Episode 11: mail artist & maker Mitsuko Brooks (Brooklyn, NY)

Episode 11: Mitsuko Brooks was born in the Aomori Prefecture of Japan and moved to the United States at an early age. She is a 1.5 generation Shin-Issei Japanese American artist living and working in New York. Her mail art collages, artists books, zines, and assemblages are in special collections and libraries throughout North America, including the Smithsonian's Archive of American Art. Her work often utilizes storytelling or personal narrative while incorporating dense layered visuals or the use of materials others might consider discards. 
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Show notes: 

• Follow Mitsuko's adventures on Instagram: @mitsukobrooks
  and via the web: https://mitsukobrooks.com
• "Return to Sender" at the Steve Turner Gallery
• Mitsuko discusses mail art for Printed Matter's 2020 exhibition We Live in Real Time: A Window Exhibition of Mail Art Made During the Pandemic
• Those baby fawn stamps we talk about!
• A brief overview of the Gutai Art Association

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