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CALL for ENTRIES: Garbage

Posted on August 5, 2015 by R.L. Gibson

the thrifty
KITCHEN

It isn’t about how little you spend; it is about how little you throw away. That is the key to keeping our household food budget on track. We throw very little away. When celery goes limp or carrots dry out, we add them to the collection of chicken bones in the freezer to make stock. I haven’t purchased broth or stock in years. A little cream makes a whole new meal from left overs. Overly ripe fruits make fantastic preserves, coulees, granitas & trail mix. Stale bread makes great croutons. Don’t let throwing things away become the habit, recycle or re-use or re-invent it–even food. This next Call wants your insight on garbage re-use & reduction. Love this one…

Check out this Call for Entries from Komunala D.O.O. (Slovenia) & a non-profit Humanist assoc. for Garbage, an international mail art exhibit. No fees. Cash awards. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Garbage

Today we swim in garbage. The world we live in is over populated, over polluted, over everything. How we deal with garbage needs a new approach, a new way of dealing with this overgrowing problem. Recycling is one of the possibilities. But how do we view garbage? How we use it, re-use it and what our personal relationship towards it is–those are the questions to be asked.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: All 4″ x 6″ media (10cm x 15cm) that can be mailed

DEADLINE: Received by September 21, 2015

NOTIFICATION: All hung. The works will be exhibited in an exhibition space at the Goriska regional museum on a Kromberk Castle, online and an online catalog will be made for this purpose.

ENTRY FEE: None (but no return of work either)

AWARDS: 1st Award 100€ 2nd Award 50€ (54.32USD) & 3rd Award 50€ (54.32USD). Award winners will be announced in December 2015.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Correspondence

Posted on October 11, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

you can still send
CHOCOLATE
by mail

Could you live without receiving mail? I am not talking about email. I cannot even imagine not having email access. But, snail mail–could you live without it? What if correspondence became an important, indulgent luxury? What if junk mail disappeared in lieu of beautiful, hand-written postcards, letters and recipe cards? Sign me up. Instead of e-holiday cards, why not send out a few hot chocolate recipes this year. This next Call for Entries is a great source of inspiration. Take a look at this one…

Check out this Call for Entries from Crossing Arts Alliance (Brainerd, MN) for Correspondence 2014, an int’l mail art exhibit at the Q Gallery in the Franklin Arts Center. No entry fee, no juror, no awards. Sounds like a great resume builder to me…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Correspondence

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: All mediums will be accepted–mixed media/collage, painting, drawing, text/poetry, printmaking, photography, digital art, sculptural objects, etc. Individual formats explained here.

DEADLINE: Received by November 12, 2014

NOTIFICATION: None. All hung

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: None. All hung

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Library Thoughts 4

Posted on January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

MAKE IT AGAIN,
Sam

I still have a recipe box. Yep. When I find a recipe I love or make a masterpiece that warrants an official record, I write it down on an index card and stash it in my recipe box. Why do I feel like I just confessed to some horribly illicit activity? Well, if you still illicitly work with paper in some way, here’s a curated international open Call for works on paper. Investigate…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Hungarian Multicultural Center (Dallas, TX & Budapest, Hungary) for Library Thoughts 4, a juried exhibit at the Hegyvidek Gallery in Hungary from August 26 – September 06, 2014. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Library Thoughts 4

Johann Gutenberg’s invention of movable type books ignited the explosion of art. These days the printed books that were previously published by publishers now can be read on line as ebooks.

What is the future?

Instead of having to interact with computers through not-so-intuitive and sometimes even counter intuitive devices like a computer mouse or track pad, soon users will be able to control their computers doing natural human movements such as gestures, whole-body movement, eye movement, and perhaps even such things as facial expressions.

Is it the end for books as we know them? Question the survival of paper, books, libraries in this digital age. The process of sending artworks through the mail, with the envelope, the stamp and the postmark as entire part of the mail-art-object make this process to what we call MailArt.

Editor’s Note: Once again, this is only Mail Art in the sense that most of the art will be mailed for the show. Unlike traditional Mail Art shows, any unsold work will be returned in December.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists

MEDIA: Artist books, works on or of paper may be any size, but MUST fit in a 9″ X 12″ (22.9X30.5cm) envelope. Unmated, unframed photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, mixed media, cast or folded paper, multimedia or digital prints.

DEADLINE: March 31, 2014

NOTIFICATION: April 4, 2014

ENTRY FEE: $35 for up to 3

SALES: 30% commission

For complete details, Download the Prospectus**!

**Editor’s Note: I cannot find this Call on their website. So, bookmark this page so that you can download the prospectus/entry form at a later date.

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art/Collage Ukraine

Posted on January 22, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

all to
PIECES

If I had to give my cooking an art style, it would probably be collage. I used to be a purist, a menu maker, a list writer. Somewhere along the way I began the little-bit-of-this-little-bit-of-that method. Dinner is now determined on whichever protein I thought to thaw out and whichever veggies were freshest, in-season and/or on sale. When I try to make a plan, it never fails that whatever I had planned ends up not sounding like what I really want. So, collage dinners are what we do now; it works for us. This next Call is also about collage. I like this one; take a look for yourself…

Check out this Call for Entries from Tymutopiyapres (Lviv, Ukraine) for Collage Art. There is no entry fee, and if you’re looking for a brick-and-mortar show to add to your resume, this one is all hung. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Mail Art/Collage Art

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: “Collage & Assemblage Art (newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or handmade Papers, Other Portions of artwork or texts, photographs and Other Objects found, glued to a Piece of Paper or Canvas).” –from the original call. Size 14.8 X 21 cm (approx. 5.5″x 8.25″)

Editor’s note: This was sent to me under the subject line of “Mail Art”; however, I think this is more-accurately an all-hung collage exhibit, but because the expectation is that the majority of exhibitors will be from outside Ukraine, it is being dubbed a Mail Art show. I couldn’t find anything that indicated a postmark requirement or address requirement.

DEADLINE:
September 10, 2014

NOTIFICATION:
Documentation online

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: All-hung exhibit

AWARDS: All works will be exhibited online at http://collage–art.blogspot.com and at Tymutopiyapres, a non-commercial Gallery located in Lviv, Ukraine.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for MAIL ART: Temporality

Posted on January 13, 2014 by R.L. Gibson

KISSY
face

I only feel justified making pavlova during a holiday week. Pavlova (like the one at left by Tanya Zouevis) a little like two meringues kiss–through sweetened whipped cream. I think it has to do with the temporary nature of the fragile, crispy meringue and the fluffy (but easily flattened) whipped cream. We’ve just finished with New Year’s Day, and I’m already looking for a holiday. MLK Jr. Day doesn’t usually strike me as a day earmarked for indulgence. What’s after the next holiday? I’ll look into it. In the meantime, this next Call is inspired by the temporary, but you can expand your repertoire past whipped cream. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from International Blowing Bubbles Day (Netherlands) for Temporality, a mail art show. There is no entry fee, but you won’t get your work back (so don’t forget to document). If you’ve been looking for an international show for your resume, here’s one in the Netherlands…

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CALL for
MAIL ART:
Temporality

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Mail art (e.g. envelopes, cards and other art that can be mailed)

DEADLINE: May 1, 2014

NOTIFICATION: All-hung exhibit

ENTRY FEE: None

EXHIBITION: There will be an exhibition in Venray in the Netherlands on May 6, 2014 and documentation on the blog of the International Blowing Bubbles Day.

For complete details, Check out the Website and/or Blog!

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Salon

Posted on October 30, 2013October 30, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

perfectly
PEPPERED
postage

I used to receive food in the mail. In the past, my out-of-state relatives would send me those meat and cheese boxes. You know the ones–processed cheese, Summer sausage, red and white checked box. But, I have convinced them to stop with the weird boxes of food and to start sending me personal hand-written recipes. I haven’t made all of the recipes, but I am more fascinated with them as art than food. This next Call could be your opportunity to mail food, of sorts. Or maybe NOT food…

Check out this Call for Entries from Mail Art Salon for Mail Art. There are no entry fees, no jury, no sales, and no returns. I know how much many of you truly love mail art. Think of this as art publication…

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CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Salon

All artists are invited to participate in a Mail Art Project and Exhibit to be held in conjunction with the The North Dallas Artist Studio Tour on April 26 and 27, 2014. The studio tour brings together residents of the community and artists with the goal of creating a deeper understanding of the creative process and demonstrating the variety of forms that creativity can take. Participants on the Tour and in the Mail Art Project seek to demonstrate that art adds meaning and richness to community life.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Any media that can be incorporated on a 4″x6″ or 5″x7″ postcard

DEADLINE: April 1, 2014

NOTIFICATION: None. All hung exhibit

ENTRY FEE: None

JUROR: None. All hung exhibit.

AWARDS: All entries will be featured in an exhibit held in conjunction with The North Dallas Artist Studio Tour on April 26 and 27, 2014. Photos of the individual entries will be displayed online at www.MailArtSalon.blogspot.com!

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Art via Post

Posted on October 15, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

judgement and
JUNK

I write a whole lot of crap about food. Most of it is just an off the cuff note about whatever is going on in my kitchen. But it is NEVER meant as a judgment about the way YOU eat. One of FB friends updated her status yesterday with a comment about how people who eat cheese, fruit and veggies cold, as opposed to room temp, have clearly given up on life and are just eating garbage. Really? I am sorry my cold strawberry has flagged me as a useless garbage eater. So, I want to be clear. No judgement from me. Do I want you to eat creme-filled snack cakes? No. Do I love you any less for it? No, I’m just a little jealous. This next Call is an for an all hung exhibit. No judgement there either…

Check out this Call for Entries from Art via Post for a Mail Art exhibit, book and website. There is no entry fee, and it is all hung. If mail art doesn’t excite you, think of it as a way to work through your artist block. Don’t miss this chance to participate…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Art via Post

Art via Post is a project that brings together international artists of all ages and types who send art in the form of mail. The envelope or package becomes the art itself. The envelope is the canvas. Some artists incorporate the mailing address and stamp in their work, others use the blank side as their work space. Medium types include Illustrators, calligraphers, paper artists, graffiti artists and stencilers among others. Anything goes. The message is up to the sender.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Mail Art

DEADLINE: June 1, 2014 postmarked

NOTIFICATION: None. This is an all hung exhibit

AWARDS: Be a part of the exhibit, the book & get a link back to your website from theirs.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Memory

Posted on May 22, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

GROCERIES
or art?

Nothing comes between me and the grocery budget. If faced with a choice EVERY other bill will be late, if need be, before I will cut my grocery budget. But every rule has an exception. I would mortgage my dog to buy art. The biggest art collectors I know are artists. They understand the love of a piece of artwork that outweighs the ability to pay–even for groceries. This next Call is a very inexpensive way for you to collect a little piece of work of your own. Don’t miss this chance…

Check out this Call for Entries from Richmond Art Gallery (Richmond, BC, Canada) for a Memory: International Mail Art Exhibition 2013 (scroll to bottom left of screen for link). For those of you not in Canada, here’s a way to get an international show on your resume for FREE and free art too. Take a closer look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Mail Art Exhibition

Artists from all over the world are invited to contribute their work for the Richmond Art Gallery’s International Mail Art Exhibition and Swap.

Mail Art (aka Postal Art) is an art form where artists exchange artworks and correspondence through the mail.

While all works received that fulfill the participation guidelines will be exhibited, Richmond Art Gallery ask artists to respond to the theme of “memory”. This may include, but is not limited to: Individual memories, Collective memory, Favourite memories, Memory loss, Memorization, In Memoriam

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Any memory-themed medium that can be sent through the postal system on a 4” x 6” postcard, original artworks only (no photocopies)

DEADLINE:
October 1, 2013

NOTIFICATION:
All Hung

ENTRY FEE: None, except return postage to get your artwork swap.

AWARDS: Artwork will be traded at the end of the exhibit, and you will receive a ‘swap’ if you have provided postage. All artwork will be displayed on their online gallery for one year. Your entry into this exhibition signifies that you agree to the swap and having your work displayed online.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Graceful Envelopes

Posted on February 5, 2013 by R.L. Gibson

TWO anchovies
one EGG

One of my most prized possessions is a stolen recipe for Caesar Dressing. A restaurant in Savannah, GA served Caesar salad that was created table side. My mother and I drove 100 miles just to have lunch. After telling many servers over the years of our 100-mile trek, I convinced one to give me the illicit recipe–strictly against their non-disclosure statement. It is fantastic. I keep the recipe, hand-written by the server, in a special place, home only to my inherited family recipes. I could re-type it, but that would be a dishonor to the server that so kindly risked his job for my obsessive palate. This next Call is all about the handwriting. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Washington (DC) Calligraphers Guild and the National Association of Letter Carriers for the 19th annual Graceful Envelope Contest. There is no entry fee, and this could be a great jump-start project. Investigate the guidelines…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Graceful Envelopes

The contest was created in 1995 by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum, which administered it until delegating responsibility to the Washington Calligraphers Guild in 2001.

Beginning in 2003, the National Association of Letter Carriers agreed to partner with the Washington Calligraphers Guild and exhibit the Adult winners.

In addition to promoting the art of calligraphy, the Graceful Envelope Contest celebrates the role of letters in binding people together and serves as a reminder that the people who deliver the mail are career government employees who take pride in their work and care about the communities they serve.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all artists

MEDIA: Each entry must be a stamped envelope, either manufactured or handmade, delivered through the U.S. Postal Service. The envelope will not be opened. Size may not exceed 7×9 inches. Standard #10 business envelopes are also permitted. Some envelope sizes require additional postage.

DEADLINE: Postmarked no later than Monday, February 25, 2013

NOTIFICATION: May 2013

ENTRY FEE: None

JURORS: Judging will take place in April 2013 by three professionals from the postal, calligraphic and arts communities.

AWARDS: Although no prizes will be awarded, winners will receive certificates and possible media publicity. Winners will be exhibited online at www.calligraphersguild.org and Adult winning envelopes will be exhibited at National Association of Letter Carriers headquarters (100 Indiana Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001; 202-662-2851) and may also be published or exhibited elsewhere.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Global Mail Art

Posted on September 18, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

CALL ME
a chicken

I am obsessed with food because I love the TASTE of food. I am not into eating foods for the sake of saying that I have eaten them. Century eggs are a perfect example. I cannot think of a reason to eat a 100-year-old egg that has been preserved in clay, ash and lime. Telling me that the yolk has the smell of sulfur and ammonia does not make me any more likely to want to eat it. Someone else already has a job eating Bizarre Foods, so I’ll pass. This next Call is a much better way to celebrate 100 years. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from LULA Lake Worth Arts for the Global Mail Art Exhibition in celebration of Lake Worth Florida’s Centennial Celebration. This is an all-hung show that might help some of you pad your resumes. Plus, mail art is fun. I love to see what I can get the US Postal system to take….

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Global Mail Art

Calligraphers and artists are invited to participate in LULA’s Global Mail Art Exhibition: Lake Worth 100. Mail art is the most democratic form of art. The direct exchange of creative work is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960’s and involves sending visual art on envelopes. Traveling the world through mail art can be a rewarding experience that operates within a spirit of “anything goes” which brings to the surface everybody’s creative side.

Decorated envelopes are one-of-a-kind artworks with the handwritten address becoming part of the work. Please join LULA and send a decorated envelope as we celebrate Lake Worth’s Centennial.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Mail art. Please use hand-executed lettering to address your envelope. You may use paint, ink, colored pencil, rubber stamps, or other standard media for illustrations on your envelope.

DEADLINE: November 15, 2013 (This is not a typo, folks. The deadline is over a year away!)

NOTIFICATION: Sign your envelope in the bottom right hand corner on back and include your email address and they will notify you of it’s arrival.

ENTRY FEE: None

JURY: None (all hung)

AWARDS: All mail art will be exhibited throughout Downtown Lake Worth during the Centennial year and linked to the Lake Worth Centennial web site, the City of Lake Worth web site, and can be viewed on the LULA’s Global Mail Art Exhibition: Lake Worth 100 Facebook page. In addition, daily arrivals will be posted on their blog.

Category: Mail Art

the thrifty KITCHEN

CALL for ENTRIES: Garbage

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

you can still send CHOCOLATE by mail

CALL for ENTRIES: Correspondence

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

MAKE IT AGAIN, Sam

CALL for ENTRIES: Library Thoughts 4

What is the future?

For complete details, Download the Prospectus**!

all to PIECES

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art/Collage Art

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

KISSY face

CALL for MAIL ART: Temporality

For complete details, Check out the Website and/or Blog!

perfectly PEPPERED postage

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Salon

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

judgement and JUNK

CALL for ENTRIES: Art via Post

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

GROCERIES or art?

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Exhibition

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

TWO anchovies one EGG

CALL for ENTRIES: Graceful Envelopes

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL ME a chicken

CALL for ENTRIES: Global Mail Art

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

the thrifty
KITCHEN

CALL for ENTRIES:
Garbage

you can still send
CHOCOLATE
by mail

CALL for ENTRIES:
Correspondence

MAKE IT AGAIN,
Sam

CALL for ENTRIES:
Library Thoughts 4

all to
PIECES

CALL for ENTRIES:
Mail Art/Collage Art

KISSY
face

CALL for
MAIL ART:
Temporality

perfectly
PEPPERED
postage

judgement and
JUNK

CALL for ENTRIES:
Art via Post

GROCERIES
or art?

CALL for ENTRIES:
Mail Art Exhibition

TWO anchovies
one EGG

CALL for ENTRIES:
Graceful Envelopes

CALL ME
a chicken

CALL for ENTRIES:
Global Mail Art