2014 was another big year for The Blunt Letters. Micaela Superstar was featured as part of a collaborative art project called mail/art/book with Red Letter Day zine. Find out more below.
This past Valentines day Micaela Superstar and Elle Lectrick of The Blunt Letters spent the sweetest of evenings at a super rad exhibit at the SF Center for the Book. We went to see mail/art/book: An Exhibit co-curated by Jennie Hinchcliff and John Held, Jr. in which Micaela Superstar had some art being displayed. They also had a book made (pretty sweet!) for the exhibit and we were really excited to attend. For those who follow or stalk us you might have seen our posts leading up to the event. And despite the fact that we arrived fashionably late, we had a BLAST.
Plus! Worlds collided that evening when we discovered that a blood relative was also in attendance and is the lovely best friend of the one and only Jennie Hinchcliff of Red Letter Day zine!
Somehow in the hundreds of pieces of art Micaela was able to find her two submissions.
Our photo quality could maybe be improved but the images in the book came out great!
We were stoked to be able to go. Hopefully some of our fans made it out there too! It was a weekend long event so if you showed up or saw us there and were too intimidated to chat with us leave a comments!!
Here’s some other pieces that caught my eye.
If you want to know how to get your hand on a book or see the exhibit, here’s some extra info on us!
“The 100-page, four-color catalog designed by Maureen Forys of Happenstance Type-O-Rama shows every piece of exhibition artwork along with deep backgrounding essays by the curators on contemporary correspondence art and the history of West Coast mail art; the softcover catalog retails for $40.
MAIL / ART / BOOK runs from February 14th until April 27th at the San Francisco Center for the Book.”
I pulled this directly off the webpage for this exhibit but the website is worth a look on it’s own if you’re into printing or book binding and live in the Bay Area.
SF Center for the Book
OR If you want to know more about this exhibit they have their own WordPress about it here: Ex Postal Facto
I’m working on finding a way to buy one of these FANTASTIC books online in case one of you was so inclined, so stay tuned.
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