"Pass it on"

Cloth Paper Scissors magazine has a call for entries for a reader swap. The theme is "pass it on" Mail Art Affirmations.

All you have to do is make a 4x6 postcard, take a picture of the entry and mail both in. The deadline is March 1, 2010 and around the end of April they will send you one of the pieces submitted. The fee is $5.

This was my entry :



If you are interested in participating, the link to the information on the Cloth Paper Scissors site is here. The information is also published in the January / February 2010 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine available at your favorite bookstore.

Mail ARt

I have been reading the book: Good Mail Day available on Amazon.





Today was a GREAT mail art day. I was pleasantly surprised when I happened to get a piece in my po box today!!!

Thanks so much Rachel! Mail ART!

journal entry 03-18-2009

The DVD, How to Draw a Bunny is about the collage, and performance artist, Ray Johnson. They say he was the founder of "mail art". He would paint and draw so much that he started sending pieces of the work to friends and family. He was a pretty strange character. When he sold his work he would ask the collector what they wanted to pay for the piece, then he would make a counter offer, then wheel and deal before letting go of the work. He didn't paint very much, his work consisted mainly of drawings and collage. Other times he would "put himself INTO the work".