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CALL for ENTRIES: Prison Library Mail Art

Posted on August 8, 2012August 8, 2012 by R.L. Gibson

FOOD for… thought

The more you know about anything the better off you are about everything. I attended Johnson & Wales culinary school just long enough to learn sauce and knife skills that have been worth every penny I spent. I use those skills everyday of my life. (Although I should have stuck around for pastry classes so I could have made this book cake I found a Sprinkle Bakes!) This next mail art call offers you the opportunity to provide education that not only will provide prisoners a chance to learn which impacts their lives, but their chance to learn impacts YOU too. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries for Postmarked 2012, California’s largest mail art exhibition that benefits the Prison Library Project. Jump start your creative juices with a mail art project today! Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES: Postmarked 2012

For many years, inmates from around the country wrote to the Prison Library Project, and they were amazed by the artwork that accompanied requests for books. These beautiful illustrations were their inspiration for a mail art exhibition and fundraiser.

Postmarked was developed eight years ago for the Claremont Forum’s Prison Library Project, which sends books free to prisoners in the U.S. upon their request. Providing education and opportunity to learn about mail art, view new and established mail artists’ works, and to participate in the experience of creating and sending mail art. Now in its 8th year, this exhibition is one of the largest in California.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all.

MEDIA: Mail art of any size and medium. ONLY the side with the official USPS Postmark/barcode will be displayed. Your mail art may be painted, stamped, collaged, printed, and/or otherwise decorated or constructed. It may be any shape and size that will go through the mail and receive an official postmark.

Your submission may get worn or torn through the mail, but the handling process is an important part of the theme. Only the side with the postmark can be displayed, due to space limitations, but the art doesn’t have to be limited to that side. You may include any message inside the envelope, which will be opened only by the person who purchases the art envelope. You may submit more than one piece… and begin sending now!

DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked by September 30, 2012.

ENTRY FEE: None

WHY SUPPORT the PLP? “Rehabilitation was at one time a stated goal of the prison system. Today, funding for most educational and rehabilitation programs, including prison libraries, has been cut or completely eliminated. It is a distressing fact that today’s U.S. prisons are increasingly about punishing people and warehousing human beings, not about, rehabilitation, or education.”

“This is where PLP steps in. We believe that everyone deserves access to literature and educational materials, including people trying to work towards social change, self-empowerment or rehabilitation within the incarceration system.

The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but more than a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Nearly one percent of American adults are incarcerated, the highest rate in the world, but many prisoners have little access to books or educational material. They face substantial barriers and are cut off from family and friends on the outside. While some prisons have libraries, many do not. Of those that do, access and selection can be extremely limited. Usually, prisoners are not allowed to receive books from friends or family. Thus, programs like ours are one of the few options available to these individuals.” –from the PLP website.

Learn more about Postmarked 2012 online!

CALL for ENTRIES: Masters Mystery

Posted on October 7, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

R U NUTS?
I don’t eat pine.

I enjoy the occasional Murder Mystery Dinner show, but I never want the mystery to be WHAT I am eating. I have fairly adventurous taste in food, but I still want the courtesy of knowing what I am putting in my mouth. For some reason, more than one chef has said to me, “I made it special for you, just try it.” 99% of the time they are right; however, for the occasional 1%, I have this to say to the chef, “If you had just TOLD me there were pine nuts in the wild boar dish, I could have spared you the public “ick” face when I tried it.” So there. This next Call is not really a Mystery for YOU, despite the name. Investigate for yourself…

Check out this Call for Entries for the 2011 Masters Mystery Art Show from Florida International University (Miami, FL). This is an all-hung exhibit that won’t cost you an entry fee, but WILL cost you the donation of a 6×9 work on paper. Take a look…

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CALL for ENTRIES:
Masters Mystery

The Masters’ Mystery Art Show (MMAS) is an international annual art event featuring over 1000 artworks by more than 500 artists from 31 countries around the globe. It includes nationally and internationally recognized artists, many brilliant emerging artists, as well as a number of celebrities from other fields. The MMAS was developed to benefit Florida International University’s Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts Program. This event coincides with Art Basel and takes place at the Ritz-Carlton, Miami Beach.

The list of contributing artists, including a host of well-established names, will be widely publicized in advance. Adding to the excitement will be the participation of renowned celebrities in different disciplines and selected local students will compliment the roster. The “mystery” is that the name of the artist for each work is kept secret during the exhibition, only to be revealed at the completion of the sale. Thus the public is invited to “play detective” as they try to identify the artist – and be the first to buy the best!

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists.

MEDIA: All exhibited works will be originals in a 6” x 9” format and will sell for the fixed price of $50.

DEADLINE: Submitted artwork must be received by November 15th, 2011.

NOTIFICATION: None. This is an all-hung exhibit.

ENTRY FEE: None.

SALES: All exhibited works will sell for the fixed price of $50. By submitting your work, you are making a DONATION of your work for sale. You won’t make any cash, but you’ll get another line on your resume, and you may end up with a new collector of your work.

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Exhibition

Posted on August 24, 2011August 24, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

OH, CANADA!

Who doesn’t love maple syrup? I am a little embarrassed to admit that I instantly think “maple” when I think of Canadian food. A country with such a rich multi-cultural food tradition (not the least of which is French) deserve more consideration. Nonetheless, I think of maple treats. My in-laws go fishing in Canada every year, and I can always count on a bounty of maple candy and syrup upon their return. But, I’m running a little low this year. Any chance one of you might pick up a few maple-flavored treats for me while you’re at the opening for this next call? It is time to go…

Check out this Call for Entries from Richmond Art Gallery (Richmond, BC, Canada) for a Mail Art Exhibition. 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…

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Exhibition

Artists from all over the world are invited to contribute their work for the Richmond Art Gallery’s Mail Art Exhibition and Swap. This exhibition is intended to be a cultural exchange, where artists exhibit their works and receive new works as part of a swap. This shared enterprise is free from the rules of the art market, and yet we ask artists to respond to the theme of “economy” in all its forms.

Mail Art (aka Postal Art) is an art form where artists exchange artworks and correspondence through the mail to one another. The historical roots of Mail Art can be traced back to the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s, where several artists associated with the Fluxus movement began to work with Mail Art as the non-commercial exchange of creative ideas, correspondence and images in mailable formats that existed outside of the gallery system. In the 1970s Mail Art grew as an international art movement, and continues on nowadays with the help of the internet.

To continue on in the tradtion of this democratic art form, all entries received that follow the guidelines on the entry form will be exhibited.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all artists

MEDIA: Mail art up to 3 artworks (2D ONLY), sized 5″ x 5″ (120 x 120 mm)

DEADLINE: October 1, 2011

NOTIFICATION: All Hung

ENTRY FEE: None, except return postage to get your artwork swap. $3 Canadian or the equivalent. Canadian residents can send a self-addressed stamped envelope.

AWARDS: Artwork will be traded at the end of the exhibit, and you will receive a ‘swap’. 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: SNAP Mail Art in Canada

Posted on August 7, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

SUGARY
GREEN-NESS

Remember when green beens were everyone’s “go to” vegetable? They were in every frozen meal and stocked in everyone’s pantry for a quick addition to any meal. I suspect that’s how they got their bad reputation with kids. I have noticed lately that sugar snap peas seem to be the new green beans. Luckily, I love them, and kids seem to like the fact that they are a little sweeter than tried-and-true green beans. Deciding to enter this next exhibition should be (you guessed it)… a snap. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP Artists) for their Mail Art Exhibition This all hung exhibit has no entry fee. Here’s another great way to get an international show on your resume. Entries are limited to three…

CALL for ENTRIES:
SNAP Mail Art

ELIGIBILITY: Local, provincial, national and international (all) artists

MEDIA: Text or image based work of mail art. Submissions must fit be packaged to fit through their mail slot 3.81 x 25.4 centimetres (1.5 x 10 inches).

DEADLINE: September 7, 2011

NOTIFICATION: None. This is an all-hung exhibitition.

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee. Please limit submissions to 3 per artist.

For more information, Read the Full Call!

*Editor’s Note: At the time I wrote this submission, their website www.snapartists.com was down, but you can read the full call on their Facebook page that is linked to Read the Full Call above.

MAIL ART: Anything Goes Everything Shows

Posted on July 26, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

LET THEM EAT CAKE

Don’t you just love it when anything goes? Like many parents, I’ve had to have the difficult conversation that included explaining why chocolate chip pancakes are an acceptable breakfast but chocolate cake is not. As you might imagine, food conversations are hard for me…I give in…you only live once. Chocolate cake anyone?

Check out this Call for Entries forAnything Goes Everything Shows Mail Art from the Courtyard Gallery (Asheville, NC) It is an all hung show. So as the title says…anything goes and everything shows. If you’re looking for a resume builder or just a creative outlet to jumpstart your day, this Mail Art show could be just for you. No submission fee…start working on your entry TODAY!

CALL for ENTRIES: 5th Annual International
Anything Goes-Everything Shows Mail Art Call

FORMAT: Any size, if you can stamp it and get it through the Post Office, it will show.

MEDIA: All media will be accepted including mixed media, Collage, Montage, Sculpture Digital art, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography. Don’t be afraid to try with 3-D art; they have exhibited vinyl records, papier mache fish, wood sticks, shoes, and even a pig jawbone.

REMEMBER: Anything goes, everything shows! Non-returnable.

ENTRY FEE:
No submission fee.

Their mail art show title says it all as ALL received submissions will be exhibited in the Courtyard Gallery, from September 25-Nov 1st 2010. Artists are encouraged to demonstrate or explore imagery of any kind.

DEADLINE:
September 6, 2011.

Exhibit will open Sept. 10 at Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts Street, Phil Mechanic Building, River Arts District, Asheville, NC

Send your entries to:

Carlos Steward/Cynthia Potter
Anything Goes-Everything Shows
The Courtyard Gallery
P.O. Box 9907
Asheville, NC 28815

Questions can be sent to purplecoca@aol.com
or visit http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art for Prison Library

Posted on March 14, 2011March 14, 2011 by R.L. Gibson

FOOD for THOUGHT

The more you know about anything the better off you are about everything. I attended Johnson & Wales culinary school just long enough to learn sauce and knife skills that have been worth every penny I spent. I use those skills everyday of my life. This next mail art call offers you the opportunity to provide educational benefits that not only will provide prisoners a chance to learn which impacts their lives, but their chance to learn impacts YOU too.

Check out this Call for Entries for Postmarked 2011, California’s largest mail art exhibition that benefits the Prison Library Project. Jump start your creative juices with a mail art project today! Take a look…

CALL for ENTRIES: Postmarked 2011

For many years, inmates from around the country wrote to the Prison Library Project and they were amazed by the artwork that accompanied requests for books. These beautiful illustrations were their inspiration for a mail art exhibition and fundraiser.

Postmarked was developed seven years ago for the Claremont Forum’s Prison Library Project, which sends books free to prisoners in the U.S. upon their request. Providing education and opportunity to learn about mail art, view new and established mail artists’ works, and to participate in the experience of creating and sending mail art. Now in its 7th year, this exhibition is one of the largest in California.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to all.

MEDIA: Please send submissions of mail art of any size and medium to: Postmarked 2011, Prison Library Project, 112 Harvard #303, Claremont CA 91711. ONLY the side with the official USPS Postmark/barcode will be displayed. Your mail art may be painted, stamped, collaged, printed, and/or otherwise decorated or constructed. It may be any shape and size that will go through the mail and receive an official postmark.

Your submission may get worn or torn through the mail, but the handling process is an important part of the theme. Only the side with the postmark can be displayed, due to space limitations, but the art doesn’t have to be limited to that side. You may include any message inside the envelope, which will be opened only by the person who purchases the art envelope. You may submit more than one piece… and begin sending now!

DEADLINE: Entries must be postmarked by May 31, 2011.

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee.

WHY SUPPORT the PLP? “Rehabilitation was at one time a stated goal of the prison system. Today, funding for most educational and rehabilitation programs, including prison libraries, has been cut or completely eliminated. It is a distressing fact that today’s U.S. prisons are increasingly about punishing people and warehousing human beings, not about, rehabilitation, or education.”

“This is where PLP steps in. We believe that everyone deserves access to literature and educational materials, including people trying to work towards social change, self-empowerment or rehabilitation within the incarceration system.

The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but more than a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Nearly one percent of American adults are incarcerated, the highest rate in the world, but many prisoners have little access to books or educational material. They face substantial barriers and are cut off from family and friends on the outside. While some prisons have libraries, many do not. Of those that do, access and selection can be extremely limited. Usually, prisoners are not allowed to receive books from friends or family. Thus, programs like ours are one of the few options available to these individuals.” –from the PLP website.

Learn more about Postmarked 2011 online!

MAIL ART: Anything Goes Everything Shows

Posted on September 17, 2010September 17, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

LET THEM EAT CAKE

Don’t you just love it when anything goes? Like many parents, I’ve had to have the difficult conversation that included explaining why chocolate chip pancakes are an acceptable breakfast but chocolate cake is not. As you might imagine, food conversations are hard for me…so I often just give in…because you only live once. Chocolate cake anyone?

Check out this Call for Mail Art Entries from the Courtyard Gallery. There is no entry fee, and it is an all hung show. So as the title says…anything goes and everything shows. If you’re looking for a resume builder or just a creative outlet to jumpstart your day, this Mail Art show could be just for you. You don’t have much time…do it TODAY!

4th Annual International
Anything Goes-Everything Shows Mail Art Call

FORMAT: Any size, if you can stamp it and get it through the Post Office, it will show.

MEDIA: All media will be accepted including mixed media, Collage, Montage, Sculpture Digital art, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography. Don’t be afraid to try with 3-D art; they have exhibited vinyl records, papier mache fish, wood sticks, shoes, and even a pig jawbone.

REMEMBER: Anything goes, everything shows! Non-returnable.

ENTRY FEE: No submission fee.

Their mail art show title says it all as ALL received submissions will be exhibited in the Courtyard Gallery, from September 25-Nov 1st 2010. Artists are encouraged to demonstrate or explore imagery of any kind.

POSTMARK DEADLINE: September 20, 2010. Must arrive by September 25, 2010.

Exhibit will open Sept. 25 at Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts Street, Phil Mechanic Building, River Arts District, Asheville, NC

Send your entries to:

Carlos Steward/Cynthia Potter
Anything Goes-Everything Shows
The Courtyard Gallery
P.O. Box 9907
Asheville, NC 28815

Questions can be sent to purplecoca@aol.com
or visit http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art NO ENTRY FEE

Posted on August 12, 2010August 12, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

BANANAS FOR MAIL ART

I love receiving personal mail. As connected and attached as I am to my BlackBerry, I still love receiving the occasional postcard. I get alot of funny mail, and most of you send me food related postcards…keep them coming.

The art of letter writing, postcard creating, and the sharing of artwork is alive and well in this Call for Entries from Guadalupe Art Dogs Gallery for Mail Art with the timely theme of Currency. AND NO ENTRY FEE. Take a look:

Call for Entries: Currency Themed Mail Art Show

Guadalupe Art Dogs Gallery is located in the Old Ingram Loop artists’ colony on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, and they are calling for entries in its inaugural international Mail Art Show. The show will open on September 10th and will run through October 6. Entries must arrive no later than Saturday September 4th.

The theme of this year’s show is “Currency,” a subject on almost everyone’s mind these days. At one time or another, in one place or another, virtually every kind of object has been used as currency – coins, paper, gold nuggets, shells, goats, chocolate, brides, baseball cards, IOUs – the possibilities are endless.

Also please note that “currency” doesn’t necessarily refer to a medium of exchange. For example, events can have currency (current events); rivers can have currency ( if you want to stretch the meaning a little and make a pun) and of course there’s always currency jelly ( or is that currant?) So you get the idea, right? Take the idea of “currency” and stretch, fold, bend and mutilate it to come up with your own interpretation.

GUIDELINES: This show will be conducted in accordance with the principles that guide the Mail Art Movement worldwide. Submissions can be any shape, any size – as long as they have the appropriate postage attached. They do NOT have to be flat two dimensional works, and they do NOT have to arrive in an envelope – although of course they can be two dimensional and be sent in envelopes if that’s what the artist wants.

ENTRY FEE: There is no entry fee, and no limit on the number of pieces that can be submitted. There will be no prizes other than the “People’s Choice” awards.

DEADLINE: September 4, 2010

As with all their shows, the Mail Art show will appear online approximately two weeks after the opening, so if you can’t come to see the show in person just log on and enjoy browsing.

Entries will not be returned unless the appropriate amount of return postage is sent along with the entry and the piece is clearly labeled that it is to be returned, with your full name and address. Those entries not returned will be distributed at no cost to area hospitals, nursing homes, schools, homeless shelters, and other places where they can brighten some person’s day.

Please mail entries to:

Guadalupe Art Dogs Gallery
Mail Art Show
Ingram, Texas 78025
830-367-7420

If you have any questions please email us or call between 10AM and 5PM (U.S. Central Standard Time) Wednesday through Saturday.

Deadline: September 4, 2010

For more information…

Contact: Lisle Drake
email: artdogs@hctc.net
Phone: 830-367-7420
Website: http://www.guadalupeartdogs.com/

INTERNATIONAL CALL: Post Cards

Posted on May 3, 2010May 3, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

I received an overwhelming response to the last post on a Mail Art opportunity.

It seems that my readers like the idea of a quick project and the unpredictible nature of the postal system. Just for you, here is an a cream puff of a resume builder–an international call for mail art (postcards) from Sweden.

This show is all hung AND offers possible publication as well….and it is FREE!

Call for Submissions

After the success of their collage postcard project in September 2009, Cut & Paste, the folks at MailArt.se are now making a call for altered postcards of famous tourist sights from all over the world.

All incoming cards will be published on MailArt.se and exhibited in Galleri KG52, Stockholm in August of 2010.

They will also publish the ones they like the best in a small book edition.

Here are the rules:

* The cards should have the usual postcard format, i.e. approximately A6, 105 x 148 mm (approx. 4″ x 6″)
* The cards should show an altered tourist attraction
* all techniques are welcome
* Three cards is the maximum for each participant
* The cards have to be posted before June 1, 2010
* The cards won’t be returned.
* The cards will be uploaded on the net from from April 15, 2010–– Click Here to see what they will look like.
Send your Card to:
1. Edvard Derkert, Galleri KG52, Kammakargatan 52, 11160 Stockholm, Sweden
2. A digital version of the file saved in jpg, highest quality. 1000 x 709 pixels, or something close to that should be emailed to: info@dad.a.se

Please state include your name, country, the name of the postcard view, your mailing address and/or homeadress andyour website–if you have one.

Participants agree to the exhibition and public showing of their cards: in the Gallery, on the web and in the book.

If you have questions, ideas, good links etc., please contact info@dad.a.se .

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Mail Art

Posted on April 29, 2010April 29, 2010 by R.L. Gibson

Don’t we all love to get a little something in the mail other than bills and advertising?

How many of you are familiar with “mail art”?

According to Wikipedia, Mail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium.

The term mail art can refer to an individual message, the medium through which it is sent, or an artistic genre. Mail art is also known as postal art and is sometimes referred to as Correspondence/Mail Art (CMA).

Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters, zines, rubberstamped, decorated or illustrated envelopes, artist trading cards, postcards, artistamps, faux postage, mail-interviews, naked mail, friendship books, decos, and three-dimensional objects.

An amorphous international mail art network, involving thousands of participants in over fifty countries, evolved between the 1950s and the 1990s. It was influenced by other movements, including Dada and Fluxus.

One theme in mail art is that of commerce-free exchange; early mail art was, in part, a snub of gallery art, juried shows, and exclusivity in art. A saying in the mail art movement is “senders receive”, meaning that one must not expect mail art to be sent to oneself unless one is also actively participating in the movement.

Here’s your excuse to get involved, send a yummy treat to California, and get a show in the process:

Call for Submissions:

International Mail Art Exhibition:
In Honor and Memory of Judith A. Hoffberg

Judith A. Hoffberg (1934-2009) was an avid and active promoter of mail art and artists’ books.

Judith was editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter devoted to all manner of art publishing and art exhibitions.

In addition to Judith’s work as a librarian, archivist, lecturer and curator, she gave unstintingly of her time and energy to promote artists through her encouragement and connections in the art world.

To participate in the exhibition, mail art submissions must be received by June 4, 2010 by postal mail or email. All art sent through the mail needs to be sent unwrapped.

All mail art included in the exhibition will be donated to the Judith A. Hoffberg Archive at the Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara, with the permission of the artist.

The exhibition will be held in the Armory’s Caldwell Gallery from June 27 – August 22, 2010.

Opening reception is Saturday, June 26, 2010, from 7-9 PM.

For questions, contact exhibition curator Jay Belloli at jbelloli@armoryarts.org or 626-792-5101 ext 117.

Please send submissions to:

Jay Belloli, Director of Gallery Programs
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
jbelloli@armoryarts.org

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FOOD for… thought

CALL for ENTRIES: Postmarked 2012

The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but more than a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Learn more about Postmarked 2012 online!

R U NUTS? I don’t eat pine.

CALL for ENTRIES: Masters Mystery

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

OH, CANADA!

CALL for ENTRIES: Mail Art Exhibition

For complete details, Read the Full Call!

SUGARY GREEN-NESS

CALL for ENTRIES: SNAP Mail Art

For more information, Read the Full Call!

LET THEM EAT CAKE

CALL for ENTRIES: 5th Annual International Anything Goes-Everything Shows Mail Art Call

FOOD for THOUGHT

CALL for ENTRIES: Postmarked 2011

The U.S. has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but more than a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Learn more about Postmarked 2011 online!

LET THEM EAT CAKE

BANANAS FOR MAIL ART

Call for Entries: Currency Themed Mail Art Show

For more information…

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions:

R U NUTS?
I don’t eat pine.

CALL for ENTRIES:
Masters Mystery

SUGARY
GREEN-NESS

CALL for ENTRIES:
SNAP Mail Art

CALL for ENTRIES: 5th Annual International
Anything Goes-Everything Shows Mail Art Call