(,) Call For Artists - Toy Art
Call For Artists The Museu Brasileiro da Escultura in São Paulo, Brazil will select 500 artists to participate in the collaborate non-profit exhibition TOY ART. Artists selected will receive one Kit by TROY ART to assemble and customize in his or her own way. The artist will send the work back to the MuBE by November 30, 2010. Each artist is responsible for packing the work as well as the cost of mailing it to the Museum. The artist will also need to photograph the finished TOY ART piece, fully assembled and customized, and e mail the image to: info @ angelaferrara.com After the works are exhibited, the individual works will become part of the permanent collection of Museu Brasileiro da Escultura in São Paulo, Brazil. If you would like to apply for a kit, please send an e mail with your name and complete address to: info @ angelaferrara.com The deadline for applications for this exhibition is October 30, 2010. Please do not delay in your application. http://toymube.blogspot.com/p/call-for-artists.html
(,) fwd: Photos of Unmade Beds
Greetings artists, In preparation for my next exhibition of the 101 Beds, I am creating _Unmade Beds: A Photo Collection of Intimacy_ (http://unmadebedpro ject.tumblr. com/) comprised of photographs of unmade beds...taken the moment after your feet hit the ground! If you want, you can do even do it with your cell phone camera... To participate, just follow this link: _http://unmadebedpro ject.tumblr. com/_ (http://unmadebedpro ject.tumblr. com/) It's easy and with your help I will have at least 1000 images this month. Pass it on to all your friends, your Facebook community... everyone is welcome to participate. Thanks for your help! It is truly appreciated. And there will be a surprise for those who do help! Warm regards Leah And if you want to see the latest beds I have done, just check out the website: _www.leahpoller. com_ (http://www.leahpoll er.com) LEAH POLLER Director Art Alliance - Inarea, Inc. 310 West 133 Street, # 1 New York NY 10030 e: lpol...@inarea. com
(,) Call for art donations
The Creative Center for People with Cancer is a very worthwhile organization. Below is their call for donations. GOT ART? DONATE ART! SUPPORT ART! CALL FOR ENTRIES: Artists are invited to DONATE UNFRAMED 4” x 6” work (any medium) for The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare annual fundraiser to be held on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at The University Settlement 184 Eldridge Street, NYC. ALL PROCEEDS FROM “GOT ART?” will benefit The Creative Center's Artist-in-Residence hospital program and free-of-charge art workshops for people living with and beyond cancer and other chronic illnesses. Work should be UNFRAMED and SIGNED ON THE BACK ONLY with contact information. Please include name and e-mail. Send all work to: THE CREATIVE CENTER : Arts in Healthcare 273 Bowery, NY , NY 10002 DEADLINE: No Later than SEPTEMBER 22, 2010!!! Questions? E-mail i...@thecreativecenter.org
(,) mail art call
INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART PROJECT NO COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL The production of an art that fits exclusively one’s own creative needs without stooping to compromises to make it a consumer good Format: free Technique free: 2 3 d, music, video, performance, poetry and small stories(on digital support) deadline: 2010, December 10th no return, no fee, no selection, no jury (No pornography please) Works should be sent at the following address: Maurizio Follin, Via M.te Cervino, 27 30173 Favaro V.to - Venezia - Italy please insert name, surname, country, address + e-mail address (for notification of final documentation) and web site if exist. All works must be send by post with postage stamps. On line catalogue on the website: http://itsonlymailartnocommercial.blogspot.com/ pdf catalog by : Claudio Romeo Exibition: Galleria Terre Rare - Bologna Garage N.3 Gallery - Venezia Mestre Spazio espositivo Barrique - Scriò di Dolegna del Collio GO Evento organizzato in collaborazione con: DodoDada Arte Postale - http://dododada.ning.com/ Terre Rare - http://http://www.terrerare.net/ Ambasciata di Venezia : http://www.artistampnews.com/dated_calls/html/italian_calls.html Reantà Non Ordinaria - http://realtano.it/ Testi critici : Giancarlo Da Lio Ciao and thanks IT’S ONLY MAIL ART http://itsonlymailart.blogspot.com/
(,) call: International Mail Art Exhibition in Ny íracsád
Call for mail art International Mail Art Exhibition in Nyíracsád The Local Authority of Nyíracsád, Dózsa György Cultural Centre and the Tour inform Office are calling for an application to create Mail-Art (postal –art) works of arts. Topic: Flying Size: maximum: 40 cms by 30 cms Technic: not fixed Number of works: maximum 3-4 The works mustn’t disturb any national feelings or feelings of ethnic minorities. Deadline for the works of art to arrive: 2010. March 31. Address: Kiss József Nyíracsád Széchenyi Street 11. Hungary 4262 kis...@freemail.hu or kissj...@gmail.com There will be an exhibition from the works of arts opening on 24 April 2010 in the Mill Gallery in Nyíracsád. We won’t send back the works, they will be in the ownership of the Local Authority of Nyíracsád, and they will be exhibited in the Mill Gallery. We are planning to continue this application every second year with different topics. We are also planning to open a Mail Art Gallery in Nyíracsád and exhibit the collection there. It would be advisable to start posting any “Mail Art” contributions from the beginning of January, February so they don’t get accumulated at the post office just before the deadline. Dr Katona Gyulamayor Kiss József painter, organiser
(,) fwd: virtual art call
(PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION. INSTEAD REPLY WITH CONTACT INFO GIVEN IN THE MESSAGE BELOW. THANK YOU.) Artsactual has an opportunity for artists to participate in a virtual artwork by simply recording a short 10 second message using the telephone or a web application here: http://arsactual.com/voices.html There will be a real world component in 5 galleries throughout the world and the virtual piece will be accessed there also. The website has the phone numbers, more information, and the web app to participate. thank you Aequitas
(,) Another call for art for Haiti - Monkdogz
We are asking artists to create small flat works of art measuring 5” x7” (13cms x 18cms) to be sent to us at: Monkdogz Urban Art Inc Haiti Art Fund P.O.Box 1440 Port Washington New York 11050 We need the artwork as soon as possible and no later than February 22nd. http://www.haitiartfund.com/ Please sign the work on the back and if possible send a jpg of the work to: i...@haitiartfund.com Please encourage others to donate works or bid on the artwork. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best Marina monkdogz urban art New York Tel: 516 655 1000 www.monkdogz.com and our artblog: www.artblahblah.com and www.haitiarthund.com
(,) Call - Art for skateboards
Art Wanted: to support Skateistan, a charity that teaches kids, boys and girls, to skateboard in Afghanistan. We teach kids how to work together across class and gender lines as well as teach them other social and school skills. In an effort to raise funds for our new school as well as get the word out, I am planning a fundraising event in NY for late May/early June. We are trying to pool the great artists to create original art for auction on blank skateboarding decks that we will provide. We have been very fortunate to get some great established as well as up-and-coming talent interested, with a wide range of styles such as Olafur Eliasson to lots of amazing street artists such as Royce Bannon, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Billi Kid, just to name a few. Contact Ahra, a...@skateistan.org See: http://www.skateistan.org
(,) A House falls into the sea....
Landscape artist Kane Cunningham has used his credit card to buy a house that is about to fall into the sea. A bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire – near the scene of the infamous Holbeck Hotel cliff collapse 16 years ago has been condemned after a fresh landslip. Cunningham states: ‘I’ve bought a house that will be the next one to fall over the cliff. It feels like I have no choice. I’m going to rig the house with cameras and film the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty. ‘It’s the perfect site-specific installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sealevels. It’s global recession and global warming encapsulated. This little house is feet away from the edge of thecliff – it can go at any moment. The idea is to create an artwork on a scale never been seen before in North Yorkshire and to stimulate within the imagination of the public the idea that this house falling into the sea can become a work of art. If the aim of art is to stimulate discussion and debate on issues, then surely this will get people talking.' Cunningham best known for his landscape paintings said 'My work has always been about understanding the social and political context of landscape; the house is just a development of these ideas'. Cunningham who bought the house on his credit card for £3,000 said, 'the house was worth over £150,000 two years ago, now it is worth just a fraction of the original price. The purchase of this house on my credit card is a deliberate financial transaction suggesting the link to credit, sub prime mortgages, property ownership, debt, loans, the financial markets, property speculation, boom and bust'. One idea, which has emerged recently as a consequence of the work, is to invite people to send me letters on any subject, these will be pinned to a wall as part of the artwork, then destroyed as the house disappears. So who knows what they may contain! This is called the ‘Last Post’, as the address will one day cease to exist and so it’s a rare opportunity to participate in an original and unique work of art. Finally 'The House' in many ways epitomises the decade, of unprecedented greed, of lies and deceit, the art market, credit debt, war and conflict across the world. It’s a symbol that can be interpretive in many ways. The timing of the press release is deliberate, just after Copenhagen and just before Christmas when all focus is on the home, when families come together and when we all reflect upon things we feel are important. Just after Christmas we will have a webcam to see the sunrise and possible destruction of the house as it goes over the cliff, so please visit the site again to see new work being produced as I go along. To include video, digital photographs, paintings, prints, sculptures and site specific work within the house as I physically deconstruct the building over the next few weeks. Send mail art (no deadline, but time is obviously of the essence) to: The Last Post 20 Knipe Point Cayton, Scarborough North Yorkshire, England http://kanecunningham.co.uk/ http://kanecunningham.co.uk/house.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6914093/Artist-buys-house-to-watch-it-fall-in-sea.html http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/whatson/exhibitions/4818014.Kane_Cunningham_s_House_art_project_at_Cayton__Scarborough/
(,) Fwd: call for art zines
Forwarded call: http://d21-leipzig.de/artzines-english (English) http://d21-leipzig.de/artzines (German) ARTZINES 7 - 30 May 2010, Thurs - Sun 1 - 7 pm In May 2010 the German non-profit art space D21 Kunstraum will host an exhibition of ArtZines – small artist publications that circulate in astounding varieties of forms and shapes, in print and online versions, at more or less regular intervals. These periodicals often refer to the DIY-approach of their predecessors, classic fanzines, which emerged from the ‘70s punk and underground music scene, mostly in the UK and the US. The ArtZines show will shed light on an artistic medium that not only seems to have continuously gained visibility, popularity and presence in contemporary art institutions. It also addresses the ways in which its producers have adopted new channels of distribution, made possible by the Internet, that support interconnectedness and global coalescence. In order to present a cross-section of publications that meet the outlined criteria, we have started a far-reaching and extensively communicated open call for zines, of which a selection will be shown in the D21 Kunstraum galleries. Focusing on issues of display and seminal exhibition design, students of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, class of Systemdesign (Prof. Oliver Klimpel), will develop a design concept for the exhibition. Furthermore, we are working closely together with mzin, a Leipzig-based gallery and bookshop for graphics, art and pop. A symposium within the framework of the show will bring a number of zine producers, distributers, collectors, curators and readers together. These participants will connect and discuss different facets of their work, outline historical dimensions as well as influential precursors, and the impact of technological advance and digital culture for a traditionally paper-based medium. In addition to that, two workshops will be held, one by the Leipzig-based publishers of spector cut+paste magazine, the second as part of a school project. Both workshops will each explore different practical approaches and techniques in the production of ArtZines. Contact: Regine Ehleiter | ehlei...@d21-leipzig.de http://d21-leipzig.de/datafiles/file/Dokumente/Open%20CALL2.pdf
(,) FWD: Project: You should be looking elsewhere.
Reply to: danieldariel niel.r...@gmail.com Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:33 pm (PST) You should be looking elsewhere. I'm looking forward to print big posters with this sentence written on them, then put them everywhere crowded in the city. Appearing as an order to those who look at this sentence, I want people to think about the commercial manipulation of our instincts. If this sentence says I should look somewhere else, do I have to do it ? As an advice given to transcend the relationship between eyesight and imaginaton, this sentence, beyond questioning our everyday's commercial brainwashing, appeals to a view of poetry in life, what cannot be said by simple words but can be felt as living forms, a fluctuation of life itself beyond social and psychological restrictions. I don't know if I expressed myself correctly on this subject, as my main language is french I'm having some issues with using the right english words. If you understood the message, I would like to know if you'd be interested in my project, and also act as a collaborative action by putting the posters, flyers, etc with You should be looking elsewhere written on them in your city. Hope you're enjoying winter, Daniel.
(,) fwd: What I don't like - mail art call
WHAT I DON’T LIKE It is so well to draw all the things that one doesn’t like Don’t ask me why because I can’t answer you as I am shy by nature and emotionally blocked. Personally, I don’t like the following things: I don’t like the fish, I don’t like the plane, I don’t like the cheese of goat, I don’t like the secret services, I dont’t like the red colour, I don’t like the women with black hair, I don’t like the milk, I don’t like the liars, I don’t like the fashion parades, I don’t like the french cars, I don’t like the spinach, I don’t like the rain, I don’t like the snow, I don’t like the sport, I don’t like the winter, I don’t like to do my shoes, I don’t like the temperate continental climate, I don’t like the red wine and neither after Franz Liszt I am not so interested... There are also things that can not be drown such As “the risk” which is of many kinds... However I have drown it and if there are persons who want to see how it looks like, they have only to ask me. But most of the things are made in such a way that they can be drown or told...Is it difficult to draw a red nose? no, it is difficult to draw the sparkling eyes (you know why...) no. Well, if everything is so simple I’m waiting as many works of MAIL-ART as possible from you, sent by mail before the 30th of January 2010 (Stamp Date) on the following address: MUZEUL FLOREAN PO.BOX-1, postal 9, BAIA MARE, MARAMURES ROMANIA - Technique: any media; - Size - postal card; - We post all your works on the FLOREAN MUSEUM web-site: www.cmc.ro/muzeulflorean - The opening takes place at the FLOREAN MUSEUM ART GALLERIES, STREET VICTORIEI, NO.146, BAIA MARE, on the 4th of March 2010. For other details contact me: mirceaboc...@adslexpress.ro DON’T FORGET! My name is MIRCEA BOCHIS since I saw the daylight for the very first time so that I can not be mistaken.
(,) fwd: What I have in my soul - mail art call
What I have in my soul If you want to see what I have in my soul access www.cmc.ro/florean_museum/whatihaveinmysoul.php If you do not want to see what I have in my soul and want only to listen then I will tell you. I have a sky in my soul, a sky at which I always look, I have a big hole in my sole where I down occasionally just to take a cold beer, I have scales on which I down and climb waiting for something to happen and I also have an indefinite world which I love. There are also small things that I do not know exactly what they are, that’s why I only look at them and leave them alone. What do you have in your soule? If you do not have anything, draw a black spot, if you can not draw then write a text. If you do not want to make anything than draw a red star because this is always good and it replaces everything... Send us as many works of MAIL-ART as possible before the 30th of January 2010 ( Stamp Date) on the following address: MUZEUL FLOREAN PO.BOX-1, postal 9, BAIA MARE, MARAMURES ROMANIA. - Technique: any media; - Size - postal card; - We post all your works on the FLOREAN MUSEUM web-site: www.cmc.ro/muzeulflorean - The opening takes place at the FLOREAN MUSEUM ART GALLERIES, STREET VICTORIEI, NO.146, BAIA MARE, on the 4th of March 2010. - Do not even think at the possibility to give back your works of MAIL-ART. However you can think with pleasure to the chance of having your works in the museum collections. For other details you can contact me: mirceaboc...@adslexpress.ro Mircea Bochis mirceaboc...@adslexpress.ro
(,) I am collecting stray knit gloves for a project
I am collecting stray gloves. Knit gloves. If you loose a glove, don't throw out it's mate, give it to me. Or if you find a stray glove, save it for me. All colors, all sizes. Knit gloves. I have a project. THANK YOU. Let me know and we will arrange a time I can get them from you. Or if you prefer to mail them, especially if you are not in NYC. - Tamara Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
(,) fwd: Art swap in NYC
DIY Quick and Dirty Ephemera Swap. Friday, December 11, 6-9:30pm at EFA Project Space: a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City. The event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition One Every Day: A Printeresting Curatorial Project. We invite you to bring your prints, posters, photocopy art, zines, comix, buttons, T-shirts, stickers, chapbook, mail art, and any other form of multiple that is ripe for distribution. The Swap is intended for creators to trade the stuff they've made (no sales, only trades) and embrace the gift economy made possible through mass production. The items you bring must be a product of your own creation. For more information, and if you wish to participate, please rsvp to michelle(at)efa1.org ASAP. http://efa1.org/gallery/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/EFA-Project-Space/23043379292
(,) No Commercial Potential - call for mail art
FROM: Maurizio Follin maurizio.fol...@alice.it No Commercial Potential - The production of an art that fits exclusively one’s own creative needs without stooping to compromises to make it a consumer good. Format: free Technique free: 2 3 d, music, video, performance, poetry and small stories(on digital support) deadline: 2010, December 10th no return, no fee, no selection, no jury (No pornography please) Works should be sent at the following address: Maurizio Follin, Via M.te Cervino, 27 30173 Favaro V.to - Venezia - Italy please insert name, surname, country, address + e-mail address (for notification of final documentation) and web site if exist. All works must be send by post with postage stamps. On line catalogue on the website: http://itsonlymailartnocommercial.blogspot.com/ pdf catalog by : Claudio Romeo Exibition: Galleria Terre Rare - Bologna Garage N.3 Gallery - Venezia Mestre Spazio espositivo Barrique - Scriò di Dolegna del Collio GO Event organized in collaboration with: DodoDada Arte Postale - http://dododada.ning.com/ Terre Rare - http://http://www.terrerare.net/ Ambasciata di Venezia : http://www.artistampnews.com/dated_calls/html/italian_calls.html Reantà Non Ordinaria - http://realtano.it/
(,) fwd: D.I.Y Budget Gallery
D.I.Y Budget Gallery Start your own guerilla art shows in public space. Online resource covers every aspect of organizing a Budget Gallery from sending a call, to choosing a location, to selling art, can be used as a resource for organizing other, related events. http://wiki.budgetgallery.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
(,) Mail art call: “A Book About Death” - Bra zil
“A Book About Death” - Brazil MUBE: Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, opens a new chapter in A Book About Death with a new call for art works for exhibition February 6 - 28, 2010. PLEASE SEND: SINGLE WORKS: Approx. 6 x 9 MEDIUM: Open; all works accepted THEME: A Book About Death DEADLINE: January 30, 2010 MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura is asking for submissions from artists throughout the world as a critical part and new chapter in the exhibition of the “A Book About Death” collaborative project. This exhibition at MUBE opens on February 6, 2010 and runs through February 28. A deadline of January 30, 2010 has been set for reception of all submissions, although we will install any cards received after that date. Digital works are not accepted, sorry. To be included in this exhibition, make a postcard on the theme of death and send it to: MUBE – Museu Brasileiro da Escultura Avenida Europa, 218 – Jardim Europa CEP 01449 000 - São Paulo - Brasil All works submitted to MUBE will become a part of the permanent collection of the Museum, and will not be returned. Documentation online of all new works will be made over the course of the next few months. http://mube.art.br http://umlivrosobreamorte.blogspot.com/ http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/ FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT : Angela Ferrara (atelierferr...@gmail.com) http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/2009/11/mube-sao-paulo-brazil-call-for-works-50.html
(,) FWD: used but undeveloped rolls of film needed
Please reply to lucidinsomn...@gmail.com Artist and writer needs used but undeveloped rolls of film for a project: Film of any kind, any time period, old junk cameras with leftover film in them and disposable cameras, too. Even if the film is only partially used, may have gone bad, if what's on it is mundane or a mystery-- if you can part with it, I'd love to use it. I'll be developing pictures from the submitted rolls for use in a writing project. I'm particularly interested in film left over for family events, vacations and daily life. Lost and found pictures. Garage sale cameras. The older, the better. You know that roll that's been rattling around the junk drawer for years, and you don't remember whether it's from your teenage niece's baptism, an insurance claim or a camping trip during the Clinton administration? That's the one. If you have film or a disposable camera to contribute, please email lucidinsomniac(at)gmail.com for the mailing address. If you prefer, email me your address and I'll send you a postage-paid envelope. Thank you so much for your help!
(,) call - FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT
Be part of THE FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT, an artwork CONNECTING + COLLECTING the voices of our country’s youth to support a SOLUTION to help end childhood lead poisoning. This fun and simple project will honor the value of YOUR action. CONTRIBUTE YOUR CREATIVITY to the CAUSE: 1. Simply start with the FUNDRED worksheet 2. Draw your unique FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL 3. Send your artwork to a COLLECTION CENTER near you The Nationwide pickup will begin November 2009. Our armored truck will DELIVER YOUR VOICE in April 2010. Draw your FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL today! http://fundred.org/
(,) Kafka -- and Eraserhead -- can make you smarter
Kafka -- and Eraserhead -- can make you smarter Study says surrealism can improve learning by compelling the brain to seek out structure. “We rely on structure to make sense of the world,” says Steven J. Heine, co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. “If you encounter something that you can't relate [to other things], that you don't know what to do with it, this sort of puts you off your game and you need to search for a reference point again to again find some structure.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/kafka-and-eraserhead-can-make-you-smarter/article1290182/ http://www.tonic.com/article/surreal-material-may-bolster-cognitive-functions/
(,) art in a locker
Here's an interesting art project, you go see art in a locker - I haven't done it yet http://randallanderson.net/pdf/The%20Manhattan%20Prototype.pdf
(,) Life, Art and Chickens, Afloat in the Harbor
New York Times: Life, Art and Chickens, Afloat in the Harbor For the last two months artists have been floating around New York City on the Waterpod, a 3,000-square-foot experiment in community living and artistry. Founded by Mary Mattingly, whose medium is mainly photography, it was envisioned as a self-sustaining living space, an eco- and art-friendly sphere that could be recreated in the future, when land resources might be scarce. Preparing for the project, Ms. Mattingly thought about hardship and utopia. And so the Waterpod — at least that part of it that is not a commercial shipping barge, whose rental was backed by dozens of public and private groups — was built from donations and recyclables. Its systems run on solar power; its crew grows its own greens, collects its own rainwater. These things cared for each day, the notion was that the crew could work on more creative pursuits. In practice, however, the Waterpod has turned out to be more an experiment in sociability and isolation, aesthetic vision and mass utility, organization and freedom, and, mostly, endurance. Read the rest of the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/arts/design/13barge.html?themc=th
(,) Buffalo Mail art - CORRECTION
CORRECTION: Mary Bomar is no longer Director. Jon Jarvis will have to be confirmed by the Senate. Not sure when that will take place. Deputy Director Dan Wenk will serve as Acting Director until a new NPS Director is nominated and confirmed. Buffalo Mail Art Call America’s last wild buffalo herd is in danger. The Yellowstone, Montana herd is both genetically and behaviorally unique, being the only herd with continuously wild ancestry from the days when 50 million buffalo migrated freely across the Great Plains. Today they are being killed because of the greed of beef ranchers. For more information see The Buffalo Field Campaign: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/ Mail Art Call: Please make Buffalo themed mail art. Any size, any materials. Please write on your artwork anywhere an unambiguous message such as PROTECT THE YELLOWSTONE WILD BUFFALO No deadline No documentation Send mail art to: National Park Service Deputy Director Dan Wenk 1849 C Street NW Room 3312 Washington, DC 20240 USA Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Suzanne Lewis PO Box 168 Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190 USA Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Department of the Interior 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington DC 20240 USA
(,) Facebook: Messages to Become Public by Default
Hey, if you are on facebook, you ought to read this article. I can't figure out how to complain to facebook about this. I was looking in the Help section. If anyone knows how to complain to fb management, let us know. - Tamara New York Times: The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Public by Default One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends. http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/06/24/24readwriteweb-the-day-facebook-changed-messages-to-become-18772.html OR http://tinyurl.com/lgpfh8
(,) Breast Health and Healing Virtual Quilt
I thought you might be interested in this: Take a look at the story currently on the NYTimes local site http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/art-for-a-cure/ about contributions by artists to the virtual quilt, started by the Breast Health Healing Foundation - a non profit raising money for breast cancer research.
(,) fwd: 75 Ways to Draw More
A very charming book you can print yourself by Michael Nobbs - 75 Ways to Draw More http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelnobbs/ Print sheet 1 and sheet 2 on both sides of a piece of lightweight cardstock, cut in half, fold and staple. There's some other things on the site, but they aren't really part of the book.
(,) FWD: mail art call on dangerous artist's materials
THÈME: DANGEROUS ART Commentaire: Some art and craft materials contain toxic or harmful chemicals, yet artists often use these materials without adequate information about their composition and potential risks. Artists usually lack training in safety procedures, even though they are using chemicals. To help increase awareness on this theme, we invite to participate in the mail art call dangerous art. Technique: free - collage, photography, drawing, painting, artist's stamps, sculpture, assemblage, etc. Size: free Documentation: Will be posted online at http://dangerousart.blogspot.com/ Exhibition: At the end of the call, a collective exhibition will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the atelier/cultural space Unidad Multiple. Other exhibitions and future publication of material is possible depending upon opportunities and the response to this call. No jury, no fee, no returns. Please include your name and address. Date limite: September 31, 2009 ADRESSE: Silvia Bocca Marcelo Fitte 1755 piso 15 D (1428) Capital Federal Ciudad de Buenos Aires Argentina
(,) fwd: Mail Art Envelope Fundraiser
theme POSTMARKED 2009 Commentaire: Fifth Annual International Art Envelope Fundraiser Exhibition and Silent Auction June 1-7, 2009 DEADLINE: May 25, 2009 Requesting your original mail art for display and sale to raise funds for The Claremont Forum's Prison Library Project, which sends thousands of books free to inmates throughout the country. Hundreds of volunteers package books (donated to the Project by our local community), which are then mailed in response to inmate letters requesting reading material while incarcerated. For many years, The Claremont Forum received these requests in hand-illustrated envelopes created by the prisoners who sent them. It is in this tradition that we present POSTMARKED as our very appropriate fundraiser. Please join us for this international event! Your mail art may be painted, stamped, collaged, printed, and/or otherwise decorated or constructed. It may be any shape and size that will go through the mail and receive an official postmark. It may get worn or torn through the mail, but the handling process is an important part of the theme.. Only the side with the postmark can be displayed, due to space limitations, but the art doesn't have to be limited to that side. You may include any message inside the envelope, which will be opened only by the person who purchases the art envelope. All POSTMARKED 2009 entries will be on display at the Claremont Forum for a week, during which time visitors may place silent auction bids. All sales proceeds go to the Prison Library Project. You may submit more than one piece… and begin sending now! To learn more about Postmarked 2009 and to view POSTMARKED 2008 Entries and Exhibition please visit www.postmarkedmailart.blogspot.com To learn more about the Prison Library Project and the Claremont Forum please visit www.claremontforum.org Exhibit: June 1-7, 2009 The Claremont Forum 586 W First Street (in the Packing House) Claremont CA Hours: noon-4 daily Public Reception: Fri June 5, 5-9pm Auction ends Sunday June 7, 5pm Date limite: May 25, 2009 ADRESSE: Postmarked 2009 Prison Library Project 112 Harvard #303 Claremont CA 91711 USA
(,) fwd: Mail artist censored and harassed by police in France
I am forwarding this - Looks like a mail artist got in trouble... I googled it, Here's a website: http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/2008/pissier.htm Here is a shorter version, but with a jpeg of the postcard in question http://nicholasurfe.com/article/356/the-curious-case-of-philipe-pissier there's a French news report here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He45aioz9is THE PHILIPPE PISSIER CASE – EL CASO DE PHILIPE PISSIER Dear friends of Networking Without a doubt you will know that the mailartist Phillipe Pissier ( pissier.phili...@paganguild.org ) has slope a judgement by having sent a postal with the image of the bosom of a woman to an exposition to the who he was invited. Pissier runs the risk of three years of prison and a penalty of 175.000 Euros for the crime of perturb the public and mental order that they put in danger to the children by means of a pornographic work. The same image, that belongs to an French anonymous artist of XVI century, is in the opened screen of Museum of Louvre , including for children. A Committee of Support has been started for those interested : Comité de Soutien à Philippe Pissier, c/o Libraithèque « Le Droit à la Paresse » 68 rue Saint-James, 46000 Cahors, France. Phone. 05.65.22.01.51. Contact : Michel Guillaumin, Phone: 06.79.89.13.18. miguillau...@wanadoo.fr Pissier will be carried to judgement presently for which we solicited to Networking the shipment of applications in his favor and demands for liberty of expression to: Tribunal de Grande Instance de Cahors Boulevard Léon Gambetta B.P. 289 46010 CAHORS CEDEX 9 FRANCE ………. A la Red de artistas correo del mundo: sin duda Ustedes sabrán que el artista-correo Phillipe Pissier ( pissier.phili...@paganguild.org ) tiene pendiente un juicio por haber enviado una postal con la imagen del pecho de una mujer a una exposición a la cual fue invitado. Pissier corre el riesgo de tres años de prisión y una multa de 175.000 euros por el delito de perturbar el orden público y mentales que ponen en peligro a los niños por medio de un trabajo pornográfico. La misma imagen, perteneciente a un artista anónimo francés del siglo XVI, se encuentra en la pantalla abierta en el Museo del Louvre, incluyendo a los menores de edad. El Comité de apoyo a Phillipe Pissier está en : Libraithèque « Le Droit à la Paresse » 68 rue Saint-James, 46000 Cahors, France. Phone. 05.65.22.01.51. Contact : Michel Guillaumin, Phone : 06.79.89.13.18. miguillau...@wanadoo.fr Pissier será llevado a juicio en breve por lo cual solicitamos al Networking el envío de solicitudes en su favor y demandas por la libertad de expresión a: Tribunal de Grande Instance de Cahors Boulevard Léon Gambetta B.P. 289 46010 CAHORS CEDEX 9 FRANCE Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert
(,) fwd: Add-Art - info and call
I thought this was a clever idea. You can submit your work, go to the website below, - Tamara About Add-Art Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators. Learn more about Add-Art or install it now (instructions). Screencast below... Firefox 3 compatible! Add-Art is currently working in Firefox 3! You can see more updates to our development on our forums or sign up for our mailing list. Developers, contributions are welcome – get started at our development site. http://add-art.org/
(,) BED CALL - (mail art)
MAIL ART CALL: BED CALL: pictures. drawings. photos of your BED deadline Feb 8, 2010 no emails/jpegs, only old school postal mail art. documentation to all. Blessings and peace, Donna Han (509) 216-1124 24 S. Crestline St. #4 Spokane, WA 99202 USA
(,) Fwd - call: ZOA mail art zine
http://sinister-ladybug.blogspot.com E-Mail: sinister.lady...@gmail.com Comments: ZOA is a small 5” x 7” (12.7 x 17.78 cm) mail art zine. It is not published on a set schedule; it is published every 20 pieces. If you're one of the first 20 mail artists to send me your art you'll be in the primer issue. :) Create a 5” x 7” (12.7 x 17.78 cm) piece of mail art (any theme), and send it to me. Once I have 20 pieces of mail art, I will publish a new issue, and send a copy to everyone who contributed. When I receive 20 more pieces of mail art, I’ll do it again, and so on. The addresses of each mail artist will be printed on the inside front and back covers to help promote mail art exchanges. Send your mail art to: ZOA c/o Pamdelion 716 Princeton Blvd. #21 Lowell, MA 01851 USA
(,) US Stamp prices to go up 2-cents in May
The price of a first-class stamp will rise to 44 cents on May 11. That gives plenty of time to stock up on Forever Stamps, which will continue to sell at the current 42-cent rate until the increase occurs. They will remain valid in the future regardless of rate hikes. Postage rates go up annually in May, with the new prices announced in February. The overall change is tied to the rate of inflation in the year before. Buffeted by rising costs and declining mail volume, the Postal Service lost $2.8 billion last year and, unless the economy turns around, is headed toward much larger losses this year. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_go_ot/postal_rates
(,) fwd: Natural Fibres Mail art
INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART PROJECT For the International Year 2009 of Natural Fibres Thema : natural fibres in our lives and our time Les vêtements ne doivent pas être quelque chose qui nous fait paraître ce que nous ne sommes pas, tonne M. Petrini. Les producteurs de fibres naturelles doivent devenir les acteurs d'une nouvelle mode durable pour en finir avec la mode éphémère. » Deadline : July 31 2009 Media : Photographs, collages, prints, texts, cartoons , all works with natural fibres plaited, twisted, sticked , colored …… Size : Postcard to A 4 size Your works will be displayed on my blog – . http://NaturalFibresMailart.blogspot.com – (and maybe displayed in some organization of the United Nations) No fee , No jury , no return Send to : Chaponnière Christiane , 11 rue aux Ours , Paris 75003 , France more info: christiane chaponniere chapoch...@gmail.com
(,) Postcard Prints
Hello Everyone, FYI. If you need additional information, please contact Kris Engle, redni...@gmail.com Iowa State University's Print Club is hosting the 9th Annual Postcard Print Exchange. Each year artists participate with entries from across the United States and as far away as Australia and the United Arab Emirates. The theme for this year's exchange is Two of Five Pick any Two of the following Five words as the basis of your print: Star Imposter Hallucinogenic Monster Fast You can use any form of these words such as monsters, monstrous, monstrously, monstrousness, monstrosity, etc...We encourage you to consider all possible meanings for the above words. Requirements: 1) Any EDITIONABLE printmaking technique may be used. (woodcuts, litho, intaglio, photography, silkscreen, digital printmaking, etc) Please Do Not send monoprints/monotype s. Each of the prints sent must be identical to the others. 2) The post cards must be 4 x 6. 3) 13 identical prints should be sent individually to the address posted below. (Each card must be stamped and will bear the markings of travel and the postal service. Do Not send the cards together in one envelope.) 4) Include the following information on the back of the card: a. Your return address b. April Katz' address (details below) c. A list of the process(es) used d. Optional: your e-mail address Donations Requested: Please send separately a donation to help pay for postage. Send cash or checks payable to The University Print Society. Suggested Donations: $2 students, $3 others, $4 international. Send more if you can, less if you can't. ENTRIES DUE: Friday, APRIL 10, 2009 After receiving everyone's postcard prints the University Print Society will randomly divide up the cards and you will be sent 12 new and different prints from other participants. The University Print Society will keep one of the 13 for its collection. Postage for returning the 12 new prints will be paid for by the University Print Society. Your donation will help us out tremendously however. Please be sure to put your return address on every postcard sent. Send postcard prints to: April Katz University Print Society 158 Design Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-3092 *Please send questions and comments to the University Print Society president, Kris Engle, redni...@gmail. com
(,) Elephant art?
I just heard a reference to something called elephant art that was something invented by Fluxus. I just tried to google it, but nothing showed up anybody familiar with elephant art? Just wondering, thanx, Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life. - Richard Aldington
(,) Fwd: Mini[e]MailArt from Hungary
The Mini[e]MailArt is an international e-mail project of Arnolfini Archives that was launced in 2004. As it is indicated in inviting applications a pictural gestures according to topic are asked to be placed on the downloadable empty surface, then the completed work is asked to be e-mailed. The first three announcaments – White gestures; Red lines; Yellow letters – were addressed to the narrower circle of friends, by invitation. In the first this blog documents the works came in till now. By announcing the fourth topic (Violet Spots) and launching this blog the project has become open, and anyone can send pictures according to conditions given. The works we get are going to be published continuously in the blog. http://arnolfini-mma.blogspot.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
(,) fwd: ART KNOWS NO BORDERS
Donations DEADLINE OCTOBER 1 * ART KNOWS NO BORDERS. An art, literary and music event to raise awareness of the effect of war, ethnic conflicts and genocide on present and subsequent generations, in particular the stalemate struggle over Nagorno-Karabahf. All proceeds from the art, door and auctions go to Doctors without Borders. At least 50 artists from Los Angeles and around the world to donate a piece of art of their choice or preferrably on the theme of Art Knows no Borders or in response to the mission of Medecins Sans Frontiers and their work, and to reach out to have their work bought at the silent auction. Tuesday, NOVEMBER 18, 2008 http://www.artknowsnoborders.com/home.html Contact Crystal Allene Cook for interest and to commit services or in-kind donations. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (310) 739-1159.
(,) Comic-Book Idols Rally to Aid a Holocaust Artist
The issue being, who has the right to the work, the artist or the museum? A compromise I could see would be for the museum to lend the work to the artist until her death, thereupon it would be returned to the museum, hasn't anyone thought of that - Tamara New York Times August 9, 2008 Comic-Book Idols Rally to Aid a Holocaust Artist By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES As all-star comic-book team-ups go, this one beats the first meeting of Superman and Spider-Man. Three of the elder statesmen of comic books — Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee — have joined forces to combat what they see as a real-world injustice. The men are lending their talents to tell the tale of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, who survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has steadfastly refused to return it. “I’m at a total loss,” Mrs. Babbitt wrote in an e-mail message. “I feel just as helpless as I did when I was at camp. Totally disempowered.” Now Mrs. Babbitt’s story has been captured in a six-page comic-book story illustrated by Mr. Adams, who helped take Batman back to his dark roots after the ’60s television show made him seem campy; inked partly by Mr. Kubert, whose comics career stretches back to the 1940s and who has drawn everyone from Hawkman to Sergeant Rock; and featuring an introduction by Mr. Lee, a co-creator of the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and many other Marvel heroes. The text was written by Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which has championed Mrs. Babbitt’s cause. Mr. Medoff and Mr. Adams have offered the story to DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment in the hopes of getting it published, but no deal is yet in place. The men first joined forces in 2006, when 450 cartoonists, artists and comic-book creators signed a petition asking the museum to return the art. “Rafael was in my studio and talking about this project, and the signatures, and what could be done,” said Mr. Adams, 67. Mr. Adams read Mr. Medoff’s summary but thought it was something more. “It told a story with economy and sincerity,” he said. “I realized this was a perfect script for a six-page story.” Choosing the artist was relatively easy. “I couldn’t think of anyone better or crazy enough to do it,” he explained. “So I decided to draw it.” The story, mainly in black and white but using splashes of color whenever Mrs. Babbitt’s work is shown, moves quickly from her childhood — when she drew Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck on paper sacks — to her arrival, with her mother, Johanna, at Auschwitz in September 1943, when she was about 20. It depicts the colorful mural that Mrs. Babbitt painted in the children’s barracks there. She started with Walt Disney’s version of Snow White, but her audience clamored for the Seven Dwarfs as well, and some farm animals. The original mural is believed to have been destroyed, and the story uses a re-creation Mrs. Babbitt painted last year. Mrs. Babbitt recently returned to her home in Felton, Calif., where she is recovering from surgery for abdominal cancer. “I think I could have done the dwarfs a lot better then because I was young and can’t paint as I used to,” she wrote by e-mail. “These were the only times that I was comfortable at camp, with my painting, you know. I felt human when I was painting.” By February 1944, Mrs. Babbitt had come to the attention of Mengele, who was dissatisfied with the photographs he had taken of the Gypsy, or Romany, prisoners in his effort to prove their genetic inferiority. He asked Mrs. Babbitt to paint their portraits to capture their skin tones better. She agreed, but only after insisting that her mother be spared from death. (The story reproduces five of the portraits.) The final two pages move from the liberation by Allied troops in 1945 to her life in the United States, where she worked for 17 years as an assistant animator for many Hollywood studios, including MGM and Warner Brothers, working on the likes of Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzalez. Auschwitz museum officials, in a statement issued in 2001, indicated that they had bought six of Mrs. Babbitt’s watercolors in 1963 from an Auschwitz survivor and acquired a seventh in 1977. In 1973 the museum asked her to verify her work but did not offer to return the items. The museum has argued that the artwork is important evidence of the Nazi genocide and part of the cultural heritage of the world. (The museum did not respond to telephone calls and an e-mail message requesting comment.) Others have come to Mrs. Babbitt’s defense, including Representative Shelley Berkley, Democrat of Nevada. In 2002 she sponsored a resolution in the House of
(,) Fwd: CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY - INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART PROJECT
Von: Maurizio Follin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 17. Juli 2008 11:45:29 MESZ An: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Betreff: Fw: CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY - INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART PROJECT INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART PROJECT CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY Quel sottile filo che, al di fuori ed al di sopra dei singoli progetti e delle esperienze personali, unisce l'opera di Ray Johnson all'attuale Mail Art That tenuous thread that, outside and above individual projects and personal experiences, connects the work of Ray Johnson to the current Mail Art Formato: libero / Format: free Tecnica: libera / Technique: free Catalogo on-line su sito: / On line catalogue on the website: http://itsonlymailartconcept.blogspot.com/ Scadenza / dead line: 10-12-2008 I lavori vanno spediti al seguente indirizzo: / Works should be sent at the following address: Maurizio Follin,Via M.te Cervino, 27 30173 Favaro V.to - Venezia - Italy Indicando nome, cognome, nazionalità ed indirizzo dell'artista + indirizzo e-mail ed eventuale sito web / please insert name, surname, country, address + e-mail address and web site if exist. Tutti i lavori devono essere spediti per posta con francobollo postale. All works must be send by post with postage stamps. Le opere ricevute non saranno restituite / Works of art we receive won't be given back. Per ulteriori informazioni : http://itsonlymailartprog.blogspot.com/ For more information : http://itsonlymailartprog.blogspot.com/ IT'S ONLY MAIL ART http://itsonlymailart.blogspot.com/
(,) fwd: Typewriter mail art
Theme: Typewriter Tema: Macchina da scrivere free size qualsiasi dimensione no return le opere ricevute non saranno restituite exhibition in Italy, doc. on line: www.guzzardi.it/arte/machine.html mostra in Italy, doc. on line: www.guzzardi.it/arte/machine.html deadline 30/07/2008 scadenza 30/07/2008 all works must be sent by post tutti i lavori devono essere spediti per posta dont’ forget your photo, some lines of biography, address and e-mail address non dimenticarti una tua foto, una breve biografia, indirizzo postale ed e-mail send to: spedisci a: Macchina da scrivere By Claudio Grandinetti Via Popilia Palazzo Manna 1 87100 Cosenza ITALIA
(,) Fwd: CALL FOR A LOGO grassroots feminism
I know this isn't mail art, but thought maybe someone here would be interested. REPLY TO: Elke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward widely, many thanks! (and sorry for cross-posting) CALL FOR A LOGO for the web site: grassroots feminism - archives, resources and a community platform for the feminist movement Working towards the recognition and renewal of the contemporary feminist movement, the aim of this web site is: - to archive activities of the grassroots feminist and queer feminist movement worldwide (be it cultural, activist or political) - to provide and share information and resources on feminist practice and theory - to offer possibilities for exchange, networking and interaction so we can connect across borders and re-envision feminist politics! Users will be able to add, list and search projects (activist, art, media, music,…), special archives (feminist zines, Ladyfest and DIY events, Riot Grrrl), resources and interviews. The site will also offer a calendar of events and a map with the projects listed. And, finally, we hope to establish a lively community (kind of a “feminist facebook”)! The web site is created and maintained by Elke Zobl (www.grrrlzines. net, Austria), in collaboration with Red Chidgey (www.redchidgey. net, UK). The site is in the process of being programmed and should go online in October 2008. For this, we are looking for a logo! We are envisioning a drawing or illustration together with the lettering “grassroots feminism”. Or we could provide the lettering, if you have an idea for an illustration/ drawing. The logo could be figurative (depictions of figures) or more symbolic. The logo/illustration should: - be relevant for an international feminist movement (not just a scene, age-group, etc.) - represent global grassroots feminism as a dynamic movement for social change that uses a variety of methods/media/ cultural and activist means - transport a do it yourself-ethic and a creative activist queer feminism: art, culture, media,... - indicate a global scope and international issues - appeal to different ages, ethnicities, backgrounds, ... (We are very conscious about making this site as representative as possible) - be striking and contemporary The logo will be used on the web site and any materials printed in relation to it (T-Shirts, postcards, buttons,…). If you are interested in creating a logo for this site, please contact us! Send us some samples of your work and/or a draft idea of the logo (jpg) until July 13. The logo should be finished latest by July 20. If we select your design, we will pay you 300,- (includes copyright) and you will receive postcards and a T-Shirt that we are planning to make with the logo as well. Please email Elke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your ideas, suggestions, questions, be it logo- or otherwise! Many thanks!! - - - - - - Elke Zobl, Roemerweg 22, 5061 Elsbethen, Austria http://grrrlzines. net tel +43 664 84 82 371 skype: e.zobl
(,) email art call: GREEN
Exit Art is asking for responses to the question: What does green mean to you? for the exhibition It’s Not Easy, a show inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”. Curated entirely through email submissions, responses will be printed on 8½” x 11” paper and exhibited in Exit Art’s lower level gallery venue, Exit Underground. As buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations seek to “green” their practices, and as global warming puts the need to be green at the forefront, we are virtually inundated with social pressures to be environmentally sustainable. But what does the word ‘green’ really mean? Does it adequately describe a movement to be sustainable? What does green mean to you? Exit Art wants to investigate the etymological, historical, environmental and psychological readings of GREEN. You may respond both in image and text to the question: What does green mean to you? by submitting your work formatted to fit on an 8½” x 11” sheet of paper. Your submission can take the form of a letter, text, drawing, poem, collage, photograph, or any other format that can fit on a piece of paper. Submissions should be sent as a PDF or JPEG in an email attachment. All images must be 300 dpi or greater and all texts should be embedded. Please include your full name, city, state and country of residence in the email. You may submit more than one response. Accepted submissions will be exhibited in Exit Underground from July 24 – August 29, 2008. Submissions should be emailed to Lauren Rosati, Assistant Curator, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Friday, July 11, 2008. http://www.exitart.org
(,) Fwd: Postcard art call
The National Postal Museum is putting out a call for postcard mail art! Postcard Art Connection Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Postcards carry messages of friendship and travel. Design a creative postcard with your message of friendship and mail it to the National Postal Museum before this June program to participate in a “mail art” display. On the day of the workshop, all are welcome to create mail art. Please mail your postcard art by June 20 to: Postcard Art Connection National Postal Museum Education Department PO Box 37012, MRC 570 Washington, DC 20013-7012 Group projects and Individual contributions are both welcome.
(,) Mail art on exhibit in New York City
I just noticed on their website, I will see the show this weekend. - T Mail art on exhibit in Chelsea, New York City: Making History at Jeff Bailey Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, #207, 6-8 http://www.baileygallery.com/exhibition_02.cfm?exh=531 Art is an ennobling mission demanding fanaticism. - Adolf Hitler Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com
(,) Fwd: The Artist's Duty, by Kenneth Patchen
The Artist's Duty So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame To extend all boundaries To fog them in right over the plate To kill only what is ridiculous To establish problem To ignore solutions To listen to no one To omit nothing To contradict everything To generate the free brain To bear no cross To take part in no crucifixion To tinkle a warning when mankind strays To explode upon all parties To wound deeper than the soldier To heal this poor obstinate monkey once and for all To verify the irrational To exaggerate all things To inhibit everyone To lubricate each proportion To experience only experience To set a flame in the high air To exclaim at the commonplace alone To cause the unseen eyes to open To admire only the absurd To be concerned with every profession save his own To raise a fortuitous stink on the boulevards of truth and beauty To desire an electrifiable intercourse with a female alligator To lift the flesh above the suffering To forgive the beautiful its disconsolate deceit To flash his vengeful badge at every abyss To HAPPEN It is the artist's duty to be alive To drag people into glittering occupations To blush perpetually in gaping innocence To drift happily through the ruined race-intelligence To burrow beneath the subconscious To defend the unreal at the cost of his reason To obey each outrageous impulse To commit his company to all enchantments. Kenneth Patchen http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-artist-s-duty/ Art is an ennobling mission demanding fanaticism. - Adolf Hitler Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com
(,) Fwd: mail art call in 3 parts
MYSELF, IN THREE PARTS Your three mailings will be joined and exhibited. A catalog will be send to the participants. Deadline to be received: August 30, 2008 On an envelope or on a postcard, send your head to: Pierre Bourgie 251 rg l'Achigan L'Assomption, Québec, Canada J5W 3M8 On an envelope or on a postcard, send your heart to: Hélène Arsenault 1655 Gay Lussac Jonquière, Québec Canada G7S 3K9 On an envelope or on a postcard, send your feet to: Steven Renald 155 Chauvin Chicoutimi, Québec Canada G7J 1Z6
(,) fwd: mail art call Talk show
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: I am looking for mail art contributions to 'TALK SHOW' - a multimedia exhibition as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme 2008. The mail art needs to be postcard size (around 10cm x 15cm) and contain at least one word of text (or as much as you like!) in a speech bubble. The postcard exhibition will be curated by a Royal Mail postal worker and by visitors to the event. Please include a name and email or postal address with your artwork to receive documentation. DEADLINE - 26th June 2008 Send mail art to: Fuse PO Box 279 Whitstable UK CT51XA
(,) Interesting project
Here's an interesting conceptual project: Subject: Knocking on Bricks Hooray! A new site was born! By Shoshana Brand and xtine Please check it out: http://www.knockingonbricks.com Part of the spirit of this project is mean-spirited. Like the girls of the cult film, Heathers, curators Shoshana Brand and xtine created false correspondence that taunted the unsuspecting. Imagine writing to institutions and large corporations with absurd, yet socially engaged proposals, and understanding from the start that rejection is the center of the concept. Brand and xtine's idea begins as a prank percolated through an understanding of bureaucratic systems, and the way art institutions, governments, and corporations function. -- Kim Abeles 2007 Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
(,) Interesting project
Here's an interesting conceptual project: Subject: Knocking on Bricks Hooray! A new site was born! By Shoshana Brand and xtine Please check it out: http://www.knockingonbricks.com Part of the spirit of this project is mean-spirited. Like the girls of the cult film, Heathers, curators Shoshana Brand and xtine created false correspondence that taunted the unsuspecting. Imagine writing to institutions and large corporations with absurd, yet socially engaged proposals, and understanding from the start that rejection is the center of the concept. Brand and xtine's idea begins as a prank percolated through an understanding of bureaucratic systems, and the way art institutions, governments, and corporations function. -- Kim Abeles 2007 Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
(,) US postage goes up May 12
Heads up! I am told that US postage rates are going up May 12, (the day after mother's day) So, fellow Amerikaans, send your mail art out now!!! ;-) Tamara Art is an ennobling mission demanding fanaticism. - Adolf Hitler Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
(,) Fwd: Invitation to participate in Knitting Project
Invitation to participate in Knitting Project Posted by: Tina Manwarren Roche-Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 5, 2008 2:56 pm (PST) Hello all, below is an invitation to participate in the creation of a knitted sculpture on which I am currently at work. Please feel free to forward it to anyone you think might b interested. Stay tuned for an invitation to attend a sewing circle associated with the project. Best, Tina Dear Knitter, There is catharsis in the act of making together. Catharsis is what I need, so I am building a blanket big enough to keep us all warm. If you'd like to help, make me a patch that is 12 inches (30 centimeters) wide. Make it pure (of a natural fiber like wool, cotton, silk, hemp, mohair, angora, etc.) and make it as white as the driven snow. The length and pattern are up to you. Make it knowing that I will be grateful for your efforts. Send your work to 655 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231, USA before February 15th, 2008. If you like, tell me how to find you and I will send you a photograph of the finished piece along with the scheduled dates and locations of its installation. Take Care, Tina Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
(,) Fwd: Call for Words: A multi-lingual Homage to Allan Kaprow
Call for Words: A multi-lingual Homage to Allan Kaprow Banners- 40 cm wide by 120 cm long- 15 3/4 x 47 1/4 cards- 10 cm high and 40 cm wide- 4 x 15 3/4 WORDS/PAROLE A multi-lingual Homage to Allan Kaprow A meditation on his 1962 Environment WORDS (and in Italian) UnimediaModern, Genova, Italy 18 December 2007 to 18 January 2008 UnimediaModern will be creating an installation WORDS/PAROLE in conjunction with the exhibition, Allan Kaprow: Art as Life, at the Museo d Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova (29 November 2007 to 10 February 2008). Kaprow's original environment WORDS at the Smolin Gallery, New York, in September 1962, was contemporary with the first Fluxus concerts in Wiesbaden, Germany. Key Fluxus artists were together with Kaprow in John Cage's historic class at the New School in the late fifties and words held a prominent place in new art of that time. Our environment will be composed of your words/texts on hanging banners filling the center of the gallery space. Historic word scores, manifestos and texts will be on one wall, and many single words on cards will be in piles and attached to rollers on another wall. In addition we will have a table with cards for visitors to add words. Another component will be on the gallery website. 1. We invite you to make a banner, one or two sided, 40 cm wide by 120 cm long. Your words (or letters) can be in any language or combination of languages. Political, philosophical, nonsense, a score, a manifesto, or a tribute to Allan Kaprow. Black and white and boldly hand written, 2. In addition, for another part of the environment, write words on cards 10 cm high and 40 cm wide, as many as you would like, in any language,. 3. If you were creating word scores during the 1960's we would be interested in including them. As with the original environment, this exhibition will be constantly changing. Visitors will also be adding words on cards, and writing notes at a small desk. Send your contributions by December 10 to UnimediaMorern Att: Caterina Gualco Palazzo Squarciafico Piazza Invrea 5/b 16121 Genova ITALY Tel: +39-0102758785 Some great material is coming together for the re-invention of Words Love peace, Geoffrey Questions? Contact us by email, noting that it is about words/parole. Caterina Gualco: unimediamodern@ libero.it Geoffrey Hendricks: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are looking forward to your participation. With thanks and best regards, Caterina Gualco Geoffrey Hendricks = Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
(,) Fwd: Call to Artists
Call to Artists to crochet, knit, stitch, quilt, or patch 3 foot square fiber panels. The topic to be represented is your countries extreme dependency on oil for energy. Your panel need not contain an image or be a literal portrayal of your idea. Simply by designing and creating a panel of any colors and any fiber technique and participating in this project you are, in the larger picture, expressing your concern about this important subject to the rest of the world. The design of the panel does not necessarily have to directly reflect the topic; self-expression is left up to the artist. Relief on panels is encouraged and all panels will be accepted. THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE Panels and entry forms must be received no later than March 15, 2008. Mail to: Jennifer Marsh, Syracuse University, Comart Building, 1055 Comstock Road, Syracuse, New York, 13244, USA Once 800 panels are received from around the world they will be assembled together to create a large fitted covering to completely envelop an abandoned gas station in central New York. Separate panels will be crocheted to cover the detached gas pumps. Installation will take place Saturday April 12, 2008 http://www.internationalfibercollaborative.com/pages/how_to_participate.html Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
(,) Call for Art to benefit Sudan
Call for art: Atrebates Art Gallery Emergency (Bologna Imola Group, Italy) are organizing an auction of solidarity in support of the pedriatic's center in Mayo, Khartoum (SUDAN) The artworks will be sold in auction in 2008 Requirements: Free technique Size: minimum: 13 x 18 cm - 35 x 50 cm maximum Only original works - not copies NO returns; Unsold works will continue to be on auction A catalogue of works will be sent to all participants Deadline January 31, 2008 Send to GALLERIA ATREBATES VIA DE'AMICIS 35/37 40060 DOZZA (Bo) ITALY http://www.atrebates.net/ http://www.atrebates.net/eventi/emergency-eng.jpg Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
(,) Fwd: artists charged with mail fraud and wire fraud
You Can Sleep Well Again: Feds Chalk Up Another Victory Against Art CONTACTS: Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Claire Pentecost: 773-383-9771 Gregory Sholette: 212-865-3076 Edmund Cardoni: 716-854-1694 Igor Vamos: 917-209-3282 Lucia Sommer: 716-359-3061 Dianne Raeke Ferrell: 412-352-2704 SICKNESS, ABSURD DOJ PROSECUTION FORCE SCIENTIST TO PLEAD IN PRECEDENT-SETTING CASE Scientist's Wife and Daughter Comment on Case Buffalo, NY - Today in Federal District Court, Dr. Robert Ferrell, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, under tremendous pressure, pled guilty to lesser charges rather than facing a prolonged trial for federal charges of mail fraud and wire fraud in a surreal post-PATRIOT Act legal case that has attracted worldwide attention. From the beginning, this has been a persecution, not a prosecution. Although I have not seen the final agreement, the initial versions contained incorrect and irrelevant information, said Dr. Dianne Raeke Ferrell, Dr. Ferrell's wife and an Associate Professor of Special Education and Clinical Services at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Bob is a 27 year survivor of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma which has reoccurred numerous times. He has also had malignant melanoma. Since this whole nightmare began, Bob has had two minor strokes and a major stroke which required months of rehabilitation. Dr. Ferrell added that her husband was indicted just as he was preparing to undergo a painful and dangerous autologous stem cell transplant, the second in 7 years. The Ferrells' daughter, Gentry Chandler Ferrell, added: Our family has struggled with an intense uncertainty about physical, emotional and financial health for a long time. Agreeing to a plea deal is a small way for dad to try to eliminate one of those uncertainties and hold on a little longer to the career he worked so hard to develop... Sadly, while institutions merely are tarnished from needless litigation, individuals are torn apart. I remain unable to wrap my mind around the absurdity of the government's pursuit of this case and I am saddened that it has been dragged out to the point where my dad opted to settle from pure exhaustion. (To read Gentry Ferrell's full statement, please visit: http://caedefensefund.org/press/ferrellplea.html) Dr. Ferrell's colleague Dr. Steven Kurtz, founder of the internationally acclaimed art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble, was illegally detained and accused of bioterrorism by the U.S. government in 2004 stemming from his acquisition from Dr. Ferrell of harmless bacteria used in several of Critical Art Ensemble's educational art projects. After a costly investigation lasting several months and failing to provide any evidence of bioterrorism, the Department of Justice instead brought charges of mail fraud and wire fraud against Kurtz and Ferrell. Under the USA PATRIOT Act, the maximum penalty for these charges has increased from 5 years to 20. (For more information about the case, please see Background to the Case below or http://caedefensefund.org) JURIDICAL ART CRITICISM? The government is vigorously attempting to prosecute two defendants in a case where no one has been injured, and no one has been defrauded. The materials found in Dr. Kurtz's house were obtained legally and used safely by the artist. After three and a half years of investigation and prosecution, the case still revolves around $256 worth of common science research materials that were used in art works by a highly visible and respected group of artists. These art works were commissioned and hosted by cultural institutions worldwide where they had been safely displayed in museums and galleries with absolutely no risk to the public. The Government has consistently framed this case as an issue of public safety, but the materials used by Critical Art Ensemble are widely available, can be purchased by anyone from High School science supply catalogues, and are regularly mailed. PROFESSORS OF ART SCIENCE EXPRESS ALARM The government's prosecution is an ill-conceived and misguided attack on the scientific and artistic communities, said Dr. Richard Gronostajski, Professor of Biochemistry at SUNY Buffalo, where Professor Kurtz also teaches. It could have a chilling effect on future scientific research collaborations, and harm teaching efforts and interactions between scientists, educators and artists. It's deeply alarming that the government could pressure someone of Dr. Ferrell's stature into agreeing to something like this. The case threatens all Americans' Constitutionally guaranteed right to question the actions of their government, said Igor Vamos, Professor of Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. PLEA COMES AMIDST OVERWHELMING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR DEFENDANTS The plea bargain agreement comes at a time of overwhelming public support for the two defendants. A film about the case, Strange
(,) Fwd: Two seperate mail art calls with a tree theme
Two seperate mail art calls with a tree theme Tree day - Dia da Ã?rvore Theme: Trees represent life. Artists / mail artists / anyone from around the world are invited to send mail art on theme tree. Works for exhibition. Pieces should be no larger than A4 size Artworks on the back of the envelope, postcards. no jury, no fee, no return postal/mail delivery only. (NORMAL POSTAL ONLY, NO COURIER OR EXPRESS DELIVERY). Medium: Free. Maximum 5 artworks from each artist. Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] deadline to be received: September 21, 2007 Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas Dia da Ã?rvore/ Arbor Day Av. Tiradentes, 199- apto 308 Guarulhos-SP - 07090-000 Brasil Theme: the Tree postcard or envelope format 16 X 23 cm maximum open technique and format response to participants: exhibit at Milly la F in 2008 deadline to be received: June 1, 2008 ASSOCIATION AQUARELLE ET COMPAGNIE 12 RUE LANGLOIS 91490 MILLY LA FORET FRANCE Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html
(,) Globesity Festival Oct 22-28, 2007 New York City
Globesity Festival Oct 22-28, 2007 New York City http://www.theglobesityfestival.org/submissions.html NOW SEEKING SUBMISSIONS Art becomes action when its intention is vested in the interest of the people, bringing SOLUTIONS TO LIGHT. Action becomes Direct Action when we engage in an ACT of confrontation beyond the confines of the space society designates for the artist. This act is a HUNGER STRIKE. A HUNGER STRIKE for SOLUTIONS. We are inviting artists to participate in a juice fast, then conceive a work of performance to be performed at the festival in October. For centuries people have fasted, seeking better health, spiritual understanding, and justice. An Intense Clarity comes from Fasting. We will provide all Hunger Strike participants access to health professionals and our online resource center to support each fast. We fast in SOLIDARITY for SOLUTIONS! The Globesity Festival is a Solutionist's Laboratory. Through the microscope of fasting we are creating an experiment that will bring together artists, activists, intellectuals, the youth and general public. Social, political and economic wolves have ravaged, shaken, and scattered so many of our beloved friends and colleagues leaving generations dis(sed)-Connected. Our neighborhoods are shifting out from under us. Eleven years ago Penny Arcade said, There is a gentrification that happens to buildings and neighborhoods and there is a gentrification that happens to ideas. The Solutionist's Laboratory is a think-tank of performance, inter-generational dialogue, and re-Affirmation of connection among artists, activists, and the community. Through the Clarity of Fasting WE seek solutions. This is a HUNGER STRIKE for a reConnection with the beautiful regenerative powers we possess in our bodies and in our mind. A STRIKE for SOLUTIONS. They tell us shopping is patriotic and dissent is not! Let's stop consuming for one week. We need to come together to share and build effective solutions to the exploitative consumer culture that is quickly destroying our planet, our cultures, our spirit and our bodies. Change starts with the personal. Let's take back our bodies, so we can begin to take back our communities, our country and our world. Come join us! Contribute Your Art! The World is Waiting to See What YOU have to Say. WHAT: Engage in a Ten Day juice fast and conceive a work of performance (whatever that means to you - a play, a dance, a song to the moon whatever you do). As the work will be performed as part of a shared evening we ask that the work be anywhere from 5 to 30ish minutes. Please email a statement of intention, and a little information about who you are to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go to Fasting for more info and fasting support. All questions will be addressed! SOLIDARITY! All Globesity Artists should consult their physician before undertaking the ten-day juice fast. At the Theatre for the New City Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery. - Nelson Algren Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
(,) US postage going up
The US postage rates are going up soon, I think it's May 15 anyone know? Send your mail art now, Amerrykanz!! - Tamara Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman - Ahhh...imagining that irresistible new car smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
(,) Re: mail art rant....
I discovered that a thrift store in California, gets way too many donations and a huge amount of stuff goes into the trash. That can't be the only one. I think of the huge amount of waste in the developed countries and the lack of basics elsewhere. Then again I think of beautiful traditional cultures with everything they need, but as soon as they are exposed to modernity, want to give it all up for TV sets, polyester clothing, plastic toys, etc. Well, it's more complicated than that. If you sent me a blank card, I would probably paint on it and send it back to you... art is in the eye of the beholder. - T mail art rant Posted by: Alice Kitselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] alicethebasketlady Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:14 am (PST) I'd recently dropped off a huge load of old clothes to a thrift shop that raises money for a local animal shelter. I'd been thinking about what happens to the stuff they don't sell? Where does it go, who gets it? I'd also been thinking about all the stuff in department stores that doesn't get sold. In my dream there were mountains made of stuff, old stuff, discarded stuff. People were taking shelter on these piles which were coming out of the ocean. Folks would trip and slide and stuff would go tumbling into the ocean and of course it would rise giving the people less and less area to be on. I got to thinking about art. What makes art art? Who says it is art anyway? Recently I took an out of town friend to our famous Folk Art Museum. We walked and gawked. She started to wonder and question why certain things were considered folk art. Mostly this is a huge collection of toys. Of course there are many things which are crafts by native cultures from around the world. Again, why is it folk art? And then there is the distinction between art and craft. And so, back to mail art. What makes something mail art? I get all kinds of stuff sent to me in the guise of mail art. Sometimes it's just a postcard, sometimes it is a collage, other times it's a mini water color painting. Sometimes it's an envelope stuffed with someone's food packaging. Mail art..it' s mail, but is it art? We all have choices in life, practically everything we do involves a choice I go into museums and see walls covered in art. I pass quickly by if nothing catches my eye. It could be famous artist's work, but if it doesn't twang in my heart and soul I just cruise on by. I think perhaps it helps that I grew up in New York City across from a wild and weird modern art museum. I saw a lot of stuff that I would not consider art. After all it still confounds me today that era in art where folks would simply paint a huge canvas white and call that art. ??? I wonder how folks would react if I just sent blank postcards? Dragonfly Dream www.dragonflydream. com It's something wonderful to get a letter. The paper, the stamp, the envelope. It is not just a piece of paper. It is something sacred. IBRAHIM ISMAIL ZAIDEN, a postman in Baghdad, Iraq. (quoted in the New York Times) Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Re: mail art rant....
Yeah, I have to agree with you Reed, Posted by: Reed Altemus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:30 am (PST) Alice and LaVona, There are A LOT of different definition of art. Whether you think it is art or not is SUBJECTIVE and I think it should remain that way. Carlo Pittore would agree with this. As far as mail art as a letting go: I think some mail artists are not willing to be responsible for their work and that is bothersome to me and why I have never used an AKA. Reed Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) metric/inches and new recruits
Many American balk at metric - and I suspect at least a few Europeans balk at inches. While those of us who have been sending mail art get used to it, it could be a little bit intimidating for someone new to mail art. I remember I was intimidated by metric at first, resorting to complicated math trying to figure out the size. Now I have a metric ruler, and I am used to the standard sizes. If you are posting your call internationally, perhaps it would be friendlier to new comers to mail art if the size was listed in both metric and inches. And also include the country in the address, some people leave that out. I don't mean to make rules -- just trying to raise awareness and consideration for new mail artists. I think it would be good to attract new mail artists. Just my 2 cents. - T Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Mail art call from Kathmandu
I emailed Mahima, and she gave me permission to forward her mail art call. It's great to get a mail art call from Nepal. If you have any questions, email her, address below. - T COLOR Theme: any piece of art in which the colors you use say as much about the piece as the art on it. use your most inspiring, powerful, brilliant colors. For my archive please send me any medium that deal with any technique. Deadline: February 2, 2007 info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mahima Shrestha G.P.O. Box 148 Kathmandu Nepal __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: Mail art - smail art project
reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Small Art Project Comments: Hello and welcome to the mailart.org Small Art Project. In this project, we invite you to send us your artwork and photos, which we will document here at this website. We hope to show small art objects from around the world. The rules are as follows: 1) All items contributed must be flat, and measure exactly 5cm x 5cm (2 inches x 2 inches.) 2) Items sent to the Small Art project will not be returned. They will be put into the Small Art Archive. 3) Items must not contain nudity or vulgarity whatsoever, Please keep it clean - this is a website for Small Art. 4) Please send all items by postal mail. Digital art is welcome, but please print it first and send it by post. Deadline: December 31, 2006 more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mailart.org Mailart.org Attn: Small Art Project PO Box 28511 Spokane, WA 99228 USA Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Re: PostSecret book-Tamara
Re: PostSecret book-Tamara Posted by: michael leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wastedpapiers Fri Sep 1, 2006 12:05 am (PST) Maybe it's just sour grapes on my part, not having thought of it, but the whole thing leaves a rather nasty taste in the mouth when you consider he is obviously making a lot of money from his book and the syndication of the POst Secret idea to many magazines? ( I know of one in the U.K) and the anonymity of the participants allows him to claim all the credit.This is not really in the spirit of the mail art network as I understand it. Michael Yeah, Michael, I felt a little bit that way also. But I hadn't looked at the book very carefully. I dunno that he is necessarily making a lot of money off the book; if it hasn't made a bestsellers list it doesn't necessarily make that much money. He might be able to pay the rent with it for a while, but I doubt he is getting rich. But then, I dunno. - Tamara Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com ars gratia artis Art is the reward of art. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: call for political art blog
http://www.politicalartwork.blogspot.com/ If you are doing political art and your politics are liberal you might want to check out and/or submit images to this blog politicalartwork. blogspot. com We recently submitted images and Emily Duffy reproduced four images from our artists' book We Live In a Divided Country, Try to Bridge That Gap. Please check it out. - Patricia Dahlman __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) PostSecret book
Hello, I saw a book of Mail Art in a store, PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives by Frank Warren Frank had people make postcards of their secrets and send it to him. Very fancy book with lots of color photos. I didn't have time to look at it very carefully. But it seemed that he reached out to ordinary people - outside of any art network. Has anyone seen it? - Tamara Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com ars gratia artis Art is the reward of art. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: Collaborative Mail Art
FROM: suzlee ibrahim [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail art call title: Collaboration Project A mail art done by 2 mail artists on one piece of work Send your unfinished mail art and the organizer will arrange another mail artist to continue/finish the piece for you -or the organizer will send you a piece of unfinished mail art for you to finish it -or send a piece of mail art done by two artists. Sign your work. A4 size. Any Media. 2D only). Please use normal mail / posts only. Expressed mail not accepted. Please write clearly artists names, address and email Deadline: 31 December 2006 Document will be posted to every 20 pieces of work after the exhibition Inquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send to: COLLABORATION PROJECT I-MAG CENTER 1, Jalan Indah Teras Jernang Bandar Baru Bangi 43650 MALAYSIA -- Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com ars gratia artis Art is the reward of art. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: Flux Museum
Hello, I am just passing this on, check the website for more info. - Tamara FLUXMUSEUM FLUXHIBITION OK there is an interesting new project afoot. The Ontological Museum is opening its fluxmuseum at http://fluxmuseum.org This is to collect and document 21st century fluxus art especially via the Fluxnexus http://fluxnexus.com The first project is a fluxhibition in a box. Some of you may like to be a part of this and include some works in the box that will be traveling. As a participant you may also wish to be a branch of the museum and host the box in your city. You can see the details of how it will work on the front page of fluxmuseum.org. The commitment is only to recieve the box and show the contents to somebody but if you want to actually get things out and hang them up or perform works or do poetry readings with you and your friends that is fine too. I envision different people having the fluxbox a weekend at a time and then sending it out for the next exhibition according to what the schedule is on the website. Donated works do not need to be valuable, they can be event scores, poems, small works of art, photographs, artifacts, etc. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com ars gratia artis Art is the reward of art. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Forsake Documentation? Re: New Mail Art Calls Aug 18, 2006
I saw this: Mail Art Call - A Plea To Forsake Documentation http://www.mailart.org/archives/469 -- USA and I thought that someone had an ideological objection to documenting mail art shows. But it's not at all - it's a plea to forsake war. I don't see any documentation at the link though. - T Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com ars gratia artis Art is the reward of art. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) address correction - Mail art call for prisoner's rights
Please note the address corrections: Mail Art Call: Defend a prisoners right to make art and to donate his art to charity. Details in article below. Send mail art of encouragement to: Donald Johnson B#95524 P.O. Box 7500, D-10-207 Pelican Bay State Prison Crescent City CA 95531-7500 (You may want to exercise caution in using a return address PO box is safer) Send letters, mail art protesting Donnys treatment to: Warden Bob Horel Pelican Bay State Prison 5905 Lake Earl Drive Crescent City, CA 95532 NO RETURN - NO DOCUMENTATION http://www.nytimes.com/ New York Times: August 4, 2006 Prison Disciplines Inmate Who Paints With MMs By ADAM LIPTAK A prison artist in California who uses the dye from MMs for paint has been disciplined for what a prison official yesterday called unauthorized business dealings in the sale of his paintings. The prison has also barred the prisoner, Donny Johnson, from sending his paintings through the mail. Mr. Johnsons work has been on display for the last several weeks at a gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Twenty of his paintings have been sold, for $500 each. Mr. Johnson had donated the paintings to the Pelican Bay Prison Project, a charity which says it will honor Mr. Johnsons wish that it use the proceeds from the show to help the children of prisoners. According to a serious rules violation report issued by the prison last month, Mr. Johnson ran afoul of a corrections department regulation that prohibits engaging in a business or profession without the wardens permission. The regulation defines a business as any revenue-generating or profit-making activity. Francisco Jacquez, the chief deputy warden at Pelican Bay State Prison, in Crescent City, Calif., said the violation could extend Mr. Johnsons sentence or restrict his privileges. There are some consequences, and thats what we use to maintain discipline in prison, Mr. Jacquez said, declining to be more specific. Stephen A. Kurtz, a founder and director of the charity, said the discipline was unwarranted. He wasnt doing business, Mr. Kurtz said of Mr. Johnson. He was simply making a donation. He didnt make a penny off this. The discipline was prompted by a front-page article about Mr. Johnson in The New York Times last month, according to the violation report. Pamela B. Hooley, a deputy attorney general, sent a copy of the article to prison officials on the day it appeared, the report said. Mr. Johnson, who is 46, is serving three life sentences. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1980 for a drug-related killing, drawing a sentence of 15 years to life. In 1989, he was convicted of slashing the throat of one guard and assaulting another. Those crimes resulted in two additional sentences of nine years to life. He has been in solitary confinement in a small concrete cell for almost two decades. He paints with a brush he created with plastic wrap, foil and his own hair. He makes paint by leaching the colors from MMs in little plastic containers that once held packets of grape jelly. His canvases are postcards. It is not clear whether the prison will stop Mr. Johnson from creating paintings. In a recent postcard to his mother, Mr. Johnson wrote that prison officials have stopped him from mailing his art to his family, friends and supporters. A lawyer for Mr. Johnson, Charles Carbone, said he was considering bringing a legal challenge. The United States and California Supreme Courts have struck down laws that would have prohibited people convicted of crimes from profiting from them. But courts have been reluctant to interfere with prison administration, even where First Amendment issues are involved. In June, for instance, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania prison policy that denied access to newspapers and magazines to some inmates. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Hawaiian art works east??
Does anyone correspond with Hawaiian Artworks East? She had an address in Reno, Nevada. I sent something to her recently and it was returned. I hope she was able to return to Hawaii. She told me she missed it there. - T Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Mail art call for prisoner
Mail Art Call: Defend a prisoners right to make art and to donate his art to charity. Details in article below. Send mail art of encouragement to: Donny Johnson Pelican Bay State Prison 5905 Lake Earl Drive Crescent City, CA 95532-0002 USA Send letters, mail art protesting Donnys treatment to: Francisco Jacquez Chief Deputy Warden Pelican Bay State Prison 5905 Lake Earl Drive Crescent City, CA 95532-0002 USA NO RETURN - NO DOCUMENTATION http://www.nytimes.com/ New York Times: August 4, 2006 Prison Disciplines Inmate Who Paints With MMs By ADAM LIPTAK A prison artist in California who uses the dye from MMs for paint has been disciplined for what a prison official yesterday called unauthorized business dealings in the sale of his paintings. The prison has also barred the prisoner, Donny Johnson, from sending his paintings through the mail. Mr. Johnsons work has been on display for the last several weeks at a gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Twenty of his paintings have been sold, for $500 each. Mr. Johnson had donated the paintings to the Pelican Bay Prison Project, a charity which says it will honor Mr. Johnsons wish that it use the proceeds from the show to help the children of prisoners. According to a serious rules violation report issued by the prison last month, Mr. Johnson ran afoul of a corrections department regulation that prohibits engaging in a business or profession without the wardens permission. The regulation defines a business as any revenue-generating or profit-making activity. Francisco Jacquez, the chief deputy warden at Pelican Bay State Prison, in Crescent City, Calif., said the violation could extend Mr. Johnsons sentence or restrict his privileges. There are some consequences, and thats what we use to maintain discipline in prison, Mr. Jacquez said, declining to be more specific. Stephen A. Kurtz, a founder and director of the charity, said the discipline was unwarranted. He wasnt doing business, Mr. Kurtz said of Mr. Johnson. He was simply making a donation. He didnt make a penny off this. The discipline was prompted by a front-page article about Mr. Johnson in The New York Times last month, according to the violation report. Pamela B. Hooley, a deputy attorney general, sent a copy of the article to prison officials on the day it appeared, the report said. Mr. Johnson, who is 46, is serving three life sentences. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1980 for a drug-related killing, drawing a sentence of 15 years to life. In 1989, he was convicted of slashing the throat of one guard and assaulting another. Those crimes resulted in two additional sentences of nine years to life. He has been in solitary confinement in a small concrete cell for almost two decades. He paints with a brush he created with plastic wrap, foil and his own hair. He makes paint by leaching the colors from MMs in little plastic containers that once held packets of grape jelly. His canvases are postcards. It is not clear whether the prison will stop Mr. Johnson from creating paintings. In a recent postcard to his mother, Mr. Johnson wrote that prison officials have stopped him from mailing his art to his family, friends and supporters. A lawyer for Mr. Johnson, Charles Carbone, said he was considering bringing a legal challenge. The United States and California Supreme Courts have struck down laws that would have prohibited people convicted of crimes from profiting from them. But courts have been reluctant to interfere with prison administration, even where First Amendment issues are involved. In June, for instance, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania prison policy that denied access to newspapers and magazines to some inmates. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Prisoner paints with MM's
http://www.nytimes.com/ New York Times: August 4, 2006 Prison Disciplines Inmate Who Paints With MMs By ADAM LIPTAK A prison artist in California who uses the dye from MMs for paint has been disciplined for what a prison official yesterday called unauthorized business dealings in the sale of his paintings. The prison has also barred the prisoner, Donny Johnson, from sending his paintings through the mail. Mr. Johnsons work has been on display for the last several weeks at a gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Twenty of his paintings have been sold, for $500 each. Mr. Johnson had donated the paintings to the Pelican Bay Prison Project, a charity which says it will honor Mr. Johnsons wish that it use the proceeds from the show to help the children of prisoners. According to a serious rules violation report issued by the prison last month, Mr. Johnson ran afoul of a corrections department regulation that prohibits engaging in a business or profession without the wardens permission. The regulation defines a business as any revenue-generating or profit-making activity. Francisco Jacquez, the chief deputy warden at Pelican Bay State Prison, in Crescent City, Calif., said the violation could extend Mr. Johnsons sentence or restrict his privileges. There are some consequences, and thats what we use to maintain discipline in prison, Mr. Jacquez said, declining to be more specific. Stephen A. Kurtz, a founder and director of the charity, said the discipline was unwarranted. He wasnt doing business, Mr. Kurtz said of Mr. Johnson. He was simply making a donation. He didnt make a penny off this. The discipline was prompted by a front-page article about Mr. Johnson in The New York Times last month, according to the violation report. Pamela B. Hooley, a deputy attorney general, sent a copy of the article to prison officials on the day it appeared, the report said. Mr. Johnson, who is 46, is serving three life sentences. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1980 for a drug-related killing, drawing a sentence of 15 years to life. In 1989, he was convicted of slashing the throat of one guard and assaulting another. Those crimes resulted in two additional sentences of nine years to life. He has been in solitary confinement in a small concrete cell for almost two decades. He paints with a brush he created with plastic wrap, foil and his own hair. He makes paint by leaching the colors from MMs in little plastic containers that once held packets of grape jelly. His canvases are postcards. It is not clear whether the prison will stop Mr. Johnson from creating paintings. In a recent postcard to his mother, Mr. Johnson wrote that prison officials have stopped him from mailing his art to his family, friends and supporters. A lawyer for Mr. Johnson, Charles Carbone, said he was considering bringing a legal challenge. The United States and California Supreme Courts have struck down laws that would have prohibited people convicted of crimes from profiting from them. But courts have been reluctant to interfere with prison administration, even where First Amendment issues are involved. In June, for instance, the United States Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania prison policy that denied access to newspapers and magazines to some inmates. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) My work in theMusuem of Temporary Art
My piece is in compartment #9 You can show your work there too! Museun of Temporary Art http://www.museum-of-temporary-art.com/theexhibits09.html - Tamara Wyndham __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Article on skull imagery
I thought some of you might be interested in this. - Tamara New York Times July 27, 2006 The Heyday of the Dead By DAVID COLMAN YES, its July. The suns shining. People are heading to the beach or just out, to catch some UV, drink some Mountain Dew and indulge in some good clean summer fun. But what is that little black cloud drifting across the sun? Will it ruin our picnic, like ants or a motorcycle gang? Heaven protect us ... a skull? Not one, but a sea of them! Ah, but ere it comes near, it is clear: it will barely cast a pall. If it was not clear a year or two ago, when the skull motif cropped up on battered Herman-Melville-meets-Edgar-Allan-Poe T-shirts made by Rogues Gallery, on costly cashmere sweaters by Lucien Pellat-Finet, on the perforated uppers of the wingtips made by the mens wear line Barker Black, it is now. What only recently seemed clever and stylish Im wearing a skull! Im bad! has shifted into overdrive, if not overkill. Beyond the sea of skull wear belts, T-shirts, ties there are umbrellas, sneakers, swimsuits, packing tape, party lights, even a skull-branded line of hand tools. One company has made a skull toilet brush and caddy (with a molded-plastic femur bone for a handle). This summer Damien Hirst announced that he will make a life-size skull, cast in platinum and adorned with 8,000 diamonds. If it seems harmless, well, there you have it. With the full force of the American consumer marketing establishment behind it, the skull has lost virtually all of its fearsome outsider meaning. It has become the Happy Face of the 2000s. When the mid-1980s proto-Goth group the Ministry sang Every Day Is Halloween, this was not quite what they had in mind. This is such a huge gripe of mine, said Voltaire, a musician in New York and the author of What is Goth? (Weiser Books, 2004), a kind of Preppy Handbook for the living dead. Throughout hundreds of years of history, what the skull has communicated is, I am dangerous. Thats where the irony is. You can buy dangerous for $11.99 at Kmart. For years Voltaire was the happy owner of several skull-motif sweaters hand-knit by an eccentric Englishwoman. He recounted that a woman stopped him the other day on an East Village street to admire the one he was wearing. She said: I love your sweater. Is it Ralph Lauren? Then I found out that Ralph Lauren has a whole store that sells skull stuff. Well, not for long he doesnt. At Rugby, the chain of collegiate-style stores Mr. Lauren rolled out only last year, the shirts are embroidered not with a polo player but a skull. However, the logo is already being scaled back (though not dropped entirely), a spokesman said. Its a pity its so commercial now, Mr. Pellat-Finet said. For more than five years, he has splashed oversize skull graphics sporting, say, Mickey Mouse ears on his sweaters. Maybe Wal-Mart will replace their smiley-face with a tête de mort, he added, using the French term for skull. Its lost its meaning. Well, it still has one meaning for Mr. Pellat-Finet, whose latest skull sweaters are embellished with Afros and top hats, among other images. Asked if he will stop using the motif, he responded with a chuckle: No, no, no. Its my best seller! Other designers appear to have similarly mixed feelings: on one hand, they are confronted with skull saturation; on the other, skulls are ringing the dinner bell louder than ever. Alexander McQueens fall mens wear show did not play up skull imagery on the runway surely the critics would be bored but there are plenty back in the showroom, on sports coats, polo shirts and trousers. His $210 skull-print silk scarf is one of the best-selling items on the mens designer floor at Barneys New York. Weve sold 400 since May, said Timothy Elliott, a Barneys spokesman. We sell them as fast as they come in. Many people point to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise as fuel for skullmania. But the skulls ascent to the logo throne has more to it and behind it than a Disney marketing campaign. Reminiscent of the vogue for angels a decade or more ago remember how the little winged creatures were everywhere? the skull neatly encapsulates a cultural moment in terms both precise and vague. It is also the product of potent economic forces. The proliferation of skulls has paralleled the rise of the Hot Topic clothing chain. Begun 17 years ago in Southern California, Hot Topic is a 680-stores-in-50-states phenomenon based on the simple idea of selling music-related clothing and accessories punk studded wristbands, heavy-metal T-shirts and lately, lots and lots of skulls to suburban teenagers who would otherwise have to visit an urban clothing boutique for such goodies. Have we brought skulls to the mall? said Cindy Levitt, the vice president for marketing at Hot Topic. Absolutely. But skulls are a rock icon. Weve always had them. We see this as more of a fashion trend. Still, Ms. Levitt agreed that
(,) Performances in Le Petit Versailles Sat July 15
DAY DE DADA Performance Festival 2006Tamara Wyndham performs Evaporations on:Saturday, July 15th at 2:00 pmLe Petit Versailles Garden346 East Houston OR 247 East 2nd Street near Avenue C. - There are TWO entrances - one on Houston and one on 2nd Street. (There is no 1st street on this block)Â It's easy to miss the garden if the gates aren't open. The garden is really small. But lovely.I will be performing on the sidewalk outside the garden. Probably on 2nd Street, though I might perform on Houston. So, if you don't see me on one street, go around the corner.Also performing in the garden is Barbara Lubliner, and several others.www.daydedada.comLe Petit Versailles:http://www.alliedproductions.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi?n=/lpv/home.xmlTamara Wyndhamhttp://www.tamarawyndham.comWe have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.-- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. __._,_.___ To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
(,) Day de Dada July 15
Tamara Wyndham will be performing "Evaporations" as part of the Day de Dada event on Saturday July 15th, 2006 from 2:00 - 4:00pm Le Petit Versailles (346 East Houston St at Avenue C, NYC) Free to the public!http://www.daydedada.com/ Join us for a celebration of the 90th anniversary of Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto and the first Dada Soirée in Zurich with Day de Dada birthday and party gamesFor questions or to sign up [EMAIL PROTECTED]Le Petit Versailles:http://www.alliedproductions.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi?n=/lpv/hom Tamara Wyndhamhttp://www.tamarawyndham.comWe have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.-- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __._,_.___ To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
(,) FWD: send mail to Becky
Date: Fri Jun 2, 2006 8:27 am (PDT) From: "becky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Send Me Mail Hello everyone. I have decided to embark on a new zine project for the month of June and I need your help. I'm going to do a zine of all the mail I get during this month- so I need some. Send me some mail. It can be a letter, postcard, something fun, mail art, postcards of Elvis and Morrissey, Morrissey with a stamp (or probably a few stamps)- anything. I don't care what you write about, but I will print it in a zine, so keep that in mind.Send mail (or Morrissey) to:Rebekah B.PO Box 3482Phildelphia, PA 19122Please pass this message on to anyone you think would send me something. I look forward to hearing from you all.Tamara Wyndhamhttp://www.tamarawyndham.comWe have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.-- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __._,_.___ To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
(,) what to do with too much mail art?
Hello Geert, I am just like you, too much mail art and no space. I someitmes mail it back out to someone else, but lately, I take it to the public library and slip it in the pages of books for someone to find. I think of it as a guerilla way to reach beyond the mail art circles. And no postage costs! I try to put the mail art in a book that relates to the mail art in some way. Once someone mailed back to me a postcard they found in a library book. Any other ideas? - T --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: By the way, I desperitaly need some space at my appartement and especially there were the Archive is stored. Therefore I intend to browse through my Archive and intend to remove some material from it which I not would like to keep. Do not want to put it with the trash, so do somebody has maybe suggestions what I should do with it. The selection will be done completely subjective: will keep my first pieces, will keep historical material, will keep material which I like and will keep material that is representative for Mail-Art or other scenes where I am active in. I know it is selection, but if I have to choose between a good place to life in or a living space which is filled with Mail-Art (and constant problems of storage). Then I choose for a good place to life in. Final result will be a most interesting Archive full with representativematerial from Mail-Art and other scenes. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
(,) Re: mail art meeting house
I love that idea! --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: LLMDunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon May 15, 2006 7:22am(PDT) Subject: Re: Digest Number 1115 Dragonfly Dream: How about a mailart meeting house? Combined with whatever - cafe' - book store - 'gallery' you name it (or not!) In terms of money and mailart don't mix - the gallery might be a counterpoint for discussion - and informing people of the joy of simply creating and communication and all of the great things that mailart is without having to be a commodity. You could host mailart workshops for educational purposes - have international guests for special events - hang all mailart that is received in the space for everyone to see - and get inspiration from - do exchanges with the locals who want to get involved... Sounds like what you might have dreamed the other night perhaps? Peace, Laura Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
(,) Re: mail art gallery
Actually, I am not taking a hard-line position that *thou shall not sell mail art.* Just to think over what you are doing exactly and what it means. I have been posting regularly various postcard benefits where handmade postcards are sold and the money given to charity. Mail artists have not been complaininng about this kind of selling of mail art. However, Dragonfly has stated clearly that she does NOT want to sell the mail art. Very well, but then you have to sell something else. Why is it OK to sell one kind of art and not another kind of art. If an artist makes something, and sends it to Dragonfly, knowing the intention is to sell it, and share the profit with the artist, why is that different than anything else she would sell? Participating in mail art myself has made me think over some of these questions and I can't say I have any clear answers. I am not starting a gallery either, so I am not on the hot wire! One thing that mail art has taught me, ironically, is to appreciate selling my work. When I send my mail art out to anyone, I have no idea if they will want it, will like it, or what they will do with it. They could easily destroy it. That limits me on how much time and effort I am willing to put into a mail art piece, knowing that whoever gets it, even someone with a call, even someone I have corresponded with before, might destroy it. Or alter it in a way that would not please me. I am not going to mail out an oil painting in archivial materials that I spent 2000 hours on So the trick in mail art is to make something simple and witty or interesting that doesn't take so many hours that my heart will break if they throw it out. I try to make something of QUALITY, but of a certain level. However, when someone offers me MONEY for art that I make, then I know that that persone really WANTS my art. They are not going to buy my art and then throw it in the trash. They want my art because they love the art. And that is the BEST reason for someone to have my art. If I were famous, the problem might be that they want to buy my art for investment purposes, and not because they love the art. However, I am far from famous, so that is not my problem. I don't mean to be giving Dragonfly a hard time as much as I find these questions interesting. So forgive me, Dragonfly. But I do hope you find these questions worth pondering. What do you think of the museum idea, btw? - T --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: LaVona Sherarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat May 13, 2006 11:33am(PDT) Subject: Re: mail art gallery? I agree with Tamara. I wouldn't want to sell my mail art. It is a contribution to the people in the mail art world and others, No Judge, no jury. LaVona --- Tamara Wyndham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Dragonfly, I trust that you have good intentions. You know of course, there's this tradition of mail art and money don't mix - and I'm sure others here are mor knowledgeable about the original context and evolution of that saying. The biggest problem I see, is that mail artists have sent you art for free as a gift, and now you are selling it. If you sell it, you could (and should) send part of the profit to the artist. But still you are changing the nature of the original intention. And people will start sending you piles of postcards and such hoping you will sell it. I imagine that artists who would never send their work out for free would become interested in sending to your gallery. Another thing is that you will probably notice that some kinds of mail art will sell better than others and in order to pay the rent you will be pressured to favor the kind that sells. Is all this 'wrong? Perhaps not necessarily, but it makes it something else than the traditional not-for-sale mail art show. I believe Ray Johnson's gripe was that he gave his mail art for free as a gift and people started to sell it for lots of $$ when he became famous. However, Ray did sell his art; and he made art specifically to be shown and sold in galleries. I don't think he ever sold any mail art, that was seperate. Correct me if I am wrong, anyone. Another idea I've seen is to open a museum and charge an admission fee. I haven't seen it with mail art yet, but I have seen it with other types of quirky collections. You'd have to make a great display, not only of quality mail art, but how it is arranged and lit. Then you'd need to get alot of publicity out in your area for locals and tourists to come visit. Good luck! - T Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be
(,) Re: mail art gallery?
Hello Dragonfly, I trust that you have good intentions. You know of course, there's this tradition of mail art and money don't mix - and I'm sure others here are mor knowledgeable about the original context and evolution of that saying. The biggest problem I see, is that mail artists have sent you art for free as a gift, and now you are selling it. If you sell it, you could (and should) send part of the profit to the artist. But still you are changing the nature of the original intention. And people will start sending you piles of postcards and such hoping you will sell it. I imagine that artists who would never send their work out for free would become interested in sending to your gallery. Another thing is that you will probably notice that some kinds of mail art will sell better than others and in order to pay the rent you will be pressured to favor the kind that sells. Is all this 'wrong? Perhaps not necessarily, but it makes it something else than the traditional not-for-sale mail art show. I believe Ray Johnson's gripe was that he gave his mail art for free as a gift and people started to sell it for lots of $$ when he became famous. However, Ray did sell his art; and he made art specifically to be shown and sold in galleries. I don't think he ever sold any mail art, that was seperate. Correct me if I am wrong, anyone. Another idea I've seen is to open a museum and charge an admission fee. I haven't seen it with mail art yet, but I have seen it with other types of quirky collections. You'd have to make a great display, not only of quality mail art, but how it is arranged and lit. Then you'd need to get alot of publicity out in your area for locals and tourists to come visit. Good luck! - T --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: Alice Kitselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri May 12, 2006 11:08am(PDT) Subject: mail art gallery? Hi folks, had a wonderful dream last night. In it I was speaking to some friends about mail art and had pulled out a ton of examples. I'd arranged them into piles that represented old calls that I did, piles of artistamps, artist books, all kinds of stuff. Then I thought about that fact that there doesn't seem to be a place that folks can actually go and see mail art except for the internet and the occasional show that someone puts together here and there. So in my semi dream state I thought about the possibility of actually trying to open a mail art gallery. The of course I thought about how in the world would one finance such a place. After all I'd have to pay rent somewhere. So I got to thinking well, open it along with a gallery of my art. Well, shoot, who would buy that? Well, my boyfriend is convince my art would sell. But still, rentso I thought about selling mail artist's stuff. U, would folks want to come to a mail art gallery? I could have revolving shows of other collectors mail art/archives. What do you think??? Dragonfly Dream __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
(,) Postcards for Save the Children benefit
A Call for Artwork The Small Space Gallery at The Arts Council of Greater New Haven presents Postcard International, An Art Show -Create your own artwork on a postcard from scratch or manipulate/alter an existing postcard. Only one side will be exhibited. -Postcard should be no smaller than 3x5 and no larger than 5x7. -All artwork will be sold for $25, unless clearly marked Not For Sale. 100% of the proceeds will go to Save the Children. -To have your artwork returned, please include a self-addressed,stamped envelope along with your postcard. -Send work to: Postcard International, the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, 70 Audubon Street, 2nd Floor, New Haven, CT 06510, USA -Work must be received by June 7th to be included. The show will run from June 10th-July 21st with a public reception on Saturday, June 10th from 4-7pm. For more information, please call the Arts Council of Greater New Haven at 203-772-2788 or visit our website at www.artscouncilgnh.org This show gets a large regional turnout as it opens the day the annual International Festival of Arts Ideas (www.artidea.org) opens. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
(,) Ray Johnson art in group show in NYC
Constellation: Buster Cleveland John Evans Al Hansen Ray Johnson May Wilson April 20 - May 27th, 2006 Pavel Zoubok Gallery 533 West 23rd St. (btwn 10th 11th Ave) (212) 675-7490 http://www.pavelzoubok.com I saw it yesterday, a strong show of collage art. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "ma-network" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
(,) Re: favorite colors
When I was a child my favorite color was magenta and my second favorite color was turquoise. Then I felt guilty that I liked magenta better than turquoise and worried that turquoise's feelings were hurt (really!) Later I came up with the idea that my favorite color was really purple, because when I mixed turquoise and magenta that was the color I got. I was pleased with this solution for a short time, but realized soon enough that I really loved magenta best, after all. - T Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) favorite color
What a new idea to me, that having a favorite color would be a self damaging choice. I had always thought of it as a kind of self expression of individuality. But, you are pointing out that it can also be self limiting. It is in meditative states that we make no judgements. - T --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:13:47 -0800 (PST) From: guido bondioli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: suicide continued. --- LaVona Sherarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't had a tv set since 1957. This does not prevent you from adopting the fiction derived sentimentality of TV. I felt the pain of the loss of a good person. There is nothing egocentric about that in my mind To me it seems extremely egocentric. There is no loss to you. what would confuse you in that way if not some constant irritation to conform such as is offered by media? Just as you probable have a favorite color, a self damaging choice, You have many other unconscious self damaging choices. Feeling loss about someone else taking care of themselves can only come from the expectations placed on you by your choice of associates just in the way you acquired a favorite color. These responses are the work of fiction writers. Get them in books, at church or where ever. They remain self damaging. Yes, the people need to go but I have a right to feel a loss just as you do not. We have many rights to do wrong. There is little reason to use those rights just because they are there. Use damages us as well as the rest of the world. As you know by now at age 72, there are many GOOD ways to be evil. And that phrase reminds me of the good Baptists I witnessed burning to death a black man in Arizona in 1947. All those people believed they were doing GOOD. Good seems less relative than many people prefer to believe. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) deadline for Buffalo Dolls is extended
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15! (we may even extend it to May 1 -- but no longer than that!) Call title: Buffalo Dolls Yellowstone Park's buffalo is the last continuously wild, free-roaming and genetically pure buffalo herd in the USA. But they are endangered. The cattle industry views wild buffalo as a source of competition for grazing on public lands outside of Yellowstone Park. Through their lobbying, Montana has adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward wild buffalo. Hundreds are slaughtered each year. The Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) is the only group working in the field, everyday, to stop the slaughter and harassment of wild buffalo. Volunteers from around the world defend buffalo on their traditional winter habitat and advocate for their protection. Our daily patrols stand with the buffalo on the ground they choose to be on, and document every move made against them. For more detailed information: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/ To encourage the volunteers who work to save the buffalo, make a buffalo themed doll of any material, and any size. Cloth, paper, wood, plastic, etc. Deployment date: Send the doll on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 (the last Wednesday in March, which happens to be the new moon.) Send the doll to: Buffalo Field Campaign PO Box 957 W. Yellowstone, MT 59758 Be sure to include a note saying thank you to the volunteers. If you wish to make an optional monetary contribution, please send that separately This project was initiated by the DOLL ARMY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dollarmy/ ---D-O-L-L---A-R-M-Y---R-E-C-R-U-I-T-M-E-N-T---M-E-S-S-A-G-E--- Lend your talent to help design a unique and timely performance work of historical importance that thousands could participate in. Be a General in the Doll Army that is now staging to be deployed at a date soon to be announced. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dollarmy/ and join the very exclusive top secret strategic planners' email group. WORLD PEACE IS IMMINENT! D-O-L-L---A-R-M-Y---R-E-C-R-U-I-T-M-E-N-T---M-E-S-S-A-G-E-- Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) compassion
I must say I was surprised to read that. I have cared for sick people. While I am normally squeamish to see certain illnesses in movies or to read about the gory details in a book, in the presence of a human being who is suffering I feel compassion. I do the best I can. The same when my friends have gone through break-ups in their relationships, I am patient and caring. Never occured to me that someone would react differently. However, sometimes people in pain can be disagreeable. If I didn't know the person very well, and I didn't know what was going on with them -- that is, I didn't kow that they were ill or that they were going through a break-up, I would probably be annoyed. - T --- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:08:24 -0500 From: Elizabeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: suicide guido bondioli wrote: People in CIVILIZED countries are very ugly toward sick people... Also when you get divorced or separated. It's as if being in their vicinity will infect them. Being near an ill person raises acute awareness of our personal human fragility and real temporariness on earth. Being near partners separating reminds us of the hardest weakest part of our own relationship. For me, the Fragility and the ambiguity of life are frighteningly intolerable alternating with exhilarating, as is walking on the edge of a geyser, exhaling over the house of cards, being in a hurry passing the wispy glass sculpture. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: Trinkets to benefit the American Cancer Society
This is from another list. She is asking people to send trinkets to decorate her doll, which will be up for auction to benefit the ASnerican Cancer Society. - T Hi Everyone. My doll, Trinket is finally completely constructed and she is up on my website. Please take a look. There is still time to send a Trinket if you wish to comemorate someone that has battled cancer. As soon as I have enough trinkets she will be auctioned off to benifit the American Cancer Society. Please help if you can. The more trinkets I receive the higher value she will have at auction! Thank you to all of you that have contributed so far. Your stories and letters have touch my heart. Trinket can be seen at http://www.auctionmommas.com When you go to the website, scroll down until you see the photo of Trinket and the word *Trinket* above, which is a link. Click on the word Trinket and it brings up her story and lists the address to mail your trinkets to. Thanks Deborah Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Re: suicide
--- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:39:03 -0800 (PST) From: guido bondioli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: suicide people considering suicide should be encouraged. I am old and sick. I find it unsupportive of people to urge me to continue. It is me who is sick every moment, not they. When I am finaly complete I hope then a friend will hand me the method I have chosen to end it. Suicide is a noble choice. Sometimes suicide is a noble choice for some people in certain situations. Other times it is a tragedy. The person committing suicide is not always in a position to see clearly, and may need help. I have known people who have attempted suicide and are now living meaningful lives. - T Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Re: suicide
--- ma-network@yahoogroups.com wrote: Message: 6 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:39:03 -0800 (PST) From: guido bondioli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: suicide people considering suicide should be encouraged. I am old and sick. I find it unsupportive of people to urge me to continue. It is me who is sick every moment, not they. When I am finaly complete I hope then a friend will hand me the method I have chosen to end it. Suicide is a noble choice. May I also say that I feel compassion for your pain... __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Iraqi Postman says:
NY TIMES: QUOTATION OF THE DAY It's something wonderful to get a letter. The paper, the stamp, the envelope. It is not just a piece of paper. It is something sacred. IBRAHIM ISMAIL ZAIDEN, a postman in Baghdad, Iraq. Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) call for Books Zines
Call for Books and Zines Seeking donations for independent free reference library. in Kosovo, former Yugoslavia. Kosovo is a struggling country with an average monthly salary of $30 and unemployment at 60%. Any zine or book donations welcomed. Also T-shirts, and postage stamps, for children's collections. Send to Switzerland, and it will be forwarded; more secure. No internet access. Send to: RLP c/o PF 44 CH 4142 Munchenstein 3 SWITZERLAND Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd; Fiber postcards
REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail art call: Deadline: April 1 Exhibit of 4x6 postcards showing something about Arizona; use fiber-based materials on decorative side, narrative about front on message side. Card should be postmarked between Mar 1 and Apr 1. Send to: Peggy Hazard, Wish You Were Here, Tohono Chul Park, 7366 N Paseo del Norte, Tucson AZ 85704, USA For more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 520-742-6455x217 Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: Re: there is a virus on your website!
I wrote to the arteteca website people I got this reply: --- artisti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:40:36 +0100 From: artisti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: tamarawyndham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: there is a virus on your website! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INFORMING US! WE ARE VERY SORRY!!! we will do as your friend told,we will lock the site hoping to solve the problem! we really do not know how a thing like this can happen, but we will solve it as soon as possible! Please can you tell me if they do have problems also with the mirror site www.artetica.altervista.org? It will be very useful Thank you so much for your help!! Elena Rondini per l'Associazione di Promozione Sociale Artetica Via Dei Marsi 18 - 00185 Roma -Italia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] tamarawyndham wrote: I asked other people in the mail art network if they knew what was going on with your website. Here's a response I got. Please do something about this. I felt terrible that my friend had so much problems after I emailed her your website address. - Tamara Wyndham From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:27 pm Subject: Website problem with artetica.org Hi, Tamara, I visited artetica.org and can confirm that this site is virus infected. A lot of popups tried to come up and the site tried to install some sort of dubious software on my computer but both were blocked by the firewall of my system. If Suejin doesn't have a firewall installed it is obvious that he/she now has a infected system. The only advice I can give is to download or buy a good antivirus program. I don't blame the people of artetica.org for this - everybody can catch a virus and I think their page was infected by such a malicious piece of software. Best thing that they could do is to lock the website until the infection of their system has been cured. Greetings to all, Norbert Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Fwd: Artists Needed at Asylum Gallery
--- cherie hac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:12:05 -0800 (PST) From: cherie hac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Artists Needed at Asylum Gallery To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asylum Gallery at Headquarters for the Arts welcomes artists to submit resumes and portfolios of two dimensional work in any media for review. The gallery has immediate openings to expand their membership of artists. It's been an exciting first year at Asylum! Cherie Hacker, Gallery Director said. We've spotlighted members, as well as shown work from the greater arts community in the International Mail Art and the Holiday Print shows. Artists from New York to Spain to Chile participated in exhibits.� Headquarters for the Arts� anniversary celebration will feature all of the arts groups associated with HQ: art-in-action, poetry, music, film and more. Participation in multi-media arts events makes this a special space for visual artists to exhibit in. A shared goal of HQ partners (Asylum Gallery, The Sacramento Poetry Center, and Kabinet Films) is to reach out to the community making the arts accessible to the public at low or no cost. This dream is reality in the HQ space as several events from Second Saturday Receptions to Benefit Concerts continue to take place. Interested artists may want to catch a glimpse of the current Photography and Digital exhibit which features Art Luna of Luna's Cafe, and Ann Tracy of Beyond the Proscenium Productions. Asylum Gallery is located in midtown Sacramento, at 1719 25th Street, in the Arts Complex on the corner of 25th and R Streets. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4pm, and Second Saturday Receptions from 6 to 9pm. For further information to become a member of Asylum Gallery and to schedule a portfolio review, contact Hacker at 530-295-1067 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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This must be old news to some of you: Film Cameras are so 20th Century Nikon, one of the historical leaders in high-end cameras (Canon is now the choice of most professionals) has elected to discontinue nearly all of their film cameras and lenses. This is a strong and clear indication that complete progression to digital is imminent, relegating film cameras to the VCR-type technology category. Nikon is the latest to join an industry-wide shift toward digital photography, which has exploded in popularity. Rivals like Kodak and Canon have already shifted most of their camera production to digital products. The reasons are not difficult to see: Digital cameras produced 75 percent of Nikon's sales in 2005, compared to film cameras that earned only 3 percent. New York Times January 12, 2006 Registration Required Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
(,) Night of Sun call??
Is anyone familiar with this call? It doesn't say which country - Germany? Switzerland? Austria? NIGHT OF SUN technique free size: A4; 15 x 6 or 8, 30 x 6 All contributions will be shown at exhibition April 17 - Oct 15 No returns. Your work will be in the collection of the WONDER-CHAMBER in the SCHLOSS BARTENSTEIN. Some of the artworks will be printed as postcards in the EigenArt-Verlag or you can find it on the internet. Please send your contribution soon or til Feb. 28, 2006 to: Martin Schwarz Kunstkammer im Schloss Bartenstein D-74575 Bartenstein Tamara Wyndham http://www.tamarawyndham.com We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. -- E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ma-network/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
