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9/11 redux Mail Art Call

2009-07-17T03:15:12Z

Hi,

We'd like to announce a call for mail art. All entries will be displayed. 200 entries will be selected by a jury for special exhibition and posted on the regenartfest.com website.

Regeneration Art Fest distills the post 9/11 world into mixed-media form and offers a vision of past futures. As novelty increases exponentially, Regneration Art Fest serves as a time space reference in timewave zero as we cascade into the baseline of creativity.

Join us September 11 and 12 in Salem and Keizer, Oregon, as we regenerate the future into the reality of our creation.

Regeneration Art Fest features two days of other-worldly visual art, film and music in 10 venues throughout Salem and Keizer, including galleries, cafes, bars and the Capitol. The Fest will also inaugurate Salem's newest cultural facility, the f-stop visual arts center, established for the advancement of the visual arts.

Regeneration Art Fest is a Visual Art Mixer program of the Mid-Valley Video Festival produced in collaboration of Keizer Art Association and SYN503 Gallery.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

“911-REGENERATION” POSTCARD ART SHOW PRESENTED BY: Keizer Art Assocition f-stop visual arts center and SYN503.com.

The purpose of the show is to illuminate regeneration in a post 911 world.

SHOW DATES: SEPTEMBER 11TH– SEPTEMBER 30th, 2009
SHOW LOCATION: Coffee House Cafe
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 28th, 2009
THEME: The 9/11 experience and regeneration in the post 9/11 world.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
• Post card size (approx. 4” X 6”) original work - any medium. • 1-3 submissions per artist. • Submissions are anonymous. (If you would like to be identified as the artist - please put your name on the front of the postcard.) Images will be displayed online at www.regenartfest
• Submissions may be picked up after the show, but will not be return mailed. • For confirmation of receipt – put email address on back of postcard. MAIL TO: f-stop visual arts center 335 Grove St NE Salem, Oregon 97301 DROP OFF AT: f-stop visual arts center 335 Grove St NE Salem, Oregon 97301 QUESTIONS: contact Jonathan Boys at syn.gallery.nw@gmail.com or Ross Swartzendruber at ross@regenartfest.com.

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Junk Mail Project

2009-04-14T00:10:20Z

My name is Clare, Im a printmaker from western NY currently residing in the Bay Area as I work on my MFA...

For the last few months I have been screen-printing hand cut envelopes and packing them with hand printed stickers using designs found in common mail: utility bills, parking tickets, credit card mailings ect... as well as lottery tickets and instructional diagrams from a variety of sources, the idea behind "Junk Mail" is that I realized that I was spending hours every week sifting through this so called "important" mail much of which just gets thrown away or recycled immediately. My intention is to bring attention to the messages we receive through the mail, how they are scrutinized, and how they serve to promote a culture of consumerism and debt, with little hope outside of a lotto jackpot winning.

My guidelines for the project are that I use only reclaimed materials, so I have been getting paper from recycling centers, old libraries and craigslist, so the majority of materials are reused.

My vision for the project is to mail out these envelopes and encourage recipients to put up the stickers anywhere they want and to perhaps join the project by creating mail art that questions the idea of "junk mail" or "important" mail, questioning the process of selling addresses for advertising purposes, the waste of paper for these mass mailings ect...

With that said.

If you are interested in receiving a piece "Junk Mail" or you want to join the project and create a piece of mail yourself .
contact me at clareszyd@yahoo.com
to pass along an address

peace,
Clare

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show me your junk,I'll show you mine

2009-04-01T21:46:10Z

Hello,

My name is miki and I would love to be included. My address is:
1243 E. Colona Street
Philadelphia,Pa 19125

thanx
miki

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Another address:

2008-10-28T08:21:40Z

727 mail art
3308 Wyoming Blvd NE - 14C
Albuquerque NM 87111

Colorful and creative...anything cool, even cathartic.

art as anything you want it to be

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bunnies

2008-07-26T22:22:41Z

Send me bunny mail art and I'll send back something that I've created. I post what I receive (unless it's not appropriate for general viewing) in my blog http://floppymoppybunny.blogspot.com

My address is:

Floppy Moppy Bunny
PO Box 32018
3651 Shelbourne
Victoria, BC
V8P 5S2
Canada

Thanks!!

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New address for mail art, letters, or random weirdness.

2008-07-06T22:46:09Z

Hi all!

I'm new to this site, but relatively familiar with art-mail and pen-pal type things. I've rented a PO Box for this purpose, and hope to get some things going.

If you send art with a return address, I'll send you something back.

Or you can just mail something odd or random or weird.

Do what you will, just try and keep it legal.

Address is as follows:

free-for-all
PO Box 1283
Jackson, Ga, 30233

Thanks for your time, and I hope to have a full box soon!

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Art anyone?

2008-04-02T14:24:01Z

Hey all, I'm kinda new here, so I dunno exactly how this is done, but I've been doing mail art with a few people from my school, and I'm looking to expand. If you want some art mailed to you, email me with your address at andi.sison@gmail.com. Thanks,
Andi.

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Mail art

2008-02-10T16:17:41Z

If anyone wants to swap some mail art, then here's my address:

DAN
PO Box 15208
Portland, OR 97293

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2 mail art calls

2008-02-03T16:21:31Z

Ray Johnson Micro Galleries I & II

Mail Art Show

Theme: “Beuys will be Beuys” This exhibit pays homage to the creator of the Free International University and the ideas of social sculpture. So let your art reflect and express “how we mould and shape the world in which we live.” “the total artwork of the future social order”, and “free democratic socialism”. Joseph Beuys

The gallery one will be on view in the The Mabee-Simpson Library on the campus of Lyon College and gallery two will be on view at Morning Star Coffee House both in Batesville, Arkansas, USA, There will be a weekly rotation of 4 to 5 artists per gallery over the course of one year. This exhitition period will be extended depending on the response from the Internation Mail Art Network.
Size is limited to 4”X6 or 10.16 cm X 15.24 cm for postcards and 8” or 20.32 cm overall for 3D pieces. Email submissions accepted.
Please include your name, address and email address. You are welcome to send more than one piece.

Exhibition documentation will include a website and catalogue to every participant + CD

Deadline to be received November 30, 2007. Show will be installed the first week of January and the concurrent website will be up that week.

Thank you for your support with this project.

John Chiaromonte

250 Lilly St.

Batesville, Arkansas, 72501 USA

Email: Celticzazen@yahoo.com

Webpage: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/FIU%20Batesville.htm

Ozark Micro Sculpture Gardens

Theme: Contents: Objects, Piles and Boxes

The artist are free to create whatever comes to mind. Work must be 3D and be able to withstand climate changes as the Ozark Micro Sculpture Garden will be installed outside in the The Mabee-Simpson Library Garden on the campus of Lyon College. The Garden will be installed for one year and will have a weekly rotation of 5 artist exhibited.

Size is limited to 8” or 20.32 cm overall.
Please include your name, address and email address. You are welcome to send more than one piece.

Exhibition documentation will include a website and catalogue to every participant + CD

Deadline to be received November 30, 2007. Show will be installed the first week of January and the concurrent website will be up that week.

Thank you for your support with this project.

John Chiaromonte

250 Lilly St.

Batesville, Arkansas, 72501 USA

Email: Celticzazen@yahoo.com

Webpage: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/FIU%20Batesville.htm

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Become a part of "bAbeL - art project"

2008-01-12T22:56:17Z

Dear brothers and sisters,

i study art therapy in Germany and work on the arty part of my diploma at the moment - and i invite you to support my work “ babel“!
Babel is about the try to cancel the moment of disintegration, it is about identity, community,structure and the basic needs of human beings and it is about you as well, when you join this project;
Please send me one article of your clothing, which you don`t need
anymore (it doesn`t matter if there is a mark on it, a cut in it, the
zipper is not working anymore etc.) and a word (in your language, a
word, which you like, which you don`t like, which you use often or
never, it can be a name, too) to this adress :

Sandra Becker
Hunscheidtstraße 162
44789 Bochum
Germany

in case you like to send me more material - like little messages,
infomation about you, your life, your country,the article of clothing
( maybe there is a story about it - you never liked to wear it, it was
a gift, you wore it in an important moment) - i will be pleased about
it.
my plan is to put all together in a new way - so that there will be one dress and one poem at the end for one performance/ film/installation, but it is not clear how it will be exactly - at least the most important thing depends on you. maybe the dress and the poem will go on a journey again, maybe they will come back to you, maybe you get a message from them, maybe you won´t see them again, maybe....the ideas become more and more with every package i get from you what ever will happen - i let you know. and be sure; whenever you give something - you get something.
the artwork will be shown at the diploma exhibition of the FH Ottersberg (Germany) on march 21th 2008.
you will find a documentation on my tribe-blog.

i hope that it will be possible to support me,
looking forward to get a message from you,

Become a part of babel !
sandruschka

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Newbie

2007-10-30T22:07:23Z

Hi All,

New guy here. Do figure drawing/painting. Weekly figure sessions generate many drawings just laying around. Would be fun to share. There's a link to my homepage on my profile. Looking forward to meeting you.

Eric

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Mail Art?

2007-08-28T18:35:31Z

All,

I have some art to send that I have been working on recently... some pen&ink works, a little acrylic painting, etc. If interested, let me know... I would like to get something back : ) Check out my pictures to see the kind of stuff I do (mostly painterish, inkish or sketchy).

Thanks,
W

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My new web site

2007-08-12T03:20:28Z

I just want to let everyone know that I have done a lot of work uploading work to my new web site devoted to my art work.

www.webspawner.com/users/mrkoold/index.html

Charles

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Mail Art in popular Indie Film- free viewing

2007-06-13T21:16:30Z

Hey Mail Artists,

I thought you all might be interested in watching this free independent film that showcases a couple from New York who only communicates through art, and mail art, during their entire relationship. Four Eyed Monsters, I am sure some of you have heard of it through the indie circuit, is full of beautiful animation and aesthetically pleasing editing techniques that make me appreciate it for that alone!

It will only be up for a week here: http://foureyedmonsters.com/watch/

So check it out, read all about their story, watch the podcasts, and if you become a huge fan... buy the film through the “Buy DVDs/Downloads” link, as it goes directly to a good cause- getting the filmmakers out of debt and supporting the indie art community! enjoy!

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I have art to mail!

2007-02-27T18:38:11Z

Who wants it?

All I ask is that you send me "something" in return.....
...just no dirty underwear please!
~m'chelle

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Mailart for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2007-02-25T01:50:49Z

Hello,

This is what I am working on. If you have something to contribute for one of these projects, I would love to receive it!

Project #1 details can be found at: http://mlkmailart.blogspot.com

1) Theme: We Are One Human Family!

2) Media: Postcard size

3) Deadline: December 15, 2007

4) Send to: Tanya Bemis, P.O. Box 1018, Ashland, OR 97520, U.S.A.

5) Please include your name, return address, age, and nationality.

6) OTHER: No jury. No entry fee. No returns. Documentation to all participants who provide email address.

Project #2 details can be found at: http://teachersformailart.blogspot.com

1) THEME: How can mailart be used to expand and enhance your class curriculum?

2) MEDIA: Open

3) DEADLINE: September 1, 2007

4) SEND TO: Tanya Bemis, P.O. Box 1018, Ashland, OR 97520, U.S.A.

5) PLEASE INCLUDE: Your name, return address, & your nationality

6) OTHER: No jury. No entry fee. No returns. Documentation to all participants who provide email address.

Thanks a million!

Tanya

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FROM KANDAHAR

2007-02-25T01:48:14Z

So, I am working in Kandahar as a writer and living on a military base. Post cards are free to mail. Who wants something weird in the mail? Email me Schaber@burningman.com if you want something. . .

I don't check tribe very often.

http://sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/112105/tp4ch1.htm?date=112105&story=tp4ch1.htm

http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2005/11/04/news/guard.html
http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2005/11/04/news/cyr.html

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Anyone Up For A Project?

2007-02-25T01:41:53Z

Hello All-
I'm new here and itching to send some mail art. Anyone interested? Any suggestions?
blessings, Gina

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Time for a new project. Who's in?

2007-02-25T01:40:00Z

I need something to get me going creatively. so let's all trade handmade art cards. anything you want - drawing, painting, collage, writing, photo, etc.
send me your mailing address (radartheory@gmail.com) and i'll send mine. then i'll make something for anyone that replies

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Hello! Let's get this place SHAKIN'! POSTCARD EXCHANGE!

2007-02-25T01:37:44Z

Hi all!
My name is Madeline Osborne.
I am an artist, assemblage artist, mail artist, altered book artist, digital artist, and general idiot at large!

My beloved husband, Dennis, is my No.1 fan, cheering section, and financial investor, encouraging my artistic interests and creations.

It is through his direct involvement and support, that I was able to recently acquire the domain name, www.AssemblageArt.Org, and his direct assistance, that I have been able to get the AAO Forums up and online, at http://assemblageart.org/phpBB2/index.php .

You can see my adventure with Mail art over there, at: http://assemblageart.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=24 as well as my adventures in building a website (can't just glue what you want together, darn it!), as I try to get the pages built, linked, and functional for the entire AAO site by March 1, 2006.

Spring is coming. I like the idea of a Postcard "Exquisite Corpse" Round Robin.
Groups of 3 this time around.
Take 2 postcards, divide them into 3 parts, and design/create on one section of each card.
Then mail the cards to the two other people on your list.
When you receive the 2 cards (one from each of your fellow members), complete one of sections of that card, and send it on to the 3rd member.
When the 3rd section is completed, mail it back to the Original Sender.
TOPIC for ROUND 1: GLOBAL WARMING WINTER.

I need 2 fellow members to join me.
C'mon, who's in, and how many groups can we get together?

~Maddy

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Seeking contributions for booklet on psychic disturbance

2006-10-07T10:33:15Z

I would like to compile a book of mentally ill mail art.
My particular interest is in the phenomanon of black hole in psychic life.
All contributors will recieve a finished copy when the project is completed.
If you have/ or are interested in ocd, anxiety, panic, depression, borderline pd, or social phobia etc. and would like to contribute your art
please mail me your contribution to:
The Offices of Haywire & Haywire
P.O. BOX 185
Tomales CA
94971

P.S. The cruder the better. Make it real. Thanks.

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projects projects projects-i have a lot of them awating your reply!

2006-02-11T04:05:00Z

He everyone!
how are you?
i have a bunch of projects available in snail traders- i would love if you come over and play!
http://snailtraders.tribe.net/thread/cbf58174-0731-4609-963a-e919a1b13eae
http://snailtraders.tribe.net/thread/1d2220a4-f63a-47cb-8865-da3738d6070f
http://snailtraders.tribe.net/thread/dd098347-a457-4e22-897a-8dbea7f75d58
http://snailtraders.tribe.net/thread/2a4553ce-a3c3-4362-88f2-30ea50b3f4bb

anyone interested?
thanks for looking!
faern

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Some more links

2005-12-12T00:09:02Z

http://plexus.org/cgi-bin/chalk/oneworld.pl?

http://www.mailartbbs.com/forum/

http://www.mail-art.de/frame.php?dir=projects:projects_list&doc=list.php&offset=10

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interesting site

2005-11-29T19:43:04Z

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

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anyone around anymore??

2005-11-18T16:36:19Z

want to trade?

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Mail Art Project needs your input

2005-06-06T18:18:10Z

Hello,

My name is Amy and I’m in the planning stages of organizing a community art project and I need your help.

The Project is mail art and I hope to involve as many artists (yes, you are) in the Portland area as possible. The intention is to collect all the art into an installation and submit a proposal to have it shown in one of several Portland locations. I would like this to be a true community effort from the ground up.

At this point what I’d like from you is input, I want to hear every idea you’ve got:) I’d like to begin actual mailings by the first week of june, so please submit ideas before then.

Here are some of the things I’d like you to consider and give opinions on.

Format: We need a format that is very mail-able and lends it self to display. I’ve been considering either postcards or an accordion fold book where everyone decorates a page.

Theme: A unifying theme might be nice, this could be a word or phrase. What kind of things do you think about when you’re moving around the city? What defines your commuity? All ideas considered

Publicity: How do we make sure everyone who has an interest hears about the project?

So, Please respond to this thread so we’re all in one place: http://mailartproject.tribe.net/

Thanks for participating,
Amy

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ATC exchange

2005-05-06T16:09:25Z

I just ran across this group and haven't checked it out, really, but I thought people on here might be interested. I'm going to look into it more later:

http://groups.msn.com/ATCEXCHANGE

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Public display of Mail Art

2005-04-26T08:09:24Z

Hello,

I'm soon to be moving to portland and I found several organizations that accept proposal for installatiions so what I was wondering is would anyone here be interested in organizing and finding a home for an installation of mail art. I was thinking of asking as many artists as we can reach to make a "postcard", possibly themed, and then designing a display. So um, anyone wanna join me?

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Call for Mail Art -- Dealing 2/21/05

2005-02-17T00:02:23Z

I found this out there in the digital soup. dive in.

Postcard Project

i live in a group of 15 fantastic people. since the beginning of the year we have participated in a weekly workshop taught by one of our housemates. so far, amongst otherthings, we have made a portrait of chopin by the collage method, we have painted a stone age universe picture and we have learnt how to juggle! on february 23, i have signed up to be the guest professor and i would like to introduce my friends to the joys of mail art. first i will explain what mail art is as best i can, with the help of some beautiful things people have sent me, and then we will each make a unique postcard. i don't know what media it will be in as we have carpenters, painters, water colourists, collagists etc etc but i am sure they will all be very special. then we will address the postcards and i will send them off to whoever has sent me their address. this is where you come in, gentle reader. the idea would be for you to send me an email saying you are interested in this scheme, and to give me your address. then sit still, remembering of course to breathe, until you receive a postcard in the mail. next, make one yourself (however you
want, i think its nice if you are inspired by what you receive) and send it back to the name and address on the postcard. hopefully, the result is that everyone gets an original piece of art and everyone is happy.

hooray! i am asking for your adress in advance so we can get the postcards named and addressed on the same day. everyone who is interested will get sent a card.

i am excited about this project and hope it works out. if you are not interested in this particular mail art project but would like to correspond with me, that is also cool, my address is below. cheers!

mujinga
email: bintangNOSPAM@seznam.cz (remove the NOSPAM)
ambonstraat 2, teuge, 7395 ma,
netherlands

summary:
the idea - give me your address and wait for a postcard made on feb23 to arrive. when it does, send a postcard you made back to the person who sent it! easy peasy!
media - postcard, open theme
materials - whatever works
payment- what?
documentation - you get to keep the postcard sent to you!
The deadline to reply is February 21, 2005.

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"ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS!

2005-01-20T20:09:24Z

http://verba.chromogenic.net/archives/2005/01/cameramail.html

On the 22nd of December 2004, Kyle Van Horn taped a disposable camera to a piece of black foamcore and inscribed upon it the following message: "ATTENTION POSTAL WORKERS! Please help us with our project. As this camera travels across the country we want photos of all whom it encounters. Please take a photo before you pass it along. Thank you!"

He then bordered it with attention-getting red tape and dropped it off at a post office in Baltimore, MD. A week later, it arrived at my home in Portland, OR with all 27 exposures taken. What follows in the extended entry is all 24 pictures that came out, in the order they were taken (3 of the 27 were blank.) Some have had minor levels adjustments for the sake of visibility, but they have not been color-corrected or cropped in any significant way.

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by the way...

2005-01-20T17:34:43Z

this is where i came from-
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/tribe/6a4f1804-e110-4198-b393-b545a5dd6956?r=10535

maybe we can join in on some efforts...

anyone wanna play art by mail... hi me up??!!!??

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Nervousness.org

2004-11-15T17:46:47Z

Has anyone here tried it? It can be a great way to get other artists to participate in mail art projects, but it can also be frustrating as hell when people flake and don't hold up their end of the project.

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Mail art project

2004-02-01T16:22:50Z

I'm looking for people to participate in a mail art project.

I'm going to be mailing a package of art, which will be passed from one participant to the next. If all goes well, the package be passed on to the participants several times.

Participants are encouraged to remove some art from the package and to add some of their own art to the package.

Participants are responsible for the cost of mailing the package on its way to the next person.

The envelope I have in mind would be A4 size. Artwork should be kept small and light. Artwork should be on paper or at most on a CD ROM.

Any takers?

Send me:

Your email address
Your snail mail address

This is limited to US residents.

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Welcome

2004-01-25T07:22:30Z

Welcome to the Mail Art tribe. If you are new to mail art, consider getting a Post Office Box. That way you don't have to use your home address.

Hopefully we'll be able to create a space here for artists to meet up as well as discuss mail art. You are also welcome to forward mail art calls found on other parts of the web.

Feel free to upload images to the Photo Album.

Enjoy.

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