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The Snail Trail Gallery ( STG ) MailArtMartha's Dining Room Gallery
Posted by Mail Art Martha on December 10, 2024 at 5:57pm 24 Comments 21 Likes
Here it is, thank you everybody!
This Snail Trail took its time to fill up but suddenly it did and there is another waiting to be posted! Thank you!…
i received Mail Art from Helen Amyes
Posted by Zack on December 10, 2024 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Helen has titled this postcard "contentment drawing" (or perhaps that is a methodology/technique?). anyhow, it's working, as gazing upon this piece soothes my soul (a not-so-secret side effect of some Mail Art).
thanks Helen and see you in the mailbox ... soon? Australia is far away so i'm not sure how long the mail takes to get there from…
Continuei received Mail Art from Kiki
Posted by Zack on December 10, 2024 at 12:30pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
from Japan, peaceful doves deliver Mail Art amidst a field of flowers
a second card with faux-postage (faux-stage?) features more cute hand-carved stamps -
the official postage stamps are also pretty…
Continuei received Mail Art from Lubomyr Tymkiv
Posted by Zack on December 10, 2024 at 12:30pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
this naive drawing looks like something you'd find on a classroom blackboard, but my mind distorts the pastoral scene, anxious about those clouds in the sky, the chimney smoke, the sunbeams and pond ripples. kind of like those duck/rabbit or old/young woman ambiguities - is this a picture of peacetime or wartime?
thanks Lubomyr for this mail…
ContinueDec 9 Art : Robert Gregory and a girlfriend, Paint Princess
Posted by Penelope Timm on December 10, 2024 at 3:05am 0 Comments 2 Likes
1Japanese paper pattern with metallic gold
2 mixed media, wire, metallic sheets, and paint…
Bruno Chiarlone 241202
Posted by Mikel Untzilla on December 9, 2024 at 9:35pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Received from Karla Lipp- Brasil #BooKOfDeaD
Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on December 9, 2024 at 2:46pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Recieved today
Posted by Willemien Visser on December 9, 2024 at 1:30pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Back home, I found
-- a wonderful postage stamp mail art card from Ilya: Zegening van Albert de Grote, that is, Blessing by Albertus Magnus
-- a beautiful and funny embroidered card from Carien
(see photos below)
info IUOMA
Somehow people always think that if a group of artists work together that then there must automatically be some kind of organisation that coordinates it all. Well, in mail art there are many groups working together. These groups themselves also work together, but there is NO organisation that arranges all the things that go on in the mail art network. The I.U.O.M.A. is the Union that mail artists can become a member of. The Union has no rules. Everybody who is active in mail art and hears about the Union can become a member just by saying so.
In 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. I invented this name and made forms for people to become a member of this (fictive) union. About 300 mail artists reacted in a year, and official membership cards were made, even a official Union Magazine was published. Anybody who was a member of the Union could also claim a special function within the Union.
Even today, people still join the Union. And somehow it gives power, to say that YOU are a member of the International Union too. The Main address of the Union is at the TAM-address, P.O.Box 1055, 4801 BB - Breda - Netherlands. It is just the center for archiving all the things that are going on. But I am not in control of the Union. I just invented it. And to make it official, I made myself General-President of this Union. Sure was impressive when I travelled to the USSR in 1991 and went to visit some friends there who were also members of this Union........
Today online on Ning there are thousands of members. On December 2nd 2018 the 5000th member joined in.
Events
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A Island Far Far Away Tristan Da Cunha Project
January 28, 2024 at 6pm to January 26, 2025 at 7pm – Tristan da Chuna South Atlantic Ocean
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THE WINDOWED ENVELOPE
February 10, 2024 at 6pm to January 5, 2025 at 7pm – Gallery Location TBA
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“LET'S PLAY” VI International Mailart Open Call
June 28, 2024 to December 31, 2024 – Quinta da Cruz – Centro de Arte Contemporânea
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From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
July 17, 2024 at 6pm to July 7, 2025 at 7pm – Belgium
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BORING POSTCARDS
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Mail-Art Projects List
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wabisabil@nd
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Mail-Art Cafe
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Mail-Art Books
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ATC REBELS
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MANHOLE COVER LOVERS
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Working With The Gelli P…
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ADD & PASS
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poetryintewind
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Anna Banana (1940-2024)
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Hand Made Postcards
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POSTCARD 2025
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MailArt: Book Of DeaD
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caffè Italia
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Sponsor Group IUOMA
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My First Mail Art 3 Replies
This week I received my first two pieces of mail art! One from M. L . in Oregon and one from Nick in New Mexico. I mailed off some today as well. I cannot wait to share these with my students!…Continue
Started by Rebecca Lancaster in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson Nov 29.
Harris Walz stickers 7 Replies
Started by Mars Tokyo in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Nick Canterucci Nov 20.
Send mail or not send? 13 Replies
Dear friends, this is not the first time I have learned that my American friends have not received my mail. This was not the case before.I live in Russia. Maybe the US Postal Service has slowed down? Can I send my collages to the US or is it better…Continue
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Juan Petry Nov 11.
Project International Add & Return "Outsider Art Brut" 2025 dedicated to Jean Debuffet
Sandro Bongiani Contemporary ArtCALL FOR NEW INTERNATIONAL PROJECTProject dedicated to the Art Brut by Jean Dubuffet with…Continue
Tags: Brut, Art, Dubuffet, Jean
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Nov 5.
Mail Artists Addresses? 586 Replies
I think, it would be very imteresting to have a mailing list of all of us.
Started by Litsa Spathi / NOBODY in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Bridgette Nagel Oct 19.
NYU Libraries Exhibition Explores Mail Art Movement and Mark Bloch’s Postal Art Network
NYU Libraries Downtown Collection presents "Panmodern!" An Exhibition of the Mark Bloch/Postal Art Network Opening:…Continue
Tags: York, USA, Hew, Event, Art
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Sep 17.
Open call 1 Reply
https://www.fotodarbnica.lv/Continue
Started by Thomas Vandenberghe in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics Sep 7.
Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 52 Replies
Many of us keep blogs and have twitter accounts, and I know that many of us post up our best work there. Personally I love seeing people's work on their blogs, and I follow the latest work of many mailartists on Twitter too, where the banter is…Continue
Tags: mailartists, twitter, blogs
Started by andytgeezer in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics Sep 7.
theLetterNetwork - book by 80 mail artists 1 Reply
Me and my partner Lilli made a mail art project together with 80 artists and storytellers from over 20 European countries through analogue dialogical letter-making. These letters are now becoming a book that we are crowdfunding. If the project seems…Continue
Started by Marco Verhoogt in Mail-Art Magazines and Publications. Last reply by Predrag Petrovic Sep 3.
MAIL ART & ART PEDAGOGICS. 8 Replies
Dear Mail Art Family,does anyone of you out there know of any projects or literature dealing with the connection of MAIL ART and ART PEDAGOGICS ? Maybe there are pedagogues who read these lines... and maybe someone of you already brought MAIL ART…Continue
Tags: thesis, Pedagogics, Children, Master, Teacher
Started by Mikula Lüllwitz in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by CUTandTEAR Aug 27.
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