Who is Jennie?

Jennie Hinchcliff has lived in San Francisco for over half of her life, but she did not grow up there. She has done many wacky things for a living and had the opportunity to meet a cavalcade of eccentric individuals. She has developed a great affinity for all things Japanese, airmail envelopes and a nice brisk gin.

She currently works at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library in Exhibitions and Public Services. For many years Jennie was an adjunct instructor in the Academy of Art University’s Fine Art department, where she taught bookbinding/artists book theory. Her bookworks can be seen in the collections of UC Los Angeles, NYC MoMA’s Mail Art and Fluxus Collection, and Berlin’s Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, as well as private collections throughout the United States. Jennie’s artists’ books have been shown at a variety of venues such as the San Francisco Center for the Book, 23 Sandy Gallery, and the Urawa Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan.)

Her work has been published in the books “1000 Artist Journal Pages” (2008), “The Envelope Please” (2009), and “Book for Mail Art” (2017). As one of the authors of “Good Mail Day” (with Carolee Gilligan-Wheeler), she is dedicated to introducing the world-at-large to the Eternal Network, as well as sending as much mail as she can via the USPS. Although she never had the pleasure of corresponding with Ray Johnson, she believes that there is a little bit of Ray, in all of us.

She can be reached at:

redletterdayzine@gmail.com

or

Jennie Hinchcliff c/o Red Letter Day

PO Box 170271

San Francisco, CA. 94117

Another option (for soundbites)  is Instagram:

@redletterdayzine