Display of ATCs

[Sarah Roe]

I've received several wonderful ATCs from amazing artists (Lulu Flanagan, Live Ed, Theo Nelson, Nonlocal Variable Coco Muchmore, Dr. Zack, Richard Baudet, Mikel Untzilla, Carl Baker - thank you all so much, I love them dearly...did I miss anyone? I have room for more!) It makes me happy to have the art out rather than archived. It reminds me to create some myself, it's a new and delightful art format to me. I started to put them on my study wall, then felt that keeping them to myself wasn't enough and wanted to share.

I discovered these magnetic picture holders and began displaying on the side of my metal art supply cabinet, then got permission from my local tea shop to start a little gallery - nod to Jon Foster for the mini gallery. On the bookshelf inside is a copy of Coco's guide to ATCs - there are plans for a little free library, little food bank, and a little gallery to be adjacent to this building. 

I saw a discussion thread about storage and display of ATCs somewhere on this site (someone said they use a rollodex, which I thought was brilliant, others use three ring binders, etc.)

What do you all do with yours?

I want to avoid Amazon but with apologies didn't this time: magnetic photo frames

[William M]

i love that you are able to share them at that little tea shop. really great to share with a different audience that way. mine are just stored in 3 ring binders.

[Sarah Roe]

The owner is a zine maker as well as providing amazing tea. The idea really is to get other people making and sharing, I provided several empty frames :-)

[William M]

do they sell zines at the shop as well? i'm always happy to see people or places that try to get people into creating things like this.

[Sarah Roe]

There are some zines, and diy art books, in the fashion of a library - no price tags, visitors encouraged to browse and enjoy. All seeds for promotion of creativity and play of various sorts. It's wonderful, and I was sad that it was closed this week.

[William M]

oh, that's cool. there used to be a coffee shop here that was run sort of like a library. there were tons of books (and even a few zines) for people to peruse. a lot of art and photography books. they'd even been known to ask people to be quiet who were talking too loudly(so really like a library).

i know at that zine show happening in brooklyn and at a lot of zine fests they have a table or shelf for "leave a zine take a zine" where people were encouraged to leave their own zine and take one from the shelf/table home. i really like that idea.

[Mim Golub Scalin]

Hello Sarah- I’ve been thinking about all of the ATCs I have- in 3 ring binder and a lot of small plastic storage boxes and an old cookie tin. As an older person, I’ve been giving thought to what should I do with all of these. Lots by former students, many by iuoma members. I’ve managed to deed two boxes of mail art to a local university library but what about ATCs? Does anyone have ideas about archiving?!