Showing posts with label mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mail. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

[BONUS] Skull Mail from Romania

An unexpected envelope full of skull art arrived at Skull-A-Day HQ recently! It was sent by Mariana Serban in Romania who shared the wonderful work of her students at the Arts High School in Târgu Mureș...
by Iotrate Ililia age 18

by Toja Mihaly-Zoltan age 16

by Rezi Ors Tamas age 16
by Gliga Bogdana
"Show of heads" by Moldonau Alexandru age 16


She also included one of her own pieces... 


Thanks Mariana!

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Mail Us Your Skull!



The official Skull Appreciation Day 2013 celebration will be held in Chicago this year and we've got some great plans afoot! We'll be posting details soon, but in the meantime we want to let you know of one way you can participate (no matter where you are in the world)... mail us a skull!




For the previous 2 years we've had people send in mail art for us to display at our Skull Appreciation Day exhibitions and this year is no exception! Want to take part? The official call for entries with full details is HERE.



If you're not familiar with mail art, the idea is simple, anything that can make it through the mail system with proper postage on it is acceptable! Many people like to stick with 2-D work on a standard sized postcard, but the sky's pretty much the limit. Need some inspiration for what to do? Check out some of the submissions from the last few years on the Skull Appreciation Day Mail Art blog!




Sunday, November 25, 2012

[BONUS] Skull Mail

A couple of treats turned up in the Skull-A-Day mailbox this week...


We got our official certificate and image for the skull that we sponsored as part of the Mütter Museum's Save Our Skulls campaign! There's still time to pick one of the 139 Hyrtl Skulls to “adopt.” Save a 150+ year old skull & have your name in the Mütter Museum! Details are HERE.


I also got a set of the wonderful edible sugar skulls that were recently offered as part of a giveaway here from the Tierra Dulce Shop and I can attest that they are as delicious as they are beautiful!  Thanks guys!


Sunday, October 7, 2012

The Gift of Skulls: Mail Art

Wenchkin (one of the artist's behind this week's giveaway) recently sent me a couple of great pieces as part of her daily mail art project...


You can see more of her great work HERE and follow her mail art progress HERE.



Sunday, July 8, 2012

[BONUS] The Gift of Skulls: Shipping Label Stickers

Alex Minott, the manager of The Evolution Store in NYC, where I got my portrait taken recently, sent me this wonderful collection of handmade stickers, which he draws with marker on shipping labels and then cuts out with a hobby knife!


He says that he hasn't made them in a while, but hopefully our praise will inspire him to make more!

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

[BONUS] Mail Bag

We recently discovered some fun skull-themed mail art in the Skull-A-Day P.O. Box...

Silvano Pertone of Psychout Fanzine in Genova, Italy sent several intriguing items including a piece of real bone, a cloth patch, and several images from vintage Italian comics which he collects...




We also got an unusual card from Rondi.com, but since it's not quite family friendly you'll just have to imagine what it looks like!




Sunday, May 13, 2012

[BONUS] Skull Mail

Just wanted to thank everyone who sent in their self addressed stamped envelopes for the limited edition Skull Appreciation Day pins! They're going in the mail this coming week. In the meantime I just wanted to show off some of the fun envelopes and items that arrived along with them including a set of cool stickers from Emila(sp?) and a nifty origami folded dollar from Charles T. Mayer!...



I hope you find a fun way to celebrate Skull Appreciation Day on June 4th wherever you are, and of course if you're in/near Philadelphia I hope you'll join us at the Mütter Museum for a fun one-day exhibition. Speaking of which, there's still time to send in some mail art to be put on display there! Details are HERE.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

[BONUS] The Gift of Skulls - Mail Art

I love getting mail and even better when it's mail art done as part of a daily yearlong project! I got these two lovely pieces recently...

Skull-A-Day friend Wenchkin kindly included me in her 366 Mail Art project with this fun piece...


and Flo Kane made this piece for me as part of her Card-A-Day project...


Thanks again!

p.s. If you want to see more great daily projects check out my other blog MakeSomething365.com!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Mail Art Call for Entries: Skull Appreciation Day


We have a bunch of exciting things in the works to celebrate the upcoming first annual Skull Appreciation Day on June 4th and while details are still being finalized for a big event here in Richmond,VA, you're invited to participate wherever you are by creating and sending in some mail art!

Here's the details from the call for submissions put together by my Mim...
Theme: SKULLS (of course)
Deadline: 27 May 2011 
size: standard postcard
medium: any
send to:
Skull-a-Day
P.O. Box 73236
Richmond, VA 23235
U.S.A.

The art will be on display for a month at Gallery 5 as part of a larger exhibition we're curating and will be featured on Skull-A-Day as well!

p.s. And don't forget we also want your quilt squares for the charity quilts being put together by Abby which will be auctioned off that weekend too! Details are HERE.

Image: 121. Junk Mail Skull

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mail Art Skulls

London, England based Andy at my REAL wall told us: “Since discovering Skull-A-Day, I've been meaning to make a skull wall and today I finally got round to it! A REAL skull wall of mailart and postcards.

Nicole Gattinger a member of MAILART 365 said: “I posted a peice of Skull Mail Art today and members suggested I should submit it to your site. This piece is called ‘Soul Soaring’ it was inspired by a Death Head gravestone etching, I used the comic section of our local newspaper as the medium for this postcard.”

Postmarked C says:

People say the art of letter writing is dead, but I am glad the art of letter sending is not. Mailart is such a wonderful medium in which to work, one can produce a meaningful piece of work and allow it to be subject to the whims of the natural order of mail processing knowing very well that it may end up in a dead letter office someplace. However, that would be appropriate resting place for a piece of skull mailart. Thank you both for submitting your work to us and allowing us to be a participant with you in your creative endeavors either as a mail sender or a receiver.

PS. I am glad that the grapevine over at mailart365 is working here is another grape who we would like to say hello to , a fan from the early days, literally.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

[BONUS] The Gift of Skulls: Quilled

I was delighted to get some art in the mail the other day from Elena T Geezer, who sent me this beautiful quilled skull!



It's a great companion to my own 312. Quilled Skull. Be sure sure to check out her site to see the other beautiful quilling she's been doing.

Monday, June 14, 2010

[BONUS] 378. Postcard Skull I

A little while back I started talking with a friend who lives in LA about how we could collaborate on some skull art together and we decided that we should do a postcard exchange. We're each creating an original piece of art on a postcard and mailing it to the other and we're also mailing an unmodified postcard to each other as well, which we will then modify and send back. In the end we'll each end up with two pieces of the other's art! Here's my first piece, which went in the mail a few days ago...


I painted directly on a vintage postcard card with acrylic paint and then glued some additional text onto the bottom. I'll post the ones I receive when they arrive as well as the second one I make when it's done.

Want to give this a try? Why not pick a friend to do a mail art exchange with and document the results. And hey, if there are skulls involved send the pictures to us so we can share them with the world!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

[BONUS] Skull Mail!

A few months back I put out a call for mail art to help celebrate the end of this project and here at last are the fantastic results...


Ryan (age 7) - Old Bridge, New Jersey








Dewi - Toronto, Ontario, Canada







D. Berube - New York, New York






Karen Wood - Big Bear Lake, California








Estelle Toby Goldstein, MD - San Diego, California








Mim Golub - Richmond, Virginia






"100 Years of Beauty" Angel Arvello - Morgan City, Louisiana







Keith A. Buchholz - St. Louis, Missouri






McCormick - Baskerville, Virginia







Emily T. - Princeton, New Jersey







Sidney Tome - São Paulo, Brazil








Phil - Petersburg, Virginia









Christine J. Lehec - Besançon, France









Rolland Halbritter - Nuedlingen, Germany









Chimerastone - Bristol, England






Chimerastone - Bristol, England







Chimerastone - Bristol, England






Chimerastone - Bristol, England









Andrea Jay - Staten Island, New York
[articulated card animated by my intern Kit!]



Thanks everyone!

Monday, February 4, 2008

Skull-A-Day by Mail

To celebrate the culmination of this project (yes it's still months away, but might as well get started now) there is a call for skull themed mail art at Mail Art Projects. All submitted pieces will be posted on this site. Deadline is April 30th, get the details HERE.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

121. Junk Mail Skull = Skunk Mail

Cut Junk Mail. This was today's pile of junk. Usually it goes straight in the recycling bin, but I finally realized that it can also be art fodder.