* 2016 * Call for FISH mail art * Call for mail-art FISHES * 2016 *

I would like to receive mail art on the theme of 

* fishes * poissons * vissen * peixes * peces * Fische *

Preferred size: A5 (210x148 mm) or A6 (148x105 mm, that is, postcard size). 

All work will be shown on my blog fishes.blogspot

Deadline: 31 December 2016

No returns. 

Offensive material will not be published, but jokes will be appreciated. 

Send your mail-art, please, to:
Willemien Visser
Kaspersweg 86
26131 Oldenburg
Germany

From Linda Pelati - Milano, Italy - November 2015 - JOY! N°46

From Simon Warren - Tring, G.B. - November 2015 - JOY! N°48 

From Amber Howes, Hannah Kroncke, Lexi Stoen, Zack O., Serenity Naber, Collin W. and Hiyan Beauchamp - Lake Geneva, WI, U.S. – November 2015 - JOY! N°37-JOY! N°45

Seven Middle-schoolers (age 11-15) sent me these mail arts, via Carol Smith, a volunteer working with them during VIBE, an after school program of the Immanuel Luteran Church. Amber Howes even sent three (the first three).

From Giovanni & Renate Strada aka StraDADA - Ravenna, Italy - November 2015 - JOY! N°36

From Simon Warren - Tring, G.B. - 09.12.15 - JOY! N°49

From Fabián Giles - Nueva Santa Maria, Mexico - 10.10.15 - JOY! N°35

From Luiza Alexandra Lewczuk - Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil - 09.10.15 -  JOY! N°34

From Nancy Dornelles - Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil  - 09.10.15  -  JOY! N°33

From Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenón - Sevilla, Spain - 11.09.15 - JOY! N°32 

From Annette Behlau - Gelsenkirchen, Germany - 05.08.15 - JOY! N°29

From Nicole Eippers - Melin, Belgium - 18.07.15 - JOY! N°28

From Cernjul Viviana - Buenos Aires, Argentina - 15.07.15 - JOY! N°27

From Uwe Klein - Dittelbrunn, Germany - 09.07.15 - JOY! N°30

From Roland Halbritter - Nüdlingen, Germany - 27.06.15 - JOY! N°31

Roland sends me a page with  joyful, imaginative, funny mail-art "stamps", imagining a creation by Ray Johnson, Joyflexing Fitness for Mail Artists!

On his envelope he also puts a stamp with Bocksbeutel, object of his new call: http://bocksbeutel-mail-art.blogspot.de

Bocksbeutel are the typical franconian wine bottle of Roland's region, situated in the north west of Bavaria (the Portuguese rosé from the house of Mateus uses the same form of bottles).

From Uli Grohmann - Münster, Germany - 27.06.15 - JOY! N°26

Uli asks —himself or me or you— if this Mona Lisa is (really) JOY!...

From Mzia Valerian - Mechelen, Belgium - 01.06.15 - JOY! N°25

From Ítalo Anderson - Fortaleza, CE, Brazil - JOY! N°24

From Paola Baldassini - Milano, Italy - 21.05.15 - JOY! N°23

From Elisa Battistella - San Donato, Italy -  13.05.15 - JOY! N°22

From Lutz Beeke - Potsdam, Germany - 06.05.15 - JOY! N°21

From Servane Morel - Brussels, Belgium - 27.03.15 - JOY! N°19

From Silvano Pertone - Sestri Ponente, Italy - 28.04.15 - JOY! N°20

From Angela Behrendt - Hannover, Germany - 6.04.15 - JOY! N°17

The "JOY" of this lady who is advertising for a "Farmer women's Milkshake seminar" is "of course" stitched!

From Silvano Pertone - Sestri Ponente, Italy - 26.04.15 - JOY! N°18

From Rosa Gravino - Cañada de Gómez, Argentina - 26.04.15 - JOY! N°16

Rosa has a call for Visual Poetry

From Sarah Waldron - Birmingham, G.B. - 16.04.15 - JOY! N°15