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A big manila envelope with many colorful stamps and stickers affixed, from Adam Roussopoulos of Chaska, Minnesota (ahoy ahoy, new amigo).

Inside, I find:

* A stapled 8.5x11" book of text collage

*A sheet of pix of Bourbon the Dog and another of Tofu the Cat

*A page of pix of various POST NO BILLS signs

*A page of different US POSTAGE PAID stamps

*THIS MAY BE A MANIFESTO.

Thx for the neato surprise, Adam Roussopolous; see you in…

Keep those scissors going!

Selections from WIPE 124 which arrived in my mailbox today. A really strong issue to. …

So special to see mail art from Vittore in Italy, his portrait by DKA post,

artistamps and other goodies , too.

This mail art arrived just before the lock down in Greece, March 11.

And…

From Arizona, many things arrived some weeks ago,

A nicely stitched SPRING card,…

Closed routes. Delivery of mail and parcels is not possible to: Djibouti, Ecuador, Philippines, French Polynesia, Cayman Islands, Kuwait, Libya, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, New Caledonia, Peru, Somalia, Tunisia, Yemen.

At the destinations below we see delays due to COVID-19: Argentina, Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Brazil, Belize, China, Canada, Chile, Germany Estonia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, France Guinea Bissau, Hong Kong, Honduras, India,…

Thank you, Penny! 

I haven't sent out much recently so I haven't expected a lot to arrive but I have here a nice little pile of goodies from Carmen Kennedy. Katerina N. Bonniediva. Charlotte Geister. Mark Sommerfield. and  Reed Altemus.  I will post some scans later.   If I can manage to get things posted I will do.  There is a rumour of something big happening tonight so maybe runs to the post office will be banned.  Wait and see. 

Life seems to be making itself overlarge in my art activities at the…

such a fun mail art frame!   thank you!

Here is a link to an interview with longtime mail artist Mark Bloch that appears in the March 2020 issue of Brooklyn Rail. Mark is recognized as a "historic figure" who was close to Ray Johnson:

https://brooklynrail.org/2020/03/art/MARK-BLOCH-with-Megan-N-Liberty

Disclaimer: I think this is a great article but friends know I'm no huge Mark Bloch fan (and Mark is not a fan…

A really fun altered postcard from Carien Van Hest that arrived today.



A new issue of Cascadia Coffee Clutch arrived in the mail today. Lots of fun ads and inside…

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Very cool. Love the envelope first things first. Then the change-able circle cut-outs above the ruler's head are something I have never seen or thought of, so that is a novelty to me!

How to join:

1. If you are interested in doing some coloring, I have some free coloring pages you can download here:

https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.hasenfratz/media_set?set=a.10222335620243630&type=3

2. Otherwise, get a project you want to work on ready to go at your location.

3. Go to the Facebook event page at 4:00 pm for live video.…

Snail mail arrived pulling the moon...weeks ago,

also, a card from the Women in Science series, very nice..

and I am snail-pace blogging mail art that came B.C.

(Before Covid)

The…

FAB mail art postcard with mixed media,

and unusual postage added...

and on the flip side, arty postage:…