The MFA Curatorial Studies students at the University of Kentucky are organizing a mail art exhibition this fall. I know there are amazing practitioners of correspondence, paper craft, handwriting, and art among us in the art library world, and many incredible
mail artists in your networks, so I hope you will consider sharing the word widely and taking part if you feel so moved!
In a time when many internships and exhibitions have been cancelled or altered, the students are really looking forward to organizing a show in this medium.
Best -- Karyn Hinkle
Is the USPS still a vital service? Some claim it should be defunded, reorganized, or relegated to the dustbin of history.
And yet so many others rely on the postal system to get essential medications, submit legal documents, send cards to loved ones, make art, and perhaps most pertinently, vote in elections. The post means many different things to different people. What does
it mean to you?
As debates about the Postal Service have become front-page news in the context of COVID-19 social distancing protocols and the upcoming election, this mail art exhibition seeks contributions that visualize the meaning of the USPS to its diverse patrons.
Send to mail art for the POST POST? project to:
Bolivar Art Gallery
Attn: Class ART 504 / Prof. Kienle
236 Bolivar Street
Lexington, KY 40506
All submissions will be included in an online exhibit at University of Kentucky’s Bolivar Art Gallery. Upon conclusion of the exhibition the archive will be donated to the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library at the University of Kentucky. Submit by November 2020 to be included in the online exhibition. This exhibition is organized by University of Kentucky’s MFA Curatorial Studies Students. For more information: www.bolivarartgallery.com/post-post
As debates about the Postal Service have become front-page news in the context of COVID-19 social distancing protocols and the upcoming election, this mail art exhibition seeks contributions that visualize the meaning of the USPS to its diverse patrons.
Send to mail art for the POST POST? project to:
Bolivar Art Gallery
Attn: Class ART 504 / Prof. Kienle
236 Bolivar Street
Lexington, KY 40506
All submissions will be included in an online exhibit at University of Kentucky’s Bolivar Art Gallery. Upon conclusion of the exhibition the archive will be donated to the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library at the University of Kentucky. Submit by November 2020 to be included in the online exhibition. This exhibition is organized by University of Kentucky’s MFA Curatorial Studies Students. For more information: www.bolivarartgallery.com/post-post