The Participants

It wasn’t easy getting a list of names. Of course there was the task of just doing it, and then there was the task of dealing with random bits of paper. 35 years does a number to glues, so much of my time was spent trying to figure out what bit of paper (address, silly picture, name) went with what piece of artwork. And then there were the doubles that I had to organize. One mail-artist sent the same photocopied (was that a thing, I’m not sure) image more than ten times. He did nothing different to the image. I gathered all of those together for easy organization when I get around to scanning everything.

What struck me most about the list was the amount of people working under a mail-art name. Sure there are folks that do that these days, or those that are still doing that, but it seems many more did it then. When you create a new identity it gives the whole project a different air, a slight shroud of mystery.

Ackerman Clinic – Portland OR, USA Thomas Adair – Richmond VA, USA Barbara Aubin – Chicago IL, USA Baron – Cleveland OH, USA John M. Bennett – Columbus OH, USA Carolyn Berry – Monterey CA, USA J. Boccino – W. Caldwell NJ, USA Betty Bressi – Staten Island NY, USA Barton Benes – New York NY, USA Blue Moon Toys – Salt Lake City UT, USA Paulo Bruscky – Recife PE, Brazil Patrick J. Canavan – Baltimore MD, USA Mary Carol Combs – Kalamazoo MI, USA Ulises Carrion – Amsterdam, Netherlands Collageworks – San Francisco CA, USA Marie Combs – Kalamazoo MI, USA Contant Art / Changing System – Hillsborough NC, USA Cook – San Francisco CA, USA Cris – Ventura CA, USA Robin Crozier – Sunderland, England R. Deagle – Norfolk VA, USA Walter Drearing – Indianapolis IN, USA Charlotte Duval – Staten Island NY, USA Dated Material – Oakland CA, USA Demaree – Raleigh NC , USA Ko de Jonge – Middleberg, Netherlands Mike Dyar – San Francisco CA, USA Jerry Dreva – Milwaukee WI, USA Bernard K. Fischer – Chatsworth CA, USA Gasowski Productions – Tempe AZ, USA Geek City – Greenville NC, USA geORge – Greenville NC, USA Richard Graham – Mt. Pleasant MI, USA D. Klaus Groh – Friedrischsf., Germany Lin Fife – Colorado Springs CO, USA Aaron Flores – Mexico S (?) Gardells – Gibson NC, USA Geisha Among Barbarians – Chicago IL – USA Claudio Goulart – Amsterdam, Netherlands Ken Friedman – New York NY, USA Paul Hartal – Montreal QC, Canada John Held Jr. – Utica NY, USA E.F. Higgins III – New York NY, USA Tohei Horiike – San Francisco CA, USA Hot and Into Rubber Cosmic Stamp Co. – East Cleveland OH, USA International Network – Denver CO, USA Bonnie Jean Malcolm – Paramount CA, USA Lomholt Formular Press – Odder, Denmark Jerry King Mussler – Harrisburg PA, USA Miroslav Klivar – Belohorska, Czechoslovakia Edith Kodmur – La Jolla CA, USA Carol Kohler – Amherst MA, USA Michaele LeCompte – Sacramento CA, USA Byron W. Lacy – Nacogdoches TX, USA Katalin Ladik – Yugoslavia Cynthia Larson – Santa Barbara CA, USA Larry Lean – Greenville NC, USA Edward LeShock – Radford VA, USA Elizabeth Lide – Atlanta GA, USA Lana Lust – Colorado Springs CO, USA Tracy Magen – Dresher PA, USA C. Mehrl – Columbus OH, USA Don P. Miller – River Falls WI, USA Johnnie Mizell – Nags Head NC, USA Tom Morrissey – Coral Gables FL, USA Brian Muldoon – Detroit MI, USA Michele Musser – Harrisburg PA, USA Opal L. Nations – Toronto ONT, Canada OK Post – Weare NH, USA Orworks – Sunderland MA, USA Paul Owens – Wedford OR, USA Sharron Parker – Raleigh NC, USA B. Phillips – Col MD, USA Pawel Petosz – Elblag, Poland Pitts Pie – Eureka CA, USA Professor Plum – Long Beach CA, USA Emanuel Ravelli – Reno NV, USA David S. – Salt Lake City UT, USA Salt Lick Press – Quincy IL, USA Sarapta – Chicago IL, USA Soft Art Press – Lausanne, Switzerland Al Souza – Amherst MA, USA Lon Spiegelman – Los Angeles CA, USA John Stephan Fawcett – Storrs CT, USA P.A.Z Stogre – Willowdale ONT, Canada Marta Tornero – Greensboro NC, USA A. Vandenburgh – Portland OR, USA G.E. Marx Vigo – Buenos Aires, Argentina Eva Vlasakova – Zelezny, Czechoslovakia Jordan Wagner – San Francisco CA, USA Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt – Berlin, Germany Mario Zecca – Norman OK, USA