Friday, November 21
Opening Reception for “Three Fold Mailing”
An exhibition and sale
6-9 pm | Free admission, through November 30
Click here to view the exhibition and sale online
This past summer, we invited nearly 200 of our published artists and poets to contribute to "Three Fold Mailing,” an international mail art project inspired by the influential activities of Ray Johnson’s Correspondence School and Ken and Ann Mikolowski's Alternative Press (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969–1999).
Three Fold asked its participants, including those who had previously conspired with the Alternative Press, as well as founder Ken Mikolowski himself, to create an uninstructed artwork on the front of a letterpress postcard, in the modality of their choosing (drawing, painting, collage, poem, proclamation, witticism, etc) and mail it to our Gratiot headquarters.
Each postcard is priced at $100 as a one-of-a-kind artwork. Donations raised from the exhibition will support a forthcoming print edition and amplify our capacity to provide honorariums for Three Fold poets, authors, artists and activists in issues to come.
Trinosophes Projects is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the state of Michigan that supports live programming, exhibitions, research and publishing. We are an independent, artist-operated entity located in the city of Detroit. Contributed and earned income goes directly into the hands of the artists we work with, so if you appreciate our efforts, consider making a donation to support our ongoing mission. Click here for a Paypal link.
How does your support help? Your donations go directly to our programming, publishing, media manufacturing, archival work, artist commissioning, project collaborations and regranting in the form of artist prizes, awards and emergency assitance. While we prefer to operate mostly anonymously and we’re always hesitant to ask for financial support, we recognize that now more than ever our work is important to the cultral health of our community, both through supporting, highlighting and perserving our region’s cultural legacy and by keeping it in dialogue with devlopments in the rest of the country and the world.