mail art
Decorated envelope sending
Mail art is artwork created to be sent through the postal system, treating the mail itself as medium and gallery.
Artists exchange decorated envelopes, postcards, rubber stamp prints, and collages, often forming global networks outside traditional art institutions.
The movement emerged in the 1960s and values participation over commerce—anyone can join.
She's been doing mail art for decades, trading pieces with artists worldwide.
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- stampMark-making device
- addressSpeak to formally
- DadaismAbsurdist artistic rebellion
- collaborativeInvolving shared effort
Yoko Ono · rubber stamps · avant-garde · correspondence · chain letter · fanzines · zine culture · network · ephemera · pen · philately · postmark · stickers · paper · cut-and-paste · handmade · assemblage · underground
- postal servicepost office, sorting machine, stamps, stamp, letter carriers
- correspondenceletters, letter, handwritten letters, family letters, missives
- postal artpostage stamps
- FluxusYoko Ono, intermedia, happenings, multiples
- Mail Artfake stamps, envelopes, postcards, stamp design, postmarks
- experimental artmixed media, found footage, noise music