Baseball - Mexico

CALL FOR ENTRY
BASEBALL PHILATELY
MAIL ART
THE ART INSPIRED BY PHILATELY

Theme: Baseball and philately (postage stamps)
Target: To create an artwork within the theme of baseball, incorporating or using elements from philately like postage stamps, envelopes, letters, mail person, mail boxes, etc.
The Museum of Philately in Oaxaca –MUFI– and the Baseball Academy in Oaxaca, invite you to participate in “BASEBALL PHILATELY, mail art, the art inspired by philately”, an exhibition that brings baseball and philately into art, launched on the occasion of the opening of the new Baseball Academy in Oaxaca. Here are the guidelines:
• Participants to be all Plastic Artists of any nationality and country of residence.
• No restrictions on the size or technique.
• Works should include the following data: Artist’s name, full postal address, telephone number and email address.
• Works should be sent to the following address:
MUSEO DE FILATELIA DE OAXACA
REFORMA 504
CENTRO HISTÓRICO
68000 OAXACA, OAX.
MÉXICO
• All shipping expenses, customs and any other expense that may be caused must be cover by the Artist.
• Due date for the submissions: September 18, 2009.
• 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–.
• All works, selected and non selected, will be included in the MUFI archive, and will not be returned to the artist.
• All participants will receive a copy of the exhibition’s catalog.

Sponsor: Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca Foundation