Mail Art / UGM competition for Mail Art artworks
Mail Art / UGM competition for Mail Art artworks
competition: 1-14 December 2020
online exhibition + audience selection winners: 22 December 2020
UGM is announcing an art competition of artistic inventions on postcards on the topic of the exciting year 2020! Following the example of Mail Art or the exchange of art letters by mail, we invite all creatives and art lovers to join us in a joint campaign. With the competition, we support the initiatives of civil initiatives and the Municipality of Maribor after maintaining artistic condition during the necessary isolation.
At the exhibition 100+ Highlights from the UGM Collection - currently in quarantine - we present, among other things, the collection of postal art (mail art) by Andrej Skrbinek from the mid-1980s. The author thus tried to overcome "isolation and solipsistic creation in the studio". Today, when we are isolated again despite the internet, we turn for inspiration to mail art and the power of art to connect us.
Send us your artistic ideas about 2020!
How to participate:
• You need a thicker piece of A5 or A6 paper (postcard / postcard format) or other smaller sizes that can be easily discarded in the mailbox.
• On the back, create a motif on the theme of 2020 in any technique (drawing, collage, tempera, watercolor, graphics, origami, etc.).
• Write our address on the front page: Maribor Art Gallery, Strossmayerjeva ulica 6, 2000 Maribor, and in a smaller font your name and home address (you can also add an e-mail address and / or Instagram name).
• Send the postcard with the postage stamp to the mailbox.
Who can participate:
The competition is open to everyone - young and old (no age limit), art lovers and artists.
The deadline for submission:
Send us your postcards by 14 December 2020.
Reward:
Among the received postcards, UGM will select the 30 most imaginative and present them at the online exhibition on Tuesday, 22 December 2020.
Voting:
• Based on the voting on social networks, we will select the 3 most popular motives of the audience.
• The 30 final postcards will be posted on social media on 17 December 2020.
• Voting for the three winners chosen by the audience will take place until 22 December 2020, and the winners will be announced at an online exhibition. Winners will receive a UGM gift package.
The participant in the competition agrees to publish the submitted motif and his name in public (social networks, e-newsletter, exhibition, poster in public placeThe sent products will be returned to the participants after the completion of the project (collection at the UGM box office). We will not publish the home address and e-mail address, they will only be used for the purposes of internal communication between UGM and the participant.
