZE: postcards only, standard size, sent by normal
mail: no letters please, and no e-mails.
TECHNIQUE: free
EVENT: All mail art that arrives before December 10, 2008
will travel on the anniversary train on December 13 from Minden
to Hille. Come yourself and be part of the show! Travel with us on the train, join our big Mail-Art and Performance-Festival
"IN THE TRAIN OF TIME". 40 participants from all over the network will participate in the event from December 12-14,
2008. Minden is beautiful in winter: enjoy the locomotive
steam in the clear sky!
EXHIBITION: A mail art show will be held on the running train with official mail transportation.
All submissions will be shown. No returns
DOCUMENTATION: free to all, includes full addresses list.
DEADLINE TO BE RECEIVED: March 31, 2009
NETMAILART
P.O.Box 2644
D 32383 Minden
Germany
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"AUTOPORTRAIT"
Theme: Send your self
portrait!
Any media you prefer, as long as it can be mailed.
Your work will be part of an exhibition of MAIL-ARTIST
SELF PORTRAITS!
deadline to be received: December 31, 2008.
Catalogue to each participant.
No returns
TEODOR
AJDER
ul. BERNADYNSKA 21, m.45
02-904, Warsaw
Poland
Is there life before death?
Format and Technique are free, with this
one constraint: Your mailart must be created using red and black.
Documentation to all participants at the end of the project.
Deadline
to be received: December 31, 2008
Online posting of submissions: http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/
"E"
38 GRANDE RUE
02300 GUIVRY
FRANCE
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CAMERAderie - Mailartist Photoportraits Gallery
MAILARTISTS!
- Send your 'head and shoulders' photo for our Web Gallery. We will include one photo of as many mailartists as possible.
Full
details at http://www.keithbates.co.uk
Theme: Send your best portrait, this is for posterity. We would like
a good, clear, 'head and shoulders' photoportrait, taken recently or at your most creative time of life. Choose a picture
of you at your best - your happiest, your most hardworking, your most serious, your friendliest, your most enigmatic, one
with a twinkle in your eye, one that shows your true character. Whether it's a photo taken by yourself or someone else, we
want the single shot that best sums you up. A photo that captures you for posterity, for future generations to see.
We
would also like to receive the best photograph of each mailartist who has passed away, chosen by a close friend or relative.
If we receive several photos of a mailartist we will try to choose the best one.
Mailartist Photoportraits will be documented
as an online gallery, pictures added as we receive them, to form a lasting internet archive at http://www.keithbates.co.uk/cameraderie.html
For accessibility, photos will be grouped in albums according to country
of residence. Photos will be added as they are received and will be freely downloadable. Contact details will NOT be included
on the website, only the name of the pictured mailartist will accompany each photo.
Send Printed images of good size, but
no larger than A4.
No returns.
The project invitation is also available as an A4 size PDF – CameraderieCall.pdf
http://www.keithbates.co.uk
http://www.k-type.com
http://www.leandaryan.com
info: keith@k-type.com
leanda@leandaryan.com
deadline to be received: December 31, 2008
Keith Bates
and Leanda Ryan
2 Ferngate Drive
Manchester, M20 4AH
UK
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Insects and Flowers
Theme: For an
environmentalist association, I am calling for mailart on the theme of insects and flowers. Mail one or more artworks.No matter
who you are, small or large, nobody or institution, school, insectarium, association, human or robot, artist one day old or
infirmed, or where that you live on the Planet, we invite you to take part in this project!
Exhibition: "OPIE's"
House of Insects will archive the artwork and will progressively exhibit them on their website. The public exhibition will
take place at the House of the insects of the OPIE, beginning June 1, 2008. All work will be shown into 2009 to commemorate
40 years of the OPIE.
Documentation: In addition to the website, certain work will be published in an Insects review following
the show.
To learn some more about mail art and this project, please visit: http://www.insectes.org
Info: brunodidier@wanadoo.fr
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2008
Maison des
insectes de l’OPIE
BP 30
F-78041 Guyancourt cedex
France
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IN SUPPORT OF TIBET
Theme: This
is a call to protest against the occupation of Tibet on the part of the government of China and to contribute with our artistic
testimony to say NO.... we want the FREEDOM for Tibet. WE ARE FREE. Participates with us to protest to the invasion of CHINA and the destruction of the values and culture of TIBET.
Format: postcard 10x15 or max DIN4.
Technique: free.
No returns.
Please
enclose your name and email address and so we can include it next to the artwork and so we can send the exhibition catalog.
Public exhibition within the framework of a cultural event that will take place in the artistic old heart of Palma de
Mallorca in the factory of the painter Miguel Aguilar and the poetess Conxa Yago on a date to be determined in the first three
months of 2009. This will be a great cultural celebration in which poetry, painting, sculpture and the mailed artworks
will be presented.
info: jaumegavi@yahoo.es
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2008
TODOS CON
EL TIBET
Pizá, 9
07200 Felanitx - Mallorca
Spain
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ARTISTAMP 2008
Theme: This is a call
for ARTIST STAMPS / ARTISTAMPS / Faux Postage Stamps that you have created within the last 12 months. Let’s see what
the current State of the Art Stamp is now.
Technique: Free
Send loose stamps or attached to envelopes.
Please Send
via Postal System/ No emails
Response mailed to everyone with a legible return address.
Submissions will not be returned.
All
artistamps received will be archived here: http://artistamp2008.blogspot.com/
Deadline to be received:
December 31, 2008
ARTISTAMP 2008
615 Foul Bay Road
Victoria BC, V8S4H2
CANADA
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Rust
Theme: RUSTY
things! Anything that's rusty qualifies.
Size/Media: Photographs on a postcard, approximately 4 x 6 inches (or equivalent
standard rate postcard). Be sure to use COLOR photography, and print your photo onto quality photo paper.
PLEASE include
your name and mailing address/email/web site on the reverse to receive acknowledgment of your postal project!
Exhibition:
All entries will be posted at http://www.sharonzimmer.com Documentation is online only, no paper documentation will be mailed due
to high postage costs!
Info: sharonzimmer1@gmail.com
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2008
Sharon Zimmer
16220 Via Solera Cir #106
Fort Myers, FL 33908
USA
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Sport
Theme: Sport
- From anybody to somebody!
Size: Postcard only
Technique: free
http://www.paultiilila.com
http://www.ekynetti.com
Info: paul.tiilila@pp.inet.fi
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2008
Paul Tiililä
Kuusitie
4
FI-36600 Pälkäne
Finland
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Poverty
Theme: Please only send mail art adhering to the theme of poverty.
Exhibition:
held in Stuttgart, Germany,
February, 2009.
Documentation: permanently published - updated weekly online at:
http://hans-sachshaus.de/mailart_armut_ausschreibung.html
Size/technique: only postcards, free technique.
Info: mailart.armut@hans-sachshaus.de
Deadline to be received:
December 31, 2008
Hans-Sachs-Haus Stuttgart
Teilstationäre Einrichtung für Personen in sozialen
Schwierigkeiten
Hauptstätter Strasse 142
D 70178 Stuttgart
Germany
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HOW WE WERE
INTERNATIONAL PHOTO-MAIL ART PROJECT
Theme: Where were you in Sixty-Seventy? Do you have you some special
photograph that provides a memory of that period of your life? If so, we beg you to send a copy of it to us for a photographic
exhibition as artistic testimony of how we were in that historical moment of our existence.
Technique: photography
Size:
free
http://www.mailartmeeting.com
Info: archivio@mailartmeeting.com
NO RETURNS
Documentation to the participants.
Deadline to
be received: December 31, 2008
MAILARTMEETING ARCHIVES
c/o Anna Boschi
Via G.Tanari n. 1445
B
– 40024 Castel San Pietro Terme (BO)
Italy
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Portrait
Technique
and format: free
Response to all participants
blogsite documentation: http://aliette-collages.com/
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2008
Aliette Couette
3 rue de Vélizy
92190 Meudon
France
