High School Mail Art Show will open at YSU gallery

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown State University art department’s second-annual High School Mail Art Show opens Monday and will run through Nov. 21 in the Judith Rae Solomon Gallery in Bliss Hall. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

An opening reception and award ceremony will take place at 5 p.m. Nov. 8.

Mail art is an artistic movement focused on sending small scale works through the postal service. It was developed in the 1950s as a means for artists to connect with other artists. It is a way to share their work in an alternative network from the traditional art market, although, it is common now to see exhibitions of mail art in galleries.

High-school juniors and seniors created 150 postcard-sized images, which will be juried by YSU professors Claudia Berlinski and Christine McCullough.