Jennie
Hinchcliff has organized a three day celebration of correspondence art,
letter writing, and faux philatelics. The “Ex Postal Facto” conference
will be held February 14th to February 16th, 2014, in San Francisco at
venues around the city. If you are in the area you MUST get there! There will be so many people attending who have work in the Gina Lotta Post
Artistamp Museum, you will have a chance to meet. Below are just some of the events:
Kicking
off the conference February 14th, the San Francisco Center for the Book
hosts an opening reception for their exhibition “Mail/Art/Book.”
Showcasing pieces by contemporary artists working in the genre of
correspondence art, the exhibition also provides a historical
perspective of Networker/ postal culture in the bay area.
The
following day (Feb. 15th), a vendor expo will be held at the historic
downtown San Francisco Elks Lodge, featuring small press publishers and
artists whose work highlights faux postage (a.k.a “artist stamps”),
postal art, and/or letter writing.
Rounding
out a weekend of events, the San Francisco Main Library hosts two
different lectures in the Koret Auditorium. I will be participating in
the lecture titled "Artistamps and Their Makers: Seeing the World in
Miniature" will feature artists working in the field of faux
philatelics, also known as "artistamps". The work of James Cline
(Founding Postmaster, Black Rock City Post Office), James Felter (Postes
Mraur), Harley (Terra Candella), and me, Ginny Lloyd (Gina Lotta Post
Artistamp Museum) will be highlighted. The lecture will be moderated by
correspondence artist and Ex Postal Facto organizer Jennie Hinchcliff.The previous panel of the day, titled "A Brief History of West Coast Mail Art" will feature speakers Lowell Darling (visual/conceptual artist), Leslie Caldera of Los Angeles (correspondence artist), Carl Chew of Seattle (artistamp maker) and Anna Banana of Canada (artistamp maker). The panel will be moderated by SF writer and visual artist John Held Jr
For more information on the Ex Postal Facto 2014 conference, please visit ex Postal Facto
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