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Wishing You Were Here is the theme for this year's annual International Mail Art Exhibition, which will be held at The Arts Council of Greater New Haven Small Space Gallery from May 9- June 27, 2007. There will be a reception on Saturday, June 9 from 5-8 PM held in conjunction with the International Festival of Art and Ideas and Audubon Art on the Edge. All proceeds from the sale of the postcards will go to Save The Children.
Deadline for Entries: May 7, 2007 All entries must be original artwork, postmarked and sent "snail mail". No Returns. Make sure your name and address is clearly written on your entry. All works received will be exhibited at the Gallery and selections will be archived on an online exhibit at www.artscouncilgnh.org.
Send work to:
Arts Council of Greater New Haven
70 Audubon Street , 2nd floor
New Haven, CT 06510 USA
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Several months ago I posted that I had lots of journals available to work in for my collaborative journal project. The requests for books was overwhelming to say the least. I ended up with a huge list of people wanting to work in a journal. I kept a running list and just kept sending them out as quickly as I could.
One journal, #3, is completely full…and several others are very close! But as of today, I have no more people on the waiting list. Everyone that sent me a valid address has gotten a book. I know several books are waiting for me at the Post Office in Eden Prairie…and will arrive next week. Soooooo…here we go again!
If you want to work in a book, even if you’ve already worked in a journal…send me an email. I will put you on the list for a book. I also have 5 new, never worked in journals ready to be sent out…so you may be first, you maybe last…you maybe in the middle…but if you send a note soon, you will have a book within 10 days! Hell, if you send me a note tonight, you could have a journal in your hot little hands by Wednesday because I have three of them sitting here right now!
Oh, please note…if you have something to send to me…use my California address:
Serendipity
PO Box 3246
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
I am working on uploading the last few pictures as well. Whew! It’s so nice to get back in the swing of things! I have posted pictures of Journals #3, 5 and 7...and will have pictures of #4 in the morning. Wow...and then I'll need someone to send that one out to. Soooo, send me your address quick!
I am working on uploading the last few pictures as well. Whew! It’s so nice to get back in the swing of things! I have posted pictures of Journals #3, 5 and 7...and will have pictures of #4 in the morning. Wow...and then I'll need someone to send that one out to. Soooo, send me your address quick!The mini-zine is done and printed!
I like to do truly handmade zines, but because The Swap Shop list is now over 80 people, I just don’t have the time to make them all by hand. The covers and mailing vessels are unique though…and of course, it’s all written by me. The first round of zines are going out to all the folks on the Swap Shop List. These covers are abstract acrylics…and very simple. I had fun making these little covers…and sometimes, simple really is best.
The overall content is good…it brings everyone up to speed on me and what’s going on here, highlights a couple of cools swaps and covers a few things about the Swap Shop. But, I think my next mini-zine will be larger and I would like to add some artwork. The problem with artwork is my stuff is so color driven that I would have to print/copy the zine in color, which is very expensive. I’m unsure what to do about that…but it will come to me!
I’ll be printing another mini-zine next month…bigger than the one I’ve just completed…probably 4X6. A little larger format will allow for some artwork and gives me more room to rant…and fewer pages to print. I’m shooting for 5 pages on the next issue, front and back, but we’ll see how that goes. It really all depends on how much I write over the next week or two.
Zines have been around forever…same with mail art…and I think both are an interesting way to exchange art and information. But, my experience with mail art is that people focus primarily on the artwork, not the artist. I am hoping that the zine format will deepen the interpersonal connection, though I admit…that may be a pipe dream.
If you want to swap mini zines, send me one of yours at:
Serendipity
PO Box 3246
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
FYI...the Swap Shop List is still growing...but I haven't sent out an updated list in several months. Just so you know, I'm sending the newest list out with my mini-zine...and there are about 80 people on that list...and 125 people in my personal mail art network. Gotta love it!
All the journals are out floating around...and several are completely full, so I think it's time to start some new ones. I'll be getting more journals ready for shipment over the next week and I'll mail them the last week of February. I have a lot of people on the mailing list, but will need more. If you'd like to be the first one to work in a book, please send me an email with your address.
I am Minneapolis right now and spent the day at my favorite place in the world, The Loft Literary Center. I put of several posters looking for book artists and journalists and writers. I hope I get at least a few people interested in working in the journals. My dream would be to do a show at The Loft. An open house at Open Book...where people could check out a journal, go sit down with it...and enjoy it. I hope that people wouldn't run off with them, but it's a chance I'm willing to take. My goal is to have at least 50 journals, and the plan is to send them out for a full year.
Anyway, I put up 4 posters around the building...and hopefully they will generate some interest. I'll keep you all posted.
INVITATION AU VOYAGE!
In order to encourage and inspire the creativity of travelers,
Moleskine has decided to do its first collaboration project with Air
France.If you love to travel, if you always carry a Moleskine in your
pocket - join the competition and win a round-trip flight ticket to
cities in Europe! You only need one qualification to enter this
competition: that you love traveling.
We will invite original travel notebooks using Moleskines, which will
be selected by a committee consisting of artists and travel specialists.
Details are as follows:
Travel Notebook Competition: A collaboration event between Moleskine
and Air France
- Three Best Award winners will each receive a pair of round-trip
Economy-class Air France flight tickets to European cities.
- An additional top seventy-five winners will receive a special
Moleskine notebook set.
- All winners will have their work shown at an exhibition scheduled to
tour Japan from late July 2007.
- You only need one qualification to enter this competition: that you
love traveling.
- Create your very own and original travel notebook based on all sorts
of voyages – those etched in your memory, or those that you are
planning at this very moment, or even imaginary ones.
- Go out on a voyage with a Moleskine in search of an exciting and new
adventure!
Getting Started
1. Fill out the online application form
2. Get yourself a your favorite Moleskine notebook Any kind of
notebook is OK as long it's a Moleskine. Although this is an event to
promote the City Notebooks, you may use any format including the Plain
or Japanese Album notebooks. (Notebooks that do not belong to the
Moleskine collection will not be accepted.)
3. Then travel...
Use your creativity in search of a trip that will allow you to explore
your own experiences and discoveries and eventually lead you to
create original and unique works of art! You may submit a travel
notebook based on trips in the past or those you are planning right
now, or those in your imagination.
4. Create a travel notebook…
Describe your travels in any kind of style - through words, drawings,
paintings, illustrations, or collages. Create a beautiful travel notebook.
5. Deadline
Send your notebook(s) to the following address so that it will reach
us no later than June 30, 2007.
There is no limit to the number of notebooks you may submit to this
competition. All works will be returned to their respective owners
after the competition.
Address:
Qahwa Ltd., Competition Department
Iwata Bldg. 2-202
4-1-23 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Prizes and Announcement
The selection process will take place in mid-July 2007. Results will
be announced on the official Japanese Moleskine website:
http://www.moleskin e.co.jp/
Responsibilities
Air France and Qahwa Ltd. will not be responsible for any damages or
losses regarding the submitted notebooks during the competition
processes. When submitting your notebook package, we strongly
recommend that you take careful measures in packaging and use delivery
measures such as courier services that will enable you to track the
delivery.
Please note that during the exhibition the notebooks will be presented
in a manner so that the viewing public may actually handle and turn
the pages of the notebooks. While every measure will be taken to
preserve the condition of each notebook, Air France and Qahwa Ltd.
will not be responsible for damages or losses of the notebooks in
relation to the exhibition. Notebooks outside of the Moleskine
collection will be returned to the sender at the sender's expense.
Moleskine.co. jp
Thanks to Moleskinerie for the info:
http://www.moleskin erie.com/ 2007/02/moleskin e_and_a.html# more
What will YOU be doing?
Laundry or example of Saturday morning workshop
Food shopping or example of Saturday morning workshop
Cleaning the house or example of Saturday morning workshop
justBe....connected
Cape Cod
October 12 -14, 2007
Schedule: http://www.justbeconnected.com/
Registration: http://www.justbeconnected.com/
I’ve noticed more and more interest in zines….mini zines to be exact and when I say mini, I mean smaller than 4x6 inches. More people seem to be enjoying working on their own little magazines…and I miss working on my full-size deal, so I was thinking, I would like to put together an "in-between" issue of the Postal Press – my paper art zine. This one will be small and mailed in an interesting packaging of some sort. I’m currently working on content and have already done most of the work on the packaging, printing will take place at my local Kinko’s since I have no printer here in my funny little bungalow, and the folks I will mail to will be everyone currently on the Swap Shop list…and anyone who sends me their zine. (Yes, I know…that’s a long sentence, but you get the idea.)
The zine that you send should also be current…something you’ve made recently…and tell me something about you…your art…your likes, dislikes, fears, secrets, hopes, dreams…whatever…but share something about you…not just random weirdness…I like that kind of mail art, but for this swap, I want to learn something about you…and I will do the same. The overall theme of the zine can be whatever you want…maybe your favorite color or your favorite time of day or least favorite food…or just a mini-journal of what is going on in your life…or what kind of art you’re into…or whatever…just be you.
My other request is that you be prepared to send a copy of your zine to ten people (you can pick who you send to) off the Swap Shop list that I send to you with my zine. Yes, in a perfect world I would love for you to send everyone on the list a mini zine, but I honestly do not believe that will happen (there are over 80 people on the list as of right now)…so I ask that you pick 10 people…including at least 3 artists outside of the US, and send them one of your zines. Be sure to tell them why you are sending them something… random mail is nice, but this isn’t really random, so speak up!
I will post pictures of all the zines that I receive, though I doubt that I will post pictures of the zine that I’m creating…at least not for awhile. I don’t want to spoil the surprise for the people I’m sending them to. Lastly, please send your zines to my California address after February 4th. My mini zine will printed and ready for shipping by then. I certainly don’t want to leave anyone hanging.
Soooooo…I’m looking forward to seeing what comes of this!
Serendipity
2905 North Sepulveda Blvd. #A216
Manhattan Beach, Ca 90266