Gallery Internship Art Talk Series Presents
John Held Jr. and Mail Art
Open to All UC Berkeley Students
Email gwazda@berkeley.edu for Zoom link (deadline: 10am, day of)
Attendees are asked to please review relevant readings before talk
Mail art envelope with artistamps by John Held Jr.
John Held Jr. is an American mail artist, author, and performance artist who has been an active participant in alternative art since 1975, particularly in the fields of rubber stamp art, zine culture, and artistamps. He is one of the most prominent and respected promoters and archivists of mail art, and maintains a worldwide circle of active mail art contacts.
Held has written several books about mail art and archiving, and contributed more than fifty feature articles and reviews as a staff writer for art magazine SFAQ. Parts of his collection have been placed at the Getty Research Library (LA) and the Museum of Modern Art (NY). His papers are in The Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
The Fall 2020 Worth Ryder Art Gallery Internship Program is excited to present a series of talks by artists, curators, and publishers that supplement the gallery’s experiments with remote display techniques and technologies.
Supported by a Creative Discovery Grant from Berkeley Arts + Design and Instructional Improvement Grant from Berkeley Arts & Humanities