Vincent van Gogh

A part of the project Schooldays in artlife has already been exhibited in
2011 in Vincents Tekenlokaal in Tilburg, the classroom where Vincent van Gogh
got his first drawinglessons . The next exhibition of this project will take place from June 28 / September 10, 2012 in the townhall of Zundert, the city where Vincent van Gogh was born and lived during his schooltime. The townhall is situated on a square, facing his birthplace.

Please participate MAIL ART
CALL Invitation / Reminder
Dear mail art networker,

From time to time the Netherlands are hyped up with the Van Gogh fever. In
particular the region where I live is flooded with interest in every spot,
where Vincent van Gogh printed his footsteps. Van Gogh was born here, grew up
and went to school in several villages around me. With mixed feelings I
am happy to be in the eye of the hurricane. No strong whirlings yet in Van
Gogh’s schooldays. He attended secondary school in Tilburg. The school is named
Koning Willem II College after a Dutch king and in Van Gogh’s days it was
located in his former palace. Van Gogh was one of the very few students at the
time - from 1866 to 1868 - good marks. Suddenly Van Gogh vanished from
the schoolrecords into his wandering life, leaving us behind uncertain. There
is only a school photo left with Vincent van Gogh in the foreground.
Is your schoollife traceless in your artlife?
I am a teacher of history of art at this school. Art
education at the school where I teach young people is a very old tradition. Van
Gogh had his first drawinglessons from my predecessor. In 1990 I based a mail
art project on this fact.
I am very proud to be an art teacher in this particular historic
environment.

Now I want to reanimate the project SCHOOLDAYS IN ARTLIFE Use or represent an artefact tracing your own schooldays as a basis of your contribution.

Free size. Free medium. No returns

Extended deadline to be received: May 31, 2012

Online galery on the Internet: http://schooldaysvangogh.blogspot.com

Exposition in the QS Gallery of The Museum of Instant Images and the Koning Willem II College
Documentation to all participants.

Send your contribution to:
ColoriMii
The Museum of Instant Images
Beckershagen 15 - Chaam - 4861 SE
Pays Bas - The Netherlands - NL
e-mail: mii@colori.nl
Other mail art projects:
http://slow-project.blogspot.com/
http://colorimii.blogspot.com/
http://listsproject.blogspot.com/
http://schooldaysvangogh.blogspot.com/
http://www.colori.nl

Postal History Call : 'Going Postal - What's It To You?

Call for Mail Art: Sponsored by Delphos Museum of Postal History & Delphos Area Art Guild Artists from the US and around the world are invited to submit original art based on the theme: 'Going Postal - What's It To You?' With today's techno advances, will snail mail become a thing of our past? Depict in your own artistic style what receiving a handwritten letter means to you - the nostalgia, sentiment, artistic design of stamps, or anything related to postal history.

All media & techniques will be accepted, as long as it is sent via postal services. Postage paid by participant.

Size: Post card size 4 x 6 [10 cm x 15 cm] up to 8 1/2 "x 11" in envelope.

Info: judygrone@hotmail.com Send j-peg to: Gary Levitt- MPHDelphos@gmail.com

to view on blog www.postalhistorymuseum.com

No Jury, No Fees, No Returns

Please provide your Name, Address, email, and title of mail art.

Send to: Judy Grone

6005 Defiance Trail

Delphos, OH 45833 USA

Exhibit: February 19,2012 at the 2nd Floor Gallery of Delphos Museum of Postal History 339 North Main St. Delphos, Ohio 45833

All submissions will be on exhibit excluding offensive, racist, or discriminatory images.

Deadline to receive Mail Art: February 11, 2012

Postal Art / Arte Postal Trinidad 2012

Open call for submissions to participate in a global project. Is the first Mail art exhibition held in Trinidad. We invite artists, non-artists and your friends to be part of this project.

Requirements and Details of submission

• Topic of the project: Self-portrait. Is a glance of what you reflect, how do you want to be seen, remembered, the traits that define you from a personal point of view.
  
  
• Postcards should be approximately 13 x 18 cms (app. 5 x 7)Send without envelope and with stamp.
  
  
• There is no required technique (photograph, painting, collage, mixed media, etc). However postcards should be durable enough to travel by mail, and shouldn't be too heavy or delicate.
  
  
• On the back of the postcard, please include your full name, age, country, address and e-mail address.
  
  
• Include a brief description of the topic or a message.
  
  
• Postcards to be send @:
  Vasquez La Roche
  20 Rowan St.
  Balmain - Couva
  Trinidad & Tobago
  
  
• Deadline:
  Postcards will be accepted until December, 2011 to be exhibited on January 2012.

For more information:

Raquel (vasquezlaroche@gmail.com) | Luis (bonolaroche@gmail.com)

We are also on Twitter @PostalArte and Facebook on.fb.me/postalarte

Details in Spanish @ http://bit.ly/artepostal-spa

We kindly ask to spread the word to the world! :)

Mail 2 Maastricht - Netherlands

Eye Project / Spain

Postal Project

We would like to set up a project that enables people to ‘generate’ a random address for them to write to. The big idea is to send people letters, and receive letters yourself. You won’t know this person but they may have something interesting to say, they may not.

We think it will be fun, who knows what will happen?

Aim?

We would like to create a website that anyone can join. When you join our website, this will enable you to generate a random address, this will be the address you will write to. When you join you can also create a profile on which you can upload/scan in your received letters.

From this archive of peoples post, we would like to create a publication, which could be in the form of a magazine or a book. If the project grows to be very popular, we would like to publish yearly annuals.

FIRST AND FORMOST!

We thought it would be a grand idea to have an event of address swapping, to start the ball rolling, and to begin our archiving of addresses.

WE NEED YOU TO SEND US YOUR ADRESSES!

START DATE; MARCH 2010

END DATE; DEC 2010

If you’d like to be involved, then send us a postcard with your address on!

Postcards can be of any size and contain any artwork/text/visuals but must have your postal address on them.

Your address will be exhibited at an event in York, England (date TBC). People who attend the event will choose an address from the exhibition-style event, and they will send you a letter!

We will document everything we have received, and the event via our tumblr page;

http://postalproject.tumblr.com

This project has 3 inventors, so 3 adresses for you lot to choose from!

J BlOOD

Flat 4a Low Ousegate

York

YO1 9QU.

UK

L GORTON

47 Elm Road

Burscough

Ormskirk

Lancashire

L40 7RJ.

UK

M ALEXANDROU

Unit 8

59-61 Sunderland Street

Macclesfield

Chesire

SK11 6HN.

UK