John Held Jr. is central to a wide network of mail artists, constantly sending and receiving curious postal experiences. This mail art workshop consists of a Letter Opening Performance, in which unopened mail sent to Held will be unsealed and explained. Perforated sheets of paper will be made available to participants for the creation of artist postage stamps and new mail art.

John Held Jr. is a visual artist and writer living in San Francisco. His most recently published book is Small Scale Subversion: Mail Art and Artistamps. His wide travels among mail art correspondents have resulted in workshops conducted in Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Japan, and Russia. His papers are in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.