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Posted by Amber Scribble on August 13, 2025 at 9:25pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
I’m building a town that doesn’t exist—but its records do.
🕯️ Thistlegrave, est. 1812:
Business registries with revoked licenses.
Civil records are full of contradictions.
Clerk’s addenda that should’ve been redacted.
I’m turning it all into mail art: aged ledgers, town memos, fake ordinances, and suspicious correspondence. If you love fictional towns, bureaucratic oddities, and paper that feels like…
From Lutz Anders
Posted by Oberdada Jr. on August 13, 2025 at 9:03pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
These stamps of linocuts came with a letter earlier this summer. I suppose the idea is to put the stamps on letters and pass them on.
I myself have printed original linocuts directly on a bunch of envelopes, or as much of them as fits on the…
Ready to send 13.08.25.
Posted by MUSEUM OF MAIL ART on August 13, 2025 at 10:40am 0 Comments 3 Likes
Junkless
Posted by Julian Foster on August 13, 2025 at 10:23am 0 Comments 3 Likes
Always a joy to have in the mailbox, cheers Richard
a second card flew in from David Stafford, Thank You your art is way cool amigo
Posted by Medwolf on August 12, 2025 at 11:47pm 1 Comment 4 Likes
Received from Honoria Starbuck (Texas, USA)
Posted by awyn on August 12, 2025 at 3:32pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
card from Dr Zack just flew in my window Thank You
Posted by Medwolf on August 11, 2025 at 11:00pm 2 Comments 3 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. 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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Rereadings of Verne’s Journey Open Call + Exhibition in Portugal
March 12, 2025 at 6pm to September 30, 2025 at 7pm – Está Bem, Portugal
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"I just learned that Marcia Resnick passed away on 25 JUNE 2025. Details about her life and work are available at this Wiki link:
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I’m building a town that doesn’t exist—but its records do.🕯️ Thistlegrave, est. 1812:Business registries with revoked licenses.Civil records are full of contradictions.Clerk’s addenda that should’ve been redacted.I’m turning it all into mail art:…See More
From Lutz Anders
These stamps of linocuts came with a letter earlier this summer. I suppose the idea is to put the stamps on letters and pass them on.…See More
"Excellent! SAVE the POST came from Ruggero Maggi to Athens, too,
in English :-)"
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Problem receiving email notifications 2 Replies
Hello,I subscribe to all email notifications, but I'm not receiving most of them. I just get notifications once in a while for group invites. Yesterday I received a friend request, and the notification didn't arrive in may email inbox. They are not…Continue
Started by Eduardo Cardoso in PROBLEMS. Last reply by Zorica Obradović on Monday.
Mailing photos to IUOMA for posting
Hello all, I have been trying to mail photos to the address given for this network, but I'm not understanding how they will arrive. Will they go to my inbox? Will they automagically post in my photos? Will they show up somewhere else?LorreContinue
Started by Lorre Smith in PROBLEMS on Monday.
Starting Mail Art 27 Replies
So I just joined but I really don;t know how to start or what is acceptable to mail. I have artwork that I would like to send on 6x6 and 8x8 canvas boards but where can I go so send my artwork? Do I send to strangers, friends, family, etc? Please…Continue
Started by Bruno Andrews in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by James Chester Aug 5.
***HELP FROM FRIENDS *** 12 Replies
Does anyone know for sure what the term "library manuscript" means? maybe a photo of it?,*** believe it or not, I can't find it on the Internet. (And my encyclopedias are not in the same place that I am.)can inbox so we don't get bored.. .I need it…Continue
Started by Zorica Obradović in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Zorica Obradović Aug 2.
Whose mail is this? 5 Replies
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. Last reply by Tomoe N Jul 29.
Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 56 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 Francis Lammé Jul 24.
Sensations of Tone by Hermann von Helmholtz 1 Reply
Has anyone read The Sensations of Tone by Hermann von Helmholtz?? I got a copy of the Dover edition for my birthday; I haven't read it yet, but I am thinking about making some art about it.Continue
Started by Asterion in Other. Last reply by Oberdada Jr. Jul 16.
Museum for Fotocopy: 40 years Unruly Publishing 1 Reply
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. Last reply by Stephen Tomasko Jul 16.
NEW MAIL ART CALL 1 Reply
Started by Peter Abajkovics in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Stephen Tomasko Jul 16.
Brain Cell - Ryosuke Cohen 208 Replies
What are your thoughts about this project? Would be interesting to know what you think. Do you participate. Since when, How much times. Do you know the concept? Will also try to publish a few samples here (or others can help me with that)
Tags: Mail-Art, Project, Cell, Brain, Cohen
Started by Ruud Janssen in Mail-Art Magazines and Publications. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Jun 26.
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