Postal Arm: An Eccentric Return to Correspondence Courses and Drawing

Presented by Dr William Platz

This lecture asks a simple question: did we, as artists and educators, replace a good network (postal) with a bad one (internet)? The lecture proceeds through a historical overview of correspondence instruction, Mail Art practices, and a comparative analysis of two very different educational experiments — Black Mountain College and the Barnes Foundation; and includes a contemporary experiment in postal drawing.

Dates and Locations

Thursday 18 June 2026 Sydney (NSW)

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