Mail Out: Frau Silke, Moers, GERMANY

The Call:
Capital Flower
Size/Media: free
Exhibition: Artworks will be exhibited in Germany while Moers and the Rurh region are being designated as the "European cultural capital of 2010".
Info: centre.culturel@orange.fr
Deadline to be received: June 30, 2010

Frau Silke
RECK VHS Moers - Kamp-Lintfort
Kastell 5
Moers 47441
Germany

Mail Out: PC Tictac, Starnberg, GERMANY

Looks like from this point forward Bubbles = Tictac

Mail Out: David Medalla, Berkshire, ENGLAND

From David Medalla:
How to Participate - London Biennale
ARROWS

When I conceived the London Biennale, I thought of the simplest way artists from all over the world could register for free as members of the London Biennale: and this is thus: for every artist to make an arrow of any material and of any size and to have the words "London Biennale" (and date of each biennale, e. g., 2002, 2004 or 2006) together with the artist's name inscribed on the arrow, and for three copies of a photograph (or collage, photomontage, or digital image) of the artist with the arrow and the statue of Eros at Piccadilly Circus to be sent to me. This one requirement for registering for free in the London Biennale is mentioned in the first letter I sent to various artists and to Harald Szeemann, director of the Venice Biennale, Rene Block, formerly director of the Istanbul Biennial , and Isabel Carlos, currently director of the Sydney Biennial. It was mentioned in several press articles announcing the beginning of the London Biennale. Press items about the start of the London Biennale appeared in Art Forum (New York), Flash Art (Milano), the Art Newspaper (London) and the news bulletin of Salle de Bains (Rotterdam).

Other news items appeared in articles in various parts of the world. The Eros statue is a long-standing icon of London. Eros is the god of Love. The arrow signifies both movement and direction, and could symbolise a different thing for each and every artist. In my case, the arrow's trajectory defines the imaginary and real path to creative transcendance.


Many artists who wish to participate in the London Biennale cannot personally come to London due to various reasons. Making the arrow and sending their photos to me mean they become bona fide members of the London Biennale. Artists living abroad, including those who far from London in the English countryside, are therefore able to organise events and exhibitions directly linked to the London Biennale through their personal Eros-Arrows. This has happened several times already and continue to happen in many parts of the world.


I hope this information makes it clear for London Biennale artists the origin of the idea of the arrow and its reason for being and becoming.

Best wishes, everyone!

David Medalla

Abigail, Saanichton, BC, CANADA

Just a thinking of you mailing to the Lady Alligator

Human, Colours, Music, Thomai Kontou, Elassona, GREECE

THE CALL:
Human, Colours, Music
International MAIL ART Exhibition in Athens

21-28 June 2010
On the occasion of the slogan “Donate a chance at life” of the Hellenic Society of Haematology, we are organizing a Mail Art exhibition in Athens, Greece and we are inviting artists from all over the world to participate and donate, with their work, the blood of life for their fellow-man.

Title: Human, Colours, Music
Technique: free.
Format: painting, drawing, print, collage, Envelopes, Postcards, Artistamps, small sculptures, ceramics (without frame or glass)
(Only original works will be accepted, photocopies or e-mails of works will not be accepted)

Size: post card (10x15 cm), ex libris, A4 (19x21 cm), 3d.

All works must be sending by post with postage stamps.
Works will not be returned, they will all be exhibited.
All proceeds will be donated to the Hellenic Society of Haematology (www.eae.gr/new/index.asp) and will be auctioned by it for its purposes.


Online catalogue on the website:
http://human-colours-music-greekmailart.blogspot.com /

Works can be sent to:

Thomai Kontou
Xanthou 9,
40200 Elassona,
Greece


e-mail: thomaikontou@gmail.com
Please do not forget to note your address and e-mail.

Mail Out: Netmailart, Minden, GERMANY

BE MY TUBA IN THE SKY!
Theme: The idea is based on Peter Netmail´s performance playing the Tuba as participant of the last Biennial world art show in Venice / Italy.
Size: Postcard (10 x 15 cm only please).
Please do not enclose in an envelope.
Technique: free. No e-mail contributions, and no black & white copies.
Exhibition: All contributions will be exhibited at Music School Minden, Germany. The vernissage is on Sat 4 Sep 2010 at 4 p.m. with Peter playing live music, as start of Minden’s biennial "Long Culture Night".
Documentation: Report in Culture magazine OSWALD, plus color documentation to every participant.
Info: peterkuestermann@hotmail.com
Deadline to be received: April 30, 2010

Netmailart
P.O.Box 2644
D-32383 Minden
Germoney Utd.

Mail Out: PEACE, Roma, ITALY

The Call:
Peace!
Theme: We like to quote one of the pioneer mail artists Robert Rehfeldt: "Your idea helps my idea, our ideas help the ideas of others", because we think that both cooperation and dialogue can generate something new and beautiful.
Open to all.
Size: This mail art project invites you to find alternative ways to use a postcard. Please send a rectangular card of 10x15 cm on the longest side.
Media: The Mail Art postcard must be created with one or more photographs in any way that you like.
On the back please write a short text: a thought, a message, a poem...
The postcard must have a signature, and if possible also your name, so that we can create a list of the participating artists.
The postcard must also contain the written date. Choice of subject is free.
There will be no selection procedure. Participation is free, but the artist takes the responsibility that the Mail Art postcard will be correctly sent through the postal service of his/her own country.
It is possible to send more than one Mail Art postcard or to create a series reassembled from a single work. Please inform us if you intend to do so!
Documentation: All works will be published on the website http://www.officinadelleimmagini.net
Exhibition: The final show of all the received postcards will be organized in an exhibition space.
Deadline to be received: May 25, 2010

Officina delle Immagini
Casella Postale 6133
00195 Roma
Italy

Mail Out: Manoel Bonabal, Galiza, SPAIN

The Call:
Path
Theme: The road or direction your life takes.
Technique and format: free.
Exhibition: CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER CGAC GALEGO in July 2010. A mail art workshop will also be conducted.
Documentation: http://sendapostal.blogspot.com
Info: mabace@wanadoo.es
Deadline to be received: July 15, 2010

Manoel Bonabal
San Domingos de Bonaval n 5-A
ES-15703-Santiago de Compostela -Galiza
Spain

Mail Out: Paint Chip Poetry, Sherri Ayers, Corona, CA, USA

The Colours of Poetry

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN this poetry/art call.
Sherry will send you a paint swatch(es)or you can provide your own. Just write a poem with the title of the swatch in the poem. It can be more than one swatch. Incorporate the swatch in your poem.
Mail to: 2276 Ridgeveiw Terrace Corona,Ca.92882-2830 USA
It will then post here.Thanks hope you join in!!!!
Check out: The Colours of Poetry

Mail Out: Man = Hidden Tenderness, Latvia

Man = Hidden Tenderness
Theme: The Museum of J. Rozentals Saldus History and Art invites you to participate in mail art exhibition on the theme Man = Hidden Tenderness”. We are interested in how you perceive hidden tenderness in man. Maybe it is all of his quintessence? Maybe we can observe it in symbolic, extravagance or in some deformed way? But maybe man’s tenderness is not so hidden, that instead, we are just inattentive to it?
After the exhibition, results will be put in our blog: http://mymailart.wordpress.com/
Deadline to be received: May 5, 2010.

J.Rozentāla Saldus vēstures un mākslas muzejs
Striķu iela 22
Saldus LV- 3800
LATVIA

Mail Out: Cécile Carpena, Caen, FRANCE

*****

ANGELS IN ART
Theme: Mandatory reference to art history.
Please put your address and stamp on the side of your artwork.
Exhibition: In Caen, May 1 - 22, 2010
Info: http://angels-anges-art.blogspot.com/
Deadline to be received: April 30, 2010

Cécile Carpena
5 rue Saint Blaise
14000 - CAEN
FRANCE

ANY PENNY Project, Konstantin Kalendaroff, Moscow, RUSSIA

The Call:
ANY PENNY
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 Rostov on Don, Biennale Exhibition May 6, 2010
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

Mail Out: Helen Allsebrook, Bristol, ENGLAND

A trifold work now on its way back to the originator in Bristol.

Mail Out: Natasa Stanasic, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Memorable Movie Moments

What is your favorite quote from a movie? Share it with the rest of us and illustrate it :)
If you can't decide on an actual quote, you can also share a particular scene or even make an 'alternative' poster for your favorite movie.
You can also add a short explanation about why this particular quote/scene/movie is important to you.

Deadline: May 31st
Size and technique free, no fee, no jury, no returns.
Works will be documented on the blog and exhibited in a venue in Sarajevo in July, during the Sarajevo Film Festival when the entire town lives for the movies.
If you provide your e-mail address, we will e-mail you the photos from the exhibition.
Mail-art is hardly known in Bosnia, so please contributel and help us make a big mail-art show :)

Mail your works to:

Nataša Stanišić
Asima Ferhatovića 1
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jenny Klein, Rommerskirchen, GERMANY

THEME: DOGS DOGS DOGS

Media/Technique: free
Documentation: all participants receive a catalogue.

Date limite: May 1, 2010

ADDRESS: Jenny Klein
Wasserburgstr. 36
41569 Rommerskirchen
Germany

Mail Out: N. Eippers, Piggy One Mail Art, BELGIUM

For her ongoing Piggy One Mail Art

Scott Ray Randall, Grass Valley, CA, USA

Here's the Blog for : BACON

BACON!

All art must feature bacon. Anything goes. Video, sound work, 2-D, 3-D, poetry; surprise me, shock me, make me sizzle, raise my cholesterol. All art shown on this blog. Exhibition(s) to follow. A short film about bacon will include much of the received art. Deadline is 04/01/2010.

Send art to:

BACON!
Scott Ray Randall
21294 Leslie Drive
Grass Valley, CA 95945

or

scottrayrandall@gmail.com

Mail Out: J. Heritage, Wheatridge, Colorado, USA

Mail Out: Carlos Botana, Galicia, SPAIN

Octopus
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

Mail Out: Postmaster, Cornelius, OR, USA

Click Here for Some shots from the post Office

Mail Out: Torben, Paris, FRANCE

Mail Out: They Live Near Us, Ukraine

the Call:
THEY LIVE NEAR US
Theme: (domestic + wild animals/birds, fish, reptiles, insects, etc.)
Format: painting, drawing, print, collage (only originals)
Technique: free
Please sign your work and include your mailing and email address.
Catalogue and Exhibition.
Deadline to be received: March 31, 2010

Aleksandr ZHMAILO
Tereshkovoy 15. Skalistoe
Bahchisaraisky R-N
98440 CRIMEA
Ukraine

Mail Out: Jimi, Port Angeles, WA, USA

Mail Out: C. Gavina, Milano, ITALY

Mail Out: LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN, ITALY

The Call:
LIMIT, EXCHANGE, SIGN
Theme: A tribute for the city of Portogruaro through a project involving art through mail. The keywords chosen as the theme are the motif of its foundation, joined in a common flow.
Limit - border between earth and water, the river harbor and the trade routes, the channels and the gardens of the palaces, a constant reference to a change in system, material and color.
Exchange - not only of goods but also of colours and scents, artistic and architectural influences, mutual knowledge, therefore culture.
Sign - a condition of consent expressed in gesture, the conclusion of an agreement, a trace superimposed on many others: whose meaning is beyond the sum of the parts.
Project by Rizoo Group, Tiziana Baracchi and Pro Loco di Portogruaro
Format and dimension of work: Artwork must be square. Maximum size 21 X 21 cm
No e-mail
No returns, no jury, no fee, no sales
Exhibition in Portogruaro, 2010
Online documentation: http://www.rizoo.it
http://www.rizoo.altervista.org
info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com – aurogentile@tiscali.it
http://www.myspace.com/rizoogroup
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rizoo-Group/181882557408?ref=ts
Deadline to be received March 31, 2010

Proloco di Portogruaro
via Cavour 33
30026 Portogruaro (VE)
ITALY

Mail Out: Honoring the Shadow, PA, USA

The Call:
Honoring the Shadow

The Shadow is a psychological term introduced by the late Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It is everything in us that is repressed, undeveloped and denied, both dark and light. The shadow represents all that the conscious person does not wish to acknowledge within themselves. Jung emphasized the importance of being aware of shadow material and incorporating it into conscious awareness. Otherwise we project these attributes onto others. Honor your shadow by giving it visual form. All mediums are welcome. Deadline: December 31 2010. Artworks will be permanently displayed on my website. [www.alchemicalwedding.com] Send to: Honoring the Shadow c/o David Aronson 3330 Dogwood Dr. Willow Grove, PA 19090 USA

Mail Out: Seren, Pictures that Lie, Redondo Beach, CA, USA

The Call:
CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MAIL ART
The saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words but while flipping through an old family photo album I quickly realized that those 1000 words could be lies if based on the smiling faces in the photos. From that realization comes this call for submission: Create a piece of mail art using a photo that captures the moment, but not the memory. On the back of the artwork describe the reality of the moment in 50 words or less. Please write very clearly because I will show the back of the work as well as front and I want people to be able to read your words. I will create a color documentation zine of submissions for participants – so please include your mailing address. Deadline: June 7, 2010

Seren – Pictures That Lie
PO Box 3246
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Mail Out: Green Seen, Wendell, MA, USA

The Call:
GREEN SEEN Mail Art
Theme: The Wendell Free Library invites you to send a postcard size art work for our mail art exhibit, GREEN SEEN. Green – sustainability, conservation, freecycle, the color green…..
Technique/Media: free
Size/Format: Postcard - Maximum 5 ½ x 8 ½ in. / 13.97 x 21.59 cm
Exhibition: Participants’ mail art works will be displayed as soon as they are received at the library. Ongoing exhibit will end in June and works will become part of a permanent art collection at the Wendell Free Library.
Documentation: Mail art will be documented at the library website and contributors will receive printed documentation.
Info: tarantinochristine@yahoo.com
Words of Light Mail Art, an archived blog of mail art sent to and from Christine Tarantino.
http://www.christinetarantino.blogspot.com
http://www.fluxusa.blogspot.com/
http://www.wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/
Deadline to be received: March 21, 2010

GREEN SEEN Mail Art
Wendell Free Library
P. O. Box 236
Wendell, MA 01379
USA

Mail Out: S. Bragg, Colorado, USA

An envelope of collected ephemera . . off to Colorado

Mail Out: Dr. B . . the Super Doc., Victoria, BC, CANADA

To one of the best Doctors out there . . .

Mail Out: Linda and Rick, Victoria, BC, CANADA