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A new Mail Art Call for 2025, all about Nothing. See details below. Documentation for participants will arrive in January 2026.

2025’s first Nonlocal Mail Art Call was about birds. What do these creatures think about what humans are doing to their habitat? We asked people to send in their bird conversation captions; 61 people responded, 87 pieces all told. Participants received a handmade 20-page booklet. A running dada narrative is embedded across all the pages.…

Today, March 12, 2025 is the 5th International Art & Found Day. Over 1600 artists across the globe give the gift of their art, leaving “Free Art” packages in their community. Those who find a package take it home and enjoy the surprise. Nonlocal dropped 7 pieces across Portland and Beaverton, Oregon, and one remote…

Zine, flyer, fold-up, pamphlet, I prefer Booklet – a very thin book with a few pages with and a paper cover, about (possibly) something interesting. The Sumerians made the first booklets, made on clay tablets in 3,400 BC. But they didn’t have a postal service, or Mail Art. Nonlocal started making booklets in 1981 –…

Crevicist Obscure Music from Mail Artists This project asked Mail Artists to contribute an album of obscure, experimental, or improvisational music to share. 78 Mail Artists and musicians from 18 countries participated with 110 contributions. Everyone’s submissions were interesting, fascinating and revealing. The book includes cover art, musician, album and contributor. And a QR code’s…

My new book documents a Mail Art Call from 1997. The bicycle has been a passion throughout my life, so naturally one of my two Mail Art calls in 1997 was about bicycles. Eighty insanely creative submissions from 13 countries arrived between 1997 and 1999. But in 1997, Nonlocal set aside Mail Art for 25…

In 1997, I put out a call to 550 mail artists for my first assemblage project. The topic was Transport, no rules, anything the sender defined as transport. The contributions came rolling in – 78 pieces from 65 mail artists. In early 1998, I stopped doing mail art, so all of those goodies sat in…

Returning to mail art after 25 years, I wondered how the practice had changed. Still Fluxus, Neoist, Dada, and cultural criticism? Or will it be more Art-For-Art’s-Sake? So I devised a mail artists survey, the Mail Art Continuum. It presented a range of 4 mail art styles and asked people to put a dot on…

Art manifestos outline the beliefs of major art movements, from Dada to Lettrists, Situationists, Futurists, and notably Fluxus. In the era of the social web, the mail art movement is a continuing yet obscure practice. The Crevicist Manifesto is presented as the beacon of light for today’s mail art network artists. The manifesto is built…