Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Mail Art and Dots!

 Here's a photos that N. took of me using an app. on his phone. Pretty fun. Dotty me!
 This is my 900th piece of mail art since I started to number them on 1 Dec. 2010. I was pretty excited about doing this one, didn't know what it'd be, or who'd get it. In my studio I just grabbed the first thing at hand, and decided that a person who hadn't had mail from me in awhile would get it.

Can you see the text? That's the title of this piece. "suddenly very foolish, she grinned, proudly and wide."
 This is #899. I used a very old piece of paper that had the name Dean written on it so I'm sending it to my friend Dean.

I've prepared a small mail art kit for myself, and a number of postcard blanks, because I'm off to Los Angeles tomorrow to see my 98 year old Mom.  I'll photograph and post what I make while on the other coast.


Today, I did my Mail Art talk for the Osher Institute at the University of Richmond. It was a lot of fun and the participants were so involved and interested. I hope I've created enough excitement that they'll make mail art on their own and have the same wonderful experiences that I have.

4 comments:

uncustomary said...

Oh my goodness! In love with #899. Congratulations on getting SO FAR!! That's a stellar accomplishment. :-) Your next big milestone will be A THOUSAND. Woohoo!
PS - Are you going to the letter writing social at the Postal Museum this month?

Margie said...

What's fun pic of you dear Mim! Hugs to you and Chuck.

Cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.com said...

Really like the card for Dean -- and dotty pix of you. And I loved the card you recently sent me - merci. I was just off to LA for a similar reason....too bad it is so far from SF.......

Terrie said...

Thanks for the warm welcome over at iuoma and for the p/c (#895)! What a great idea to number them; I'll borrow that one. I'm your newest follower here -

How did I get into this?

I was asked when I started doing Mailart. Good question. Like many artists, I was making and mailing art without even knowing it had a name ...