Chuck Welch
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 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.
Phone: 603.831-1875
Address: 42 Monadnock Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458
Phone: 603.831-1875
Address: 42 Monadnock Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458
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Books by Chuck Welch
The book is divided into six parts: Networking Origins, Open Aesthetics, New Directions, Interconnection of Worlds, Communication Issues and Ethereal Realms. Appendixes include mailing addresses from the 1990s, mail art exhibitions, a listing and location of over 350 underground mail art magazines and a comprehensive record of public and private international mail art archives. The late Judith Hoffberg, founder of Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) and editor of “Umbrella Magazine,” wrote an astute and prophetic review of ETERNAL NETWORK in March 1995. “Some might think that this is the last gasp of a paper-orientated group of artists, but it is more a testament to the future of alternative art and the role of artists as networker”.
The book is divided into six parts: Networking Origins, Open Aesthetics, New Directions, Interconnection of Worlds, Communication Issues and Ethereal Realms. Appendixes include mailing addresses from the 1990s, mail art exhibitions, a listing and location of over 350 underground mail art magazines and a comprehensive record of public and private international mail art archives. The late Judith Hoffberg, founder of Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) and editor of “Umbrella Magazine,” wrote an astute and prophetic review of ETERNAL NETWORK in March 1995. “Some might think that this is the last gasp of a paper-orientated group of artists, but it is more a testament to the future of alternative art and the role of artists as networker”.
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The book is divided into six parts: Networking Origins, Open Aesthetics, New Directions, Interconnection of Worlds, Communication Issues and Ethereal Realms. Appendixes include mailing addresses from the 1990s, mail art exhibitions, a listing and location of over 350 underground mail art magazines and a comprehensive record of public and private international mail art archives. The late Judith Hoffberg, founder of Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) and editor of “Umbrella Magazine,” wrote an astute and prophetic review of ETERNAL NETWORK in March 1995. “Some might think that this is the last gasp of a paper-orientated group of artists, but it is more a testament to the future of alternative art and the role of artists as networker”.
The book is divided into six parts: Networking Origins, Open Aesthetics, New Directions, Interconnection of Worlds, Communication Issues and Ethereal Realms. Appendixes include mailing addresses from the 1990s, mail art exhibitions, a listing and location of over 350 underground mail art magazines and a comprehensive record of public and private international mail art archives. The late Judith Hoffberg, founder of Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) and editor of “Umbrella Magazine,” wrote an astute and prophetic review of ETERNAL NETWORK in March 1995. “Some might think that this is the last gasp of a paper-orientated group of artists, but it is more a testament to the future of alternative art and the role of artists as networker”.