This workshop covers a lot of territory, literally. For the price a postage stamp, you can mail your artwork anywhere to anyone! I’ve been making and mailing art for decades and love to share this practice with other people. During the stay at home pandemic, as a Mail artist, I mail a lot of artwork!

Make a collage post card with a visual message or an intriguing design on the front, and a message on the back. Support the USPS by purchasing stamps. Choose a really cool stamp! Then give a friend or family member some joy by surprising them with your eye-popping postal art in their mail box.

In this workshop, I’ll demonstrate how to make a post card collage, which is a small-scale artwork. I’ll show you an easy way to make your own mail art envelope. I give tips and guidelines on how to use everyday materials to generate artistic mail. While we cut and paste, I will share the story of “FeMail — an international mail art project that I founded in 2007 — and my 100 Post Cards Project in 2000 that served to kick off my passion for mail art.

Join the snail mail revolution! Make art and create community! If you want to get Good Mail, then Send Mail Art! During this time when our lives feel more limited because of the covid-19 precautions we must take, we can benefit from reaching out to others through art. In doing so we can make our own hearts feel better, too. Collage is a great way to create connection.

Materials

• 1 or more post cards that you can use as a base for your mail art. or a piece of card stock cut to the dimensions 4” x 6” 

• Paper: magazines, decorative paper, painted paper, origami paper, stickers, everyday stuff like tickets and maps

• Glue: glue stick works great

• Scissors

• Fun extras: like pens, sharpies, tape, washi tape, stickers, tea tags, candy wrappers

• Postage stamps: post card or first class stamps

Mail Art Materials Kit — $8 (Optional)

The deadline for purchasing a materials kit to use in this workshop has passed, but there are still kits available! Purchase a mail art kit below to receive a supplies to continue your mail art practice independently after this workshop. The next shipment date will be June 22, 2020.

Students are still welcome to register for class and use their own materials.

Get a fun mail art kit sent directly to your home to use for this class. The kit will contain post cards and other small-scale paper items like: tickets, stickers, origami papers, decorative papers, painted papers, printed pages from old books and ephemera, map pieces, vintage note cards, an envelope template, vintage used postage stamps, random packaging graphics, etc.

Please consider supporting IS183 Art School by making an additional donation.