Mail Art: Make Art and Put a Stamp On It (Online Class)

This workshop covers a lot of territory, literally. For the price a postage stamp, you can mail your artwork anywhere to anyone! The instructor has been making and mailing art for decades and loves to share this practice with other people. During the stay at home pandemic, as a Mail artist, she mails 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. This workshop will demonstrate how to make a post card collage, which is a small-scale artwork and show you an easy way to make your own mail art envelope. You will get tips and guidelines on how to use everyday materials to generate artistic mail. While you cut and paste, you will hear the story of “FeMail" — an international mail art project that the instructor founded in 2007 — and her "100 Post Cards Project" in 2000 that served to kick off her 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

Students can use their own materials OR purchase a DIY Mail Art Kit for $8.

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

Cost for class: $15

Mail Art Materials Kit — $7 (Optional)

Kits will be shipped on Monday, June 15. Kits must be purchased prior to that date in order receive them on time. Please add to your cart below. Students are still welcome to register for class after that date 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.