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Mail art from Richard Baudet

Posted by Rachel Carter on June 21, 2025 at 1:12am 0 Comments

Everything is so beautiful. I wish i had the focus to learn to letter like that.  Thank you so…

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Mail Art from Garrett Buss

Posted by Rachel Carter on June 21, 2025 at 1:04am 0 Comments

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Mail art from SHMUEL

Posted by Rachel Carter on June 21, 2025 at 1:00am 0 Comments

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mail from Circulaire 132 RF Cote.. large envelope

Posted by Medwolf on June 20, 2025 at 9:30pm 0 Comments

please no more add & pass on mail art lol  

Danielle James 250618

Posted by Mikel Untzilla on June 20, 2025 at 7:36pm 0 Comments

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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.  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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I just reached the limit 5 Replies

Today i received a message``You have reached the maximum limit of 100 outstanding friend requests across your Ning Networks``   So, if I am having 100 friends and ``friends`` and I reached the limit, can I remove some who are not active, and then…Continue

Started by Predrag Petrovic in PROBLEMS. Last reply by Ruud Janssen yesterday.

Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 53 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 Tomoe N Jun 15.

Whose mail is this?

To mail artists I want to return a mail to this person (I think I asked before but I forgot) but I don’t know who. Can anyone tell me whose mail is this?…Continue

Started by Tomoe N in Mail-Art Information Jun 15.

POSTYOURART: Mail Art Workshop & Showcase - APPALACHIAN CREATIVE FRONT 7 Replies

Appalachian Creative Front is hosting POST YOUR ART mail art workshop, and benefit for postal worker unions. The event…Continue

Tags: workshop, show, events, event

Started by James Kellis in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by James Kellis Jun 10.

My Offer : Lots of My Mail Art for You - REQUEST : Donation to IUOMA ! 1 Reply

Hello dear fellow IUOMA members,In short, I would like to monetarily support IUOMA but currently I cannot. So, I thought of this idea that I send you lots of my mail art, mostly made with my hand-carved stamps prints, and in return, you just donate…Continue

Started by Kiki in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kiki Jun 8.

SANDRO BONGIANI CONTEMPORARY ART / INVITATION:

SANDRO BONGIANI CONTEMPORARY ARTINVITATION:As for several years we have been preparing the collective exhibition that will…Continue

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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects May 30.

Museum for Fotocopy: 40 years Unruly Publishing

Dear Community,we are new here but actually 40 years in the business of Copyart. Located in Mülheim an der Ruhr the collection of Klaus Urbons celebrates its 40th birthday this year under the topic "Unruly Publishing". We would be happy to welcome…Continue

Started by Museum für Fotokopie in Mail-Art Projects Apr 23.

New Mail Art Call in Portugal 3 Replies

The Cultural and Ecological Association Palettentheater Kollektiv invites mail artists to send contemporary, personal takes on Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Centre of the Earth” till the 31st of May. The exhibition is taking place at our…Continue

Started by Palettentheater Kollektiv in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Apr 13.

Asheville artist organizer- mail art casual, looking to get more involved 17 Replies

I've dabbled and have been a long time admirer of mail art. I'd like to get more involved, I have all kinds of art to mail.I'm also looking for people in the WNC region, I'm organizing an event that involves mail art and I'd love to get people…Continue

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Started by James Kellis in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson Apr 8.

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hi michael, a self made mail art came back because I didn't use a correct address? please send me the right one ! thanksfrancisContinue

Started by francis van rossem in Other Apr 8.

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