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last updated on 2025-09-23 22:21:25 / 11 days ago19 open_calls
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Holistic Mail Art Call “Blumen” ■
Blumen in German means flowers. A tribute to spring, to colours, to floral expansion.
Blumen as a metaphor for inner blossoming, free self-expression, connection with the world around you.
A homage also to the German language and to Germany, the country where I was born.
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Outsiders ■
Visual interpretations and ideas on the concept of 'Outsiders' (whatever form that takes - culturally, socially, personally) in a world not designed for those who think, feel or present differently. For creators working towards inclusion and non-mainstream ideals.
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Sweet Treats & Other Delights
Artists must use a photo-based or photo-related medium. The theme, Sweet Threats & Other Delights, is up for interpretation. Whether it’s an afternoon sweet treat or an artistic process you find satisfying, we want work centered around what YOU find delightful.
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Drumming: Identity and resistance
We are a music and arts school in Porto Alegre, Brazil and we are celebrating our 30th anniversary this year! As part of the anniversary celebrations, we are launching this call for proposals with the theme “TAMBOR, identity and resistance”. The drum is not just a musical instrument, but a tool for resistance and social transformation. It strengthens identities, promotes inclusion and awakens consciousness. Its rhythm continues to echo as a call to collectivity and change.
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Incẽndios ■
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Fairytales ■
“The short story offers a model for life, a life-giving and encouraging model that remains in the unconscious containing all the positive possibilities of life.”
- Marie-Louise von Franz
Fairy tales were and are part of the childhood of many of us and are still found today in oral traditions as well as in literary works. I'm an art therapist and I'm passionate about these narratives! For years, I've been using fairy tales as an important and powerful tool in my work as an art therapist.
Creating Art Mail with the theme of Fairy Tales will be a return to the memories of the past and an opportunity to reread a familiar story with a new narrative, after all, stories vary according to the historical and geographical context.
I invite anyone and everyone interested to take part in this call, collaborating in putting together a collection of Fairy Tale-themed mail art for use in studies and research.
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ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE AND FUTURE ■
Let’s reflect on climate change! Contribute to our sustainable library’s “artistic bookshelf” by sending an eco-style Mail Art book or a themed postcard.
Only artworks related to the theme and required formats will be displayed, so please make sure to follow the requested formats. The online exhibition follow up will be available on the Martellago Library's.
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SISYPHOS ■
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Our Land Calls ■
Os alunos de artes visuais da Escola 74 de Barra de Chuy, Rocha, Uruguai, estão a organizar esta convocatória internacional de arte correio em homenagem a Clemente Padín, em comemoração ao seu 86.º aniversário, a 8 de outubro.
Queremos ver as paisagens da sua terra natal, e é por isso que propomos uma combinação de arte e geografia. Qualquer técnica é aceitável para retratar paisagens rurais da sua região.
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Astronomy for Development
- How can astronomy drive community development?
- What inspiring initiatives already exist (such as astro-tourism, citizen science, or education)?
- How can we build a more equitable world through knowledge of the universe?
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CLOUDS ■
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Passion Love
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Collage: expressing emotions
Collage is an artistic expression that offers a verbal means of self-expression, an excellent way to stimulate creativity and spatial organization.
The purpose of this call for entries is to assemble a collection of Mail Art on the theme of “Collage: expressing emotions” for purposes deemed appropriate, such as exhibitions and contributions to studies, theses, and articles, without any economic rights on the part of the artists invited to participate.
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Celebration of Sapphire
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Nothing ■
How can we represent NOTHING in art?
This project asks you to send art that shows your impression of NOTHING.
All media accepted. Participants will receive the final project booklet.
Blank pieces of paper will be rejected…
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Angels ■
ENIGMATIC CREATURES, MESSENGERS, GUARDIANS. CREATURES THAT LIVE BETWEEN THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, CLOSE TO US?
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What a theater! ■
Why this Mail Art-call?
Quite simply because we love and appreciate theater. We encounter theater every day e.g., in everyday situations or in idioms that refer to it like “All the world’s a stage”, “to get the show on the road”, “to wait in the wings”, “to steal the show”, “What a drama!” etc. So we encounter “theater” in our everyday lives, and often it makes us smile.
The city of Schweinfurt is one of the lucky operators of a theater building. It is a guest theater and thus offers many different ensembles the opportunity to present themselves to a theater-loving audience through a wide variety of plays.
There are no limits to the joy of experimentation, which can also be borderline for individual spectators.
Schweinfurt has a long theater tradition, first documented in 1572 with the performance of “Comedy of the Last Judgment”.
The venues have changed frequently over the years.
In 1966, a new theater building opened on Roßbrunnstrasse. It was designed by the architect of Prof. Erich Schellig, with a polygonal ground plan and cubistic superstructures. A large staircase connects the theater building with the Châteaudun Park.
All in all, the building looks different in all sides.
Inside we find a piece of art of Gustl G. Kirchner with a turquoise wall in spatula technique; in the staircase Günther Zirkelbach created a relief with cut plasterboards; Prof. Karl Dahmen dedicated himself to the large 130 square meter wall with a dispersion spatula technique. He was an important representative of Tachism. His work is considered a major work of German Informel. The stage designer Trude Karrer designed the hanging light sculpture in the auditorium.
The indirect lighting in this room is also impressive. Its wal, cover with pyramid bodies shining out of themselves, some of which are gilded, creates a wonderful atmosphere. And so it could go on for a long time to describe our beautiful theater.
Since 1973 there have been puppet play day, in regularly recurring intervals. Uwe Brockmüller regularly exhibited parts of his puppet collection in glass showcases.
Thus, one could get an impression of the variety of different puppet theaters — especially in the Asian region.
Our theater will be completely renovated. For this reason, we started this Mail Art-call. We are curious how and what is perceived as theater and what individuals associate with it.
The submitted postcards will be exhibited as part of a mail art installation.
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FANTASTIC HERBARIUM
According to the success of the project it is possible that a paper publication is also produced in a volume. Postcards after the show will remain at my studio filed as "Fantastic Herbarium Project", no return will be provided. The images will not have any other type of use if not the purpose of the project itself.
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[e]mailart
do consider what [e]mailart is and could be. consider what's the difference between merely sending a simple attachment or image as an email body or otherwise sending a real piece of art that uses all the capacity of what embodies the digital world and the ancient email technology and protocols.
can a mere attachment be considered a work of art? or should we explore something that resides in the body of the email and is changeable and unique and unable to subsist in any other medium than that?
alternatively, you may also submit some words, your point of view on the matter, or even an essay regarding the "digital world vs mailart vs [e]mailart vs art".
any questions regarding the open call should not be sent to us by email as they won't be replied to.
thanks for your contribution. all valid [e]mailart will be gathered and presented primarily on its digital form and support and eventually within a catalog.
for more open calls, please head to www.mailart.pt and check all documentation available.