Kristen Kieffer

This offer is not dated and stands till I’m out of postcards to send.
I usually make one postcard each year depicting a new form or idea. These are then, primarily, handed out at retail shows, workshops, and less often, sent to those on my aging mailing list. This covered jar image is my new card for 2008. If you would like one, I would like for you to have one.

While I was working in my studio today, and coming off my lovely and successful Holiday Sale this past weekend where I could engage with friends, neighbors, collectors and their friends and family directly, it occured to me that my online audience misses out on some of the tangibles. Ironically, the digital age —filled with images and the ability to Goggle everything— has subtracted a small but enjoyable part of what I, as a visual artist, crave: artists’ postcards! To save money on printing and postage, this has gone a bit by the wayside, which is understandable but unfortunate. It’s the artist’s business card; a hand-held visual that doesn’t require you to be in front of your monitor. I always have cards hanging in my studio, or stuck or taped in my sketchbook, or kept to pass on to my students or hung in the studio where I teach as a visual tool.

I would like to extend the opportunity for you, my web audience, to receive my new postcard. Simply drop me an email with “Postcard” in the subject line and your mailing address in the body to stenkief@yahoo.com. (That would be “sten” as in “KriSTEN” stuck to “kief” as in “KIEFfer”, in case you’ve been wondering all these years what on earth my address meant.) That’s it! Something you can hold in your hand allows for some kind of connection beyond the digital. Maybe in the future we’ll meet in person and you’ll take a pot, but for now beyond the ether, you can receive a card and my well wishes.