It took more than a week for Janet's envelope to get to my house and her September envelope has not arrived. Grrrrr. I need to study the layers on this one and see if I can figure out the order. Does she do the yellow first and then the orange? Or the orange first. I think the October envelopes that arrived at 420 will be popping up. There's been a break in writing and scheduling posts so I'm rusty. I do recall parking a couple links - the ones you see below.
The first one is JoyMachine - a place I could easily get to when I am in Chicago. It always seems easy when I find these places in Chicago on a map. Then when I get to Chicago, I tend to hide in the house and only head out for things that must be done. It's that trip from the airport that saps all the adventurousness.
Maybe Kerry will go to JoyMachine and tell us what she thinks. Kerry is one of our newer exchangers who lives in Chicago.
LINK to JoyMachine - a gallery in Chicago that looks ideal for a mail art exhibit.
The Joy Machine website mentioned artist retreats at a place that is sooooo interesting. It's a very old camp that rents out to people who are willing to experience a very old and rustic camp that has not modernized. Frogs in the showers, no wifi - primitive - and just two hours north of Chicago. It's inland - not on Lake Michigan - but it's on a small lake.
My favorite part of their website is their Manifesto of Low Expectations.
LINK to Camp Wandawega Maybe you want to start with this link to the home page - and then read the manifesto. If I were in my 50s, I'd be organizing a retreat for my posse/cult members so that we could bring our stamps and envelopes and spend a couple days making mail art.
It was hard to choose a photo because they have so many quaint buildings, etc and it's Wisconsin - so it's full of trees and loveliness.
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