Postcards for Democracy
Mark Mothersbaugh x Beatie Wolfe’s collective post art campaign
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Postcards for Democracy - with Mark Mothersbaugh
A collective post art campaign born out of lockdown
The Story
Artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe share a love of tangible art forms, in and amongst their futuristic explorations. In the summer of 2020, in light of the threat to our 225yr old postal service, Mothersbaugh and Wolfe joined forces for this collective non-partisan postcard art demonstration. The campaign captured the public's imagination with the pair receiving tens of thousands of cards from all over the world which were then exhibited at the Rauschenberg Gallery in a 3-month exhibition in addition to a selection going into the Smithsonian's permanent collection. To this day the pair are still receiving cards!
Project’s Reception
Kind support for this project from Billboard, Pitchfork, Fast Company, The Los Angeles Times, Cool Hunting, Design Milk, The Art Newspaper, The Nation, Brooklyn Vegan, CBS, Austin Chronicle, USA Today, SXSW, Dezeen, Variety and more
Artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe share a love of tangible artforms, in and amongst their futuristic explorations...
In the summer of 2020 in light of the threat to our 225yr old postal service, at a time that could jeopardize the democracy of the country, Mothersbaugh and Wolfe joined forces for this collective postcard art demonstration
The aim of this campaign is to encourage as many people as possible to support USPS (at this critical time), our right to vote, and democracy as a whole via the power of art. The demonstration asks you to buy USPS stamps, design your postcard and then mail it to 8760 Sunset Blvd
Rauschenberg Gallery
Postcards for Democracy Exhibition
Artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe joined forces for this lockdown art project in support of the postal service and our right to vote. The pair received thousands of postcards which are currently on display at the Rauschenberg Gallery in Florida
Postcards for Democracy exhibition ran May 17 to Aug 8 2021 - link (+)
SXSW 2021
Featured Session
Invited to give a featured session by SXSW first virtual festival. Check out the session in the video above
Press
Kind support for this project from Billboard, Pitchfork, Fast Company, The Los Angeles Times, Cool Hunting, Design Milk, The Art Newspaper, The Nation, Brooklyn Vegan, CBS, Austin Chronicle, USA Today, SXSW, Dezeen, Variety and more
