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Snell's own mail art (center) and letters from friends.
Below: Snell's trademark sticker.
mother's name was Cohen."
worldwide continue placing
She has received an
their stamp on the art scene.
envelope made of papier-
Johnson's latest "add to"
mache, a letter filled with
shows a bathtub filled with
plastic bugs, and a postcard
photocopied pictures of the
made of white Styrofoam
heads of several mail artists.
material; on the side, the
Snell describes Johnson as
sender had written: "This
"a very nice, very strange
card floats. Try it!"
man."
One treasure came to Snell
Sometimes, mail art can
from a mail artist in Texas,
lead to a friendship deeper
who sent a photocopy of
than the drawings and
himself at a program where
designs that cover an
he performed in the nude.
envelope or postcard. When
"That one was inter-
Snell's husband died several
esting," Snell says.
months ago, cards from mail
"Apparently it's okay to do
art friends, most of whom
that in Dallas, but I don't
she had never met, poured
know if it would work in
into her mailbox.
One of her correspondents
Detroit."
Their names are often as
reveals his own despair: he
curious as their art. In addi-
and his wife have been try-
tion to Cracker Jack, mail
ing for years to have a child.
artists have selected such
And a third, a woman who
monikers as Anna Banana,
lives on a commune and
covers her envelopes with
Juswanna Surf and Music-
pictures of rabbits, tells of
master.
Snell often finds her cor-
her concern for animal wel-
respondents by way of what
fare.
Snell says that despite her
those in the trade call an
curious assortment of mail
"add to," usually a
art, which she receives
photocopied sheet inviting
regularly from some 40 cor-
mail aficionados to add their
respondents worldwide,
address to a list circulated
she's never heard any com-
among mail artists. No
ments from her mailman.
letter of introduction is
But there are those who
needed; once one becomes
notice what comes to her
known as a prospective par-
home. Workers at the post
ticipant, mail art should
office can't help but see the
start arriving by the bagfuls.
stickers and drawings and
A recent "add to" came to
pieces of plastic and cloth
Snell from Ray Johnson, a
attached to envelopes ad-
Detroit native who many
dressed to Maxie, Snell says.
credit with starting the
"And they certainly do think
whole mail-art craze.
it's interesting." ❑
In the 1960s, Johnson in-
vited everyone named
Michael Cooper listed in the
New York telephone direc-
tory to parties, asking them
to RSVP by completing
drawings Johnson created.
This project developed into
the New York Cor-
respondence Art School.
Johnson later closed the
school by placing an
obituary in The New York
Times. It said, "The New
York Correspondence School
is now dead." Yet more than
10,000 mail artists

