April 2020 Blog Posts (129)

Mail that came to me in April. I am grateful to the authors who sent their artwork. Thanks, Claire Humphrys-Hunt (Australia) Akiko Shinmura (Japan).

I am grateful for the ADD&PASS sheets; thanks,…

Mail that came to me in April.

Thanks Jack Lattemann for postal art. Lattemann, always featured in mail art as Cascadia Artpost, has been building his city for years, a model of some beautiful country, populated by little people who live their own lives. In March 2020, a photo of a composition dedicated to the anniversary of another master of mail art, the canadian artist Anna Banana.

In addition, Jack sent me issue of his own newspaper: an funny parody of the…

A great set of very appropriate artistamps that arrived in today's mail.



A new set of artistamps from Adam. He included a transcript of a conversation with his mom explaining the ideas behind the stamps. All the more…

It has arrived!

See, mail art FROM the USA arrived ...finally, but I  just cannot send :-(…

and they arrived just fine...together :-) with lovely postage:…

An Autumn "Halloween" zine from BonnieDiva finally arrived in Greece,

along with a lovely EASTER zine, too! (Greek Easter is April19, so it is ahead of time -)…

A very fun rubber stamped card from Kerosene. I think this may have originated with Cameron Terhune. I believe he sent out a bunch of these partially blank cards for people to do with what they will.



A little snowman…

Thank you Nancy

April 7, 2020 and the postman dropped off what must have been sent weeks ago?…

Braincell 1076 and 1077 arrived in the mail today. I'm not on Braincell 1076 so I guess it's just a bonus, but I am on 1077.  Always nice to find a Braincell in my…

THE STATEMENT

THE CONNECTION THE CREATIVE THE DECADES THE ART HUMAN THE INTELLIGENT THE GLOBAL THE  ALL HABITAT  MADE ART          

 my mail art statement  digital photograph was also a calander( kickstarter project) joint artist

The exhibition is still proceeding as planned, with a September 25 opening. We will re-evaluate mid-summer.  If the situation changes, we have a few options available including postponement, an online version and more.

We appreciate the terrific response so far, but please be safe and remember the deadline for entries isn't until mid-September.

tuesday 04/07/20 lots of swell art came my mailbox way the last few days.

**an envelope from my near neighbor Jokie X. Wilson, also of San Francisco, contains many cutouts of machineries and two Radical Pansy buttons.

**A lovely envelope from Fleur Helsingor, of Oakland with some of her excellent work

**some neat stuff from Eugene, Oregon artist Nick Johnson

**A wonderful mailer From John M. Bennett of Ohio, with asemic wrirting and an…

A really fun collage arrived from Tonipoet today. Good to see that being in lockdown hasn't slowed down her art making!…