My girlfriend, Karen, has a guest cabin and on occasion, she hosts creative gatherings. Tonight's was for us to craft Mail Art.

Although someone once said that mail art probably began when Cleopatra delivered herself to Julius Caesar in a rolled-up carpet, its real roots can be traced to a much later period – in the groundbreaking pieces of Marcel Duchamp and the practices of the Italian Futurists from the early 20th century.
The truth is that artwork had been traveling through envelopes all the time, from Van Gogh’s drawings of painting ideas sent to his brother Theo to Egon Schiele’s letters from his short stay in Vienna, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that someone finally decided to give this creative process some proper credit and proclaim it a true artistic movement.
How awesome is it that we here in Lake Tahoe have our own creative goddess, encouraging us to be artistic and mail more!