Episode 13: (part 02) mail artist, artistamp maker, & archivist Chuck Welch / Crackerjack Kid (New Hampshire, USA)

Chuck Welch a.k.a. Crackerjack Kid continues the conversation in Part 02 of his Senders Receive interview!

Crackerjack has spent the last twelve years archiving and organizing his mail art collection, for inclusion at the Smithsonian Museum's Archives of American Art. He has curated mail art exhibitions for various institutions, most recently the show "Postcards to Brattleboro: 40 Years of Mail Art" at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont. For Part 02 of his interview, we discuss what it’s like to open an exhibition on the brink of a pandemic, meeting other mail artists in person, and the effect of the early internet on mail art. 

This is Part 02 of a two part interview.

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SHOW NOTES:

--> What Is Mail Art? : an interview with Chuck Welch and mail artist Shmuel (Stewart Copans) : https://youtu.be/vubEgu5bxVg

--> Finding Aid to the Jean Brown Papers at the Getty Research Institute:

--> Dick Higgins (Something Else Press) writes about intermedia

--> upcoming exhibition: Ray Johnson: c/o at The Chicago Art Institute

Follow Crackerjack on Instagram at: @crackerjackkid3

Interested in corresponding with Crackerjack? Send him a DM via IG!

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The Senders Receive intro/outro music is titled "Successful"; the musical artist is Keetsa. This track is used as per the artists Creative Commons usage statement, which can be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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