Visual Art

SecretPost

citywide art project asks people to divulge secrets

Trevor Kupfer |

Some call it therapeutic or cathartic, but I’m going to just go ahead and call it art. Post Secret is a web concept started in Maryland in which people send in anonymous postcards that confess a secret of some kind. These range from highly creative or funny to highly personal or serious. The former making the concept have wide appeal, and the latter providing some kind of comfort to the confessor (off chest) or reader (not alone). The concept has since been replicated all over the place, but now a bunch of locals (Lori Chilefone, Jill Olm, Eric Jennings, and Jyl Kelley) have brought the concept to Eau Claire. They are encouraging people to send in postcards from now through March 12 to be a part of the art project. You can drop them at McIntyre Library, Just Local Food, and Hass Fine Arts (Room 104). They can be picked up at the above locations, plus Eclectica on Grand, Midwest Tattoo, Benny HaHa, Brickhouse Music, the Boys & Girls Club, YMCA, Globe University, Grand Little Theatre, Infinitea, Purple Petunia, or LE Phillips Public Library. The end result will be an April display in McIntyre, Haas Fine Arts, and Eau Claire Regional Arts Center.