The Portuguese gallery Atelier Ghostbirds organized an international mail art exhibition in January benefiting the Fund for Global Human Rights. It featured 321 works by 184 artists from 27 countries. For the organizers the contributions were “a personal spark, a quiet act of resistance, a reminder that creativity travels further than any one gallery wall.Continue reading “Fragments are up for Auction”
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Fragments of our Lives
The Portuguese Atelier Ghostbirds invites artists, makers, and creative souls everywhere to participate in a mail art exhibition under the motto “Fragments of what makes us alive.”
Board Games Art
Dice Portugal is an ongoing call for mail art with the theme board games. They are looking for postcard-sized works in any possible technique [→ more]. While entries are still coming in, the organizers Fernando and Maria João have already created an online presentation. The collection is constantly being expanded and the two are consideringContinue reading “Board Games Art”
Roll the Dice
Everyone has played board games at one time or another, whether it was Catan, Monopoly, Scrabble, or Snakes and Ladders. Board games have been around for thousands of years. The ancient Royal Game dates back 4,600 years to the Sumerian city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia where the ancient cuneiform writing system was developed. Perhaps becauseContinue reading “Roll the Dice”
El divertido día de los muertos
A la interpretación de calaveras había convocado el artista portugués Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles alias BroTTas. Cómo se puede ver en su exposición en línea, este tema ha animado a muchos artistas, por ejemplo a Rudi Schreiber, Gabriele Müller y Irina Manu (de la izquierda a la derecha ). Las festividades al inicio de noviembreContinue reading “El divertido día de los muertos”
La revolución de los claveles
The Carnation Revolution 1974 Mail art call: A5 maximum, free technique Write postal address, country and e-mail address on the back of the works Deadline for receipt: 01.04. 2024 The exhibition opens: 25.04.2024 Send to: JOSÉ L. CAMPAL, C/ MIGUEL BENZO, 18, 1B, 14004 CÓRDOBA, SPAIN La revolución de los claveles 1974 Convocatoria de arteContinue reading “La revolución de los claveles”
Add & Pass: This Flight
Here are three some details of an add&pass project that was started by Keith S. Chambers (USA). The other participants are Margaret Jeddry (Canada), Gerald Jatzek (Austria), Luís Filipe Gomes (Portugal) and Gabriele Müller (Austria).
Schubert’s Colors
Coming back to Vienna I found this drawing by Luís Filipe Gomes from Portugal who loves to listen to the music of Franz Schubert. You can see the colors of the Eb major Trio which was first performed in Schubert’s concert in the hall of the Vienna Musikverein on 26 March 1828.
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