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Incoming: postcard mail art from Ty Hannigan
Posted by Jean Vengua on January 22, 2025 at 3:53am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Thanks for the cool art in desert colors!
Incoming mail art from Zorica Obradovic
Posted by Jean Vengua on January 22, 2025 at 2:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Thank you, Zorica for the beautiful mail art and pup greeting from Serbia! Glad you protected the art for its long journey to California. I'm having some technical difficulties with posting, so if the art doesn't appear, it will when I figure this out. . .…
Aladdin Seine, Karen Champlin, Carina Granlund & Thom Courcelle
Posted by David Stafford on January 21, 2025 at 10:58pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Our friend in Paris, known only as Aladdin Seine, has painted his masterpiece. It arrived today. What may not be clear from the photo is that the white cottony mittens contain human fingers replicated in modern age plastic. Beneath the mitten is a neatly dissected Kleenex box that creates the powerful illusion of a dog resting his…
ContinueDiana Hale wins the Artistamp Creativity Award AGAIN!
Posted by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 7:24pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Always a simple envelope...WITH A REALLY AMAZING PRIZE INSIDE!
Diana Hale proves herself to be a master artistamper...I bow before her creativity:
34? THIRTY-FOUR?? What on earth could that be in reference to??!
A closer look might give you a hint:…
ContinueTeal-colored Mail Art from Mikel Untizilla (Celebrating Anna Banana)
Posted by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 6:05pm 1 Comment 2 Likes
Mikel must have gotten a new stamping pad...and I have to say that I LIKE the new color A LOT!!!
Teal is the color of the day, and used in conjunction with Mikel's amazing carved stamping, makes for some amazing mail art fodder...…
ContinueLife is a Blur — The Light-Trick Photography of Rebecca Resinski
Posted by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 5:49pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Rebecca Sent me a terrific envelope of mailart that included some of her experimental photography and a lovely little visual poetry accordion boekie:
If that photo looks a bit blurry, it's because that's the "look" Rebecca was going for when she took a camera shot of some forested woods on a morning walk. She had to "trick" her camera into…
ContinueHoliday Greetings and More from Katerina Nikoltsou in Greece
Posted by Thom Courcelle on January 21, 2025 at 5:36pm 0 Comments 1 Like
A long-over-due posting of some Greek mailart greetings that included Holiday well-wishes and celebratory New Year's cupcakes...from Katerina Nikoltsou!
I think I first learned what this year's totem Chinese animal for the year was going to be—the snake!—from Katerina's mailart... I should know these things, but at least Kat will…
ContinueIncoming: Cascadia Artpost, Zack, and Ficu Strangulensis
Posted by William M on January 21, 2025 at 4:43pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Nice to have mail from Jack again. Scarily accurate I'm afraid.
Love this card from Zack. I think it's meant as a late christmas card. But can also be thought of as a forest (makes me think of that Ursula Le Guin…
Who? Who? Who?
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 21, 2025 at 2:05pm 1 Comment 2 Likes
Who has a birthday today? 21 Jan 2025? HELEEN!
That friendly owl came in a box full of goodies cat, owls, cows, punches, rubber stamp...
from Heleen in the Netherlands, today...it arrived in…
ContinuePredrag Petrović Kragujevac SERBIA thank you
Posted by Zorica Obradović on January 21, 2025 at 1:12pm 0 Comments 4 Likes
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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........
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Mail Artists Addresses? 575 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 Kiyasu Oka 18 hours ago.
Mail Project 3 Replies
Hi everyone!I’m doing an art project for school including mail artists work from all around the world to showcase the variety that can come in! If you are interested in being involved here is my address!Caleigh Clements340 High Park Avenue,…Continue
Started by Caleigh in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Juan Petry yesterday.
Collage postcard from M. Stephens~ thank you!
Started by Melissa Gill in Mail-Art Projects Jan 15.
more about writing and addressing
Here s the little article about the ways of writing the numbers, i guess it would be interesting to read. Too many cards and letters are lost and missent or misdirected just because of that…Continue
Started by Predrag Petrovic in Mail-Art Projects Dec 29, 2024.
The Crying of Lot 49? 7 Replies
Have any of you read The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon? I've recently read it, and have been creating a sizeable amount of art based on it. It is very related to mail, specifically unofficial mail carrier organizations within the US. A good…Continue
Started by Liam Coerr in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Denice Newton Dec 29, 2024.
DeepDream [online image transmogrification] 19 Replies
DeepDream! Wow! This is an online, image manipulation service which takes your file input and changes it according to arcan rules [???] apparently using imagery it finds online. So far it seems to add a lot of faces and eyes but I imagine it will…Continue
Started by Ficus strangulensis in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ficus strangulensis Dec 23, 2024.
a knuckle-dragging neanderthal of a newb, is nonplussed 12 Replies
NOTA BENNY, i just posted the same message as a blog post; my befuddlement knows no bounds. f this is not good etiquette here, please cut a rank beginner a break, okay? thanks a zillon!thurs 03/09/2017 15:30THIS ISN'T MEANT AS A GRIPE OR…Continue
Started by Vel Crowe in PROBLEMS. Last reply by Ficus strangulensis Dec 12, 2024.
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 Nov 29, 2024.
Harris Walz stickers 7 Replies
Started by Mars Tokyo in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Nick Canterucci Nov 20, 2024.
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, 2024.
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