Call for Entries
— Deadline for submissions:
September 1, 2012 (postmark)
Artists and
(non-artists!) are invited to submit non-returnable artwork for the 7th
annual Anything Goes, Everything Shows mail art show. There is no submission
fee. Our mail art show title says it all! ALL submissions will be exhibited in
The Courtyard Gallery, 109 Roberts St. in the River Arts District from
September 15 – Oct 27. Opening reception is September 15th from
6pm-9pm Artists are encouraged to demonstrate or explore imagery of any kind.
Anything
Goes—Everything Shows is just that, an uncensored free style mail art show.
Mail art is art that uses the postal system as a medium. Mail artists typically
exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters; zines; rubberstamped, decorated,
or illustrated envelopes; artist trading cards; postcards; artistamps; faux
postage; mail-interviews; naked mail; friendship books, decos and
three-dimensional objects.
Fundamentally,
mail art in the context of a Mail Art Network is a form of conceptual art. It
is a “movement” with no membership and no leaders. Mail art is art which uses
the postal system as a medium. The term “mail art” can refer to an individual
message in the form of illustrated letters; zines; rubberstamped, decorated or
illustrated envelopes; artist trading cards; postcards; artistamps; faux
postage; mail-interviews; naked mail; friendship books, decos and
three-dimensional objects.
An amorphous
international mail art network, involving thousands of participants in over _50
countries, evolved between the 1950s and the present. It was influenced by
other movements including Dada and Fluxus.
Themes could
include anti-war, anti-art snobbery, anti-gallery art, love ,sex, dissent,
anything goes! Mail artists like to claim that mail art began when Cleopatra
had herself delivered to Julius Caesar in a rolled-up carpet. However, perhaps
the initial genesis of mail art was in postal stationery, from which mail art
is now typically distinguished (if not defined in its broadest sense).
This is a
celebration of our creative spirit…
…without gallery
snobbery or exclusivity!
All media will
be accepted and exhibited, including mixed media, Collage, Montage, Sculpture
Digital art, Painting, Printmaking, and Photography. Collage and/or the use of
imagery are encouraged. Don't be afraid to experiment with 3-dimensional art.
We have exhibited painted shoes, records, fish, sticks, and even hog jowls and
coal, to name but a creative oddities. Format is freestyle as well. Submissions
of any size or shape will be accepted. If you can get a stamp on it and send it
through the mail, it will be accepted and exhibited. Remember - Anything Goes,
Everything Shows!
The Courtyard
Gallery is located on the top floor of the Phil Mechanic Building in Asheville’s
River Arts District. Your art works should be addressed to:
Anything
Goes—Everything Shows
Carlos Steward
The Courtyard
Gallery
P.O. Box 9907
Asheville, NC
28815
The deadline is September 1, 2012 (postmark). There is no fee for entry. All entries will be exhibited at The Courtyard Gallery,
located at the Phil Mechanic Building, 109 Roberts Street, Asheville, NC.
Anything Goes – Everything Shows mail art exhibit opening is September 15, 2012
from 6pm to 9pm. For more information, contact purplecoca@aol.com and http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com.
Check out these links from past shows!
