// when submitting artwork to the address listed as SUBMISSION ADDRESS in each open call, all artists are kindly requested to provide, by email or traditional snail mail, the following information
artist > profile picture | name | brief bio | email address | website | address
artwork > title | media details | brief text
// while addressing the artwork it is also important to identify it with the #open_call_name since the receiver may be hosting several open calls at the same time
☑ use the ballot box to check out stuff
4th electronic call for Postal Art Procedimentum 2020
theme album "La Rivière des Oiseaux (Río de los Pájaros)” by Beatriz Ferreyra. Motus M302004 – 2003 - France
Beatriz Ferreyra is a composer of electroacoustic music (Córdoba, Argentina, 1937). He studied piano in Buenos Aires with Celia Bronstein. In Paris she studied harmony and musical analysis with Nadia Boulanger. She started in concrete / electroacoustic music with Edgar Canton, and took composition courses with Earl Brown and Georgy Ligeti. She worked in the Musical Research Group (G.R.M.) of the Investigation Service of the O.R.T.F. under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer (1963-70). Her works develop unique climates that evoke the richness of her sonic textures. She currently lives in France, giving concerts in France and abroad. From 2011 to 2014 she improvised four concerts with four open tape recorders and a computer, with the French composer Christine Grould and her electronic system based on keyboards, cassette players, pads...
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A multimedia catalogue will be published in PDF format as an annex to number 9 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum. Number 9 of the Magazine-fanzine Procedimentum will be published in January 2020.
medium A5 or A4. Audio files in WAV. Video.
Digital in jpeg in high resolution 400 dpi.
The duration of the audio files and videos, will not exceed 2 minutes.
maximum submissions 2
International MailArt In Sant'Oreste
theme the "Fellinian" world / Federico Fellini
due date
2019-12-15
// 7 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-01-18 > 2020-02-23
show address 500th Century Caccia Canali Palace
| ITALY
submission address Lois Richter
| 1315 Torrey St
| Davis CA 95618, USA
description
"Haiga" is a poetry/image art form that uses three lines of text ALONG WITH on image to describe a moment. Because English syllables differ from Japanese phonemes, the lines do NOT have to be 5-7-5 syllables -- they can be much shorter and still be English "ku". Preferably, there are no run-on sentences; no verbs; and the text alone would not evoke the same thing as the text/image together.
Traditionally haiku is about nature and senryu is about humans or human-made objects. Either haiku or senryu is welcome in HAIGA.
submission address REQUEST ADDRESS BY EMAIL / SOLICITE ENDEREÇO POR EMAIL
description
It is a non-traditional magazine because of its size, its circulation and also because it is a traveling magazine given that each year we send the copies to different cities.
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write on the package "revista cultural y sin valor comercial"
If you have heard of "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by Edward Gorey and you have the mind for the weird, creepy, dark and disturbing things, then this open call is for you !!
This is an international mailart exhibition of your take on his alphabet. Choose one or more letters and send as many pieces you wish to for each chosen letter.
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Exhibit to be held the next year of 2020. Date, time and place to be determined. Once the exhibit wraps up in Ontario Canada, all pieces will make their way to Portugal for another show.
curator Erin Young
Train №1
due date
2019-12-31
// 23 day(s) left for submission
show address The Museum of the Railroad History at Alexandrov
| Railway station 1
| Komsomolskaya Square
| Alexandrov
| Vladimir region, Russia, 601654
submission address The Museum of the Railroad History at Alexandrov
| Railway station 1
| Komsomolskaya Square
| Alexandrov
| Vladimir region, Russia, 601654
description
The Museum of the Railroad History at Alexandrov railway station invites you to take part in the mail art project “Train №1” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the first passenger-train arrival on the 1st of January 1870.
submission address Municipality of Montecarotto
| Museum of Mail Art
| 60036 (Ancona)
| Italy
description
Tribute to six great artists of art history.
In the book "Le Disobbedienti" published by Mondadori / Le Scie, the writer Elisabetta Rasy tells the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, Berthe Morisot, Suzanne Valadon, Charlotte Salomon e Frida Kalo. Six different women from age to age, family situation, character. However, they share the talent and the will to not bow to the rules imposed by the society of their time, penalizing and marginalizing rules for women. In the portrait-tale that Elisabetta Rasy portrays each of them, the boldness with which they fought and won the hard battle to assert themselves emerges with strength and passion. Despite the prohibitions, obligations, misunderstandings and prejudices. These artists have forever changed the image and place of women in the art world with their work.
curator Prof. Stefano Schiavoni (Director of the Mail Art Museum) & Anna Boschi (MailArtMeeting Archives)
required dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in
design your favorite cover
due date
2020-02-01
// 55 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-03-01 > 2020-03-31
show address Savona, Italy
submission address Simone Benerecetti
| Via dei Vacciuoli 1
| 17100 Savona, Italy
show address Médiathèque Café des Chiens
| Place Victor Gat
| 21330 Laignes
| France
submission address Médiathèque Café des Chiens
| Place Victor Gat
| 21330 Laignes
| France
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Works received will be exhibited progressively as an installation. A photo gallery is being created and will be visible on the Internet soon. A response with photos will be provided to each participant by postal mail.
submission address Erin Young
| PO BOX 7146
| Innisfil Ontario
| L9S 1A9
| Canada
curator Erin Young
required dimensions 64 x 89 mm | 2.5 x 3.5 in
COPY / PASTE
theme printing and reproduction techniques within mailart
due date
2020-02-29
// 83 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-04-01 > 2020-04-30
show address Biblioteca Municipal José Marmelo Silva
| Espinho
| Portugal
submission address MONSENHOR ENVIDE NEFELIBATA
| #COPYPASTE
| R DO FALCAO 369 3E
| 4300 181 PORTO PORTUGAL
description
Printing techniques were never far apart from the art world as some might think. Woodcut, typography, silkscreen, lithograph, stencil, rubber stamps, 3D printing, digital printing, ... are a short list of various means of reproduction within our reach that are also explored for their artistic expression. Although some of these media may have arisen purely for the sake of reproduction and others with marketing intentions ... others had arise with a purely artistic vision. However, none of these techniques, sooner or later, escaped artists who use them for creating multiples or for their material expressiveness.
It is therefore with this call and with this question in mind that we invite you to question multiples in artistic creation and printing techniques as expression, either through artworks or written statements.
On our previous curated mailart and artbymail open call and exhibition entitled "Hate Mail? for ya Fat F#uck", we've dealt with similar content as we've shown Claudio Parentela's artwork in the form of digital prints of his own digital collages... in a way raising the question: if physical prints of artwork meant to prevail only among the digital world may or not be considered art? We've also laid out a consonant scheme while presenting rough quality prints from scans of Rachelline Centomo's personal international mailart open call "La Muerte / Mientras la Vida nos Dure" that had happened at Mexico the previous year.
Exhibitions on tour through Portugal are ALREADY confirmed. We'll keep you updated by email. There will be a digital book to be shared and spread around free of charge to all artists and partners.
This image isn’t finished and it needs you to complete it. Download the hi-resolution image and create a new piece that will be a collaboration between the two of us.
Include your name and a link to where we can find your artwork on the internet. Add Making Music to the subject line of your email. The artwork I receive will be included in a free publication that you will be able to download from my website.
show address ARTE POSTAL EN LAS COLECCIONES DEL MIDECIANT-UCLM
| Sala Acua, Cuenca
| España
submission address I CONVOCATORIA ARTE POSTAL | MAIL ART”
| MIDECIANT. Museo Internacional de Electrografía
| Edificio Antonio Saura, Campus UCLM
| C/ Santa Teresa Jornet, s/n 16071
| Cuenca, SPAIN
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All artwork will become part of the mailart archive of Museo Internacional de Electrografía, MIDECIANT.
V Convocatoria Internacional de Arte Postal en Avilés
theme «la tierra» (los cuatro elementos: ya se ha convocado el fuego y el agua)
due date
2020-03-31
// 114 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-04-01 > 2020-04-30
show address Palacio de Valdecarzana
| C/ del Sol
| 1 -33402 Avilés
| Asturias
| España
submission address V Exposición Internacional de Arte Postal en Avilés «la tierra»
| Palacio de Valdecarzana
| Calle del Sol, 133402 Avilés
| Asturias España
The number of persons affected with dementia is increasing worldwide, But every society is treating this issue differently. Open minded or repressing? With fear, perhaps hysteria or wit a naturally calm handling ...
curator Doris Kettner, Thorsten Fuhrmann
maximum dimensions 210 x 297 mm | 8.3 x 11.7 in
LaLuetteGalerie Bordeaux
theme Poetry#1 Courrier à Christophe Massé
due date
2020-04-30
// 144 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-05-01 > 2020-05-31
show address LaLuetteGalerie Bordeaux
| France
submission address Christophe Massé
| 28 rue Bouquière
| 33000 Bordeaux
| France
required dimensions 148 x 105 mm | 5.8 x 4.1 in
Poetry #1
due date
2020-04-30
// 144 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-05-01 > 2020-05-31
show address LaLuetteGalerie Bordeaux
| France
submission address Cristophe Massé
| 28 RUE Bouquière
| 33000 Bordeaux
| France
curator Cristophe Massé
required dimensions 148 x 105 mm | 5.8 x 4.1 in
The Abyss
theme Hold your breath, deep dive into the abyss of your soul…
due date
2020-04-30
// 144 day(s) left for submission
show 2020-10-03 > 2020-11-07
submission address corra.leoni@gmail.com
| MONSENHOR ENVIDE NEFELIBATA
| #THEABYSS_LEONIART
| R DO FALCAO 369 3E
| 4300 181 PORTO PORTUGAL
Monsenhor enVide neFelibata ( YZONK.com ) [ PORTUGAL ] and Corrado Leoni ( LEONIART ) [ ITALY ] prepared a mutual artistic interchange where traditional MailArt and DigitalMedia dive into a melting pot to create the INEDIT Visionary MailArt.
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Check the FORM and the SAMPLE for more details on how to join.
medium Digital collage, Digital art and Digital Manipulation. Artwork that consists 100% of traditional media such as photos, drawings and paintings will be not be allowed. The artwork can also be painted, scanned and digitally manipulated or digitally performed with the addition of some painted part. In both cases the digital elaboration must be predominant.
maximum submissions 2
required dimensions 300 x 400 mm | 11.8 x 15.7 in
Tribute to Jiří Kolář
due date
2020-05-15
// 159 day(s) left for submission
submission address Claudio Romeo
| Viale Kennedy 144
| 20842 Villa Raverio (MB)
| ITALIA
show address projetM@MottattoM
| Geneva, Switzerland
submission address projetM@MottattoM
| 20 bis av. Giuseppe Motta
| 1202 Geneva, Switzerland
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By submitting, you are agreeing to donate your mail-art to projetM@MottattoM as a fundraiser. Each artwork will be for sold during the exhibit for 20 CHF benefiting the programmation of the non profit
gallery projetM.
Any unsold pieces will not be returned following the exhibition. (unless you ask for it and cover the postage).
The three most impressive mail-art pieces receive a mystery prize.
Drawing a great invented herbarium, a hymn to the imagination that plays with nature.A project inspired by the botanical herbarium volumes of the past to create one made up of new figures architectures and imaginary taxonomies.
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Exhibition to be held on 2021 ... further notices soon.
According to the success of the project it is possible that a paper publication is also produced in a volume. Postcards after the show will remain at my studio filed as “Fantastic Herbarium Project”, no return will be provided. The images will not have any other type of use if not the purpose of the project itself.
submission address Romeo Traversa
| Via Mac Mahon 86
| 20155 Milano
| Italy
description
The imaginary of technology-mediated sex (dick picks, "send me nudes" memes, AirDrop, widespread porn, etc.), gender violence and finally the great theme of nude – both academic and daily, personal.
submission address ZETAVARES #AMANITABUNKER
| AV ENG ADELINO AMARO DA COSTA 813 A2C
| 3460 592 TONDELA PORTUGAL
description
At this 2020’s edition, the Amanita Bunker exhibition returns to the streets of this small village reinforcing the artistic bombings of the previous editions. Authors are invited to create artwork regarding the requested theme and join the yearly Mushroom Festival.
Amanita Bunker, wears robes of a fictional political party. The Amanites manifest themselves and demand distinction and promise improvements on the village. In the form of stickers, pins, posters, slogans, political propaganda and other equally ridiculous but serious paraphernalia ... artists are invited to participate by sending works that will eventually be scattered through the streets in the form of propaganda.
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we do ask you to add somewhere on the artwork or address, the hashtag #AMANITABUNKER
like it or not, www.mailart.pt lists all active mailart open calls sorted out by due date, as well as exhibitions, artists and links of interest ... but it may end up being much more
only after starting this listing, at 01_august_2018, i did realized the extraordinary amount of new open calls coming up all the time ... almost 20 new ones per month! and that's only those that i can grasp... from automatic bot searches, constant research, direct emailing and from those special people that keep me updated on what is going on on the mail art community
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