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Mail art from Trent Harris Thank You my first from Utah
Posted by Medwolf on August 21, 2025 at 9:03pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
mail art and poetry from my old and dear friend C. Mehrl Bennett Thank You
Posted by Medwolf on August 21, 2025 at 8:46pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
This arrived today from Eduardo Cardoso but unsure who this is
Posted by Medwolf on August 21, 2025 at 8:05pm 1 Comment 1 Like
i received Mail Art from Jason Bartlett
Posted by Zack on August 21, 2025 at 11:54am 0 Comments 2 Likes
wow - a cornucopia of mail art omens! this is just a select sampling of the enclosures -
yes, let's save the bees and the bears. thanks for all this (i find the baguette-suitor tres amusing). it's especially coinci-providential to have that membership card, as it's highly likely i'll be using traffic cones in my next theater piece (ha…
Continuei received Mail Art from MomKat
Posted by Zack on August 21, 2025 at 11:45am 1 Comment 3 Likes
(these were mailed and received long before greek mail art break)
cool images like these have helped me cope with the extreme heat; hope things aren't too hot in Athens!
i received Mail Art from Aude Perrigault
Posted by Zack on August 21, 2025 at 11:41am 0 Comments 0 Likes
it all started with a simple postage stamp...
C. Z. Lovecraft 250819
Posted by Mikel Untzilla on August 20, 2025 at 9:59pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Ryosuke Cohen 250815-2 (Brain Cell 1249)
Posted by Mikel Untzilla on August 20, 2025 at 9:54pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Received Mail Art by Rittiner & Gomez from Switzerland
Posted by MH//ANTIPODE on August 20, 2025 at 7:27pm 0 Comments 2 Likes
Received from Coco Muchmore—Great Encourager and Champion of the Power of Mail Art
Posted by Thom Courcelle on August 20, 2025 at 7:06pm 0 Comments 3 Likes
Coco is a great creatrix of the Artistamp form. Here, she muses on "The Fate of Kings" ...and well, gee... it doesn't seem to end too well for too many of them, does it??! Perhaps a helpful notation for those with monarchic-totalitarian aspirations of power and who wish to be kings themselves in our modern era. SOUNDS CRAZY, I KNOW.... WHO…
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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.
Events
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Kindness Mail Art Call
January 1, 2025 at 6pm to September 25, 2025 at 7pm – Gualala Arts
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MURMURATION Mail-Art Project
January 24, 2025 at 6pm to January 24, 2026 at 7pm – France
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Black Friday is a Joke
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Digestions
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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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"ooo, wonderful art.
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"Yes, Bradford - a much missed interesting fellow. He was good at witty one liners. Pretty good at the two liners also!"
"We recived uor FIRST MAIL ART from Mikel Untzilla.
Thanks a lot Mikel!! We are specially happpy!.
Gracias compi!!!!"
"Season's Greetings with Sarah Bodman"
"Things are HOT in Athens, heading up to 40oC these days...but with promises of storms, hail and rain to cool off by Sunday, maybe? Stay "cool" and I am making with cool-BLUE :-) thanks for the blog!"
"Your great mail has found my mailbox, hope mine has arrived as well, dear Maggie! Ευχαριστώ πολύ !"
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Mark Pawson - Mail Art S…
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ThE/ CuT-UP/ TecHNiQUE/
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TREES
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Self Portraits
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BRAIN CELL - RYOSUKE COH…
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Spammers Mail-Art
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Ask Anything
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Mail Art Archives
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ADD & PASS - The X Files
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Mail-Art History
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RAK's (Random acts of Ki…
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Richard C. Fan Club
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ArtiStamps Creators
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Show us your Artspace!!!
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Rubber Stamps
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Mail-Art Cafe
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Sponsor Group IUOMA
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Mail-Art Books
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Forum
Problem receiving email notifications 3 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 Bradford yesterday.
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 Aug 11.
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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