The Mail Art pieces can also be sent to members in the network with either instructions to add to the piece or to create a new piece and send it on to others. Even my husband has become interested in mail art. His recent contributions are to my mailings by using old postage stamps he collages them to get the proper postage. Here is is below using our dining room table a mail art office. Mail Art is a network not unlike that associated with business and the 80's.
Mail Art can develop awareness and encourage actions.
Mail Art unlike the exclusive illusive and insular business of the money oriented art world, the Mail Art Network is an open empowering world. Mail art is also known as correspondence art, postal art, and networking art. This art form is ancient. The father of the US Mail Art movement is credited to Ray Johnson of the Black Mountain College. He established in the 60's The New York Correspondence School.