Diana Hale, a mail artist who had an exhibit recently in the Crozet Library, visited the Western Albemarle library to discuss her work. Mail art is a type of art where artists change or add to small items sent to them in the mail and send them to others. For her show at the Crozet Library, Hale sent pieces of vintage homework to mail artists around the world. (See her call for participants here. )The mediums used to create the resulting show were varied and often innovative. The artists used string, home-made stamps, paint, pens, and in one case a tool used to burn small holes in the paper. This was very interesting to me because I had not heard about mail art before and because it was very interesting to see all of the different mediums used to create the art. Rosie Herrmann While I am neither talented nor knowledgeable in the visual arts, I am fascinated by the idea of MAIL art, especially because it is proven to actually work well. I love drawing parallels with music, and I think this is one of those rare areas where music was ahead of art: musicians, in recording covers of other musicians' songs, have for a long time had a way of putting their own personal touch on an artist's piece. But this kind of idea of contributing art, especially on something already made (like the science experiment pages), seems to be a relatively new and exciting equivalent for the visual arts (thanks, I suppose, to the internet and globalization).
Josiah Luftig
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