About POSTMARKED 2008

POSTMARKED 2008

Greetings! Welcome to POSTMARKED (Mail Art) blog, created expecially for the Claremont Forum's annual POSTMARKED mail art exhibition and silent auction fundraiser event. Here is our official information for this year's event...and images will follow!

See you at the P.O...

Anne

(director, POSTMARKED)

POSTMARKED 2008

Exhibit and Silent Auction Fundraiser

June 2-8 

The Clarmont Forum's Gallery 

586 W First St

Claremont CA

Public Reception: Fri Jun 6, 5-9 ( during Claremont Art Walk)

Gallery Hours: M-Sun noon-5

Auction ends promptly at 5 pm SUnday Jun 8!

Exhibiting original mail art for display and sale to raise funds for The Claremont Forum's Prison Library Project, which sends thousands of books free to inmates throughout the country. Hundreds of volunteers package books (donated to the Project by our local community), which are then mailed in response to inmate letters requesting reading material while incarcerated. For many years, The Claremont Forum received these requests in hand-illustrated envelopes created by the prisoners who sent them. It is in this tradition that we present POSTMARKED as our very appropriate fundraiser.

Mail art may be painted, stamped, collaged, printed, and/or otherwise decorated or constructed. It may be any shape and that will go through the mail and receive an official postmark. It may get worn or torn through the mail, but the handling process is an important part of the theme.. Only the side with the postmark can be displayed, due to space limitations, but the art doesn't’t have to be limited to that side. There may be a message inside the envelope, which will be opened only by the person who purchases the art.

All POSTMARKED 2008 entries will be on display at the Claremont Forum for a week, during which time visitors may place silent auction bids. All sales proceeds go to the Prison Library Project. For more information about the event and The Claremont Forum, please visit the Gallery at www.claremontforum.org.

The Village Postmark in Claremont has kindly donated a year-round mail address for Postmarked.  If you wish to submit mail art for the 2009 event, please address to:

POSTMARKED 2009

Prison Library Project

112 Harvard #303

Claremont CA 91711

This exhibition is open to anyone, any age, and from anywhere.

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