Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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11:17 pm - Mail Art Invitation
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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10:07 am - Art from Women of Afgahanistan and Women's Caucus for Art
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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6:45 pm - Mail Art Archives
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honoriartist
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Dear S,
Thanks for your letter about your mail art collection blues.
Chuck and David did contact me about David’s archive before he died. Then an archivist working with David also contacted me.
I do not have any personal information about collecting, donating, or securing mail art archives, although I think Chuck Welch thinks I do. When I was doing my doctoral research on mail art one of my main findings was that mail artists of a certain age were very concerned about the safety of their archives and wanted to find them a home in an institution.
Here is what I learned and it may be helpful to you.
John Held Jr. a professional librarian with a well-organized archive has sold parts of it to various institutions such as the Smithsonian National Archives and the Getty. John has received a lot of flack for selling mail art, but in fact, that’s a way to get a large institution interested. If you are giving away an archive then it has no actual value to the acquiring organization such as university, library or museum.
Judith Hoffberg also a professional librarian donated her archive of artists’ books to her university library.
I would start by talking to these two mail artists about their archives and how to get yours secured into an institution. Then publish how you did it on the web at mailartist.com. Send your solution to me and I will post it there.
Another avenue is to contact a school of information (formerly called schools of library science) at a university. Offer your archive as a capstone project and let students research how to handle mail art archives. I think this is the best idea yet. Grad students get a unique problem they can 1) research 2) solve and then 3) write about in scholarly journals. A byproduct would be that you would secure the works you care about.
I wish you the best of luck in securing your archive or repurposing it into new art. I am a recycler myself so I don’t have an archive and I don’t have archive legacy issues that go with archives.
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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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12:28 am - jumping back on the mail art train!
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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6:58 pm
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aveverumcorpus
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i just thought i'd mention that, in case anyone has or had a profile on postcardx, most of the profiles have been deleted. as i'm sure some of you know, this has been an issue for awhile, but the site is down to just fifteen profiles. at its peak, i think there were probably a thousand. postcardx is a splendid site, and i'd hate to see it vanish entirely, so why not add (or re-add) yourself?
current music: two gallants: long summer day
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
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11:18 am - a bookmarker project to help the library
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parisnowandthen
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An Open Call To all International Artists:
You are invited to participate in an International Bookmarker Art show.
The Plainsboro Library of Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, is sponsoring an arts festival called Cultural Crossroads.
We are asking mail artists from around the world to submit a decorated bookmarker (or two!) to help us celebrate the connection and community that mail artists create by sharing their work.
We expect many participants of all ages to come see this show, and to make their own bookmarkers as they are inspired by your amazing creative addition. Lots of children from our very diverse community will both see your work, and create their own at our festival. We are thrilled to be building bridges of connection from all over the world to our corner here in Central New Jersey.
Since this theme of Cultural Crossroads represents diversity, we are especially delighted to have an international representation in this bookmarker show.
Please decorate a white bookmarker in any way you would like – drawing or painting, collage, words, or whatever moves you.
If you like, you can incorporate our theme of "Cultural Crossroads".
Please mail back the bookmark (no later than June 15, 2008) to:
Cultural Crossroads Bookmarkers
c/o Emily Townsend
19 Sapphire Dr.
West Windsor, NJ 08550 USA
We must receive the bookmarkers before the end of June 2008, in order to be included in the show.
We will be selling all the bookmarkers to help us raise funds to build a new library.
Thank you so much for your creative participation – and if you cannot help, please feel free to pass this letter and bookmarkers along to someone who might want to!
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
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10:08 am - Sticker Dude Universe Show NYC
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honoriartist
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honoria's mail art for the Sticker Dude Universe mail art show
Theme: The Sticker Dude Universe
Size: Maximum 5.5" x 8.5" (148 x 210 cm, A-5)
Deadline: December 12, 2007
No work returned. Documentation to all.
Mail to:
The Sticker Dude Universe
Mail Art Project
Art 101
101 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA
If you are in NY I encourage you to attend the opening that will include a Sticker Dude performance.
December 14, 6-9 p.m. at Art 101, 101 Grand St. in Brooklyn NY.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
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1:24 pm - here's an interesting one!
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parisnowandthen
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THEME: “Merry Christmas”
Comment: artist Jorge Restrepo (www.jorgerestrepo.com) will make an installation in the Spanish Cultural Center , Tegucigalpa , Honduras ( Central America ). The mail-artworks will show the reality of the world, the extreme differences in religion, social classes, justice, poverty, income, access to water, languages…of different countries….of the world. While some people are partying and celebrating, gambling…vacationing…in December, others are suffering. Jorge Restrepo will create an environment of Christmas celebration at the exhibit rooms of the Center…using the mail-artworks. The observer to the exhibit will feel the sensation of Christmas decoration. When attendants look in detail to the decoration (mail-artworks simulating Christmas cards and messages) the reality of the world will appear…dramatically…in from of their eyes…
Electronic documentation to all. Please send Email address, name and postal address.
Format and medium: free . All work be exposed. No returns.
Deadline: December 5, 2007
Curator: Carlos Lanza
Send to:
Jorge Restrepo
POBox 93
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Central America
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
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9:11 pm - Get it while it's hot!!
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laurajkhalil
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(It's pretty much hot forever, but the sooner the better!)
Entropic Tendencies, Issue #3: So Many Beautiful Parts
28 1/4 pages
$1.00 or 3 stamps
Laura J.
PO Box 6
Berkeley, CA 94701-0006
PS- Issue #1: Life Starts Here and Issue #2: Words for an Implicit You both still available!! (also $1.00 or 3 stamps!)
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
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9:27 am - mail art call: Georges Brassens
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honoriartist
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Theme: the french singer, Georges BRASSENS
Please send me any medium that deal with any technique.
Info: turlure@gmail.com Deadline to be received: October 12, 2007
Jean-Luc TURLURE
125 rue Castagnary
Paris 75015 France
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
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11:11 am - Call for postcards
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honoriartist
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Incoming Mail
Media: mail art postcards
Size: 6" x 4" or smaller - must be vertically oriented.
Documentation: a full color zine will be created following the show with the art postcards sent in and some other items from the show, and every participant will receive one!
Photos of the exhibit sent before the zine is published. Please include your postal address.
Info: msfilms@hotmail.com
Deadline to be received: October 2, 2007
The Ephemeral Mailbox Museum
c/o Morgan Lane Gallery
1603 Morgan Lane
Austin, TX 78704 USA
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
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4:15 pm - Philosophy Day Call
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honoriartist
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Honoria's philosophy day mail art
Philosophy Day - 21st November
1st International A4-A5 Mail Art Thessaloniki
Please send any mediumm any technique.
Size: from A5 to A4.
One work per Artist.
Exhibition will open on November 21, 2007
info: goteetotum@yahoo.gr
Deadline to be received: September 30, 2007
Teetotum
Ioanninon 44
Thessaloniki 54639
Greece
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
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12:04 pm - your mail art postcard is needed!!
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vidaliasparkle
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if this is not appropriate to post here, I understand if it needs to be deleted.
x-posted and please x-post
hi all!
I'm very excited to be having an art show this and next month at the Morgan Lane Gallery here in Austin! One room is all mail art, and includes a particiapatory exhibit called Incoming Mail that I wanted to invite you to be a part of.
I realize this is very short notice, since I need postcards to be here by October 2. So if you can, please take an hour in the next few days and put something together for me. I know it will be extremely appreciated by everyone who will attend the public reception on the 3rd! The only real constraints are that it be 4x6" or less and vertically oriented, since the display I have only fits postcards vertically. otherwise, anything goes!
below is a little flyer about it, please do pass it on to mail arty friends of yours! Details are below.
*** documentation will be provided!! in other words, a full color zine will be created following the show with the art postcards sent in and some other items from the show, and every participant will receive one! SO, please include your address for me, or feel free to email me with it! I will also send photos of the exhibit so you can see all the postcards before the zine is made at the end of the show.
mail hearts!!!!
Niku
 Incoming Mail
mail art postcards
deadline: must receive by Oct. 2
specs: 6" x 4" or smaller
must be vertically oriented
questions? e-mail me at msfilms@hotmail.com
mail your piece to:
the Ephemeral Mailbox Museum
c/o Morgan Lane Gallery
1603 Morgan Lane
Austin, TX 78704
usa
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
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1:49 am - Mail Art in a Resume?
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staticegg
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Have any of you ever included your mail art things in your "art resume"? Specifically things that were part of exhibitions?
If so, how do you document it?
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12:28 am
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dystatic
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anyone out there want to do a handmade magnet exchange?
just let me know
then send me a magnet that you have made to:
dystatic
po box 20083
rpo beverly
edmonton, ab
canada
t5w 5e6
and i will send you one that i have made
sound good?
good!
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
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10:46 pm - Netland Mail Art Call
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honoriartist
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> Mail-Art project "Netland"
Send your personal Mail-Art pieces to our Mail-Art project for the "Amaze / a Maze" event.
At the event visitors will open your mail and will be able to glue your pieces on a large paper construction we are going to build for the event. We will not open your mail in front. Therefore write your address at the back of the envelope. Write underneath your address also "Netland participation" so that we know that it is your participation to our Mail-Art project "Netland".
Deadline: 1 January 2008
Documentation to all
Send to: Sztuka Fabryka - c/o De Decker Geert - Kerkstraat 290 - 9140 Tielrode - Belgium
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
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5:24 pm - Would Love To Trade MailArt - Portrait MailArt Call
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mailedart741
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I started a "Portrait" MailArt Call earlier in the year, it runs through to May of 2008. I'm looking to exchange postcards of your version of a portrait. It can be any interpretation. Have Fun!!!!
Send Post Cards to:
David Berube
DBerube-Art
462 West 52nd St. #3N
NY, NY 10019
You can check out the cards I've rcv'd and the ones I've sent out at:
http://dberube-art.blogspot.com/
http://portraitmailartreply.blogspot.com/
I look forward to seeing some fun mailings.
David
current mood:  ecstatic
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
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3:20 am - anyone?
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parisnowandthen
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Renewing the Goddess
http://goddessy-art.livejournal.com/
send your work - any size, any medium
artist trading cards will be traded if a self-addressed stamped envelope is included.
The theme is: RENEWING THE GODDESS
No deadline - work not returned unless envelope with proper postage is included.
Send to:
Emily Townsend
EtStudio
19 Sapphire Drive
West Windsor, NJ 08550
USA
Happy Art Making!
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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7:47 pm - Random Question
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melydia
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Why is it that mailart is more often collage than, say, drawing or painting? Or is this just my imagination?
I want to say up front that I have no problem with collage. I'm just wondering what seems to draw mailartists to that particular form.
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
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7:21 pm - Mail Art Submissions
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emmagoldman
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Please submit mailart of any forum to the mailart zine, Pony Express. Submissions should be sent to:
Pony Express Zine
PO Box 3482
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Mailartists will receive a free copy of the zine their art appears in.
If you have questions or are interested in purchasing a copy of the latest issue of PEZ, please post here or send me an email.
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