A woman celebrates the 'Herstorical Women of Oakland, California' by commemorating them with her own faux stamp series, a unique artform that utilizes some pretty cool retro equipment.
This was where she learned the niche art form of making fake postage stamps. Foyrs' stamp series, the 'Herstorical Women of Oakland,"I was feeling frustrated by a lot of the, not in California but on a national stage. I believe we were sitting at one of these events where we were vending some of our artwork where I came up with the idea," Forys says.
The event where she was selling her artwork was a mail-art show called ‘Mail Art Book’, put on by her and her good friend, Jenny Hinchcliffe, for whom she designedSome of the women Forys highlights in her stamp series are lesser known and somewhat unsung. "Some of the more famous women, which I started with Julia Morgan and Ina Coolbrith; they’re very well documented. There’s a lot of information at the library. There’s a lot of information online, so they’re very easy to research, find old pictures of. Things like that. Some of these folks, I really have to dig through like the archives of the newspapers and go to the library and spend some time.
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