The Democracy Center plays host to the first LA exhibit of Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe’s collective mail art campaign “Postcards for Democracy.” Check out this pop-up anytime in the Historic Building window.
The non-partisan, public mail art campaign was originally launched in lockdown ahead of the 2020 election when it stirred tens of thousands of people to create and contribute to the movement, supporting USPS in the process, and all the while reminding and mobilizing people to vote. Mothersbaugh and Wolfe received postcards from every part of the U.S. (and across the world) with the ever-growing collection first exhibited at the Rauschenberg Gallery before a selection of the art went into the Smithsonian. The pair rebooted “Postcards for Democracy” ahead of the 2024 election, with support from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, and are still inviting everyone and anyone to create a piece of mail art and send it in to become part of this public art demo, with a larger exhibition and book to follow.
