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Artist Letters and Mail Art

This guide is designed to help students enrolled in Creative Communities: Social Objects with Ames Hawkins - Fall 2020

Image Databases

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Try keyword searches for mail art, postage, and/or postcards. Try subject searches (in the advanced search) for "mail art" or postcards.

Digital Collections of Mail Art

Mail Art at Oberlin College
Envelope Art: Poster Stamps and Artistamps, 1890-1990
A 2008 exhibit at Oberlin College
SAIC Mail Art Digital Collection
University of Buffalo Mail Art Digital Collection
The Phi-Sigma Collection
From the Columbia College Archives
The Voice of Phi-Sigma
From the Columbia College Archives
Ray Johnson Estate: Mail Art and Ephemera
Pushing the Envelope: Mail Art from the Archives of American Art
Lomholt Mail Art Archive

Print Books in the Library Collection

Mail me art : going postal with the world's best illustrators and designers

Library location: 4th floor, 709.04 D536m

Ray Johnson: Correspondences

Library location: 4th floor, 709.2 J68r

The Stamp Art and Postal History of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna

Library location: 4th floor, 709.22 T474s

Rubber soul : rubber stamps and correspondence art

Library location: 4th floor, 761 P855R

Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson 1954-1994

Library location: 5th floor, 818.54 J68n

Eternal network : a mail art anthology

Library location: 4th floor, 709.04 E83W

Articles on Mail Art

Gilbert, Zanna. “Art in Contact: The Mail Art Exchange of Paulo Bruscky and Robert Rehfeldt.” Art in Print, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2015, pp. 36–41. EBSCOhost, https://colum.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=114667113&site=ehost-live

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Subjects: Art & Art History, English & Creative Writing