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Mail-Artist since:: 1952

My Website (without http://):: http://www.jeffberner.com

Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: I started around age 11. I loved getting mail, which was rare.

I used powdered gold or silver poured over wet fountain pen ink to write addresses, then gently blowing away the rest & holding the envelope over a light bulb to dry. The metallic writing set up dry, embossed.

I have correspondents all over the USA, Europe, and a few in the Philippines and China. Mostly friends or other artists—mostly both.

I have a very large collection, to say the least.

My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): berner@sonic.net
102-bis rue Lepic 75018 Paris, France

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Stimulus Package?

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 3:30pm 3 Comments 0 Likes

Stimulus Package?

Who writes the titles for these things that our fate depends upon?

“Stimulus package” sounds like a ribbed condom!

But seriously, folks, the recent legislation was designed to limit “earmarks,” and that’s all well and good. But many remain. Why not one for Mail Art?

I have had a lot of faith in O’Bama, but have you noticed that the bailout legislation has zero support for Mail Art?

I first started sending artistic… Continue

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At 4:16am on April 30, 2017, Terry Reid said…: Jeff, am about to FW an Anna Banana message to you by email.

At 8:54am on October 5, 2012, TIZIANA BARACCHI said…: DOINGPOETRY IN THE WORLD

Mailart project

Doingpoetry: Poetry, Art, Society

Free size, medium and technique

No fee, no jury, no sales, no returns

The show will be held in Pavia in 2012, November 23-25

At Santa Maria Gualtieri during PAVIART POETRY Festival 2012

Organization by O.M.P. and Farepoesia

Documentation: all submissions will also be posted

on the web sites under costruction in http://www.farepoesia.it/mail-art.html

http://www.mupa.it/

info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com

Artworks should be sent by snail mail

DEADLINE to be received 2012, November 10

Send to:

TITO TRUGLIA

Via Torino 37

I-27100 Pavia

ITALY

At 8:26pm on December 23, 2011, TIZIANA BARACCHI said…: The Diary of a Young Girl
Theme: a Mailart exhibition dedicated to Anna Frank and to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27th, 1945: death camp Auschwitz was liberated
Size and technique free
No jury, no returns, no fees
Exhibition in 2012 in Giulianova, Italy
Documentation online gallery and catalogue to all participant if it will possibile (because of sponsor)
All works via post, no email please.
Info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com o image000@libero.it
Deadline to be received January 2nd, 2012

Isabella Branella
via Giardino 12
I- 64021 Giulianova Lido
Teramo
ITALY

At 7:50am on November 13, 2011, Terry Reid said…: Jeff, have you sent a SECREt to the Tell Me Tell Me exhibition at MoCA in Korea?
http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/send-to-the-secret-exchange
Duchamp's not Klein Blue blue suit

At 10:04pm on January 24, 2010, Samantha Bragg said…: You still send out gold embossed mail art written in fountain pens?

At 9:19pm on October 25, 2009, Carlos I. Botana said…: Thème: Poulpe...

Livre collectif de mail art.

Envoyez 18 travaux, grandeur: 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical), numérotés et
signés, pour faire une série de volumes, chacun avec plusieurs artistes.
Chaque volume contiendra un minimum de 14 travaux, un par artiste.
Modifiez chaque copie pour qu'elles deviennent des originelles uniques.
N'importe quelle technique: dessins, peintures, photos, collages...

Chaque participant recevra un volume.

Fin des délais: octobre 2010

Envoyez vos travaux à

Carlos Botana
General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
15006 A Coruña
Galicia - España/Espagne

Cordialement.

Carlos Botana

At 4:49am on February 8, 2009, stan askew said…: hi jeff ... nope. no e-mail from you, but i am definitely in a daze. will post you some mail art in the next few days.

cheers back atcha!

stan

At 4:24pm on February 7, 2009, Mirta Toledo said…: Gracias for your comment Jeff, you made my day!

At 3:47pm on February 7, 2009, Keyla Holmquist said…: Jeff greetings from Venezuela.

The 6th World's Poetry Festival 2009 will take place on june and july as a tribute to a venezuelan Poet named Juan Calzadilla (National Prize of Plastic Arts 1996).
This event will be sponsored by Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura and Casa Nacional de las Letras Andrés Bello, so my art archive willheld:

THE 5th INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER OF VISUAL POETRY
OPEN NOTIFICATION – NO SELECTION – NO JURY
Everything received will be exhibited – Documentation [to all of you].
NO RETURNS.
Everything sent will be part of the MAIL ART ARCHIVE KEYLA HOLMQUIST.

All the material has to be mailed to:

Keyla Holmquist
ARCHIVO DE ARTE CORREO
Apartado Postal 326
Maracay 2101
Estado Aragua VENEZUELA

DEADLINE MAY 31,st 2009

All the material should be sent perfectly packed in order to prevent damage and with a copy of a data card, stuck on the back of the package.

CATEGORIES:

DRAWING, PAINTING, GRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTIST SEALS, COPY-ART, EXPERIMENTAL ART.

OBJECTS/ARTIST'S BOOKS:

Measures UP TO A4 MAXIMUM. The base or pedestal needed should be provided by the artist.

POETRY, FREE VERSE OR RHYME, PROSE, NARRATIVE, ESSAY, STORIES.

VISUAL POETRY:

Collage, visual poems, process poetry, illustrated poetry, labyrinth poems, phonetic poems, audible poems, semiotic, palindrome, holopoems, concrete poetry, video action, photo action, object poem, pseudovisual poetry, braille poetry.

VIDEO, SHORTFILM, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION:

All videos will be admitted, shortfilms, photography, documentaries, animations that do not exceed 8 minutes of length and they must be delivered on CD or DVD format ready for its presentation.

MULTIMEDIA EXPRESSION:

They will be admitted on CD or DVD format ready for its presentation including the credits, the photography, the list of the soundtrack that was used and the name of the author.

AUDIO FORMAT:

the audio format admitted has to be:
Wave 44,100 Hz 16 bit stereo
Mp3 from 96 'til 320 KPSS
If the expression is audible, high fidelity required.

At 8:37pm on January 20, 2009, BRUNO CAPATTI said…: dear Jeff Berner ,
there are many new letter boxes from around the world on my web album: http://picasaweb.google.com/bnet.album
which is also your contributions through mail and e-mail.
Thanks for your attention ____ _@Y Bruno Capatti

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