Let's Make Correspondence Art

Also known as mail art, also known as corresponDANCE art.

Mail Art: Creative ways to say what you want to say.

A few weeks ago, I led a class called “Let’s Make Mail Art.” In the days leading up to the class, someone asked me if we would be writing letters during the class. They were concerned because writing long letters by hand was physically painful for them. I realized that people had various reservations around what they thought mail art was, and that I hadn’t done a great job explaining what it was. What I know for sure is that art isn’t writing. Writing can be an art form, but art isn’t writing. Writing is finding the right combination and order of words to say what you want to say, while art is finding creative ways of saying what you want to say. Or saying what you don’t yet know that you want to say. Or saying nothing at all.

There are so many things I love about mail art, and most of them have nothing to do with the “mail” aspect. I love that: