OM.2023.045 - Chuck Welsh - USA
OM.2023.045 - Chuck Welsh - USA - collage on panel - 8 x 8 inches
Chuck Welch (a.k.a. CrackerJack Kid) is widely known within the international mail art movement as a prominent mail artist, curator, writer and recipient of a Fulbright Grant and NEA Hilda Maehling Fellowship. From 1980 - 1995, Welch collaborated and corresponded frequently with Ray Johnson, “father of mail art” and founder of the New York Correspondence School. In 1995, Welch created the World Wide Web's first virtual reality art museum, The Electronic Museum of Mail Art (EMMA). He is the author of two classic mail art networking books; Networking Currents: Mail Art Subjects and Issues, 1985, Sandbar Willow Press, and Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology, 1995, University of Calgary Press. His artwork, books, essays, articles, and letters can be found at The Getty, Malibu, CA, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, and Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts Archive, both located at the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA. Welch’s ARCHIVAL MAIL ART INDEX, research papers, mail art library, and Artistamp Collection have recently been acquired by The Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art. Presently, he is writing a book about mail art and its postage stamp history. Welch's artwork recently appeared in "Retro Avangarda," Korekta Gallery, Warsaw.
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