31 March 2011
30 March 2011
29 March 2011
1962-2012 – 50 YEARS of MAIL ART
in homage to RAY JOHNSON,
from the NEW YORK CORRESPONDANCE SCHOOL OF ART
From this lucky intuition of the american artists Edward M. Plunkett and Ray Johnson, that gave life to the international network more frequented of the art history (the MAIL ART), fifty years passed.
Relations, exchanges, meetings, interventions, projects etc. are alternate always in a climate of active and continuous participation, overcoming any political and ideological barrier.
This “dance” of artistic correspondence involved and still involves all the Nations. Now, these
are invited to celebrate together this important anniversary, sending a sign of renewed adherence, love and gratitude to a “School” that had been in position to join artists of all the world, in a kind of “artistic collective story”, testimony of “to make art” through the sharing, the gift and the absolute freedom.
Tecnica/Medium: libera/free
Dimensioni/sizes : A4
Scadenza/Deadline: 31st Marzo/March 2012
Inviare le opere/send the works to :
MAILARTMEETING ARCHIVES
c/o Anna Boschi
Via G. Tanari, 1445/B – 40024 Castel S.Pietro Terme-BO (Italy)
27 March 2011
Mail art call theme: Amulet
Los Amuletos pueden atraer o repeler. Para la buena suerte o para protección. Universales o personales. Objeto producido en masa u objeto significativo. Enviame el tuyo.
Técnica y tamaño libre.
Fecha de cierre: Agosto 2011
Documentación a todos.
Exposición acá:
www.flickr.com/photos/entierroblanco/
Enviar a:
VRA
Pje. Mataco 1488
CP 1407 C. A. Bs. As.
Argentina
Mail art call theme: Amulet
The amulets can attract or repel.
For the good luck or for protection. Universal or personal. Object produced in mass or significant object. Send me yours.
Free size and technique.
Deadline: August-2011
Documentation to all.
Exhibition here www.flickr.com/photos/entierroblanco/
Send to:
VRA
Pje. Mataco 1488
CP 1407 C. A. Bs. As.
Argentina
26 March 2011
24 March 2011
Pelee Island Community Arts
Pelee Island Community Arts (Art Works) would like to invite artists to participate in a mail art project for Spring of 2011. Spring is a time of great activity on the island, the migration of thousands of birds visit Pelee on their way to more northern climates and cottagers and tourists arrive to take advantage of Pelee's isolation and natural beauty. Therefore, the theme of this project is FLIGHT. Art submitted for this project will be displayed at Pelee Island Community Arts gallery as well as online via their website. The deadline for the submissions is May 6, 2011. Please only submit entries that are postcard sized (4x6”). There will be mailed documentation for all participants, but please include a SASE with submission. Multiple submissions are welcome. There are no returns, no jury and no fee to participate.
Please remit artworks to:
Suzanne Friemann/co Pelee Art Works,
82 East West Road,
Pelee Island, Ontario,
Canada, N0R 1M0.
For further information: peleeartworks@gmail.com
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Suzanne Friemann, Manager
Pelee Island Community Arts
82 East West Road
Pelee Island, ON
N0R 1M0
519-724-9916 (May- October)
23 March 2011
(ABAD) A BOOK ABOUT DEATH: The Ties That Bind
Reception: Saturday, 13 August 2011
Exhibition: 31 July–2 September 2011
Deadline to Gallery: 15 July 2011
Artists are invited to create their own book pages that illustrate their unique interpretations of THE TIES THAT BIND all living things universally through death. They may also choose to celebrate the ties that now bind all ABAD artists throughout the world (courtesy of Ray Johnson and Matthew Rose). Any interpretation is welcome.
All these pages will then be bound together in a handmade book. A BOOK ABOUT DEATH will finally become a hand-bound book produced by global artists.
This new exhibit will feature for the first time, work from worldwide artists that are actual pages
like Ray Johnson originally created in 1963, and NOT postcards
Create a one- or two-sided piece on a 5.5” x 8.5” (Digest Size) sheet of paper (PAPER–not card stock).
Format may be vertical or horizontal. It does NOT have to say "A Book About Death" anywhere on it.
Submit two copies—one will be hung on the walls of the gallery and the other will be bound into a handmade volume, thereby furnishing an Omega to the Alpha of the Unbound Book of the original show. The book will be handmade and bound by an original ABAD artist, LuAnn T. Palazzo (TheDesignDiva.net), and also displayed at the exhibition.
The exhibited book(s) will go into the permanent collection of the Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery. After the show comes down, I will also make books from the displayed pages in hopes that the MoMA, NY will want them!
Artists can include any information about themselves on the pages, front or back. The exhibition organizers only ask that you submit good work, worthy of an interesting and exciting page in this global book.
The two pages are then to be mailed to the gallery in Bay Shore, NY for exhibition.
DEADLINE FOR PHYSICAL PAGES TO BE IN THE GALLERY: JULY 15, 2011.
All submissions will also be posted on this blog. Please email those in 180 ppi jpg file format.
SEND ART TO:
ABAD 23 / LuAnn Palazzo
The Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery
17 Second Avenue, Bay Shore, New York 11706 USA
SEND 180 ppi JPGS TO:
designdivany@gmail.com
Documentation: online http://abad-23.blogspot.com
Info: designdivany@gmail.com
22 March 2011
21 March 2011
20 March 2011
YOU project
“YOUプロジェクト”とは?
APPEAL for “YOU project”
Living up to the Earthquake Japan!
「あなたへ あなたと」(anatae anatato) “for YOU with YOU” mail-art project.
“YOU project” implores you to give us your heart and power with your own words and creativities.
The enormous earthquake hit Japan on March 11, 2011. We could nothing but being shocked, being lamented, and praying. We would like to do something, no, we MUST do something. However, I’m afraid that we may be able to do only a small thing. The only thing we have come up with is “YOU project.”
“YOU” literally means “friends,” “being,” “bonds,” “mail,” and “you,” in Japanese. You, who are suffering from the earthquake; you, who lost your loved ones, ……; you, who are sunk in grief. We will collect messages from every one worldwide for YOU.
“YOU project” is a mail-art project. You may want to send a postcard that 「あなたへ あなたと」(anatae anatato)“for YOU with YOU” on to our office. The postcard can carry your messages together with illustrations and photos.
APPEAL for “YOU project”
We have not yet decided how to put those cards on display. To begin with, we update them onto our website in due order. We would like to exhibit, or, when it is allowed, to visit some people watching how things go. We will report what we are doing on our webpage at all times.
We hope that many people will take part in this project.
We hope that we can make a circle of thoughts from everyone worldwide.
「あなたへ あなたと」(anatae anatato)“to YOU with YOU”
Proposers of “YOU project”
TOKITAMA
NAKAMURA Keiichi
OKADO Megumiko
HIRATO Kayo
see for details: http://you-project.net/
18 March 2011
16 March 2011
CREATIVA meeting
Free Dimension and technique . Deadline : 15may
The works, that will be guarded in the archives of Gianni Broi, will be exposed to the public the 28 may 2011, and then they will be visible on line in: DODODADA ARTE POSTALE http://dododada.ning.com/forum/topics/progetto-di-mail-artper
Please send to :
Gianni Broi for
« Créativa» PO Box 680 - 50123 FLORENCE (Italy)
(NOTE : The old number of my case,684, is not more valid) Contacts :
15 March 2011
RIZOO - 2011
it's Rizoo, remember? The Mail Art Project Portogruaro 2010 which you participated last year?
Well, now we are planning for a new event in May dedicated to water and one of the participating artists, Marco Ceccotto (http://vimeo.com/marcocecotto)
is collecting audio files relating to water to make his sound-installation.
Would you help us with your contribution? If so, here's how:
- Record an original audio file (no copies or extracts from existing files or from files covered by copyright);
- The file must be in .Wav format (not. Mp3 or other, only .Wav format)
- The length of the file is up to you (Ceccotto will be free to change the duration and/or create loops)
- The subject of the audio file must be the water and it's use
- The context must be domestic or daily use of the water, i.e. the audio has to deal with the daily contact with the water, what we can do every day (eg. bathing, eating, cleaning, watering, etc.).
- Send it via e-mail and write clearly: sender name+surname+nickname/alias, type of action taken, number of people (or machine) involved in the action (if more than one), specific place of action, place of origin of sender
- deadline: 31st MARCH
- Files that do not have these features (including data to be written in the mail) will not be used.
If you send a file, you'll be mentioned in the work.
You can send the file to this mail:
info@rizoo.it
cecotto.marco@gmail.com
Thank you for your availability.
We will keep you informed on the event.
See you soon.
Giovanni Maria Rocca
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Rizoo Group
www.rizoo.it
info@rizoo.it
13 March 2011
Corn Crosses.Net E-Mail Art Project
Please send everything about corn
Only Mail Art by email, please send to
Deadline: 21.12.2012
Tecnical specification:
Message:
Blog/Website:
11 March 2011
BAUM

Today we invite you to become an envoy for peace.
Peace, is not only concern for this world, but also means peace in everyday life.Peace in its meaning is nearly identical with “life”.
Peace -the word is spoken million-fold every day, is whispered full of hope, and is deeply longed for in prayers.
Every chance should be used to point out the imminent threats of war and encourage peaceful coexistence.
For the initiative “Friends of the Trees”in Minden the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe of Chernobyl is the motive to address an appeal to creative people of all ages and nationalities and to motivate people to participate in a happening under the motto:
Peace in my town - A tree for peace. The tree as a messenger for peace.
Each work of art should be a postcard, any kind of format is welcome.
All postcards which reach us will be part of an exhibition on the 26th April in Minden at the Johanniskirchhof.Pino Fusaro, the founder of the aid organizations “Childrens’ Smile”and “peaceworkers.de" and Peter Küstermann, mailartist, author, and chairman of the cultural association “Wolkenstein e.V.” will open this exhibition at 15:00 hrs.
You are very welcome to take part in this event.
Together with children and guests the messages of peace will be draped in and around a tree.
In July this year, the maps published in a gallery on the web
In November this year for the period of 4 weeks the creations will be exhibited in the Public Library of Minden.
Baumfreunde Minden
Postfach 1543
32375 Minden
Germany
friedvolle Grüße
Elisabeth Schmelzer
Baumfreunde Minden
0571-3 87 27 10
0049 571 3 87 27 10
http://www.baumfreundeminden.com
http://www. bund-minden-luebbecke.de
10 March 2011
SPIRIT OF PLACE

SPIRIT OF PLACE
also known as Genius Loci
in June i shall be doing an artist residency at the Beverley Station Gallery,Avon Valley ,in the Wheatbelt of in rural Western Australia. i shall be making work on the theme of Spirit of Place [the Romans called this Genius Loci] if this subject appeals to you, i would welcome your visual contributions,of what Spirit of Place means to you?
Medium any, collage,vispo, poetry,textile,photo ,painting etc
Size, standard postcard,via snail mail please
Deadline 15th may 2011
Documentation on IUOMA july/aug 2011
Exhibition Beverley Station Gallery june 2011
mail please to
helen amyes
kitty paw cottage
12 wheeler street,
york
western australia
6302
http:iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/helenAmyes
http://www.helenamyes.co.cc/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/helenamyes/
7 March 2011
Skull Appreciation Day
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On the First Friday in June (3 June 2011) Skull-a-day will have a huge event at Gallery5 in Richmond, Virginia, USA, in support of Skull Appreciation Day. There will be an exhibit of skull related work. The exhibit will be up for a month. The following day, there'll be a party with craft tables, music, munchies, and more. You're invited to come!
Be a part of the momentous event! Send your Mail Art to be exhibited! Let's appreciate skulls. We all have them.
Theme: SKULLS (of course)
Deadline: 27 May 2011
size: standard postcard
medium: any
send to:
Skull-a-Day
P.O. Box 73236
Richmond, VA 23235
U.S.A.
4 March 2011
2 March 2011
Room with a view
3/1/2011 – 12/1/2011. What do you see when you look out your window? What do you see when you look around the room you are in? What is the best view of your city? Call for works that are inspired by your surroundings.
Size and technique open as long as you can snail mail it. Please include your return address and we will mail you an exhibit compilation post card. Please also include your email address with your submission for documentation.
All submissions will be exhibited at Lemon Street Gallery and Artspace Inc.Kenosha, Wisconsin USA from 01/01/2012 thru 03/31//2012.
Visit our Website at http://www.lemonstreetgallery.org/ for more information.
Mail to:
Jeanine Ferguson
%Lemon Street Gallery and Artspace Inc.
4601 Sheridan Rd.
Kenosha WI 53140 - USA
1 March 2011
TONE
a call for mail art entries to our annual mail art exhibition at Mount Mary College, Milwaukee, WI, hosted by Studio 455. Our theme for the year is "tone", which is open for interpretation. In the tradition of mail art, the work will not be returned. We like to think of it as "make and release".Dates:
Postmark deadline: March 21, 2011
Exhibition opens: April 1, 2011
Exhibition: April 1-May 15, 2011
Mail to:
Studio 455: Tone
Mount Mary College
2900 N Menomonee River Parkway
Milwaukee, WI 53222-4597
Thank you,
Jordan Acker Anderson
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Mount Mary College
andersoj@mtmary.edu
414-258-4810 x408
25 February 2011
Make a Spectacle of Yourself!
Corpi che Amono Project

Maldoror Press invites you all to join Corpi che amano (Bodies in love): a collective, open project, inspired to mail art’s creative and sharing ways. Anyone is allowed to join in, with their own creative works.
What is Corpi che amano about?
It’s simple. Maldoror Press will publish a free Ebook (no copyright): the collective piece that will come out of all of your contributions on the given theme, that is: Corpi che amano.
Who can partecipate and how?
You only have to send maldoror.press@gmail.com
an email, within 15th March 2011, containing a graphic work, or a textual-graphic one in a digital size among the following: tiff, jpg, bmp e png; dimensions A4 or A5 and 300 dpi resolution.
Any visual technique will be accepted: drawing, collage, photography, scribble, visual poetry, artistic lettering et cetera. Anyone can participate, and no picture will be censored, but be aware that each author has both the freedom and the responsibility of the contents being spread by their work.
We wish to create a sort of catalogue that will be a collective stream of images, words, icons, vibrations, conveying your ideas about carnal love and its many, free manifestations.
This is not a competition, there are no judges. The goal is to build up a place of common shared joy and beauty.
P.S.: We ask you to follow suggested sizes. Thank you.
24 February 2011
BREAD IS PEACE

MAIL ART CALL: BREAD IS PEACE
ARTISTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT A PIECE OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK BASED UPON THE THEME OF BREAD AND PEACE.
THEME: All countries have bread and many bread varieties, probably bread is the most important food for the entire humanity. Bread, compared to other foods, is pretty simple, however, no other food is capable of evoking such emotions and charm as the fragrance and the smell of baked bread. If we also consider the real power of bread which is capable of satisfying so much people's hunger all over the world, for its simplicity and goodness it is usually considered as a “first-aid” food for all those people who, unfortunately, are living in conditions of hunger and desperate need. Bread is a precious food, and for the entire world it is important and precious as peace. BREAD and PEACE are the basic need of the World.
PARTICIPATION: Open to all
TECHNIQUE: Free technique and free support are accepted.
FORMAT: max size 13 x 18 cm. (5x7 inches)
TERMS: No jury, no selection, no prizes, no returns. Violent, racist or insulting works will not be accepted. O Participants agree to allow reprodion and public axhibitions of their artwork by the organizers of the event.
Please provide you name, surname, country, address + e-mail address and web site if one exists.
EXHIBITIONS: the works will become part of art exhibitions in national and international fairs with the “Consorzio di Tutela del Pane di Matera IGP” starting from April, 2011. The first art exhibition is dated for “SQUISITO 2011-SAN PATRIGNANO” fair.
All postcards will be part of a silent auction with other works of art; the donations will be send to “Basilicata-Mozambico O.N.L.U.S.” and Voluntary Association “Sem Fronterias”, in aid of Mozambican and Brasilian childrens.
All works will be published in a dedicated catalogue that will be presented during the Conclusive Art Exhibition that will that place on December 2011.
DOCUMENTATION: to all participants. All works will be published in the blog http://materamailart.blogspot.com and on Facebook.
Deadline to be received: October 31, 2011
All works must be sent by normal post with postage stamps to:
TINA FESTA - Bread
Viale N. Festa, 3
75100 – Matera - Italy
Info: materamailart@gmail.com
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Tina Festa
www.tinafesta.wordpress.com
www.artepostale.blogspot.com
www.geniuslocimatera.blogspot.com
19 February 2011
13 February 2011
Large parking area
Theme: Large parking area
Technic: free
Size: A4
Deadline: 30th of April 2011
Exhibition: July 2011 Hovinkartano International Arts and Cultural Centre,
Hameenlinna, Hauho, Finland
Conditions: free entry, no jury, no sale, no return
Remember: include your name and e-mail
Documentation: www.hovinkartano.net
Address:
Riitta Tarvainen
Hovinkartano, Sotjalantie 58
FI-14700 Hauho,
Finland
At the entrance to our Cultural Centre there is a large parking area. It is a very important service area which we cannot relocate. We hope that your ideas would help to transform it to a more interesting place in ways of environmental art.
You will find the place and a photo (Hovinkartano, Sotjalantie 58, Hauho, Finland) in www.maps.google.com
We eagerly await your ideas.
Please forward this invitation to your artist friends, too.
Thank you
Riitta Tarvainen
Exhibition in Germany

Vorankündigung Ausstellung Mail Art
Die Grafikerin Cindy Schmid (www.swinxgrafix.de) rief 2010 zu einer Mail Art Aktion auf. Zum Thema "Who I am" konnte sich jeder der wollte mit künstlerischen Beiträge beteiligen.
Das Ergebnis sind 76 postalisch künstlerische Arbeiten aus 26 Ländern.
Diese Fülle an künstlerischen Ideen möchte die Grafikerin nun der Öffentlichkeit vorstellen. Mit Unterstützung des Quartiersbüros Fleischervorstadt werden diese Arbeiten vom 2. bis 15. April im Falladahaus gezeigt.
Die Vernissage findet am 2.4. um 19 Uhr mit musikalischer Begleitung der Private Cash Group statt.
Herzliche Einladung an alle Interessierten.
Falladahaus, Steinstraße 59, 17489 Greifswald
02. -15. April
geöffnet montags, mittwochs, samstags 14:30 Uhr- 17:00 Uhr
10 February 2011
Fanzineshow

OPEN CALL
send us your zine till the 29th of February!!!
in return you’ll get a catalogue of the F A N Z I N E S H O W
Flowing in Omaha by Ken Friedman
We are going to organize the main show in Budapest, Hungary March 2011. where we introduce the zines sent by the participants. We are going to install a temporal fanzine archiv from which people could photocopy whatever they are interested in. NO PRIZE, NO COPYRIGHT, NO SHIT! Zines should arrive before 29th of February, 2011. If sending us material please write us your postal address and email, too. Check our blog for documentation of our earlier and running projects: http://plagium2000.wordpress.com
TEXTILE MAIL ART PROJECT
SIZE: Free, but postcard size suggested.
There will be no jury, no fees and no return of artwork.
Submissions must be original work created by you.
ON THE BACK OF YOUR WORK: Your name, full mailing address, title of artwork, medium and email address, (website if you have one).
EXHIBITION: I'm trying to work out venues for free public viewing, and the completed call may become a "traveling trunk" show for textile groups. If you know of a group (or a quilt club, other textile groups) that might be interested, let me know and I'll start planning an itinerary. The shows will be viewed by the general public which will include children.
DOCUMENTATION: I will respond to each piece and will provide documentation to all participants shortly after deadline. All received postcards will be published on the blog:
http://www.textile-mail-art-project.blogspot.com
PLEASE! Leave comments for the artists, everyone loves to get feedback!
INFO: lisai@rocketmail.com
DEADLINE TO BE RECEIVED: MAY 15, 2011
SEND TO:
Textile Mail Art Project
Lisa Iversen/Skybridge Studios
207 N Wayne Street
N Manchester, IN 46962-1625
USA
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8 February 2011
Cards from Grocery packages

I love Cards made from empty grocery packages in your cupboard!! Love them!! Got one for me? I'll send you one from Holland :)
My Mail-Adress
Veronique van Emden
De Lijsterbes 55
6942 TM Didam
Netherlands
see: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/VeroniquevanEmden
THE BOOK OF ANN
Who is Ann? Well for me she's a great gall and a good friend.
For you she's a mythical femail. Let's construct together the book of Ann. Tell me how you see Ann. What's her story? What's her life? How does she thinks? How does she feel? How does she act? Is she a rebel? Is she a mother? Is she the salt of the earth?
Free size and medium. Deadline is 31 December 2011. All your contributions will be united in a book presented to Ann on Valentine's Day or on her birthday (but that's my business and not for you to know). Documentation on a new blog:
http://thebookofAnn.blogspot.com
Mail your contributions (text and poems are also more than welcome) to:
The book of Ann,
c/o Guido Vermeulen,
Thomas Vinçottestreet 81,
B-1030 Brussels,
Belgium.
Note that all unfriendly femail mail art will be banned! Please mail such rubbish to Sarah Palin, queen of the T party.
Gagarin
Il 12 aprile 1961 Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin è il primo uomo a volare nello Spazio, a bordo della navicella Vostok 1. E’ indetta una rassegna di arte postale per celebrare il 50° anniversario dell’avvenimento. No iscrizione, no giuria, no restituzione. Tecnica libera, formato 10×15 cm. Termine 31 marzo 2011. Mostra dal 9 al 17 aprile 2011 presso la Galleria “S.N.C. – Spazi Non Convenzionali”, via Fratelli Venturoli 5, Località Masciaga, 25081 Bedizzole (Brescia), Italia; catalogo su http://cadalab.wordpress.com
On 12 April 1961, Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin became the first man to travel into Space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 1. A mail-art call is launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of this achievement. No fee, no jury, no return. Any tecniques, 10×15 cm size. Deadline on march 31st 2011. Exhibition from april 9th to 17th 2011 at Atelier “S.N.C. – Spazi Non Convenzionali”, via Fratelli Venturoli 5, Località Masciaga, 25081 Bedizzole (Brescia), Italia; catalog on http://cadalab.wordpress.com
Spedire le opere tramite Servizio Postale a / Please send your works by Postal Service to:
CADALAB
VIA G. VIGHENZI, 19
25128 BRESCIA
ITALIA
2 February 2011
1 February 2011
Industrie et Culture
THEME : Industrie et Culture.
Date limite : 20 mai 2011.
Format et techniques libres. Pas de jury, pas de retours.
Les oeuvres doivent être expédiées par la poste.
Exposition en 2011 à Charleroi.
Catalogue on line.
Envoyer à : Thierry Tillier
8 , rue du gouvernement
6000 Charleroi
Belgique.
THEME : Industry and Culture.
Deadline : May 20th, 2011.
Free technique and size. No fees. No jury.
No return. Exhibition in 2011 in Charleroi.
Catalog on line.
All works must be sent by post.
Send to : Thierry Tillier
8 , rue du gouvernement
6000 Charleroi
Belgium.














