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Category Archives: mail art call
Cascadia Art Post
I met Jack Lattiman (Cascadia Art Post) at the Focus on Book Arts Conference in a sketchbook class taught by Jennie Hinchcliff (Red letter Day) , and we’ve been sending things back and forth ever since! I responded to his … Continue reading
Posted in Artistamps, Book Arts, card, envelope, Mail Art, mail art call, Received, Workshops
Tagged artistamps, Cascadia Artpost, collage, Jennie Hinchcliff, mail art, Michael Bidner, mixed media, postcard, stamped
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Jennie Hinchcliff Sketchbook Workshop
Last June I took an exposed binding sketchbook class from Jennie Hinchcliff. She is a great teacher, and it was an excellent workshop! She sent notices for a Mail/Art/Book show and convention she was organizing called “Ex Postal Facto”, so … Continue reading
Posted in Book Arts, Mail Art, mail art call, Workshops
Tagged Ex Postal Facto, exposed binding, Jennie Hinchcliff, mail art, mixed media, rubber stamps, sketchbook, stamped
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Fragments
Here is the card I’m sending to Moan Lisa for her mail art call “Fragments.” She’ll cut mail art into fragments, combine them into new pieces, and send those back to participants along with a mailing list. Click on the … Continue reading
How Much Orange is Enough?
David Schulze sent this card with a tiny bit of orange. Next card, more orange! On the back of this card David wrote “People who think orange is a difficult color probably never got art in the mail that was … Continue reading
Posted in card, mail art call, Orange is a Difficult Color, Received
Tagged mail art, mixed media, Orange, paint, paper, postcard, stamped
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Mail Art Show Catalogs
This year I’ve received two catalogs from mail art shows I entered! The catalog from the exhibition at San Francisco Art Institute states: The Gutai Art Association (Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai) was an avant-garde artist collective in postwar Japan that was … Continue reading
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3rd Annual Show!
The third annual mail art show at South Store Cafe has two themes: Orange Is A Difficult Color A restaurant owner once told me that orange is the color of hunger, which is why fast food establishments have orange chairs. … Continue reading
Janus Closes This Weekend
Janus closes February 2, so drive on out to the South Store Cafe in Scholls this weekend for a last glimpse of the two mail art shows: Janus, and the Graphic Arts Building Artists Mail Art Exchange. If you want … Continue reading
Posted in card, Graphic Arts Building Artists, mail art call, Received
Tagged collage, IUOMA, Janus, mail art, mixed media, paint, paper, photograph
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Mail Art Call: Janus
Theme: JANUS Janus, the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions, is usually depicted as a two-faced god looking both to the future and to the past. He presides over both abstract and concrete beginnings and transitions, thus he is … Continue reading
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