Handing Off: Art in Pandemic Times

A Virtual Mail Art Exhibition

Wednesday, March 31st - Wednesday, April 21st, 2021

Opening Reception: 5-6pm, Friday, April 2nd, 2021
Pre-Register Now for Opening Reception via Zoom

Curated by Erin Brookey, Adam Huth, Veda Baldota, Arianna Williamson, Lauren Anastasia & Giancarlo DiLuce

With Worth Ryder Art Gallery Interns Joann Kim & Lora Mathis & Professor Jill Miller for the Spring 2021 ART 160 Special Topics: Making Art in Pandemic Times course.

Lora Mathis, Enduring, 2021

Handing Off: Art in Pandemic Times is a mail art exhibition hosted online at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery at the University of California, Berkeley. 45 pieces of art were mailed around the world from one artist to another, in an effort to find community during a time of social distance and isolation.

Artists who received a piece of mail art were invited to alter, remove, edit, or add to the artwork, creating a new collaboration - and new work of art - while never meeting their collaborators in person. The process repeats itself as the work passes from the hands of one artist to another.

Artists were asked to document their work, and images have been upload to www.handingoff.art