Artistamps in the Mailstream
Deadline: November 26, 2008

Artistamps in the Mailstream is an international mail art and artistamp mini-show that asks mail artists and artistamp collectors to review their archives and select archival examples of mail art. Mail art with artistamps are preferred, but any traveled cover is permitted. Feel free to create new work that may get postmarked as it travels to the show. Also encouraged are mail art examples with personal postmarks and artistamps cancelled by your own private cancellation device. Artistamps in the Mailstream is curated by Andrew Oleksiuk as part of Collections and Archives as Creative Practice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Please also include a short artist's statement concerning the provenance of any mail art or artistamps you are submitting, explaining why you selected your particular items. Space for up to three entries from each participant is available. If you want your archival material returned to you, please include the statement "please return" clearly in the mailing. The show will be mounted at Mess Hall in Chicago as part of the Collections and Archives as Creative Practice show. Documentation will be made available to all entrants; a return address is required. Entries must be received by November 26, 2008.

Mail entries to:
Artistamps in the Mailstream
5336 W. Belle Plaine
Chicago, IL 60641 USA