My View From HomeMail Art Project by Jason Brown Nashville, Tennessee Of all the mail art projects out there in the world, Jason Brown's "My View From Home" was the first one to inspire us the most to create our own mail art project + virtual gallery. One could almost say that The Courrier might not exist without Jason's positive influence. His was the first mail art project that all three of our founding members participated in as an institution and more importantly, as a family.
The TIME Magazine article featuring Jason Brown's My View From Home Mail Art project, June 2020. In an interview with Nashville's Channel 5 News, Jason further explains. You can view that segment here.
It is on that note that we here at The Courrier nonprofit international mail art project would like to thank Jason Brown for all that he has done, from creation to building to engaging to publishing to archiving and finally giving back above and beyond to the artists who helped make My View From Home Mail Art an important contribution to our world history. We are so humbled to have participated and to have received. Our contributions to the project directly from The Courrier by artists K. Day, Joe A. Gomez III and Aiden Gamez, age 10. We encourage you to follow My View From Home on Instagram and to visit the website. For, as Jason says, "all you need is your imagination and a stamp."
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BYoung Fine ArtsShanghai, China
You can view the full first episode above.
The Black Lives Matter Online Exhibition hosted by BYoung Fine arts can be viewed in its entirety above.
3. Rise artist K. Day acrylic on 8.5x11” recycled card stock circa 2020 4. Creme series Quarantine Daydream artist K. Day acrylic, wall paper and magazine collage on 5x8” postcard circa 2020 5. In You, I See Me artists K. Day and son, Aiden Gamez, age 10 - autistic acrylic on 8.5x11” recycled card stock circa 2020 6. Still Here a collaboration between artist K. Day and 9 year old autistic son, Aiden Gamez mixed media textured collage and acrylic paint circa 2020 7. Substance series METAL artist K. Day mixed acrylic, foil and magazine collage on 11x11” card stock circa 2020 Please give BYoung Fine Arts a follow and check out their website to learn how to contribute, lend your voice and make a difference with your art.
Ex/Post MagazineAtlanta, Georgia
"We are trying to create the longest letter in the world as part of a crowd-sourced art exhibit, called "Dear Loneliness," which will double as a memorial to 2020, the COVID-19 quarantine, racial injustice, and everything else this year." If that doesn't get your attention, then this next bit should. The Harvard Economics Review is now backing the project by offering to publish the best letter sent in to the project by July 31. (see details in flyer below) That's a major boost for a fledgling Magazine and grass roots project, which we here at The Courrier have high hopes for. So much so, that we have proudly partnered with Ex/Post on their global project. Sister founders Jessica and Sarah Lao explain it best. "As part of an artistic installation, we seek to create the world's longest letter by compiling entries written by individuals like you about your frustrations, hopes, and experiences with isolation—connecting lonely people through art in the process. With your permission, your letters will be archived as both a record of the COVID-19 era and a crucial source of academic data for a poorly understood phenomenon. And yes, we will be breaking the Guinness world record letter length of 290 meters—three football fields or almost 1,000 sheets of A4 paper—together."
So, who exactly is Ex/Post Magazine and what is their mission statement? "We’re a nonprofit independent literary and arts journal dedicated to the frontier of experimentation. More than spotlighting the best art and writing the Internet can find, we want to be a refuge for underrepresented voices, topics, and art forms; in short, we believe that good art should be enjoyed by all, regardless of arbitrary boundaries like genre." -Sarah Lao, Editor in Chief And here is a final word on loneliness from the staff and Carissa Chen, who is also heavily involved in the project: If you are interested in writing a letter and playing a role in what is sure to be a major international social experiment and pertinent archival study of a shifting point in human history, click the button to submit. Likewise, visit Ex/Post magazine and the Dear Loneliness project sites and follow both on Instagram to keep up with the latest groundbreaking news to come. ~author K. Day
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