May 19, 2007
May 14, 2007
Pierpaolo Limongelli/sghinopaullimo
I am sure he didn't know I love Joni Mitchell's music and lyrics. Thanks for these two wonderful cards.
May 13, 2007
May 11, 2007
May 10, 2007
May 08, 2007
May 07, 2007
May 03, 2007
Catherine M. Bennett #9 Enigma Trilogy
Pink as a bunny nose, three amazing postcards. There is a mention of a fourth "UNpostable" one, ah, she wants this to be mysterious, like dark matter. So I will live with theses three and try to imagine the fourth one.
May 02, 2007
Ray Johnson + Ozark Micro Sculpture Gardens
Ray Johnson Micro Galleries I & II Mail Art Show
250 Lilly St.
Batesville, Arkansas, USA
Email: Celticzazen@yahoo.com
Webpage: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/FIU%20Batesville.htm
Ozark Micro Sculpture Gardens Theme: Contents: Objects, Piles and Boxes
250 Lilly St.
Batesville, Arkansas, USA
Email: Celticzazen@yahoo.com
Webpage: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/FIU%20Batesville.htm
Theme: “Beuys will be Beuys” This exhibit pays homage to the creator of the Free International University and the ideas of social sculpture. So let your art reflect and express “how we mould and shape the world in which we live.” “the total artwork of the future social order”, and “free democratic socialism”. Joseph Beuys The gallery one will be on view in the The Mabee-Simpson Library on the campus of Lyon College and gallery two will be on view at Morning Star Coffee House both in Batesville, Arkansas, USA, There will be a weekly rotation of 4 to 5 artists per gallery over the course of one year. This exhitition period will be extended depending on the response from the Internation Mail Art Network. Size is limited to 4”X6 or 10.16 cm X 15.24 cm for postcards and 8” or 20.32 cm overall for 3D pieces. Email submissions accepted. Please include your name, address and email address. You are welcome to send more than one piece. Exhibition documentation will include a website and catalogue to every participant + CD Deadline to be received November 30, 2007. Show will be installed the first week of January and the concurrent website will be up that week. Thank you for your support with this project.
John Chiaromonte250 Lilly St.
Batesville, Arkansas, USA
Email: Celticzazen@yahoo.com
Webpage: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/FIU%20Batesville.htm
Ozark Micro Sculpture Gardens Theme: Contents: Objects, Piles and Boxes
The artist are free to create whatever comes to mind. Work must be 3D and be able to withstand climate changes as the Ozark Micro Sculpture Garden will be installed outside in the The Mabee-Simpson Library Garden on the campus of Lyon College. The Garden will be installed for one year and will have a weekly rotation of 5 artist exhibited. Size is limited to 8” or 20.32 cm overall. Please include your name, address and email address. You are welcome to send more than one piece. Exhibition documentation will include a website and catalogue to every participant + CD Deadline to be received November 30, 2007. Show will be installed the first week of January and the concurrent website will be up that week. Thank you for your support with this project.
John Chiaromonte250 Lilly St.
Batesville, Arkansas, USA
Email: Celticzazen@yahoo.com
Webpage: http://www.lyon.edu/webdata/users/jchiaromonte/FIU%20Batesville.htm
April 23, 2007
April 20, 2007
April 17, 2007
3 mail art shows in Greece
Hi from mail art Greece
I organise and have the curating for three programs mail art in Greece . All of them are for common benefit. I request you to support with your attendance.
Best regards,
Thomai Kontou curator
April 14, 2007
Keith Bates crow stamp
The teacher’s tale
Having taught Art & Design for 34 years, I am currently drifting gracefully and gratefully towards early retirement.
The first three quarters of my career were surprisingly rewarding, considering I was really too shy to be the confident, middle-class professional that advertisers and Teachers TV like to portray. I drifted into teaching because I couldn’t think of anything else to do and there was a shortage, even of Art teachers. Once in the job I found I quite enjoyed the first quarter century in a difficult but well organised school where an Art Teacher could be a bit wackier than most. To be a teacher all this time without ever once wearing a tie has been the source of considerable countercultural pleasure.
Seven or eight years ago things changed. A forced amalgamation of two schools, poor management, decline in student behaviour, and the stigma of ‘Special Measures’. All the fun evaporated. Many teachers jumped ship, and in retrospect I should have too. Those who stayed found that the stress of being squeezed between an increasingly intrusive inspection regime and the rise of anti-social behaviour was unbearable. Mail Art has long helped me keep things in perspective, and throughout the dark days designing fonts also became good therapy. Even so, stressed out or burned out I needed to see my doctor and take some time off.
Now I have the offer of Voluntary Early Retirement and it’s time I finally left school. The teacher’s pension will ensure the mortgage gets paid, and I’m hoping to earn a modest crust doing some design work for Leanda if her business continues to pick up speed. I’m expecting money to be a bit tighter, perhaps a lot tighter, and whilst I can never imagine giving up postal art completely, for me the idea of emailart is increasingly attractive.
Michael Lumb has written about soaring postal costs and the rise of new communications. The postal service has declined in reliability as email reliability has increased. Traditional mail is under pressure as email gains hegemony.
Mail Art is also having to adapt and change, and it is no longer essential for Mail Art to be a wholly snailmail experience. Indeed, it is paradoxical that many Mail Art projects culminate with website or blog documentation, yet contributions are still only accepted via traditional mail. It is time for the email attachment, emailart, to be welcomed as warmly.
drifting into digital
Keith Bates • 2 Ferngate Drive, Manchester, M20 4AH, England • keith@k-type.comThe first three quarters of my career were surprisingly rewarding, considering I was really too shy to be the confident, middle-class professional that advertisers and Teachers TV like to portray. I drifted into teaching because I couldn’t think of anything else to do and there was a shortage, even of Art teachers. Once in the job I found I quite enjoyed the first quarter century in a difficult but well organised school where an Art Teacher could be a bit wackier than most. To be a teacher all this time without ever once wearing a tie has been the source of considerable countercultural pleasure.
Seven or eight years ago things changed. A forced amalgamation of two schools, poor management, decline in student behaviour, and the stigma of ‘Special Measures’. All the fun evaporated. Many teachers jumped ship, and in retrospect I should have too. Those who stayed found that the stress of being squeezed between an increasingly intrusive inspection regime and the rise of anti-social behaviour was unbearable. Mail Art has long helped me keep things in perspective, and throughout the dark days designing fonts also became good therapy. Even so, stressed out or burned out I needed to see my doctor and take some time off.
Now I have the offer of Voluntary Early Retirement and it’s time I finally left school. The teacher’s pension will ensure the mortgage gets paid, and I’m hoping to earn a modest crust doing some design work for Leanda if her business continues to pick up speed. I’m expecting money to be a bit tighter, perhaps a lot tighter, and whilst I can never imagine giving up postal art completely, for me the idea of emailart is increasingly attractive.
Michael Lumb has written about soaring postal costs and the rise of new communications. The postal service has declined in reliability as email reliability has increased. Traditional mail is under pressure as email gains hegemony.
Mail Art is also having to adapt and change, and it is no longer essential for Mail Art to be a wholly snailmail experience. Indeed, it is paradoxical that many Mail Art projects culminate with website or blog documentation, yet contributions are still only accepted via traditional mail. It is time for the email attachment, emailart, to be welcomed as warmly.
drifting into digital
www.keithbates.co.uk • www.k-type.com
April 10, 2007
Crow Show
Crow Mail Art Show
send crow artwork by post or email
Mick Boyle • P.O. Box 364 • Conneaut Lake, PA 16316 USA • moontea@yahoo.com •
mail art exhibited at digitalmailart.blogspot.com
deadline june 1 2007
spread the word
April 02, 2007
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