page_title: Anna Banana
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Banana
caption_attribution_description: English: Mail artist Anna Banana at the Ex Postal Facto conference in San Francisco, February 2014
context_page_description: Anna Banana is a Canadian artist known for her performance art, writing, and work as a small press publisher. She has been described as an "entrepreneur and critic", and pioneered the artistamp, a postage-stamp-sized medium. She has been prominent in the mail art movement since the early 1970s, acting as a bridge between the movement's early history and its second generation. As a publisher, Banana launched Vile magazine and the "Banana Rag" newsletter; the latter became Artistamp News in 1996.
  Banana lives in British Columbia and operates Banana Productions, calling herself the "Top Banana". The International Art Post is the sole publication of Banana Productions, with 700 copies produced for each edition.
context_section_description: Anna Banana (born February 24, 1940 as Anne Lee Long in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian artist known for her performance art, writing, and work as a small press publisher. She has been described as an "entrepreneur and critic", and pioneered the artistamp, a postage-stamp-sized medium. She has been prominent in the mail art movement since the early 1970s, acting as a bridge between the movement's early history and its second generation. As a publisher, Banana launched Vile magazine and the "Banana Rag" newsletter; the latter became Artistamp News in 1996.
  Banana lives in British Columbia and operates Banana Productions, calling herself the "Top Banana". The International Art Post is the sole publication of Banana Productions, with 700 copies produced for each edition.
caption: Anna Banana at the Ex Postal Facto mail art conference in San Francisco, February 2014
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