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The definition of mail art? Simple! Any art that's designed to go through the mail. Mail art can include decos, artistamps, postcards, decorated envelopes and the ever popular naked mail. If you have to mail it to complete the experience, it's mail art!
Mail Art Galleries
Examples of various types of mail art.
- The Electronic Museum of Mail Art
- Surf through galleries of mail art.
- Compost Mail Art
- Galleries from mail art projects by four German artists.
- The Envelope Collective
- "An ongoing collaborative experiment in art that uses the transportation of mail as a medium".
- PostSecret
- An ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
- Project: Camera Release
- An ongoing project that sends out disposable cameras to artists around the world.
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Mail Art How-To
Instructions on making and mailing different types of mail art.
- Mail Art from Lisa Vollrath
- A big list of articles on how to make all sorts of stuff you can send through the mail.
- Decos 101
- Everything you ever wanted to know about making and swapping decos.
- Squidoo Decos Lens
- Tons of links and information about decos.
- Squidoo Artistamp & Faux Postage Lens
- Links, information and examples of artistamps.
Mail Art Communities
Find other folks interested in mail art.
- Mail Art Community at LiveJournal
- A fairly active community blog with mail art calls and artwork being posted daily.
- The Anti-Robot Inundation Army
- Various mail art projects, artist trading cards, and general insanity.
- Postcrossing
- A worldwide postcard swapping project. Sign up to join in.
- 1000 Journals
- An ongoing mail art project that released 1000 journals into the world.
- IUOMA
- The International Union of Mail-Artists, showcasing mail art since 1988.
Mail Art Calls
These sites offer listings of current mail art projects around the world.
- Mail Art Calls at Dragonfly Dream
- Post your mail art call, or find one to spark your creativity.
- Mail Art Forum at Crosses.net
- Mail art calls in English, French, Spanish and German.
- Graceful Envelope Contest
- The National Postal Museum's annual Graceful Envelope Contest, sponsored by the Washington Calligraphers Guild.
- Postcards 4 Peace
- An ongoing mail art project that asks viewers to send a postcard with their wishes for peace.
