k o z y m a i l a r t

31.12.24

FINISHED MAILART PROJECTS 2024

31 December 2024 My Life is a Song ARGENTINA

31 December 2024 Sharing Beauty ITALY

31 December 2024 International Mail Art Show USA

31 December 2024 The Book of Dead PORTUGAL

31 December 2024 Let's Play PORTUGAL

30 December 2024 Free Palestine GREECE

23 December 2024 What does Christmas mean to you? BRAZIL

20 December 2024 Let's Hug the River ARGENTINA

06 December 2024 Kindness all around ITALY

02 December 2024 Climate crisis - Global warming TURKEY

30 November 2024 Free Space to Imagination ITALY

30 November 2024 African Portraits FRANCE - SENEGAL

25 November 2024 Elimination of Violence against Women ITALY

24 November 2024 Tribute to Doriano Rota ITALY

01 November 2024 Rediscovering kindness ITALY

28 October 2024 Pocket William RUSSIA

14 October 2024 Passion Love ITALY

30 September 2024 Mailart postcard AUSTRIA

30 September 2024 Birds and Nature BRAZIL

30 September 2024 Permutations ITALY

15 September 2024 Is everything we dump out garbage? TURKEY

15 September 2024 Earth of Olive TURKEY

13 September 2024 No:13 FINLAND

31 August 2024 Say it with flowers! FRANCE

15 August 2024 Food for Thought UK

31 July 2024 Wings for Peace ARGENTINA

31 July 2024 Dreamland GERMANY

15 July 2024 The Saint of Fools ITALY

15 July 2024 Utsanga ITALY

01 July 2024 Apollo - the God of Light ROMANIA

01 July 2024 Hope ROMANIA

30 June 2024 Rural World FRANCE

30 June 2024 The Fire ITALY

15 June 2024 Mail-art and social change GERMANY

15 June 22024 Free theme JAPAN

14 June 2024 Vine / Wine ITALY

10 May 2024 Artistamps UKRAINE

01 May 2024 Smile / Joy of living ITALY

01 May 2024 Black & white stories TURKEY

30 April 2024 Poetry is Resistance ARGENTINA

30 April 2024 The dawn of a new day ITALY

30 April 2024 Mini works TURKEY

26 April 2024 (R)Evolution GERMANY

05 April 2024 Italo Calvino ITALY

01 April 2024 Carnations for Freedom SPAIN

30 March 2024 "Black and White" Egg HUNGARY

21 March 2024 Hermann Hesse ITALY

10 March 2024 Luiz Sacilotto BRAZIL

29 February 2024 Repertoire HUNGARY

28 February 2024 Food for body and mind ITALY

24 February 2024 What makes you happy?! GERMANY

20 February 2024 The Messiah ROMANIA

15 February 2024 There is no Planet B CROATIA

15 February 2024 Borders ITALY

14 February 2024 Hearts USA

31 January 2024 Inspiration GERMANY

31 January 2024 Alien stuff ITALY

30 January 2024 Emergency of Beauty ITALY

27.12.24

This collage arrives in envelope from Maria E. Quiroga, Argentina

Thank you Maria.

9.12.24

Two comics mini-zines arrive in envelope from Rebekka Schmidt, Germany

Many thanks Rebekka.

Mailart on back of an advertisement card from Lorenzo Rosselli, Switzerland

Thank you Lorenzo.

26.11.24

Mailart received in envelope from Diana Venturi, Italy

Thank you very much, Diana.

This painted card arrives from Awyn, Canada

Many thanks Awyn. Hope to respond soon.

11.11.24

Mailart project in Italy: Angels

ANGELS

ENIGMATIC CREATURES, MESSENGERS, GUARDIANS.

CREATURES THAT LIVE BETWEEN THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, CLOSE TO US?

REGULATION:

The participation is free.

The theme is : Angels

The technique is date free (drawing, painting, boxes, collage etc...NO DIGITAL) any size. The images must have on the back the author's name and surname, title, tecnique. No return will be provided. The images will not have any other type of use if not the purpose of the project itself.

Participation in the announcement implies full acceptance of all the articles and clauses of this regulation. Works tha carry racial, pedo-pornographic or offensive contents will be not be admitted.

An exhibition will be possible at the date and place that will be defined. The images will be published on instagram and the following blog.

For informations contact the following blog.

Works must be sent by mail, franked or in a sealed evelope.

DEADLINE: 31TH MARCH 2025, at this adress:

BANDINI FABRIZIO

VIA VIANI, 15

50142 FIRENZE

ITALIA

25.10.24

Mailart arrives in envelope from Gabriele Müller & Gerald Jatzek, Austria

Migrant Birds

Watercolor: Gabriele Müller

Poem: Gerald Jatzek.

Thank you Gabriele and Gerald.

Mail Art & More: mailyour.art

gabrielemueller.at

23.10.24

OPEN CALL: Global warming and climate crisis 2024, Turkey

OPEN CALL

Global warming and climate crisis

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

- The exhibition is open to all national and international art lovers. There is no participation fee.

- Theme: “CLIMATE CRISIS - GLOBAL WARMING”.

Each participant can participate with a maximum of two works. Work/works should be sent to;

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elif TARLAKAZAN,

Kastamonu University, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, 37150

Kuzeykent Campus / KASTAMONU, via postal mail.

* However, due to the increase in timing and international postal expenses, international participants can send their works via e-mail ( basvuru@artanddesignplatform.com ). (*Only valid for participants outside Türkiye)

- Works should not exceed A4 (21x29.7 cm) size.

Any technique such as painting, drawing, pattern, original printing, photography, digital art, collage, etc. can be applied.

Works must have a stamp or stamp(sic) on them.

- The works sent must be original.

Works that are not appropriate for the subject, copied, partially or completely similar to other works and artificial intelligence applications will not be accepted.

Racist, fanatic, pornographic, gender discriminatory works will not be included in the exhibition.

- Those who send works to the exhibition must add the participant's:

Name and Surname,

Name of the Work,

Technique,

Dimensions,

Year of Production,

Country,

Address,

E-mail,

(if any; facebook, instagram, website, etc.) contact information on the back of their works.

- The exhibition will be physically exhibited in the exhibition hall of Kastamonu University Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, digitally on “artanddesignplatform.com” and will be shared via social media and digital platforms.

(The right to change the planning, location and date of the physical exhibition belongs to Kastamonu University Faculty of Fine Arts and Design Graphic Design Department)

- Works participating in the exhibition will not be returned.

After the works are exhibited, they will be included in the inventory of the Graphic Design Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of Kastamonu University and archived.

All rights of the submitted works, such as publication, exhibition and use in printed or digital media, will belong to the Graphic Design Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of Kastamonu University. Those who send works to participate in the exhibition are deemed to have accepted these conditions.

- The works to be sent will not be used as a commercial commodity. Participants are deemed to have accepted that the submitted works have no commercial value.

- An electronic participation certificate will be issued to the participants whose works are exhibited and an e-catalog will be published.

- No responsibility is accepted for delays, damages and losses that may occur through mail.

Work Submission Deadline: 02 December 2024

Exhibition Date: December 23-27, 2024

Exhibition Link: http://artanddesignplatform.com

Communication: basvuru@artanddesignplatform.com .

6.10.24

Mailart cut into three pieces received from Susan Gold / Smith, Canada

Thank you Susan.

25.9.24

Collaged card in plastic cover from Zorica Obradovic, Serbia: Beauty & Soul

Thank you very much Zorica.

7.9.24

Call for Mail Art Project: 5 Arguments 2025, Hungary

5 ARGUMENTS

Call for Mail Art Projects

In 2025, Ákos Székely, avant-garde artist, visual poet, a leading figure in Hungarian assemblage, mail art and fluxus, would have turned 80. The aim of this mail art call is to pay tribute to Ákos Székely's life's work and personality.

We are looking for works that reflect on the following theme: 5 arguments.

Ákos Székely considered it important to develop the debating skills and critical thinking of his students. Open debates took place in his classes on all literary and artistic questions. A fundamental rule was that participants had to support their points with 5 arguments.

Online sources about Ákos Székely:

Artpool https://artpool.hu/Poetry/soundimage/Szekely.html

Leopold Bloom https://bloomsday.hu/index.php/en/projects/leopold-bloom

● topic of the call:

○ 5 arguments

● deadline:

○ 15 March 2025

● size:

○ A/5 (148 * 210 mm)

● no jury / no selection / no returning / no participation fee

● vernissage:

○ 16 June 2025