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Ray Johnson, an important mail artist who founded the New York Correspondance School, used the bunny rabbit as a key symbol of the school and it’s participants starting in the mid 1960s. He never omitted the possibility of depicting a message through…

This work was a very long enduring project that was the result of the desire to make connections. It is a part of a particular Mail Art project started by a Turkish artist named Plinio Mesculium who was based out of Italy. Mesculium, known…

Elizabeth Pearl Was–Nasaw, also known as Lyx Ish, sent this envelope to John Held to illustrate that art is not equal to money. Elizabeth Was–Nasaw was a musician, poet and the co-founder of Xexoxial Endarchy. X.E. is a non-profit artist-run…

Ray Johnson’s mail art piece was sent to Samuel J. Wagstaff as a joke about his dimple. Ray Johnson, best known as a correspondence artist, was the founder of the mail art movement and the New York Correspondence School (NYCS). Johnson enjoyed…

The mail art pioneer Ray Johnson (1927-1995) was known for his correspondences with various members of the contemporary art world. This letter sent from Johnson to the famed art historian Arthur C. Danto presents an interesting argument about what…

Southwest USA Decentralized Mail Art Congress_ Dallas features ten stamps by an anonymous artist that are put together to create one piece of mail art. Mail art centers around the idea of escaping the gallery and museum art scene where artists are…

Ryosuke Cohen is a Japanese Mail Artist and art teacher who has been involved in mail art since the 1980s. This collage, sent to John Evans, consists of artistamps, stickers and drawings in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes, from several states…

This piece of mail art was sent from Anna Banana, a Canadian mail artist out of British Columbia to John Evans, a collagist and mail art participant from New York City. The work is composed of various  stamps and stickers, both true postage and some…

Lucy Lippard stated that she was “roped into” mail art in the late 1960s when Johnson sent out a mandate for NYCS members to “Send Slips to Lucy Lippard.” Johnson sent her several mail art items during their correspondence, including Mail art to Lucy…

Newspaper clipping of Samuel Wagstaff is a clipped black and white photograph of curator and art collector Sam Wagstaff dressed in black tie at the opening reception of his first curatorial show at the the Detroit Institute of Arts in the spring of…