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Posted by Oberdada Jr. on December 15, 2025 at 6:11pm 0 Comments

Outgoing to someone in Oregon. (Detail)

Kreiseln: documentation well received

Posted by Oberdada Jr. on December 15, 2025 at 5:32pm 0 Comments

I too use to hang prints on a clothes line like that on my exhibitions.

Thanks for the catalogue!

The Year in Postage

Posted by jon foster on December 15, 2025 at 3:40pm 3 Comments

MAD.ANYFREE.ORG - a new challenge - your choice

Posted by Juan Petry on December 15, 2025 at 1:07pm 0 Comments

Christmas is just around the corner. The year 2025 is almost over. In the coming weeks, I will be sending out more than 200 mail art pieces from the small town of Harzgerode and the surrounding area in Germany. With postage costs of €1.25, this is no easy feat for a contemporary artist. I'm sending them to friends in the network, selected members,…

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Mail Art Delivery: one from the Bennetts

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 15, 2025 at 7:04am 0 Comments

The postman actually delivered mail !Just Ask a Cow!

And here are fantastic mail art cards, VisPo, Cow creations, by John and Cathy Bennett.

so enjoying all that arrived in Athens!

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The Rubber Postcard 80

Posted by William M on December 15, 2025 at 3:51am 0 Comments

thanks to everyone who sent work!…



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Big thank you to Leslie Levenson in USA

Posted by Kiki on December 15, 2025 at 3:25am 0 Comments

Mail art from Leslie including the collaborative one-page zine with Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Russia 🙂 Sorry - sideways...

Thank you, Richard!

Posted by Ágnes Gréta Erdélyi on December 14, 2025 at 7:35pm 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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The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, or My Ignorance and Ignorance?!? 3 Replies

The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, or My Ignorance and Ignorance?!?I drew a drawing on cardboard with this pencil. When I laminated, the drawing disappeared. An empty cardboard remained. On the second postcard, I just wrote the address with this pen,…Continue

Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Oberdada Jr. 4 hours ago.

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News from Moscow: Mail Art to The Garage Museum 1 Reply

In 2019, I wrote on the IUOMA portal:“If you want to get rid of excess postal art, you can donate your collection of postal art to the Museum of Moscow. With my participation in the Museum of Moscow, an archive of postal art for art historians and…Continue

Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Leslie Levenson Dec 9.

ADDRESS WRITTEN IN RED 30 Replies

are there any volunteers for the research?a few days ago they didn't want to receive my envelope at the post office.The reason was the ADDRESS WRITTEN IN RED.They say that any color can be used except red.Red is supposedly for controllers.If anyone…Continue

Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Dec 1.

ANyone Interested 3 Replies

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Started by Amber Scribble in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Juan Petry Nov 19.

Mail art envelope orientation query 5 Replies

Hey mail art friends, is it correct that if I want to send a mail art envelope with the envelope design and its address info oriented to portrait style vs landscape style, it costs extra postage?Continue

Started by Melanie Reed in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson Nov 6.

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if anyone happens to think that this is not visual poetry ~ we are not of the same mind.but we remain friends...😊❗Continue

Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Oct 31.

Literature about mail, post, postman, etc. 27 Replies

This book came to me, with the content written on stamps (Shaun Tan: Tales from Outer Suburbia).Do you know (illustrated) (children) books about: mailpostpostmanstampsetc.?No matter what the language is.Thank you!…Continue

Started by Szabó Zelmira in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Szabó Zelmira Oct 21.

An Eastern European Story of Censorship and Mail Art 2 Replies

Greetings to Vladimir. An Eastern European Story of Censorship and Mail Art[Hommage à Franz Kafka]https://viragfold.net/post/796038304120324096/greetings-to-vladimirContinue

Started by Peter Abajkovics in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Szabó Zelmira Oct 20.

Carla Bertola Anthology Exhibition: "Interferences and Interweavings Between Words and Images"

Press release BONGIANI ART MUSEUM COLLECTION Carla Bertola Retrospective Exhibition "Interferences and Interweavings…Continue

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