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THE ORIGINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES:

WISHING U R HERE: A MAIL-ART POSTCARD SHOW

For many years, the Eagle Harbor General Store also functioned as the local post office. This summer, in honor of former postmistress Claire Smith (who is rumored to have read others’ postcards and added commentary), the Store will host a mail-art postcard show.

There is a long tradition of artists altering, doctoring, subverting, and collaging postcards and sending the results through the postal service, much to the delight of the recipients.

“Artists found they could inexpensively, reliably, and rapidly communicate with other artists around the world through the mail. The development of the organized Mail Art movement was specifically due to the actions of the
Nouveau Realisme movement of the French in which Yves Klein participated with his "mail scandals,” the establishment of Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School, and finally, the Fluxus movement, which questioned the possibility of mail as a medium.” - Oberlin College Mail Art Collection

A surge of mail art activity in the late 1960’s and 70’s brought the movement into pop art and beyond with such notables as Anna Banana, John Held Jr, Andrej Tisma, E.F. Higgins III (Doo-Dah Post), Chuck Welch (AKA Crackerjack Kid), culminated in the well-known artist postcard show /benefit at the AIR gallery in New York.

More info on mail art here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art#Envelopes


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