Internationally famous
mailartist who wrote the book, "
Eternal Network : A Mail Art Anthology" 1994. aka Chuck Welch
He was a personal friend of
Ray Johnson and a member of the
New York Correspondence School. He was also prolific creator of
Artistamps. Chuck corresponded with hundreds of people around the world.
He created an early website on the topic of
mail art called the Electronic Museum of Mail Art, or EMMA. this is stll online through the efforts of another mail artist, honoria. The URL is:
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/emma/Intro/../faq/../Intro/intro2.html
People known to have corresponded with him include:
Sources:
Held, Jr., John, "MAIL ART: An Annotated Bibliography", The Scarecrow Press, London, 1991.
Welch, Chuck, "Eternal Network : A Mail Art Anthology", University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 1995
De Salvo, Donna and Gudis, Catherine (Editors), "Ray Johnson: Correspodences", Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 1999.
Burch, Charlton (ed.): The Ray Johnson Issue, Lightworks, No. 22, 1995-2000
Last Updated 5.04.04