mail art = senders receive

Source Book For The Network Of International Postal Art Activity,
by Michael Crane & Mary Stofflet, 1984.
Very hard to find and worth seeking to learn
how it all started and about the early players.

Written and published in 1991, another good resource
for a lot of interesting information on the network.

Artistamp News always had samples of faux postage
made by people all around the world.
I need to look into it and see
if Anna Banana is still printing this.

Chuck Welch used to put this out and also
wrote a book called: Eternal Network A Mail Art Anthology.
Not long after I received my copy,
he wrote and mentioned it was out of print.
If you find a copy, grab it.

What Is MA?

For many years, this was put out by APO
until she handed it off in the late 90s.
I only saw one issue after that.
It was a must read for mail art calls,
among many others.

Sometimes in the mail, you'd receive items like this.

Tim Mancussi, wherever you are,
made some amazing faux postage stamps and mail art.
Ray Johnson inspired, the man given credit for starting this
and who started the New York Correspondance School.
More details on much of this at a later date.

Received from Beth Johnson who made fantastic faux postage.

Does anyone know the whereabouts of gorey laurie?

This zine came out of Florida and had some
amazing art work in it,
topical to the times it was printed.

Group 362 has done some amazing things
over time and dabbles in poetry,
found items, dada, fluxus and cigar box gee-tars.

An envelope received back in the day.

When I started out, this group: Underground Rail Art,
would have a list of people, send an idea around,
and everyone would do whatever they wanted
and the last person would send it off to the receiver.
It was fun, but after awhile, there were so
many projects circulating, it was hard to keep up.
Not sure if it's still going or when it stopped as a group.

The Church of Right Now put out some amazing material,
and sadly lost track of their whereabouts.

Joki, from Germany did some amazing projects.
This was one I sent something to,
and he then made booklets with everyones project, name and address.
Sadly, I believe he died a few years ago.

Clemente Padin, from Uruguay has been
involved for many years. In the 70s,
due to his protesting of the policies of the government.
He was arrested and his mail art confiscated.
He still sends mail which is topical
and reflects on issues around us today.

A small booklet received years ago.

Chris Kenny from the UK always sent some interesting work.

The lady who made these envelopes would put a home made zine
about her travels around the country.
She was a character.

FluxBux, don't leave home without it.