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Comment by Monster A GoGo on May 22, 2023 at 9:01pm

I just finished 35. Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

Comment by Mail Art News on May 22, 2023 at 1:48pm

Mail Art News #35

Comment by Mail Art News on May 17, 2023 at 5:30pm

Have a look-see. 

Mail Art News #34: Selbstporträt

Comment by JAC MAIL on May 15, 2023 at 4:17pm

I would consider some of my scrapbook pages to be art as I enjoy painting on them.

Comment by Pam Chatfield on May 15, 2023 at 1:30pm

I was going to answer CtlAltDel's question, but Heleen said pretty much what I would have said, except I didn't write an essay.  But the reasons for mail art, to me, says it all.  Same with art and crafts.  So for my reply I'm just going to say 'well said' to Heleen.

Comment by Pam Chatfield on May 15, 2023 at 1:10pm

Thomas, I am a rubber stamp addict.  I will email my answers for your post later today.  I'm working on a project today and I want to include a photo of it with my answers.

Comment by Mail Art News on May 15, 2023 at 11:39am

If I'm forgetting to mail my outgoing mail for a day or two I will put it in a bag on the door handle so I can't miss it again...this morning  mailed two letters to the Make Studio in Baltimore

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 15, 2023 at 9:10am

Indeed art is art, and one of the reasons for the mail art to start as an art movement was to protest against the too commercial sides of art, of the ‘established art’ and art galleries, museums etcetera (people who buy art as an investment object, not because they like it, etcetera).

To answer Thomas’ question: to my opinion mail art and scrapbook art can be distinguished this way:

mail art = art, and the maker considers him/herself an autonomous artist / art creator.

scrapbook art = craft, and the maker considers him/herself a creative person who has a great hobby, but does not necessarily identify him/herself as an artist.

I have written an essay on this specific question for a book by Ruud, for the 30th anniversary of IUOMA, alas this book didn’t finish at the time. Hopefully there will be a new chance for a next anniversary :-) (the essay alas is lost on my previous computer so I should re-write it).

Questions and replies about Rubberstamps would match in such a book, too :-)

And yes, I am a rubberstamp enthusiast addict and I both buy (never too many) and carve Rubberstamps :-)

Comment by CtlAltDel on May 15, 2023 at 5:21am

Hi Sarah Roe, one of the big reasons I like Mail Art (and Outsider Art and Street Art) is because it circumvents the art industry. I have every intention of including my Mail Art alongside my other art work...because it's all one to me! Art is art is art.

Comment by Sarah Roe on May 15, 2023 at 4:44am

While I have no objection whatsoever to an artist making a living with art, I  believe that  a  narrow definition of art as a commodity and the attendant gatekeeping it engenders lessens both humanity and art itself. I applaud your inclusion of participation in any and all artistic endeavors and hope that you find it a defensible position.

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