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A Group for all that love and make artistamps. Stories, concepts, special issues, All there is to know

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An artistamp (a portmanteau of the words "artist" and "stamp") or artist's stamp refers to a postage stamp-like artform. It is similar to a Cinderella stamp in that it is not valid for postage, but it differs from a forgery or a bogus stamp in that (typically) the creator has no intent to fool any post office or collector of stamps. (However, depending on how the stamp is used, it may be difficult to distinguish artistamps from local post stamps.) The artistamp is intended to be a miniature artwork which can depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses.

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Found some great scissors for cutting stamp edges! 10 Replies

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Help for How to Create Stamps 25 Replies

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love all those invented stamps !!!

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"To perforate or not to perforate? That is the question" 11 Replies

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Newbie to Mail Art 5 Replies

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Comment by Theo Nelson on October 6, 2011 at 1:55pm
Good one, Konstantin.
Comment by Konstantin Kalendaroff on October 6, 2011 at 1:31pm
iEND
Comment by ginny lloyd on September 11, 2011 at 4:01pm
The following artists, books, and catalogs have been inducted into the Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum:
Book - The Book of Stamps - Cabinet Books - 2008
Buz Blurr (3 more) - Arkansas, USA - 2011
Reed Altemus (2 more) - Maine, USA - 2011
Rod Summers (1 more) - The Netherlands - 2011
Lubomyr Tymkiv - UKRAINE - 2011
Miguel Jimenez (2 more) - SPAIN - 2011
Patrick T - California, USA - 2011
Cascadia Post (1 more) - Washington, USA - 2011
Jose Roberto Sechi (2) - BRAZIL - 2011
Shuji Terayama (4) - JAPAN - 1981
Otto David Sherman (41 more) - New York, USA - 200...
T.H.E. Hill (5) - Indiana, USA - 2011
Paintings - EF Higgins III (4) - New York, USA - 1...
Book - Richard SIne - 2001
Artistampzine #20 (17 more) - Picasso Gaglione - I...
John Rininger - Illinois, USA - ND
Michel Della Vedova (24) - FRANCE - ND
Mark Bloch (3 more) - New York, USA - 1996 to 2011...
Posters - Carl Chew (1 more) - Washington, USA - 2...
Lutz Wohlrab (3) - GERMANY - 2011
Poster - Mike Bidner - CANADA - 1984
Mail Art Olympix Catalog - CANADA - 2009 to 2010
USPS - JAZZ Stamps - USA - 2011
Ed Varney (3) - CANADA - 2010
Carl Chew (1 more) - Washington, USA - 2011
Robert Watts - Pennsylvania, USA - 196?

Plus a new interview in the Pages section has been added.
Comment by s. wurlitzer on August 20, 2011 at 8:00pm

elle -- the great part about artists, though, is that they always find something with which to express themselves.  

Carla -- hadn't heard that about BART tickets!  Maybe another sheet of stamps coming up!

Comment by Carla Cryptic on August 19, 2011 at 5:37pm
Love the hahahahahaha's Ruud. :D And Mike, Capt. Biology is cool as well!

Miguel - how many sheets have I sent in so far?
Comment by Carla Cryptic on August 19, 2011 at 5:36pm
Ah, yes, and even BART paper tickets are going to disappear at the end of September. Sigh.
Comment by elle.mental on August 19, 2011 at 2:35pm
I think your stamps are a great way to memorialize and archive the end of the paper pass. ~So much ephemera been eliminated in this "virtual" world...what will collagists and collectors of the future have to work with?
Comment by s. wurlitzer on August 19, 2011 at 7:42am

San Francisco's public transportation system (MUNI) eliminated paper bus passes earlier this year.  I made these stamps featuring vintage passes from the 70s and 80s as a way to say goodbye.  

 

Comment by Ruud Janssen on August 19, 2011 at 7:15am
(original by Ray Johnson)
Comment by El Taller de Zenon on August 18, 2011 at 7:20pm
FRIENDS ARTISTAMPS CREATORS
REMINDER:

http://artistampstz.blogspot.com/

At birth, stamps live all together in a sheet and they come away from it when they become adults...Create one or more than one stamps sheet. Any theme, any medium.The "Taller de Zenon" will send you some of his own sheets recently done and all the received stamps sheets will be exhibited in this blog. Size: A4 or A5. Any medium. Deadline:
*THE DATE LIMIT IS ENLARGED UNTIL DRAINING THE EDITIONS
Any theme (See some suggestions)

Send to:
Miguel Jimenez - El Taller de Zenón
C/ Santa Maria de Guia 1 - 4C
ES-41008 Sevilla, España

Suggestions:
Eroticism always had been one of the motors of human being ¿Is it still a motor at the present time? ¿Was it affected by the actual global crisis? Consider the option to work about eroticism as a theme in all the possible ways, the requiered size is suitable to develop it, and it will be interesting to prove how the actual crisis is affecting eroticism in connection with Postal Art.
 

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