“LATIN AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND THE WORLD UNITED POSTAL ART BIENNIAL”

Celebrating 200 years of diplomatic relations and friendship between Brazil and Mexico 2024

The First Biennial of Postal Art in Latin America, the Caribbean and the United World is an Artistic Action for Peace, which has the purpose of consolidating the links of friendship, solidarity and empathy between different cultures, as well as between creators and different artistic expressions, to celebrate 200 years of diplomatic relations and friendship that were officially established on March 9, 1825 between Mexico and Brazil.

Therefore, the Regional Executive Committee of Latin America and the Caribbean, (RELAC) of the International Association of Art, IAA, NGO in oficial partnership with UNESCO, issues this ANNOUNCEMENT TO:

The artists affiliated with the National Committees of the Latin American and Caribbean Region of: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico, Peru and Venezuela, and members of the Committee World Executive: Korea, Poland, Serbia, Latvia, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany, of the IAA, NGO in official partnership with UNESCO to participate in the “First Biennial of Postal Art, Latin America, the Caribbean and the World Joined",

Artists who wish to participate must create two works of Postal Art, one for Brazil and the other for Mexico. The works that meet the requirements and accepted by the national chapters appropriate to each artist, will be exhibited at the Museo dos Correios de Brasilia in Brazil, and at the Museo del Palacio Postal in Mexico City.

Submissions Instructions:• Make the work of postal art, based on a poem by a poet of Brazilian or Mexican origin, which may be included in full or a fragment within the work.

Consult link ABOVE

• The only format for the postal artwork whether horizontal or vertical is A4 size. Letter sheet: (21 X 28.7 cm.) (8 1/2" x 11")

• The techniques to use: Drawing, Painting, Collage, Photography, Textile Art, Engraving, (Screen printing, Intaglio, Dry Point, Etching, Lithography, Woodcut, Monotype) Printed Digital Art, Mixed technique, on flat paper, cardboard or canvas.

• Due to the museographic proposal, works on rigid or heavy supports will not be accepted.

• Create a work for EACH country. (2 per country MAX- so 4 art pieces total, if desired)

• DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: JULY 1, 2024.

•DEADLINE TO SEND WORK TO IAA-USA IF ACCEPTED TO EXHIBITION

Accepted artworks will be announced July 2nd, 2024

Selected Translated Poems into English:

WHAT IS SPRING? -Alisia Zavala Hernández

It is the smile of the forest, dressed in velvet Falling in love with Selene, and the stars in the sky It is the rumor of the jungle, in a chlorophyll suit How riotously it sways, like the lyre in the pine tree. It is the song of roses, the fragrance of flowers It is the butterfly tulle, with its most beautiful colors She is the woman of the dream, she is the adored princess It is the muse and it is the numen, it is the enchanted mountain. It is the breath that comes from the song of the cenzontles The calandrias and birds, with their masterful trills, The air dances and whispers, how beautiful spring is! Spring truth of life, with the humidity of the earth Everything, everything, shines in it. Author: Alisia Zavala Hernández. 

Germinating Peace: L. Adela Rojas Ramírez 

Peace is blooming light firm vibration, of pleasant color and warmth but it is not imposed. Peace is a seed Sown by a mother woman In the soul of a human cocoon. Germinate seeds of peace in fertile heart, sprinkle of tenderness with freshness of smiles… It is an unavoidable task. Peace blooms and shines brightly If it is germinated and cultivated To know ourselves as great finite beings Of feeling small heartbeats To the neuronal rhythm of the universe. Weapons do not create peace And without dialogue, it withers. All violence contaminates Well deny, deny The macro source of love Essence of each being that in its loss Delays the flame of light that illuminates it

A Poem: SILVIA GARCÍA RAMÍREZ (The Lady of Poetry)

In this biennale we met, we no longer send letters, but emails, that as a quantum connection we are two particles united, two different systems, that so subtly we bring unique systems, I prepared my weapons for your kisses, your lips..., sealing my lips; leaving footprints with your name, imagining that your fire spreads in my bustling ocean, my figure without physical law, living from our substance in subtlety, fire of sensory perceptions in this full moon of superb purity in that we are art, exalted poetry that between the lines I am your poem and you, my most ineffable verse. 

(please refer to link for several other exhibit poems)