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Mail Art


I've gotten more interested in mail art during the last couple of years. In some cases, I send artwork to organizations that display the received mail art in a gallery, school library, or a similar place, or I exchange pieces with individual mail artists.

For some mail art calls, the entries are posted on the web. Here's a selected list of websites and blogs that feature current online mail art exhibitions.


Parental Advisory: some of this mail art features adult-oriented content. I recommend that you preview each gallery before allowing your children to visit.

Anfang-Abschied-Ende-Anfang / Beginning-Goodbye-End-Beginning (deadline: November 30, 2012)
Sponsored by the Spaltenstein-Projekt and the Deacon Institute for Social Professions in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Entries: A-F | G-L | M-R | S-Z

Apricot blossom
A colorful quarterly zine devoted to avant garde art, including mail art.

The Arnolfini Archives' international e-mail art project
The curator provides a simple image to use as a base, which you can download and modify to submit for the current themed exhibition.

Arte correo de mis amigos
Mail art from the friends of Samuel Montalvetti, including trading cards, artistamps, collages, and little books.

Arte correo para el mundo
Mail art for the world, including artist books, trading cards, audio, video, and more.

El arte de lo invisible / The art of the invisible (deadline: April 10, 2012)
For an art and poetry event to be held at the Milpedras studio in Spain.

Artist playing cards / APC collaborations
Artistically altered playing cards.

Beauty (deadline: September 30, 2012)
"Send photos, paintings, drawings or texts of people, animals, places, objects or situations."

El cielo, el mar y la ciudad (deadline: February 28, 2012)
A call for postcards depicting "the sky, the sea and the city."

Cinema / Fifth Biennial International Mail Art event at Studio Guzzardi (deadline: August 2012)
List of artists

El circulo / The circle
Send two works on paper or cardboard. Draw a circle (radius: 7 cm) and put anything inside: a collage, a drawing, a mandala, etc.

Corn Crosses E-mail Art Project: Corn+ (deadline: December 21, 2012)
Everything about corn!

CorresponDANCE of artful exchanges
Send Dame Mailarta a message, and she'll send along her findings and perhaps a word of wisdom or two.

Dame's portrait gallery
Send a signed self portrait or whatever your artistic impression of yourself might be. The size, format, and nature of the work is up to you.

Dominoes
Size and medium are free, so let's enjoy a game!

eN mi ViDa las FloReS / Flowers in my life
(No actual flowers, just the mail art kind!)

The Future (deadline: May 15, 2012)
Send your message for the future to the Atelier Kirigiris in Japan.

Future Istanbul
Send in your vision of what this historical city would look like in 10, 20 or 100 years’ time.

Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum
Collected and curated by Ginny Lloyd.

Heebee JeebeeLand
Mail art in the fourth dimension!

El horizonte / The horizon
The organizers of this e-mail art call have provided a digital photograph for the participating artists to download and alter as desired.

Land art on mail art
Make a land art project.

The letter project
Special delivery mail art, including Small Things.

Life Puzzle (deadline: February 29, 2012)
Create a colorful artwork about your life that fits on an 8-centimeter by 8-centimeter square. The pieces will be combined at the exhibition to create a huge picture.

MOMCA: Mobile Online Museum of Contemporary Art
An online museum for digital artworks to show on hand held devices, including mobile phones.

Oraculo / Oracle (deadline: October 10, 2012)
For an exhibition in Argentina in December

Il pane è pace / Bread is peace (deadline: August 31, 2012)
The submitted artworks will be part of a silent auction and the proceeds will go to the aid of needy Mozambican and Brazilian children.

Random Thoughts
Play Nina Meledandri's mail art game!

Rat mail
The current mail art call: Cyborgs and Posthuman Culture (deadline: September 3, 2012)

Rebel Rebel (deadline: December 31, 2012)
FRIOUR Project 13. "Friour" means "Peace" in Icelandic.

Resolution 2012, Exotic Visuals for the Beginning of the End! (deadline: mail to arrive by April 30, 2012)
For an exhibition at The Underground Gallery in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

Save the USPS (deadline: June 1, 2012)
A call to action to benefit the United States Post Office.

Schooldays Van Gogh (deadline: May 31, 2012)
For an exhibit at the Museum of Instant Images in The Netherlands.

Take1: Cinema e mail art? / Film or mail art? (deadline: end of August 2012)
For an exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal.

Today and tomorrow (deadline: October 20, 2012)
For a mail art exhibition at the Art Association in Bad Aibling, Germany.

Traces (deadline: June 15, 2012)
For an exhibition at Atelier 5B in Schondorf am Ammersee, Germany.

Uno1 / One1 (deadline: March 31, 2012)
A call for postcards relating to the Number One.

Vache folle / Crazy cow
A crazy cow gallery, suitable for young children.

Weird existing animals
Which animal do you think is odd or strange?

What do you think? (deadline: June 15, 2012)
What's on your mind (figurative or non-figurative)?

The world is a town
Submit a small piece inspired by the Novgorod Codex.

Year of the Golden Rabbit (deadline: January 31, 2012)
One of my mail art friends is celebrating a special birthday during the Chinese Year of the Golden Rabbit, so she would like to receive rabbit-themed mail art.

Mail art projects from 2010
Mail art projects from 2011