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Out to Seattle---

Posted by Coco Muchmore on December 5, 2024 at 9:45pm 1 Comment

Three mail art postcards arrived in Athens

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 5, 2024 at 9:29am 0 Comments

From Mike Parsons comes the first Holiday Greeting!

And a beautiful art card came from Patricia Landon in Florida,

Stephanie Q. in Belgium sent a clever "Trum_pet" postcard:…

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From NonLocal Variable

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 5, 2024 at 9:27am 0 Comments

Mail Art goodies arrived from Duane on 3 Dec.,

thanks for all the "mail art omens" but i am downsizing my mail art archives,

boxes, bags, etc. and no longer need any more!

I will however…

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Lutz Anders 241202

Posted by Mikel Untzilla on December 5, 2024 at 7:30am 0 Comments

Silvia Dubois 2401202

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C. Z. Lovecraft 241202

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Jean-Philippe Gilliot 241201

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Interesting interaction

Posted by Predrag Petrovic on December 4, 2024 at 7:02pm 2 Comments

Hello everybody!

Just a few words about our mutual Postal Art pal, Juan Petry. He organized a fine way to improve our actions and sending through mysterious ways of International Postal system.

See basic details here, then message him if interested, and you will be amazed by it.

Funny, and interesting, and will improve our knowledge about Postal system as it is.

Counting the days, see the…

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who is VICTOR postmark : providence RI. USA

Posted by dustincecil on December 4, 2024 at 2:57pm 0 Comments

i got a card yesterday from Victor.  with a request for more add and pass sheets...

but no return address... :(

can anyone help?

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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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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 on Friday.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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