Museum of Paper

Opportunity for September 11 Related Art

Gail Ellspermann points out an important project taking place within the art community on September 11th. It involves creating a piece of 9/11 relevant Mail Art of any size. The collection already includes over 1,500 pieces of Mail Art and it would be wonderful to include yours.

The one requirement is that it be mailed on 9/11/06

When your art piece is ready it can be scanned or photographed and added to a flickr album, your blog, etc, Then we'd love to see it, and it would be great if you would go the comment area below and add the URL where we can find it.

Bonus: If you add an image to your blog and send a trackback to the URL listed below ( see where it says trackback: http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/5750418 ) your entry will appear right here below this entry.

Your creation can be mailed to: Remember September
P.O. Box 793 Katonah, NY 10536  USA

Documentation to all (randomly chosen entrants receive a CD with all images, all others receive an 11″x 17″ color poster of selected entries)

On 9-11-06 Bloggers all over the world will also honor the 2,996 victims in a personal tribute that you can read about here.

Join the project of remembering or learn more.

Rain Rain; Send it Away

Pam Chatfield says that she just got a PO box and needs help breaking it in. She says that she will post all received in her photo album on a yahoo 360 page, and will send documentation to all.

Sounds like fun!

Subject: Rain or anything to do with rain, like raindrops, puddles, storm clouds, etc.

Medium: Any
Size: Post cards 4"x6" or ATC's 2.5"x3.5"  - she explains: I have a small PO box, so I try to keep my mailart small.

Deadline: Sepember 1, 2006
Send to: Pam Chatfield - PO Box 1705 - Seabrook, NH 03874 - USA

Mail Art Project : Immigration

Note the important words here:
"Works will be juried, and not returned"

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Press release:

Sophie Blachet, director of Art Vitam and Valeria Pouza, independent curator, are seeking Mail Art works for an ongoing Mail Art Project book on the theme of immigration.

The Mail Art Project will proceed in two phases:

Phase One ______

The Mail Art Project will collect over a period of six months beginning in June 2006, a range of mail art works sent royalty free to be published in book form.  Only 100 works will be chosen for inclusion in the book entitled "Mail Art Project 31.12.06/Immigration".

Adults Who Play With Crayons - a Theme Show

Note - this date seems like a looooonnnng way out, but I don't have an email for the organizer so I'm just announcing what I've got.

MailArt Call: Theme Show: Adults Who Play With Crayons

Wanted: detailed drawings done in crayon for a large International Mail Art Show. Landscapes, portraits, political, surreal drawings, abstract etc.all done in crayon. Photographers must also include crayons in their photos.

Size: open
Deadline: November 2007

All works to be displayed at:
    The Lawrence Heritage State Park Art Gallery
    Lawrence, Massachusetts
    December 2007

Ephemeria and the Artsy Asylum will be represented. We hope that you will too.

Send to: Sharon Silverman P.O. Box 1212 Haverhill, MA 01831 USA
Documentation to all participants. No returns. Please keep drawings suitable for all ages.

Has the Internet Killed the Postman?

A Call has been issued for art on the theme: Has the Internet Killed the Postman

• When is Mail art and when is it just mail?
• Has the Internet Killed the Postman?
  Contributor freedom: a licence to excel or to suck?
• These are questions that address the nature of the Network.

If you have an opinion, express it in your submission to this exhibit
All work received will be exhibited at a Mail Art Show in September.

Medium: Any
Size: Any

Deadline: 30th August 2006 (deadline has been extended from July)

ADDRESS: neRRaDa
PO Box 15
ARANA HILLS
QLD 4054
AUSTRALIA

(since the work is coming to Australia, please no organic material.. ..flowers, feathers etc as customs are strict)

Info: send_to_nerrada@hotmail.com

For Artists Interested in Swapping Art

Straight from the crowded mind of Serendipity comes The Postal Press, a monthly newsletter for mail and paper artists worldwide!

Each issue will include a mailing list of artists interested in swapping art.  The list will be one full page, front and back, and addresses will be added to the top of the list with each issue. As more names are added to the top of the list, old names will fall off the bottom of the list. 

If you'd like to be added to the first list…now is the time to do so! 

How:

1. Make a piece of mail art.
2. All art must be 4 inches x 6inches or smaller and

MailArt for Scholarship

From Carol Eacret-Simmons, a senior in art education at Dickinson State University in North Dakota comes the following:

My art department is putting on a Mail-In art exhibit to raise money for art scholarships. There is NO theme and any size or medium of "postcard" is allowed.

Our gallery director/art professor has been really awesome and has put a lot of work into improving our tiny little art department and I would like to suprise her by inviting as many artists to participate as possible.

There are some that say it is impossible to fill the gallery with mail-in art, I say bring the challenge on. I really want this to be a successful show for her, so the more cards the better.

All art received will be offered for sale,

Mailart: the Northwest Mounted Valise

Mail Art fans may enjoy an online gallery presentation by Gray Area Productions titled
 
Stuart Horn
Northwest Mounted Valise
(reopened)

This exhibit shows scans of mail art originals created by Stuart Horn reflecting his work in the 1970-80's.

Stuart was the second editor of Ray Johnson's Weekly Breeder.

The materials shown in the Mounted Valise are from 'The Clip Board Collection' an offset printed group of pieces Stuart passed on to Pat Rogers and Gray Area Productions in the 1980's.

Other works from this collection and other selections from Stuart's private collection are coming soon. And bio and bibliographic pages will expand, along with the collage pages, as it is gathered.


Pat Rogers can be contacted via email at this link

 

an Artistampede is Born!

It's something that could cost you $136.00 . .
but less than twenty virtual "seats" are left at $15.00

Claim yours by following the
Special Artistampede Registration Link to be part of . . .

- an online workshop
  - generous handouts
  - and including supplies as seen in the pages of Stampers Sampler magazine!

And while you're visiting the Artistampede make sure to look around.  You'll discover that you're finally on the way to being able to search for artistamps by color, theme, whatever.

Ta da! Now this is what I call good news.

Are we having fun or what!

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