CrackerJack Kid

The anticipation is part of the reason we do this whole crazy mail art thing, right? Right?!?!

:-0

--JH

here is an invitation to pARTicipate in the SECREt eXCHANGE exhibitions...pass the invitation on to your friends, and let me know on my page if you will or won't be able to contribute; go to IUoMA Events...or click on the link http://secretexchange.yolasite.com/   thx, Terry Reid, and hope to hear from you

ps
(in facebook it is at :https://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000748977585 )

Personal Mail-Art Invitation: 

MOMA = Museum of Mail Art

Letter Envelope and Artistamps

Dear Networker

On the 18th of September 2011 the Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland will have an Opening for the exhibition "Conquer the Living Rooms of the World." This is a retrospective of my artistic activities from almost the last 40 years.

One section of the exhibition is dedicated to my activity in the world-wide Mail Art Network. I am inviting you to send me one of your typical creatively altered letter envelopes and one of your sheets of stamps. The deadline is the 10th of September. Your contribution will be integrated into the exhibition and will become a part of the museum's collection. 

This personal invitation is being extended to around 60 of my "old" Mail Art partners with whom I am currently still in contact with through Facebook. 

I look forward to your contribution!

Yours, 

H.R.Fricker

Adresse:

H.R.Fricker

MOMA / Museum of Mail Art

Huettschwendi 7

CH-9043 Trogen

Switzerland

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hey Cracker Bagman here ,I'm new at using one computer to correspond,but i'm glad 2 learn and get back in touch whit old friends .as soon i learn how 2 send you M A i will,

i still believe the old way is better but 2 damn expensive,so 4 now .regards Bagman

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday greetings from Greece!

Hallo Cracker Jack Kid,

thank you for your lines and the interest you have in one of my older stamped works.

"A long time ago" I had/participated in mandala exhibitions. For this I did among other the piece you refer to. Michael Leigh has got a copy of a photo of it on a postcard, I think. 

Gladly I will send you a postcard too. 

Here and there I read with much interest about your activities, especially in the music sphere, and I remember ...

I wish you and yours all the best!

old A&HeMi

Dear CrackerJack, I tried your e-mail-address, but it failed. Please send me your snail mail address tha I can send you the post card.

HeMi 

Dear friend,

thank you very much for your lines.

In the moment only some remarks back as my pc shuts down often and I have to try to give it to a repair shop this morning ...

I have had in the cellar an etching press of my own where I did "high art" etchings ...and artistamp etchings.

In the meantime for several reasons my art is only mail art done with my deepest credo by the assistance above all of my pc. And I have donated my etching press with all my equipment to a school where one of my grandchildren goes..  

This for the moment...

Thanks, best greetings and "auf Wiedersehen"

HeMi

Hi CJK, Longa whila notta heara.

Yes I made artistamp back in the days when printers were dot-matric.  I used to print out the stamps and on the same sheet print the BASIC programme that generated the stamp.  If you want copies (I have them (somewhere) scanned ready for ink-jet printing) send me mail address.

Best greets

rod

rodvec@planet.nl

Hi Cracker Jack !

Am headed to Chicago today to hang a Mailart show at the Art Institute,

will mail out some stampsheets & such to you as soon as I get back on Wednesday.

Really excited abt. Ginny's book ... I wrote a small thing on Contemporary Fluxus stamps.. unfortunately very incomplete, could use a lot of research in that area.

Looking forward to our correspondence.

  -  Keith

official dutch postage stamps....

How nice to find you on here after all these years.  Yes, I am a blast from your past and have often thought about you over the years.  I was the first student at Bellevue West to have a mail art show in 1980-81 ... and a scholarship recipient to SCAD.  Have I jarred your memory any?  I'm glad to see you're still CrackerJack Kid.

Yes, after three years at SCAD, I continued on as a graphic artist for ten years until my return to school to pursue healthcare - I got tired of eeking out a living and not enjoying what I was doing.  I completed my undergrad degree in health sciences and my graduate work in Public Administration (I honestly thought at the time that my calling was as a public servant).  I now design and support clinical software for the surgical setting; I've done this now for 18 years and I enjoy what I do tremendously. 

How interesting that you remembered my desire to go into art therapy - my stints over the years include teaching art to developmentally-challenged, the profoundly hearing-impaired, the terminally ill, and the elderly; these have been among my most rewarding experiences.

Regarding old classmates, yes, I have been in touch with many of them via Facebook over the past few years; some of them from Art Club.  You might remember Warren Johnson (graduated '80) - he lives not far from me in the Bay Area although we have yet to get together.  Warren's an art and marketing director for an engineering company in Chico.  David Butson (graduated in '82) went on to become a very successful art director for a publishing firm based in Hong Kong; he still lives there and now has his own businesses.

Thanks for your snail mail address ... I'll have to get my creative juices flowing - I'm about all dried up - LOL!  Until then, my email address is wedevaney@comcast.net.

I'm so glad to have connected with you after all these years - you were such an inspiration to me and a friend.  BTW, I had NO idea you sang - and you're pretty good!

Warm regards,

Bill

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Thank you CrackerJack kid!  I just llove goggles.  Love your artwork!

No kidding??  Imagine that.  Thanks much for your submission.  Hope all is well with you in your corner of the country.  I gave your email address to another student who graduated in '80.  Hopefully, he's in touch.  Later, CrackerJack!

P.S.  Good luck with your current book!

Nice to find you here CJK!   A lot of water gone under the mail art bridge!

HI Cracker, We are no longer in London- live in the wilds of Cheshire now and have been for the last 13 years!  Hope your girls have a fab trip. Our Archie is off to uni in Brighton too so we know how you feel about the fledglings flying the nest! Cheers!   Michael

thank you Cracker...his words are as I remember them..I am thinking about phone conversations you may have had in 1994~95 while he was in Texas??

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  

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

Happy birthday greetiiings from Greece!

Happy birthday!

I use exchange mail with you back in the 90's ( formally Rick and Karen ) I have gotten back into mail art. Email me your address, I would love to send you one of my new projects, artistamps.  Glad to see you are still around. Oh Boy told me EZ is no longer doing mail art, to bad. Hope to hear from you.  Blessed Father Rick

Hello CrackerJack Kid

Yes, Frenetik was edited by me, but I was very busy with mail art, my music label "corrosive tapes" and organising concerts of alternative music, performances, ... in my city Tournai ... I decided to stop a great part of my activities in the beginning of the 90's when I had two daughters ... now they have 23 and 24 years old ... I have sometimes what time to spend ...

Yours friendly

pIOtr

Happy birthday greetings from Greece!

Thank you for the surprise mail art!

See you in the mail soon, too!

blogged here:

• Another rare sighting: mail art from the Crackerjack Kid! Yay!

Happy Birthday greetings from Greece, Chuck!

Have a GREEEEAAT Day! OPA!

Many thanks, Chuck..we have to "share" our art space with the kids :-)

blogged:

• Special from the Crackerjack Ki

Happy Birthday greetings from Greece: XRONIA POLLA!

MAILART PROJECT

Crackerjack, Happy Birthday!

Thanks for the Crackerjack...it made me soooo homesick :-) Meow!

see:

• It's Cracker Jack from the CrackerJack Kid!

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/monumentovostell

Thanks CrackerJack Kid