MAIL ART NEWS

outgoing mail,  T. Brown , Oct 2023 Ryosuke Cohen travelled to Italy.   Adam R. attended  FluxFest NYC . I've started interviewing Ruud Janssen by email, though this is going to probably take another week or two to finish.  Thanks to Mail Art Worldwide for posting this, by way of Michael Leigh . Nick Drake commemorative artistamps published by Creative Thing Stampworks based in California. Side note: Nick Drake's mother,  Molly Drake , was also talented.  Sabela Baña  received mail art from of Giovanni Donaudi.  Richard Baudet  posted work from Eloise Shelton-Mayo. Guy Bleus  is sharing early fax art. Mail Art News media specialist Ariel Greenwood uncovered the following book at the local library:  Halloween, Romantic Art and Customs of Yesteryear  by Diane C. Arkins, providing us with a look at a selection of various commercially produced postcards and other Halloween decorations from the early 1900s.  I did receive...

  incoming from Jean Jackson ( postsnips  on Instagram) Hi. Luckily I wasn't selected for jury duty last week, but spending all day in the courthouse prevented me from blogging according to my usual schedule. We now resume our regularly scheduled Mail Art News blogging with two week's worth of mail. So tune in and enjoy, my fellow astropithecines.  Rubber stamps are my favorite. So many great stamped images from Jean Jackson and the only one I have in my own collection is the dinosaur. There're so many stamps out there and I'll never own them all. It's always a treat when they show up in the mail. These appear to be from the 1980s and 1990s, a time I would call a Golden Age of Rubber Stamps.  more from Jean Jackson ( postsnips  on Instagram) more from Jean Jackson ( postsnips  on Instagram) more from Jean Jackson ( postsnips  on Instagram) More stamps! This time from Starry Eyed Stamper , plus two postcards that I think Monster A GoGo and Maxima Stran...

  incoming from Fleur Helsingor I did find a small collection of mail art from the 1940s. The website is a little difficult to navigate? But there are some fun ones in there.  Per Maxima Strange , The Night Creatures issue of Miss Maxima’s Goth Emporium has been mailed. From Coco Muchmore :  Send as much mail art as you possibly can. Do it for the children.  Mailart Workshop PO Box 373 Perry, KS 66073 Here's a ton from nonlocal variable  and if you get a chance, take a look at his new thing: Crevicism .  using electricity to get a patient back into mail art at the Home for Mail Artists in Beaverton, early 1900s Read the Crevicist Manifesto ? From Julie Matevish :  From  Fleur Helsingor : Here's one from the archives on a topic near and dear to my heart...commercials. Individuals and companies do need to promote in order to get attention. While I could write a lengthy rambling rant, I will simply say that these days much of the advertising indus...