If you want to participate in the mail art exchange, please mail something you've created (postcard, zine, collage, drawing, etc.) to: Ken B. Miller, PO Box 101, Newtown, PA 18940-0101 USA, and I'll send you one of my handmade postcards. Because of time constraints, I don't post everything I receive, but I might post a photo of your work here.
Sep. 3, 2016: 15:05 | 25381
I received two interesting art calls recently...
First, I received a nice letter from David (ACE 487) about the Art Cover Exchange, which is a group of people who exchange "covers", or decorated envelopes. The group traces their origins back to 1935! Check out their website at: www.artcoverexchange.org or write to Joseph Doles, 105 Lawson Rd., Rochester, NY 14616-1444.
Next, I received a postcard for a Pink Mail Art Show in Sacramento:
Aug. 21, 2016: 16:11 | 22354
New outgoing collage postcards based on photos from the inimitable Steve Factory, who sent me hundreds (maybe thousands) of 4" x 6" prints in the 1990's and 2000's...
Aug. 14, 2016: 19:31 | 21743
Some new mail art from some old friends... from Barry Edgar Pilcher from England, a take on the collage I sent him...
Another excellent perforated stamp sheet from the excellent John Held, Jr. from San Francisco...
Finally, an awesome pizza micro collage from Karen Wood of Big Bear Lake, CA...
Jul. 20, 2016: 12:17 | 23381
DepARTures
Art as a map to find yourself and the meaning of things. The travel, a timeless theme, more than ever current in this time of great mutations, great migrations and transformations, has been chosen for this new initiative of Mail Art of international significance, now in its sixth edition.
Art has the privilege of being able to translate and synthesize dreams, showing expectations, desires and pain. Art draws maps to orient ourselves in a disjointed and fragmented world, marked by contradictions and tragedies, but also driven by ideals and utopian visions.
Art is the document of a journey through time and space, reading and interpreting the events inside and outside of us, an evidence of encounters and relationships, similarities and contrasts.
Art can be a means to steer and document stages of our inner journey, the trip into the soul of women and men. Art is a nautical chart that advises a possible route to regain what has been lost but we will never stop searching for.
This becomes even more interesting in this era where travel is also virtual, often only virtual. Virtual travels can't reach so deep and through the screen of a computer or a mobile phone we can only find a way of knowing the world in a more detached and superficial way, but no chance to change and evolve ourselves.
This means that the experience of travelling, as a path created by art, becomes a way to internalize and to realign the surrounding reality, reinterpreting everything that from the world comes to the conscience, the feeling and the deeper essence of the artist.
"DepARTures"/"eARThbound"
invites us to share an intimate look, often inscrutable, at the compass that makes us rediscover the route after the shipwreck, redesigning a man's travels between heaven and earth.
Thoughts, fears and madness represented by a gesture, a stroke of color by the artist, the tale of a mental journey in which words lose their importance.
It's up to us to immerse ourselves in this travel, where the eye is in harmony with the soul, in an unexpected and unpredictable dimension that creates a space with the signs of experience.
THE ARTIST IS NOT REQUIRED TO PAY ANY FEE
Deadline: September 20, 2016
The initiative includes the creation of an image – in free technique, on paper or cardboard:
- UNI A4 Size (cm 29,7 x 21,1)
- addressed to BIBLIOTECA COMUNALE - Piazza Cavalieri Caccia - 00060 Sant’Oreste – Rome (Italy);
- Insert in the envelope your personal data, contact information, and possibly a brief biography and some artistic references.
The works will be preserved as a heritage of the City of Sant’Oreste and later will be exhibited in art galleries, museums and elsewhere will be required to spread this kind of art form and to promote the artists.
Outgoing Mail Art: New Photocollages Jul. 18, 2016: 21:51
Outgoing Mail Art: Cardboard Collages Jul. 18, 2016: 21:16
Incoming Mail Art- PJM Jul. 10, 2016: 20:53
Outgoing Mail Art- Prague Jul. 8, 2016: 21:47
Outgoing Mail Art- Miss America Jun. 28, 2016: 22:11
Outgoing Mail Art- The Bridge Jun. 27, 2016: 05:54
Incoming Mail Art- Brooke Cooks & Marie Wintzer Jun. 26, 2016: 14:41
Outgoing Mail Art- Vacation Photocollages Jun. 19, 2016: 06:00
Incoming Mail Art- Henry Guild and Buz Blurr Jun. 5, 2016: 12:25
Incoming Mail Art- Alan Turner May. 30, 2016: 20:19
Outgoing Mail Art- Edition Janus May. 22, 2016: 07:43
Outgoing Mail Art- Mandala Mail Art Call May. 11, 2016: 14:07
Incoming Mail Art- Jennie Hinchcliff, Eric Bruth & Neosho May. 8, 2016: 13:21
Incoming Mail Art: Mike Dickau and Luigino Solamito Apr. 23, 2016: 17:53
Incoming Mail Art- Pistol Pete, Karen Wood and Jane Pannell Apr. 16, 2016: 21:23
Incoming Mail Art- Barry Edgar Pilcher Apr. 9, 2016: 09:49
Outgoing Mail Art- Fisherman's Bastion Apr. 6, 2016: 22:09
Outgoing Mail Art: Domes Apr. 5, 2016: 21:55
Outgoing Mail Art- Buildings Apr. 4, 2016: 20:02
Outgoing Mail Art- Circles Apr. 2, 2016: 21:53
Incoming Mail Art: Musicmaster Apr. 2, 2016: 08:52
Outgoing Mail Art: Patterns Mar. 23, 2016: 20:19
Incoming Mail Art: Kurt Beaulieu Mar. 19, 2016: 14:29
Incoming Mail Art: Pistol Pete Mar. 16, 2016: 21:28
Incoming Mail Art: PJM, Luigino Solamito & Marie Wintzer Mar. 13, 2016: 11:43
Incoming Mail Art: Henry Guild Mar. 13, 2016: 11:18
Incoming Mail Art: The Sticker Dude Mar. 5, 2016: 18:46
Outgoing Mail Art- Mexico Feb. 28, 2016: 22:03
Incoming Mail Art- Alan Turner Feb. 27, 2016: 09:06
Outgoing Mail Art- Dohany Street Synagogue Feb. 25, 2016: 22:18
Outgoing Mail Art- Eastern Europe Feb. 25, 2016: 21:46
Incoming Mail Art- Ficus Strangulensis Feb. 20, 2016: 20:19
Incoming Mail Art- Luigino Solamito Feb. 20, 2016: 20:09
Outgoing Mail Art- Buildings and Landscapes Feb. 18, 2016: 23:23
Outgoing Mail Art- Metro Map Feb. 15, 2016: 12:47
Outgoing Mail Art- Lockers Feb. 14, 2016: 05:58
Outgoing Mail Art- Baggage Feb. 13, 2016: 23:51
Incoming Mail Art- Marie Wintzer Feb. 13, 2016: 18:08
Outgoing Mail Art- Cardboard Feb. 11, 2016: 06:09
Outgoing Mail Art- Structure Feb. 9, 2016: 22:21
Incoming Mail Art- Karen Wood Feb. 7, 2016: 18:13
Incoming Mail Art- Pistol Pete Jan. 10, 2016: 18:29
Outgoing Mail Art- Camp Postcards 2 Jul. 28, 2024: 15:27
Outgoing Mail Art- Camp Postcards 1 Jul. 4, 2024: 13:09
Outgoing Mail Art- Dorm Room Collages Mar. 10, 2024: 16:54
Outgoing Mail Art - Symmetrical/Asymmetrical and also Symmetrical Sep. 18, 2023: 16:37
Outgoing Mail Art- Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Triple-Grid Madness Jul. 9, 2023: 11:30
Outgoing Mail Art- Bad Self Portraits and AI Generated Faces Jun. 3, 2023: 13:54
Outgoing Mail Art- Bad Self Portraits May. 14, 2023: 13:49
Outgoing Mail Art- New Symmetries Apr. 23, 2023: 10:56
Outgoing Mail Art- Shriners! Mar. 4, 2023: 11:19
Outgoing Mail Art- Symmetricals and Variants Jan. 22, 2023: 13:02
Outgoing Mail Art- More Collages- The Bridal Party Jan. 8, 2023: 13:44
Outgoing Mail Art- Even More Symmetrical/Asymmetrical & Photo Collages Aug. 29, 2022: 16:22
Outgoing Mail Art- Still More Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Collages Aug. 21, 2022: 13:35
Outgoing Mail Art- More Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Collages Jul. 11, 2022: 17:29
Outgoing Mail Art- Symmetrical/Asymmetrical Collages Jun. 24, 2022: 16:57
Outgoing Mail Art- LSMFT Variant Remixes Jun. 13, 2022: 18:35
Outgoing Mail Art: Variants! Apr. 17, 2022: 14:27
Outgoing Mail Art- LSMFT Collages and Variants Apr. 13, 2022: 10:59
Outgoing Mail Art- New Grid Collages Feb. 7, 2022: 12:29
Outgoing Mail Art- Cardboard Collages Jan. 17, 2022: 14:38
Outgoing Mail Art- Complete Image Collages Dec. 31, 2021: 17:04
Outgoing Mail Art- Double Grid Collages Sep. 22, 2021: 16:09
Outgoing: Mail Art Loteria pt. 4 Aug. 30, 2021: 17:20
Outgoing: Mail Art Loteria pt. 3 Jul. 4, 2021: 15:25
Outgoing Mail Art- More Mexican Loteria Cards May. 26, 2021: 16:44
Outgoing Mail Art- Mexican Loteria Cards May. 9, 2021: 16:34
Outgoing Mail Art- More woven photos Apr. 4, 2021: 21:21
Outgoing Mail Art- Woven Photographs Mar. 28, 2021: 13:10
Outgoing Mail Art- more photo collages Mar. 27, 2021: 13:05
Outgoing Mail Art- Playing with Photographs Jan. 10, 2021: 14:08
Outgoing Mail Art- Still More Multi-Grid Face Collages Oct. 18, 2020: 09:54
Outgoing Mail Art- Even More Multi-Grid Face Collages Sep. 13, 2020: 15:08
New Mail Art Call: Vote Aug. 21, 2020: 10:55
Incoming Mail - July and August, 2020 Aug. 8, 2020: 10:25
Outgoing Mail Art- Dual Grid collages Aug. 7, 2020: 14:47
Outgoing Mail Art- More face collages Jul. 18, 2020: 18:44
Outgoing Mail Art- Grids and Faces Jul. 12, 2020: 10:59
Outgoing Mail Art- More Keep Calm Collages Jul. 3, 2020: 13:43
Outgoing Mail Art- Keep Calm Mar. 24, 2020: 21:19
New Mail Art Call: View From My Home Mar. 23, 2020: 20:09
Outgoing Mail Art- Grid Compositions Jan. 14, 2020: 21:30
New Mail Art Call: Vision 20-20 Jan. 12, 2020: 10:33
Outgoing Mail Art- Panoramic Collages Jan. 9, 2020: 19:03
Outgoing Mail Art- Woodstock 1994 Jan. 5, 2020: 10:50
Incoming Mail Art - Wood, Stangroom, Sharp and Weirmeir Mar. 14, 2019: 19:13
Incoming Mail Art - Castanet Lessons Flyer Feb. 28, 2019: 20:56
Recent Incoming Mail Art Feb. 20, 2019: 19:20
Outgoing Collages - Politicians Jan. 29, 2019: 21:02
New Outgoing Collages Jan. 12, 2019: 11:17
New Outgoing Collages - Budapest Dec. 29, 2018: 19:25
Incoming Mail Art- Nat, PJM, Tamara Wyndham Dec. 16, 2018: 20:41
Incoming Mail Art- Tamara Wyndham & Henk J. Van Ooyen Oct. 7, 2018: 21:18
Incoming Mail Art- September 22, 2018 Sep. 22, 2018: 19:22
Outgoing Mail Art - Travel Photo Collages Sep. 20, 2018: 21:36
Incoming Mail Art- Bill Glick Aug. 28, 2018: 21:34
Outgoing Mail Art - New Collages Aug. 5, 2018: 21:51
Incoming Mail Art- Karen Wood, Serse Luigetti, Buz Blurr Aug. 4, 2018: 21:38
Incoming Mail Art- Jude Weirmeir Jul. 3, 2018: 21:12
Incoming Mail Art May. 4, 2018: 19:43
Outgoing Mail Art- Angled Grids Jan. 20, 2018: 20:37
Incoming Mail Art - Alan Turner Sep. 17, 2017: 20:22
Incoming Mail Art - Don Campau, Red Letter Day & Analog Artists of America Sep. 4, 2017: 16:38
Outgoing Mail Art - Grids and Non-Grids Aug. 15, 2017: 19:31
Incoming Mail Art - Kurt Beaulieu, Bee and Henk Van Ooyen Aug. 13, 2017: 21:51
Mail Art Call: Squirrels! Jul. 24, 2017: 20:35
Outgoing Mail Art - Breaking the Grid Jul. 24, 2017: 19:30
Outgoing Mail Art - Crybaby Face Collages Jun. 18, 2017: 16:10
Incoming Mail Art - Buz Blurr, Alan Turner, Connie Jean and Faith Randall Jun. 18, 2017: 09:19
Incoming Mail Art - Jude Weirmeir May. 21, 2017: 18:29
Incoming Mail Art - Bart Verburg & John Held Jr. Apr. 23, 2017: 21:20
Incoming Mail Art - Stephanie Dodson Apr. 9, 2017: 21:36
Outgoing Mail Art- Horses, Grids and Weddings Apr. 4, 2017: 21:16
Outgoing Mail Art- Still More Crybaby Collages Apr. 2, 2017: 19:38
Incoming Mail Art- Kurt Beaulieu Mar. 19, 2017: 08:25
Outgoing Mail Art- Trumputin Mar. 16, 2017: 21:38
Outgoing Mail Art- More Crybaby Collages & Grids Mar. 5, 2017: 09:50
Outgoing Mail Art- Crybaby Collages Feb. 23, 2017: 18:45
Incoming Mail Art- Jude Weirmeir, Karen Wood, Michael Goetz & Musicmaster Feb. 19, 2017: 18:38
Incoming Mail Art - Mudhead Reynolds Feb. 11, 2017: 08:50
Incoming Mail Art- Alan Turner, Red Letter Day and Pascal Lenoir Jan. 8, 2017: 10:07
Outgoing Mail Art- collage postcards Oct. 16, 2016: 19:35
Incoming Mail Art- Musicmaster Oct. 16, 2016: 13:54