"ha res. i almost made the same blunder! :)ah, thanks for the heads up about fly on youtube mary anne."
On August 16th 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. In November 2008 this IUOMA platform at NING became the home for members.
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Received Mail from Sam Price
Posted by Jorge Martin on September 14, 2019 at 2:55pm 3 Comments 2 Favorites
I've received the most amazing envelope-collage ever, from the awesome Sam Price. Look at all the stuff going on in there!! I absolutely love it.
Incoming: Surreal Alchemy, Jean Jackson, Cracker Jack Kid
Posted by William M on September 14, 2019 at 9:18am 5 Comments 3 Favorites
A fun card of revolution from the Subreal Alchemy. I've only seen 3 or 4 from the list of films.…
Blog the sixth: A cascade from Cascadia
Posted by Mary Anne on September 14, 2019 at 8:22am 0 Comments 4 Favorites
I have had a sudden windfall - an embarrassment of riches from the Postmaster General of Cascadia - enough to warrant a whole blog though I will only post a few images, partly because I am sure most of the stamps and cards will have already been noted and partly because I would rather be away from this infernal machine and busy on more mail.
First, I will post the envelopes because I think most stamp designers (or other mail artists too I dare say) have an interest in seeing how…
ContinueSteve Random collaboration!
Posted by Adam Roussopoulos on September 14, 2019 at 1:45am 0 Comments 2 Favorites
- I came across a sheet of 4x5 negatives that I had done in college. On the sleeve I had written "Random MCAD 2002". That same day I had recieved a letter from Steve Random, and while piecing together my response i decided to include the sheet of negatives I had come across because I found it amusing that they said "random", i added a old library slip and sent it. This is the outcome. We each had it twice and I am thrilled with the results. The pics are kinda crappy, bit negatives suck…
I thank my art friends! Do you recognize your work in a shop window?
Posted by Ilya Semenenko-Bassin on September 14, 2019 at 12:46am 1 Comment 3 Favorites
The exhibition “Capturing the City”
Posted by Ilya Semenenko-Bassin on September 14, 2019 at 12:43am 3 Comments 2 Favorites
The exhibition “Capturing the City” at the Museum of Moscow has opened (curators Alina Saprykina, Evgenia Kikodze and Alina Fedorovich; address - 2 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow). At this exhibition, I am one of eight exhibiting collectors. I show mail art from the USA, Russia, Italy, France, Japan, Brazil and other countries.
I have not been to the exhibition yet, while I am posting photographs of …
ContinueSharon Silverman's 50 MAILART BOOKS project -- WOW
Posted by Nancy Bell Scott on September 13, 2019 at 7:53pm 1 Comment 4 Favorites
Above and beyond "documentation"! This is a jaw-dropping gift.
Sharon's project is here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/50-mailart-books. She is working on what she calls a "small library" of mailart books, and she pairs each of the 10 pieces you send her with a work of her own.…
ContinueNew trend- Book Markers!
Posted by Heide Monster on September 13, 2019 at 7:13pm 0 Comments 1 Favorite
Recently several book marks have arrived here at the Monster Atelier. I can ( and do) mark my place in a book with all sorts of flat items, tho' ATCs get lost. But these are deluxe, fully designed working book markers, even with tails. Both Norma Soulet and Mail Art Martha clearly marked them with their usage.…
The Artistamp Review #1
Posted by Heide Monster on September 13, 2019 at 2:43pm 2 Comments 3 Favorites
Adam Roussopoulos created a most excellent inaugural issue of his artistamp review, with promises (threats?) for the next in 2020. I especially liked the bonus pocket in the back.
He also sent a "pop-up" piece of folding art landscape. Very cool.…
ContinueI received mail art of Murakami Kazunori from Japan
Posted by Sabela Baña on September 13, 2019 at 2:22pm 0 Comments 1 Favorite
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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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mail art call "Maria"
January 29, 2019 to January 28, 2020 – Offene BehindertenArbeit
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Mail Call for Bookmarks & Tags!!
March 16, 2019 at 6pm to March 12, 2020 at 7pm – Worldwide
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies OPEN ART CALL
March 17, 2019 at 6pm to February 29, 2020 at 7pm – Canada
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6° EVENTO DE ARTE CORREO EN EL MAC
April 19, 2019 at 6pm to September 30, 2019 at 7pm – MUSEO DE ARTE CAÑADENSE - Cañada de Gómez/Argentina
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PEACE
May 18, 2019 at 6pm to May 17, 2020 at 7pm – Urbandale, IA
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"The Artistamp Revue" issue 2 at Chaska, Minnesota
September 9, 2019 at 6pm to January 1, 2020 at 7pm
Deadline for issue 2 will be Jan. 1st 2020The theme will be "Take a Stance" whatever you derive from that statement will be accepted!No more than 2 sheets of stamps from each artist. As many individual stamps as you like are fine (I can scan them…See More
"oops, *Subreal, not Surreal. name-massacre, sorries!"
"res, I envy you your new discovery of Grapefruit. It has been on my shelf since nineteen hundred and god knows when. I would very much like to read it again as if for the first time. Both it and R D Lang were constant companions…"
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"Je vous suis très reconnaissant pour votre art.
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"Hello!
I am very glad to see you in the space of art.I got your art.So awesome!I myself have never thought of such a thing.I will send you my collage. I am very grateful to you.
Ilya"
"I am very grateful to you for your artiststamps.
So awesome!
Strictly speaking, I am not a collector, but I use materials sent to me, in collages. I carefully paste your stamps on my collages, they will become part of the new art. Dear Bradford,…"
"Thank you for the sheets of ADD&PASS! Hurrah."
"i'm not sure what's more impressive the collage or that it looks like it all stayed intact in the mail."
"thanks for your comments res! i didn't know that about yoko ono. i'll probably not look at flies in the same way. i've been reading her book "grapefruit" off and on the last couple of months."
50 MAILART BOOKS at This is an interactive event - All participating Artists receive a book
May 28, 2019 at 6pm to January 28, 2020 at 7pm
I am inviting MailArtists to send me 10 original pieces of work. Any theme. Artwork must be no larger than 8.5 x 11 inches. I will scan your artwork and combine it with 10 pieces of my work and create a one of a kind MailArt Book for each of us. I…See More
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Received Mail from Sam Price
I've received the most amazing envelope-collage ever, from the awesome Sam Price. Look at all the stuff going on in there!!…See More
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AML? Is it still extant...?
Started by S. A. Walker in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Mary Anne yesterday. 11 Replies 0 Favorites
The last time I was a member of IUOMA, I was still involved with mailart thru the AML List (Artists' Mailing List?). We sent "anniversary" stamps to one another, I recall. The last one I made was for the 10th anniversary in 2009. Does this list…Continue
What’s your favorite kind of mail-art?
Started by Cherub Ayers in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Carolyn Cline Sep 8. 9 Replies 2 Favorites
Hello, what are your favorite types of mail art to receive? What is your leave favorite kind?Continue
Oh, dear. Have I maybe overdone the grimdark on this one piece?
Started by Vel Crowe in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Pam McVay Sep 4. 3 Replies 0 Favorites
Early this afternoon our friend Lamar came to visit, and i showed him a few of my recent postcards that i was about to go drop in the mailbox He said they were cool lookin'.... Then he came to a certain one that i was actually proud how it came out…Continue
MOOP:JOURNALS
Started by Jennifer Wallace in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Mary Anne Sep 3. 1 Reply 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
Mail Artists Addresses?
Started by Litsa Spathi / NOBODY in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Kevin Geronimo Brandtner Sep 3. 524 Replies 51 Favorites
I think, it would be very imteresting to have a mailing list of all of us.
Carl T. Chew - RCBz - Reid Wood, IDENTITY OF ARTIST / Marginal Active Resistances Two
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Aug 22. 0 Replies 1 Favorite
Pavilion Lautania Virtual Valley / Spazio Ophen Virtual Art MuseumCarl T. Chew - RCBz - Reid WoodIDENTITY OF ARTIST / Marginal Active Resistances TwoTre proposte internazionali indipendenti con un testo di Sandro Bongiani presentate in…Continue
Tags: Spazio, Contemporanea, Arte, Ophen, Virtual
Italy /Convocazione Internazionale di Arte Postale “ Omaggio a Fausto Paci - Ambasciatore Cavelliniano"
Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Bassin Jul 19. 1 Reply 4 Favorites
Convocazione Internazionale di Arte Postale “ Omaggio a Fausto Paci - Ambasciatore Cavelliniano in occasione del suo 95° compleanno…Continue
I'm back!
Started by Tammy Riggins in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Tiny Whisk Jul 19. 1 Reply 1 Favorite
Hello everyone!I'm new but not new. Took a long break from mail art and ready to get started again. If you want to exchange I'll be glad to do so. I'm not so much into themes and addons; I just like to see what surprises show up in my mailbox. Will…Continue
Outgoing envelope pics
Started by Samantha Price in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Samantha Price Jul 2. 7 Replies 3 Favorites
To all who post their outgoing mail art, specifically addressed envelopes, i invite u 2 be mindful & consider waiting 2 post ur pics until its received buy the recipient. iv’e seen a few pieces 4 me this past week alone & honestly, it really…Continue
thanks for your participation
Started by Hikmet Şahin in Mail-Art Projects May 20. 0 Replies 0 Favorites
Po-Mo participation period has expired. Thank you for your participation. We can't post all the posts here because we received heavy mail. Please visit for all incoming mail:…Continue
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