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i received Mail Art from Jokie Wilson
Posted by Zack on September 19, 2024 at 3:47pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
such a faithful correspondent - i appreciate all the postcards, even if i don't always photograph/post them here. this one is "Fish...Fisherman...Fishing town", hand-colored linocut by Alaskan artist Evon Zerbetz, most likely obtained on Jokie's trip there a while ago. Quyana* Jokie!
*native Alaskan language chosen…
Continuei received Mail Art from Rani Goel
Posted by Zack on September 19, 2024 at 3:37pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
a remix of sacred bits, in the artist's own words. from the reverse side, i learned that Dewey Decimal classification 797.1 refers to Boating. just more evidence that Mail Art is indeed educational.
thanks Rani; see you in the mail…
Continuei received Mail Art from MomKat
Posted by Zack on September 19, 2024 at 3:31pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Greek Mail Art break is officially over, and Katerina is back!"Time to Vote", featuring stamps by Coco, i presume?
this arrived earlier this month; so nice to have you back in the mailbox ]:-)
Francesco Cornello 240906
Posted by Mikel Untzilla on September 18, 2024 at 10:08pm 0 Comments 4 Likes
Obscure Music call ends 31 October
Posted by nonlocal variable on September 18, 2024 at 10:07pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
i received Mail Art from Debra Mulnick
Posted by Zack on September 18, 2024 at 5:05pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
this 'Promotion Certificate' from 1939 (!) is hysterical - look closely: you'll see it's actually a diploma for completing Kindergarten. and check out the Babe stamps - we'll have to 'promote' the' Sultan of Swing' to the 'Pasha of the Piñata'. thanks Debra and hope you're having a wonderful trip; see you in the…
i received Mail Art from Lux of the Agony
Posted by Zack on September 18, 2024 at 4:56pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
nice image; i'm guessing it's AI-generated rather than handmade...?
but FYI Lux, i'm not too crazy about the proselytizing religious sentiment on the reverse; you can save on postage by taking me off your list.
i received Mail Art from Antonia Mayol Castello
Posted by Zack on September 18, 2024 at 4:45pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
thank you for these fantastic cards!
the first two are from Antonia's "Alphabet of Women-Bird" series -
'A for Amigo'
'B for Brisa'…
Continuenew mail art from canada - thanks awyn
Posted by Juan Petry on September 18, 2024 at 4:17pm 0 Comments 1 Like
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
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OPEN CALLs
sent to Helen Amyes sept24
Embassy Ukraine
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ATC REBELS
274 members
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OPEN CALLs
43 members
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Comics in mailart
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Embassy Ukraine
40 members
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minimal/conceptual
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Potato Group
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Portrait
72 members
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Dada Poetry
48 members
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Only Originals
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BANANAS
75 members
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Think Green
28 members
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Flower Mail Art
52 members
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Mailart by (with, for) k…
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caffè Italia
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Swaps
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BRAIN CELL - RYOSUKE COH…
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MANHOLE COVER LOVERS
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Eco-exile, love, grief..…
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I'm Enchanted with David
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Seasonal Mail Art
65 members
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Send mail or not send? 7 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 Ilya Semenenko-Basin yesterday.
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 on Tuesday.
Harris Walz stickers 6 Replies
Started by Mars Tokyo in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson on Sunday.
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.
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.
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