De Villo Sloan's Blog – March 2011 Archive (22)

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

March 30, 2011 - Cheryl Penn and I are working on another mail-art book project involving verbs. Her "Attack" chapter explores areas I do not often see in…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Bifidus Jones (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)

March 27, 2011 - Bifidus Jones sent this "Minimal Histories" piece, which seems like a departure from the signature overlays and complexity of images to which…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Kitty Rocket (Portland, Oregon, USA)

March 26, 2011 - When Kitty Rocket became a member of the IUOMA not long ago, she immediately started a group called "Dream Images." Much of her mail-art is based…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Sue Bowen (Norfolk, Virginia, USA)

March 26, 2011 - Sue Bowen has a real talent for collage, and I'm glad I learned about her mail-art through the IUOMA. The first piece I have received from her…

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Mail-art by IUOMA member JF CHAPELLE (Merignac, France)

March 22, 2011  - When the call was first made for participants to contribute chapters for the Project 26 collaborative mail-art book, I was thrilled when JF Chapelle…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Amazon59 (Roeland Park, Kansas, USA)

March 20, 2011 - The new Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists group that Cheryl Penn and I are hosting at the IUOMA is already providing a forum to see asemic…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Macron (Troy, Michigan, USA)

March 19, 2011 - Macron has recently been sending out this interesting style of mail-art that combines gritty urban images, postal system themes, and stylized script…

Mail-art by IUOMA member MaryAnne (York, United Kingdom)

March 17, 2011 - MaryAnne makes excellent stamps, a world unto itself in mail-art. These she sent represent some beautiful work, IMHO. Scans of some of these stamps…

Mail-art by Honoria Starbuck (Austin, Texas, USA)

March 16, 2011 - Honoria Starbuck has a fascinating place in the eternal network. For one thing, mail-art does occasionally cross over into academe. Honoria…

Mail-art by IUOMA member David Stafford (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

March 15, 2011 - David Stafford is far more than the original ATC Rebel Without A Cause (watch those sticky labels, they're hard to wash away). He has a…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Rosa Gravino (Rosario, Argentina)

March 14, 2011 - Rosa Gravino's Chapter S for the Project 26 collaborative mail-art book is a stunning piece of visual poetry. Her work is colorful and complex, often…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Gik Juri accompanying his DADAHOMEYA KIT #9 annoucement (Moscow, Russia)

March 12, 2011 - Mail-art is a serious cultural practice in Russia. It has a fascinating history in that part of the world, and…

Mail-art card from visual poet Nico Vassalikis (Seattle, Washington, USA)

March 10, 2011 - Nico Vassalikis sent this wonderful, stripped down piece from his book "Text Loses Time." The stark use of black and white…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Lesley Magwood-Fraser (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)

March 9, 2011 - The South African Mail-Art School, established by Cheryl Penn and essentially based on Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School…

Mail-art call for the Museum of Instant Images (Netherlands)

March 8, 2011 - The Museum of Instant Images has issued this call for a project based on the concept: "... the essential nature of lists, poets who list things in…

Mail-art by IUOMA member My Life as a Collage (St. Louis, Missouri, USA)

March 6, 2011 - My Life as a Collage is circulating a wide variety of collage work in the network. I'm pleased to have received my first. This is very…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Bifidus Jones (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)

March 5, 2011 - Chapter P by Bifidus Jones for the Project 26 collaborative mail-art book addresses the theme of archaeology directly and excavation more…

Fashionable mail-art by IUOMA member Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

March 4, 2011 - Diane Keys has released a new line of of mail-art for spring that slipped off the postal runway into my box (with no postage due).…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Samuel Montalvetti (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

March 3, 2011 - The monumental Project 26 - with mail-artists across the globe producing chapters for a collaborative based on letters of…