Happy Birthday Mike Belt

Concrete poetry

Visual poetry

Mail art

Correspondence art

Assemblage (sculpture technique)

Textile art

Fiberwork

Poetry -- Female authors

American poetry -- 20th century

Large padded brown mailer envelope wrapped in twine and green tassel rope, fabric flower pinned to verso. Envelope contains white department store box, crushed, wrapped in variegated pink, white, blue yarn, signed inside lid in pink ink. Box contains pink tissue wrapped around packet with dark pink threads holding tassels of shells and beads. Inside packet consists of pieces of Japanese tissue paper with whole leaves pressed into paper sewn with pink thread, handwritten “Happy Birthday” Mike Belt” “flower” “love” sitting on top of tan and cream sateen, woven off-white fabric bundled under paper and long group of chiffon threads tied to packet folded around tissue and red fabric flower.

Etlinger, Amelia, 1933-1987

Amelia Etlinger Collection (PCMS-0060)

Poetry Collection Manuscripts (State University of New York at Buffalo)

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

1977-11-03

State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection.

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Physical Object

Still Image

PCMS-0060_4_12

Clifton Park, New York

1970 - 1986

2015-10-05

Collection open for research.

Amelia Etlinger Collection (LIB-PC010)

3 images

padded mailer envelope, twine, tassels, fabric flower, department store box, yarn, shells, beads, woven fabrics, chiffon, plant material

Sent to Mike Belt, donated to the Poetry Collection by Ellen Marie Helinka.

Estate of Amelia Etlinger

fiber art

assemblage

9.25 x 4.25 inches