MAIL ART NEWS

postal prank from Chris Stadler, with rubber stampings by T. Brown, using the stamps sent by A. Warner Not all mail art is delivered by the postal service, though most is. Delivery by private citizens is the rarer method. For example, the package of old New In Chess magazines from one "Magnus Carlsen" showed up in the hallway of my apartment building yesterday. Further research determined the sender to be one Christopher Stadler, an associate of Mail Art News - Media Specialist, Ariel Greenwood. And then there's the set of rubber stamped post cards from rubber stamp collector, Amy Warner, which made their way to me via Tom Warner, another associate of A. Greenwood from the Pratt Library. If it's art (pranking is an artform) and it came to the Mail Art News headquarters in an envelope, it's mail art. As a reminder, we're in the process of relocating our headquarters from Baltimore to Aberdeen, Maryland.  And so, as in an attempt to shake this tabasco sauce add...

from Lubomyr Tymkiv to Zack Well it's only taken me eight months to get back to blogging about mail art. I was planning to get back to it in January, but here it is JUNE!  I'm in the process of moving, so I will put my new address on IUOMA at some point. To get the ball rolling again, here's what I had in my folders for January.    ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉  from M. Conroy to Juan Petry ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉  Yaşar Kemal MailArt  posted on October 25, 2024:  o Bela Bartok International Mail Art Project Exhibition opened on October 22, 2024 at 17:00 at Osmaniye Cebelibereket Cultural Center. The exhibition will continue until November 22, 2024. ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ ✉ Some pro-library propaganda (below) from sender unknown. What does it mean to attack libraries? To cut funding? Libraries ARE essential, even in the Age of the Internet.  Hopefully the keepers of the books are getting paid a decent...

  Submission by participant David Bonet (see details below) In October 2024, Juan Petry reached out to me by email suggesting a Zoom interview to discuss his mail art mega-project known as Social Dada, but after two years (2019-2021) of working from home with regular Zoom video calls, and finding that medium of exchange to induce too much self-consciousness and baggage, I suggested we use email instead.  Immediately below, you will find a description of the Social Dada project from Juan's website, and then the interview for you to enjoy.   -Thomas Brown, November 7, 2024       - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  Project description from  artsurprise.eu Thomas Brown (TB): Why mail art?   Juan Petry (JP): I don't know what art is, so I don't know what mail art is either. It's a suitable term for sending something that some people think is art by post. I like the openness and commitment. In an area that is...