A Book About Death: The Last Waltz
August 10, 2019 at 1:09 pm | Posted in Art Exhibitions | Leave a commentTags: ABAD, Book About Death, Joan Harrison poster, Mail Art, mail artists
2019 poster by Joan Harrison
The 10th Anniversary Edition Of A Book About Death is an International Mail Art Show opening September 14, 2019 at the Islip Art Museum in New York. The Book About Death is an unbound book consisting of loose pages, in multiple editions, produced by artists worldwide on the subject of death. The show is curated by Luann T. Palazzo. An exhibit was first organized as a collective art project in 2009 and this will be the 10th anniversary of that show. I am one of the contributing artists.
2012 Fluxfest Chicago-Group Show
February 3, 2012 at 10:37 am | Posted in Art Exhibitions, Mail Art | Leave a commentTags: fluxkits, Fluxus, Keith A. Buchholz, Mail Art, mail artists
A “…Comprehensive exhibit overviewing 40 years of Mailart and Fluxus.” -Keith A. Buchholz. More info at Imagine Peace Archives and the fluxus blog.
Not Your Parents’ Duct Tape
December 4, 2009 at 10:10 pm | Posted in Art Exhibitions, Mail Art | Leave a commentTags: duct tape, fluxkits, Fluxus, Keith A. Buchholz, Ken Friedman, mail artists, music shakers, rhythm
FLUXKIT Shakers
Or perhaps 50 mail artists at ready, get set, and go… these are mini music shakers from my “duct tape and lentil” series for Keith Buchholz’ FLUXKITS.
Fluxkits are smallish objects (a box perhaps) that are collections of other objects that hold meaning to the artist and can be interacted with by an audience. Keith Buchholz is assembling this edition of 50, everyone contributes 50 of something. Then we each get a FlUXKIT in return and it is also archived. Mail Art easily moves in the direction of Fluxus, since it (and Fluxus) has such a strong element of humor and anti-commercialism.
The music aspect refers to #12. Musicality*, on Ken Friedman’s 1992 list of 12 Fluxus ideas (and my own need for rhythm)
*from 40 Years of Fluxus
Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art
September 7, 2009 at 4:09 pm | Posted in Mail Art | 1 CommentTags: book, Carolee Gilligan Wheeler, contributor, Good Mail Day, Jennie Hinchcliff, Mail Art, mail artists
The cover of “Good Mail Day”
What fun is this? A book on creating art for mailing! If you poke around this blog you’ll discover that Mail Art is one of my passions. There’s a worldwide network of us, people that love to send their art visibly through the mail; art of all manner, shapes and sizes.
It’s obvious that “Good Mail Day” which hit bookstores September 1, 2009, is a labor of love for the authors Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler. It’s an engagingly written intro to the creative aspects of making your own mail art and decorated envelopes using drawings, collage, recycled items, and more. Their can-do approach is accessible to all. Throughout the book, illustrating the ideas, are images of mail art examples from around the world, including my contribution of a collaged rattle/music shaker.
It’s a paperback, but with a nice heft to it and has beautiful photos in an original layout with illuminating bits of mail art history thrown in. Get yourself a copy and be inspired!
“Good Mail Day” is available at amazon.com and in Barnes & Noble bookstores.
Mail Artists Have Their Say
October 20, 2008 at 7:58 am | Posted in Mail Art | Leave a commentTags: Mail Art, mail artists
Responding to a request for comments on their involvement in Mail Art, artists are contributing their thoughts. Read the views of Marina Salmosa, Fabio Sassi, Angela Caporas, and others in Mail Art-Two Cents, now on its own page. Further opinions welcomed!
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