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From: Petrolpetal (0031-0220)
Posted by Jayne Barket Lyons on March 28, 2020 at 10:56pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
It's awfully annoying to get mail that's been butchered by the postal service - especially a piece of mail art.
Well, you know what they say, "Sh*t Happens!" Yes, it does happen, but you can't help thinking about the time and care that went into making the mail…
Mail from Taiwan!
Posted by Carien van Hest on March 28, 2020 at 4:41pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Great stamps, William M!
FOR NO IDEA'S MINI MAIL ART GROUP
Posted by Valentine Mark Herman on March 28, 2020 at 4:03pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Hi!
Please look at the Arty Slide International Group which I started in 2012. It was as Mini as I could think of then. We held 2 good Slide Art exhibitions in France. I still have the Arty Slides (somewhere!) that IUOMA colleagues contributed. Bianca has died, alas. I have gained a Stidio and moved to bigger bits of art.
Here is the text that started it all:…
ContinueOnce a year mail from James Chester
Posted by Heide Monster on March 28, 2020 at 12:34pm 0 Comments 1 Favorite
An origami folded envelope/MA arrived from James. The inside is a calendar page with lovely bits of paper glued down. Could be a comment on the current lockdown, maybe just a visual image. Thank you for the intriguing design!
I received mail art of Elke Grundmann from Berlin_Germany
Posted by Sabela Baña on March 27, 2020 at 11:20pm 0 Comments 3 Favorites
mail art from denise souray
Posted by marlies wilding on March 27, 2020 at 7:53pm 0 Comments 2 Favorites
many thanks for this terrific envie! love her attitude!! mail is coming to you this week!
A time for Collaboration
Posted by Adam Roussopoulos on March 27, 2020 at 6:30pm 6 Comments 7 Favorites
During this time of social distancing and quarantine I have been looking for more projects to keep myself busy. My son Jackson who is 11 years old has been spending substantially more time drawing. I walked into is room a week back and saw these fantastic monster drawings he was doing on post it notes. I snatched one unbeknown to him and decided to turn it into a rubber stamp. I was THRILLED with the result! I showed him and he was so excited, asking, if I keep drawing monsters, will you…
ContinueArtistamps from Adam Roussopoulos
Posted by Carmen Kennedy on March 27, 2020 at 3:20pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
I will never think of Boondocks in the same way.
Adam included a transcript from his family history which brought these stamps to life. Thanks for sharing with me, Adam.
Received from Stan Askew - Hawaii
Posted by arttower on March 27, 2020 at 7:11am 0 Comments 2 Favorites
Nancy Bell Scott's Mail Art
Posted by Toni Hanner -- tonipoet on March 27, 2020 at 3:10am 2 Comments 5 Favorites
Oh it's such a special day when Nancy Bell Scott's art hits my mailbox! Gorgeous! Thanks so much, Nancy!
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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.
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PEACE
May 18, 2019 at 6pm to May 17, 2020 at 7pm – Urbandale, IA
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La linea gialla project
November 1, 2019 at 6pm to October 31, 2020 at 7pm – PADOVA
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4 de Octubre " Día mundial de los animales "
November 7, 2019 to September 30, 2020 – La Plata
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Mail Art project STOP BULLYING
November 20, 2019 to April 30, 2020 – PESCARA
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PO-MO II (2020) INTERNATIONAL MAIL ART EXHIBITION
December 23, 2019 at 6pm to April 1, 2020 at 7pm – Konya/TURKEY
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"Hi, what is your peace exhibition about? Can't access the link you published. Kind regards
Uta"
"Thx BG!
Beating the confinement blues, this is great time for collabs!
Kristine Snodgrass (Florida, USA) & I are doing an extended collab series, part snail mail and part internet. Not all of it will turn up on AF2 so I'll share some…"
"Hi David, A piece of mail from you mysteriously dropped out of a magazine I was leafing through the other day. I don't think I ever saw this piece, didn't acknowledge it. IT'S GREAT!
I'll post it here and also put it up on the…"
"Hi Petrolpetal - Thanks for the mail art. It landed in early February, but it came damaged! Read my blog post: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/from-petrolpetal-0031-0220"
From: Petrolpetal (0031-0220)
It's awfully annoying to get mail that's been butchered by the postal service - especially a piece of mail art. Well, you…See More
"Much appreciated, Toni, thanks; and Kat. These days it's a bit iffy to assume art will arrive (or be welcome?), but so far I send anyhow. Kat, how is your mail in Greece; is mail arriving to you, even if sporadically? I'm imagining a 100%…"
"want to buy one , where it come from and what is the address site
i live in ny , usa , we have comic con flyer not journal not a paper and not having any releated to mail art , but released to comic"
"28.03.20 Dare Mister Valentine Mark Herman, ..."No. 12 The Amish Farm & House"----Yes, The Amish are so boring. You can easily tell by the jammed parking lot & tour bus. SinCelery, Richard Canard.... Post Scriptum: That…"
"28.03.20 Dare Val,Mim & No Idea,... As I like to "toot (or honk) my little horn", Ima right proud formore Nawff Karolindian & the storie regarding "Grandfather Mountain" as I recollect was the line formed by…"
"Most excellent, BG. We are finding the silver lining in alcoholism."
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Fundraising Campaign for the Carrara Anarchist Printing Press
Started by MoriceMarcuse in Other. Last reply by maha on Thursday. 1 Reply 1 Favorite
Dear all,It is to let you know that a fundraising campaign has been launched by the Cooperativa Tipolitografica, the anarchist printing workshop in Carrara (Italy), for urgent refurbishing works which are needed in its building.Those who wish to…Continue
Mail Artists Addresses?
Started by Litsa Spathi / NOBODY in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Lindsay Stewart on Wednesday. 540 Replies 53 Favorites
I think, it would be very imteresting to have a mailing list of all of us.
Back Back Back again after a long break!
Started by Lindsay Stewart in Mail-Art Discussions on Wednesday. 0 Replies 0 Favorites
HI FOLX! I took a long break off of mail art (5-7 years) but I’m back with a reignited passion for sending and receiving weird shit in the mail. I haven’t stopped making in the past years and I have a couple “ADD N’ PASS” projects that I’d love to…Continue
Abbreviations
Started by Carien van Hest in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Heide Monster Mar 23. 9 Replies 0 Favorites
Is there a list of abbreviations concerning mail art?A&PATCMAand so on. Please help me out.Continue
Making Artists and Mail art enthusiasts in VA - call for work
Started by Beth Allums in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by LATRILLE MARTINE Mar 11. 3 Replies 1 Favorite
My high school art students are making some cool collages and ATCs and are loving the idea of swapping mail art. We'd love to do a semester-long swap and collect mail art to curate a mail art show for our New Kent Celebrate the Arts event May 2nd.…Continue
MOOP:JOURNALS
Started by Jennifer Wallace in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Jade H Mar 10. 7 Replies 1 Favorite
Not my own project, but one I've just signed up for. It's limited to the UK, though.CALL-OUT: Be part of our…Continue
What’s your favorite kind of mail-art?
Started by Cherub Ayers in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by The Artful Writer Mar 3. 16 Replies 3 Favorites
Hello, what are your favorite types of mail art to receive? What is your leave favorite kind?Continue
Got tips for cheapest ways to send mail art internationally?
Started by nonimouse in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Bradford Feb 28. 23 Replies 3 Favorites
Hey, Y'all~Is anyone out there willing to share your wisdom about sending mail art internationally? I went to the post office yesterday with 9 pieces to send, and came back home with 2 that I hoped to send to Germany & Brazil.Combined they…Continue
MAIL ART & ART PEDAGOGICS.
Started by Mikula Lüllwitz in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ruud Janssen Feb 25. 2 Replies 1 Favorite
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
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Mail Art Calls?
Started by kiyotei in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ruud Janssen Feb 16. 3 Replies 0 Favorites
Haven't been here in a while. Where is it appropriate to post MA Calls?ThanksContinue
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