Mim Golub Scalin's Blog Posts Tagged 'Mail' (5)

At the Smithsonian (USA)

My husband and I took the train up to Washington, DC, for a day trip last week, specifially to see the Mail Art exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery. It's part of the Smithsonian Institution. An amazing museum …

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Added by Mim Golub Scalin on December 23, 2018 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

I'm so excited! I contacted the Special Collections librarian at the university library where I used to teach. I invited her to come to our home and look at my Mail Art archive. I spent days and days sorting and organizing. I couldn't believe how tired I would get and how long it was taking. I loved seeing all the mail again. Old memories, remembering when I got pieces. My…

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Added by Mim Golub Scalin on June 2, 2017 at 4:41am — 6 Comments

National Postal Museum

For my birthday this year, we made a day trip by train, to Washington, D.C. for another visit to the National Postal Museum. The museum is right across the street from the train station, how convenient for us. There is a terrific gallery of stamps on the mail floor and on the lower level are displays relating to the postal service, interactive stuff, a post office…

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Added by Mim Golub Scalin on July 9, 2014 at 4:09pm — 1 Comment

Who are you?

I received a lovely piece of Mail Art from Judy and Joey from St. Louis. It had a lengthy interesting note on the reverse but no return address. I feel badly because I can't figure out which Judy this is from. Oh dear. I'd love to respond. Can anyone identify a Judy with Joey dog in St. Louis, USA?

Added by Mim Golub Scalin on May 23, 2014 at 11:28pm — 3 Comments

My other blogs

I have two blogs that I blog on regularly. One is for my Mail Art and for other things in my life - nothing really personal, however, as I like to keep things personal. I have lots of images of my trips, mainly our artist residencies in Paris. They were always so meaningful in terms of being able to create work. Also, I got to visit with Dean, Andy, Elena, and Positively Postal early in 2012. The other is my recipe blog. I was going to put my Mail Art on it but ended up using it for my…

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Added by Mim Golub Scalin on December 9, 2012 at 4:22am — 1 Comment

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