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# Calling All Mail Artists, Exhibition on the Way
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/calling-all-mail-artists/
- Published: 2011-05-16T15:32:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:37:37.000Z
- Description: Seven weeks ago, Hyperallergic began collecting Mail Art for our Mail Art Bulletin [http://hyperallergic.com/tag/mail-art-bulletin/]. Now, we are super excited to announce a new leg of our Mail Art project! In tandem with Northside Open Studios, Hyperallergic will be curating a Mail Artshow from Jun
- Author: Kate Wadkins
- Tags: Art, #image-position-hidden, Events, Hyperallergic HQ, Mail Art, Mail Art Bulletin, Northside Open Studios, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/mail-wreck-01lg.jpg)

One of our Mail Art Bulletin submissions from Wreck & Salvage

Seven weeks ago, Hyperallergic began collecting Mail Art for our [**Mail Art Bulletin**](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/mail-art-bulletin/). Now, we are super excited to announce a new leg of our Mail Art project!

In tandem with [Northside Open Studios](http://www.northsideopenstudios.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Hyperallergic will be curating a Mail Art show from June 16-19, 2011\. [Hyperallergic HQ](http://hyperallergichq.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will be in the midst of the action during the four-day event, and the Mail Art show will be displayed in our space. **We want YOU to submit your mail art to be featured in the show** and of course, we will also be pulling from the submissions we have already received.

**We are looking for a wide range of submissions, so be as creative as possible!** Mail art as a medium has the potential to include layers of meaning and performance, due to its temporal qualities. Consider all the different piecesthat make up mail visually and manually: stamps, envelopes, paper, and/or non-traditional contents and containers; plus the acts of opening, unfolding and reading.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/4894492565_ddb3a950cf_m.jpg)

Kate Wadkins (right) hanging out with her summer cohort, Helen, at Storefront Gallery in Bushwick.

I’m a newbie here at Hyperallergic and would like to introduce myself. So, hello, I’m Kate Wadkins and I will be curating the Mail Art show.

I enter the world of Mail Art through my own involvement with ephemeral art forms, and in particular, zine culture.

I am the gallery manager at Storefront in Bushwick, where I’ve also been curating [Brain Waves](http://brainwavesbrooklyn.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), our zine and print collection. As a young punkrocker, I used to send [mail art](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5725835407%5Fd97a205bc6.jpg?ref=hyperallergic.com) all over the country with mix tapes and carepackages for my friends on tour and occasionally still do. I recently graduated Sarah Lawrence College’s women’s history Master’s program and released [International Girl Gang Underground](http://www.girlgangunderground.org/wordpress/?ref=hyperallergic.com) with Stacy Konkiel: a compilation zine aboutriot grrrl twenty years after the movement. I am thrilled to be a part of this project!

**As always, send all Mail Art submissions, including those for the show (which are due by Wed. June 8), to:**

> **Hyperallergic HQ** 
> **181 N 11th Street, Suite 302** 
> **Brooklyn, NY 11211**