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Received from Atte Ourie (FINLAND)
Posted by awyn on September 11, 2024 at 3:27pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Rectangles Into Other Shapes
Posted by jon foster on September 11, 2024 at 1:31pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
From Perrigault Aude
Posted by Tomoe N on September 11, 2024 at 9:43am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I received a mail art from Aude in Paris.
パリからメールアート来ました。クロワッサン🥐のふくろ〜
Ilya Semenenko-Bassin 240906
Posted by Mikel Untzilla on September 11, 2024 at 7:49am 0 Comments 1 Like
All the way from Taiwan, thanks William
Posted by Julian Foster on September 10, 2024 at 3:30pm 3 Comments 2 Likes
i received Mail Art from Daniel Westerlund
Posted by Zack on September 10, 2024 at 1:10pm 0 Comments 1 Like
this card from Ebb Yowza makes me wonder if the twenty-first century might see the beginning of the end of nations... maybe borders cause more trouble than they're worth? just like it's important to think not just of now but of generations to come, it's important to think beyond here, to the folks who live on the other side of the tracks. perhaps it's time…
i received Mail Art from SueAn Stradling-Collins
Posted by Zack on September 10, 2024 at 1:03pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Man Ray, Ray Johnson, and Heironymous Bosch walk into a bar...
(this postcard documents the moment) ];-)
thanks SueAn; see you in the mail soon!
i received Mail Art from Fabienne Ruaut-Lichet
Posted by Zack on September 10, 2024 at 12:58pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
another lovely print from my (brain) cell-mate in Dreux; this is a detail from her signature handcrafted oversize b+w envelope.
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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"Birds and Nature"
March 25, 2024 at 6pm to September 30, 2024 at 7pm – Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
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Mini Artist's Book exchange
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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
Latest Activity
"email me your snail mail addy to marstokyo@gmail.com"
"This is a Harris Walz sticker designed by Ward Sutton. I'm sending you one if you vote for Kamala!"
"Looking for Kamala Harris supporters! I've got your bumper sticker by Ward Sutton."
"Hi there!
Back after a time away. Any Canadian mail artists around?"
"i'm glad you liked it. i try to use interesting stamps if i can on the mail i send out."
"I have a box full of paper, trash, stickers, etc. that I can use to make lots of mail art."
"Hello Lisa,
I received just an opened envelope from you today. I think what you enclosed in it fell off and got lost on the way..."
From Perrigault Aude
I received a mail art from Aude in Paris.パリからメールアート来ました。クロワッサン🥐のふくろ〜See More
Groups
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Mail Art News
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BORING POSTCARDS
40 members
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Hand Made Postcards
73 members
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Comics in mailart
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The One Page Zine
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Mission of Dadaland
29 members
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Tiny Art
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MANHOLE COVER LOVERS
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Black and white - readym…
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caffè Italia
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Mail-Art Projects List
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ADD & PASS
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OPEN CALLs
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poetryintewind
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ATC REBELS
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Zines
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Thee Add & Pass Book Club
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BRAIN CELL - RYOSUKE COH…
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Pittura digitale
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MailArt: Book Of DeaD
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Polls and Surveys - A new one each month!
Forum
Harris Walz stickers 2 Replies
Started by Mars Tokyo in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Mars Tokyo 38 minutes ago.
Open call 1 Reply
https://www.fotodarbnica.lv/Continue
Started by Thomas Vandenberghe in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics on Saturday.
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 on Saturday.
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.
Mail Artists Addresses? 585 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 Stephen Tomasko Aug 26.
Best place to post Mail Art Calls 5 Replies
Thank you for any thoughts or directions n placing mail art calls internationally 💖🌞🪬Continue
Tags: receivinh, msending, art, mail, Calls
Started by Perry Hoffman in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by CtlAltDel Aug 9.
Retrospettiva di Reid Wood, 1970-2024 “Tempo sospeso
SPAZIO OPHEN VIRTUAL ART GALLERYRetrospettiva di Reid Wood 1970-2024“Tempo sospeso / Segni e tracce di un immaginario in/Visibile” "Suspended time/ Signs and traces of a imaginary in/visible"a cura di Sandro Bongiani11 agosto - 14 settembre…Continue
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Fluxus and Mail-Art Aug 7.
How Mail-Art changed the World 8 Replies
UPDATE #2:Deadline is over and I appreciate all the great work that I received in the past two months! I will send messages over the IUOMA site in the next days to notify all artists whose works arrived safely in Berlin.As for the exhibition: I am…Continue
Started by flo abgrund in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by flo abgrund Jul 22.
Solo Exhibition by Ryosuke Cohen “Waiting between relationship and shared participation” 1 Reply
Pavilion Lautania Valley / Foreigners Here and ElsewhereSolo Exhibition by Ryosuke Cohen “Waiting between relationship and shared participation” - Curated by Sandro Bongiani and in collaboration with the Ryosuke Cohen Archive of Ashiya-City Hyogo -…Continue
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kiki Jun 28.
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