How to draw your own postcards | Drop-in Drawing

Drop in anytime for a virtual session of our popular series and experience The Met collection through creative drawing challenges. This week, try mail art, the practice of sending small-scale artworks through the postal service. Check out the inspiration below, grab your drawing materials, pencil, cardstock or other heavy paper, and some postage stamps, and get started whenever you're ready. Please note: This event is prerecorded.

Featured artwork:

Detroit Publishing Company (American). A California Anomaly, Snow and Oranges, Pasadena, California, No. 7782, ca. 1905. Commercial color lithograph, Sheet: 3 7/16 x 5 1/2 in. (8.8 x 14 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 428, PC143.313)

metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/687849

For even more inspiration, spend some time with the links below.

William Wegman on Walker Evans's postcard collection: artistproject.metmuseum.org/6/william-wegman/

On Kawara's I GOT UP: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/284464

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