Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Mail Out: Gail D. Whitter, Artists Book Project, Trail, BC, CANADA



A visual from my mailing to a Book Project that Gail is putting together for early in the new year . . . The ghosts of studio J ArtSpace are having a grand time with their various incarnations into mail art . . if only they could install a heater for the winter months in there. It makes for a shorter workday when the fingers can't thaw out fast enough to make the next marks on paper or cut out the next image in my collage. Still making the most of what time there is . . See you in the mail. M.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mail Out: Jacque Lynn Davis, St. Louis, MO, USA






The adventures of Gooch as he explores his new home at Studio J ArtSpace
Check out her web site: Digital Art

Monday, November 23, 2009

Mail Out: Keith Buchholz, Fluxkit, St. Louis, MO, USA




Edition of 50 now on its way to Keith.

FLUXKIT
Theme: Fluxkit is now on it's 5th issue and I am hoping for a few more pieces to finish it out. I'm planning on another 4 issues this year, and if your work hasn't shown up in one yet, it's coming.
Size/Format: If you're interested, send small objects / multiples / images in an edition of 50 - I'd really like to see a wide variety - maybe even sound or video work on cd .
Please insure that the work contains your name, signature or stamp so that we know who it's from, - It could be a fun project, and a way for us all to connect a little more.
Documentation: As your work is included, you get a full copy as well. A complete kit will be sent to everyone who contributes, along with a list of participating artists.
Archives: We have people who will archive the editions.... I had a great meeting this week with the curator at the Contemporary Museum in Chicago , they have put a copy of every issue in their permanent collection, and are continuing to archive as we publish new kits - also the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Petersen Archive in Copenhagen, and 17 others worldwide !!! lets keep this going !!!!
Info: Keith Buchholz keith9963@sbcglobal.net
http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com
http://fluxlist.blogspot.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fluxlist
Deadline to be received: December 31, 2009

FLUXKIT
c/o Fluxus/St. Louis
4615 Oregon Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63111
U.S.A.

Mail Out: Saulo Dias, Vila Velha, BRASIL



The Call:
Citizen of Cardboard
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 RECEIVED: December 5, 2009

Saulo Dias
Rua Libra, 199
Alvorada 29117-240
Vila Velha |ES|
BRAZIL

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Mail Out: Sylvie Galas, Aulnay sous Bois, FRANCE




The Blog:
Alfons Mucha
MUCHA
Theme: a mail art call to honor the painter Alfons MUCHA. He was born on July 24, 1860 in Ivančice (Czech Republic) and died just 70 years ago in Prague (on July 14, 1939). Please create to some extent, an homage to Mucha in the Art nouveau style.
Size: Maximum format A4
Technique/ 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.

Deadline to be received: December 31, 2009

Sylvie GALAS
7 rue de Normandie
93600 Aulnay sous Bois
FRANCE

*****

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Mail Out: Angela Behrendt, Hannover, GERMANY



I LOVE AMY WINHOUSE Mailart call

Angela Behrendt
Heidornstrasse 7
30171 Hannover
Germany

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Mail Out: Karl Hacker, Itzehoe, GERMANY




THÈME: Mail Art history of today

Commentaire: EL MAIL TAO
Mail Art Books
Theme: Mail Art history of today
Size: A4 upright size !
Media: send 25 copies (numbered and signed)
Technique free: prints, collages, original drawings but no black and white photocopies
Documentation: bound collection to every artist in book form.

Date limite: November 30, 2009

ADRESSE: Karl F. Hacker
El Mail Tao
Karolingerstr. 67
D-25524 ITZEHOE
GERMANY

Mail Out: Dean Grey, Chicago, IL, USA


Mail Out: Anna Maria Matone, San Remo, ITALY

Friday, November 13, 2009

Mail Out: You Are What You Eat, Glendale, AZ, USA




YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

Hosted by An Art Affair Gallery and Art Studio

Interpret the subject any way that you like and also include a recipe of some sort.
Technique: open
Size limit: 12x12 inches
No fee

Include email address on entry
Works should be on the package, card or envelope, not inside. What is mailed is the entry. Work will be displayed at our gallery. On line documentation at anartaffair.com and our blog, bsloveproduction.wordpress.com

Deadline: 29 July 2010
Send to:

You Are What You Eat
c/o An Art Affair
7606 North 83rd Ave
Glendale, AZ 85303 USA

Mail Out: Raymond Furlotte, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA



mail art call - Eel River Crossing
Your vision of my home town Eel River Crossing in Maritime Provinces
www.fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/eel_river_crossing
Work from Eel River Crossing's photo (enclosed photos or the other one on inquiry)
Deadline summer, 2010
Size 14 x 22 cms + or - Without envelope
Include your e-mail address
All mail art will be exhibited at The Gallery Restigouche de Campbelton
RAYMOND FURLOTTE
6768, deNormanville
Montréal (Québec) H2S 2C1, Canada

Mail Out: "Postcards from the Edge" Visual Aids New York, USA



Postcards From The Edge
Visual AIDS is excited to announce that our next Postcards From The Edge benefit will be hosted by ZieherSmith on January 8-10, 2010.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
The 12th Annual Postcards From The Edge benefit for Visual AIDS
Hosted by ZieherSmith in their new space at 516 West 20th Street, NYC

PREVIEW PARTY
Friday, January 8 from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

BENEFIT SALE
Saturday, January 9 from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, January 10 from 12 noon – 4 p.m.

Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of over 1500 original, postcard-sized works of art by established and emerging artists. All artworks are sold for $75 each, on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the work of Visual AIDS. Click HERE for more information.

If you are an Artist interested in participating, please click HERE for details and submission forms. Deadline is Thursday, December 10, 2009.

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving the legacy, because AIDS is not over. www.visualAIDS.org

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Mail Out: Add & Pass, Various Locations


And so it goes . . onward to the next destination.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Mail Out: Juan Angel Italiano, Maldonado, URUGUAY




The Call:
Mail Art: A Communication Utopia
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 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 received: November 30, 2009

Juan Angel Italiano
Cno. Lussich esq.
Golondrinas “Afilados”
Maldonado
Uruguay

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Mail Out: "Flying" Kiss Jozsef, Nyíracsád, HUNGARY




International Mail Art Exhibition in Nyíracsád
Call for application

The Local Authority of Nyíracsád, Dózsa György Cultural Centre and the Tour inform Office are calling for an application to create Mail-Art (postal –art) works of arts.
Topic: Flying
Size: maximum: 40 cms by 30 cms
Technic: not fixed
Number of works: maximum 2
The works mustn’t disturb any national feelings or feelings of ethnic minorities.
Deadline for the works of art to arrive:
2010. March 01.
Address:

Kiss József
Nyíracsád
Széchenyi Street 11.
Hungary
4262


k or kissjola@gmail.com
There will be an exhibition from the works of arts opening on 24 April 2010 in the Mill Gallery in Nyíracsád.
We won’t send back the works, they will be in the ownership of the Local Authority of Nyíracsád, and they will be exhibited in the Mill Gallery.
We are planning to continue this application every second year with different topics.
We are also planning to open a Mail Art Gallery in Nyíracsád and exhibit the collection there.
It would be advisable to start posting any “Mail Art” contributions from the beginning of October so they don’t get accumulated at the post office just before the deadline.

Dr Katona Gyula Kiss József
mayor painter, organiser

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Mail Out: Eduardo Cardoso, Sines, PORTUGAL


Mail Out: Elisa Battistella, Milan, ITALY



As I sort through the great stacks of mail . . each piece gets a visual response . . I've been enjoying the altering of this backdrop image as I customize it for each individual.

Keith Bates, Stamps



Thursday, October 29, 2009

Mail Out: ATC Call, ATC Quarterly, Dunvegan, ON, CANADA



The next ATC Quarterly Challenge is " SAY CHEESE"
Deadline: 15 November 2009
Email 300 dpi jpegs to: editor@atcquarterly.com
Snail Mail Submissions:
ATC Quarterly
19698 County Road 24
Dunvegan, Ontario, K0C 1J0 CANADA

Monday, October 26, 2009

Mail Out: Add and Pass . . various destinations

Add and Pass


Onward to the next alteration . .

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Mail Out: "Owl", Claudio Grandinetti, Cosenza, ITALY



The call:
MAIL ART CALL - The Owl
THEME: The Owl
Free Size
No Return
Documentation online at: The OWL
Deadline: 25/08/10
All works must be send by post
Don't forget your photo, some lines of biography, address and e-mail address

Send to:

The Owl
By Claudio Grandinetti
Via Popilia Palazzo Manna 1
87100 Cosenza
Italia

Friday, October 23, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009

A Book About Death, Queens, NY, USA




FYI

Louise Weinberg is putting up a selection of the artists' postcards created especially for A Book About Death collaborative project up at the Queens Museum of Art as one of a trio of exhibitions celebrating the Day of the Dead. The exhibition opens on November 1st and runs through November 15. A reception will be held on November1st from 3 to 6pm.

Selections from "A Book About Death" is an artists' collaborative project conceived by collage artist Matthew Rose (an American living and working in Paris) for the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City where the original exhibition took place from September 10 - 22, 2009. Over 500 artists contributed 500 postcards each created from artworks made especially to create an unbound book about death in homage to Ray Johnson (father of mail art), a celebration of Emily Harvey, and a global exploration of how we celebrate memory and death. The only requirement was to include the words "a book about death" somewhere on the card. Since then, the exhibition has traveled to the Otis College of Art and Design in LA, and to the Mobius Gallery in Boston, MA, as well as becoming part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the LA County Museum of Art Research Library. The Queens Museum is presenting a selection of cards from the exhibition and are also asking the community, in an artist-led workshop, to create their own postcard about death and add it to the exhibition.

To be included in this exhibition, make a postcard and send it to: L. Weinberg, Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Mail Out: Pierpaolo Limongelli, Monopoli, ITALY








An add and return booklet from Pierpaolo . . now on the way back to Italy.

Mail Out: Carroll Woods, Menlo Park, CA, USA



Checkout work from Carroll at : dumpsterdiversanonymous

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Mail Out: Glynis Wilson Boultbee, "Belonging", Red Deer , AB, CANADA


Mail Art for an exhibit called "Longing / Belonging"
Artists are invited to submit mail art on the theme of "belonging" for an 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.
Art should be postmarked on or before September 23, 2009.
Guidelines:
1. The art itself must be no larger than 6" X 6".
2. The Gallery is open to children and children will be invited to participate. Please keep this in mind when creating your piece.
3. Only art submitted by regular post will be accepted. No electronic submissions please.
4. If you wish to receive information about the exhibit (which will be sent in November/December of 2009), include your email address with your submission.
5. Please indicate your first name and the city in Canada or the country in which you live.
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.
For additional information, go to http://sites.google.com/site/artsalacarterd/

Date limite: Art should be postmarked on or before September 23, 2009.

ADRESSE: Glynis Wilson Boultbee
Belonging Project Coordinator
c/o Red Deer Public Library
4818-49 St
Red Deer AB T4N 1T9
CANADA