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Amy Irwen's Mini Art Quilt

Hmmm... There's a theme here between the wash tape on Amy's envelope and her fabulous quilted piece inside. I had to double check my calendar to make sure it wasn't time for Halloween greetings!

But, no... the motif of bones and skulls were a pervasive theme in a historical context. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were full of recurrent…

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Added by Thom Courcelle on August 6, 2016 at 1:08am — 3 Comments

Mail Art Call: What Is Participatory Democracy?

Mail Art Call: What Is Participatory Democracy?
Organized by Jim Leftwich and Warren Fry
in conjunction with Community High School
What Is Participatory Democracy? In Roanoke, it has taken the forms of shadow school activities, collab fests, anti business-lounge meetings, Philosophy Inc projects and walking tours, micro-histories, salons, mail art exhibits, PROject proJECT events, Art Rat gatherings, festivals, house shows, micropress publishing, network…
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Added by jim leftwich on August 5, 2016 at 8:29pm — 6 Comments

tummy control from MarsTokyo

Added by Jay Block on August 5, 2016 at 5:22pm — No Comments

Magic hand from Homeward Bound

Added by Jay Block on August 5, 2016 at 5:21pm — No Comments

defeats and victories... from DS Aponte

Added by Jay Block on August 5, 2016 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Richard Canard: Double Land O Lakes

A double take on the double Land O Lakes.  It's suppose to be…

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Added by Dean aka Artist in Seine on August 5, 2016 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

Henry Miller Stamps by Henry Denander (Stockholm, Sweden via Hydra, Greece)

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Mail art by IUOMA member Henry Denander (Stockholm, Sweden)

August 5, 2016 - Henry Denander is a network legend often associated with Sweden, but he sent me these stamps from Greece in June of 2016. While Henry Miller is…

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Added by De Villo Sloan on August 5, 2016 at 1:45pm — No Comments

Mars Tokyo's Hats

Back to the 60's with the hats from Mars! And wonderful postage stamps--especially love the Bobby Kennedy stamp. Thanks Mars!

Added by Toni Hanner -- tonipoet on August 5, 2016 at 5:03am — No Comments

Aine Holder's Spectacular Mail Art packages

Aine Holder actually send me two envelopes full of mail art this week. The envelope above, wonderful hand-drawn and colored jellyfish scene, contained a ton of different sticky notes. The rest of the art pictured came in the envelope pictured below, the one covered with dragonflies. The circle on top right is from Aine's "Circle of Friends" --on the back it a bunch of great…

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Added by Toni Hanner -- tonipoet on August 5, 2016 at 4:56am — No Comments

Blog Jam--Lynne Gurnee, William, and Mercedes La Marquesa

I've gotten so much fabulous Mail Art recently. Big card on the left is from Lynne Gurnee, Just lovely images. ATC from William is top right, and Beautiful card from Mercedes La Marquesa bottom right. This is my first piece from La Marquesa and I really appreciate it. Thanks…

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Added by Toni Hanner -- tonipoet on August 5, 2016 at 4:48am — 2 Comments

Jokie X Wilson: One of Sixteen

A drawing embellished with watercolour then cut up into sixteen pieces.  That would be blocks of four by four.  I got a side piece.  So if you received one of the sixteen, let us know so we can at least electronically put it back together again.  Like Humpty Dumpty !

Thank you muchty Jokie.  It reminds me of the song; "She was only…

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Added by Dean aka Artist in Seine on August 4, 2016 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Cascadia ArtPost sends American Values

consuming...

self-centerness...

high-tech...

but mostly CONSUMING! Look at all these stickers/tags on a…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 4, 2016 at 9:20am — 2 Comments

Mail Art from J.A.D.

Stampings with a splash cool mountain,

thanks for the postcard!

Make mail art/ no hacking :-)

Celebrate/Create "Forever"…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 4, 2016 at 9:18am — No Comments

Asemic Vispo by Jason Motsch (Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, USA)

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Mail art by IUOMA member Jason Motsch (Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, USA)

August 3, 2016 - Thanks to the Eternal Network, I have seen Jason Motsch’s visual poetry and asemic writing evolve from…

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Added by De Villo Sloan on August 4, 2016 at 1:59am — No Comments

Creatures, and forwarded mail art

I admired this piece by JAD when Thomas received it and blogged it.

 


He very kindly sent it on to me, in this fun envelope.…

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Added by FinnBadger on August 3, 2016 at 8:42pm — 1 Comment

July 2016

Mailart for the short comedy "Who is Eduardo Munez?" is looking great. Thanks to all the mailartists who sent in their work. We are all looking forward to the first screening.

Added by Jane Noakes on August 3, 2016 at 7:30pm — No Comments

J.A.D. : Otor Oil

Simple and well balanced.  How can he pull it off so well.

Thank you J.A.D., you got the eye.

Added by Dean aka Artist in Seine on August 3, 2016 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Thom C. improves world, provides balm to artist's soul

(Luckiest Gnome in Minneapolis gets Mail art from Thom C.)

Hi, this is the luckiest Gnome in Minneapolis reporting live from St. Paul, MN.  I just received the most supportive, warmest, most politically aligned and world-improving art mail from Thom.  Through it he addresses some of…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on August 2, 2016 at 6:00pm — 7 Comments

Card by Erica Durante (Waldwick, New Jersey, USA)

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Mail art by IUOMA member Erica Durante (Waldwick, New Jersey, USA)

August 2, 2016 - Erica Durante has developed a great system for mail art creation and distribution with her use of uniformly sized cards. The uniformity aspect…

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Added by De Villo Sloan on August 2, 2016 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Katerina Nikoltsou: TWO

The yellow sunset, the boat on the float, the seagulls…

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Added by Dean aka Artist in Seine on August 2, 2016 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

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