Postcards For
Democracy 2020

THE BEGINNING

A demonstration to support the 225 yr old U.S. Postal Service
& the right to VOTE

Artistic visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe share a love of tangible artforms, in and amongst their futuristic explorations. In the summer of 2020 in light of the threat to our 225yr old postal service, at a time that could jeopardize the democracy of the country, Mothersbaugh and Wolfe joined forces for this collective postcard art demonstration

The aim of this campaign is to encourage as many people as possible to support USPS, our right to vote, and democracy as a whole via the power of art. The demonstration asks you to buy USPS stamps, design your postcard and then mail it to 8760 Sunset Blvd

Rauschenberg Gallery Exhibition

May 17 to Aug 8, 2021

Fort Myers, Florida

Across a four months exhibition the tens of thousands of postcard art where displayed. Despite the large scale of the gallery the cards had to rotated frequently to ensure ever card submitted was included in the exhibition.

SXSW, Featured Session

March 30, 2021

Austin, Texas

Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe were invited to give a featured session at SXSW 2021 to talk about the project. Check out the session in the video. 

Smithsonian, National Postal Museum

Summer, 2022

Washington, District of Columbia

To mark Postcards for Democracy's global reach and impact a commemorative PFD boxset was assembled with the Portland Stamp Company's support. This now resides within the Smithsonian's permanent collection at the National Postal Museum.

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USPS Official Business

Summer, 2021

Various, Nationwide

In addition to the USPS New team highlighting the project, in Florida Fort Myers's Officer in Charge, Phillip Fleener, took time out to tour the exhibition.

Press Support

includes... Billboard, Pitchfork, Fast Company, LA Times, Cool Hunting, Design Milk, The Art Newspaper, The Nation, Brooklyn Vegan, CBS, Austin Chronicle, USA Today, SXSW, Dezeen, Variety and more