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Mail Art from Mom Kat

Posted by CtlAltDel on May 14, 2024 at 10:32am 0 Comments

From ArtTower in Germany

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 14, 2024 at 7:39am 0 Comments

Always good to see Gunter in the mail...with a fish,shark? :

and fun mail art, plus a magazine-art catalogue:…

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From Gingersnaps in Canada

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 14, 2024 at 7:38am 0 Comments

Ginger recycled my snail stampings on her envelope,

and inside there was a nice card and note, see the fun CAT postage stamps, too?

also enclosed was an A4 page with lovely haiku:…

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i received Mail Art from Fleur Helsingor

Posted by Zack on May 13, 2024 at 3:41pm 0 Comments

'i see blue poppies in your future'

a happy lunar new year card featuring a mural in Oakland's Chinatown; street art meets snail mail. 

merci Fleur

i received Mail Art from William M

Posted by Zack on May 13, 2024 at 3:36pm 1 Comment

the drawing on the envelope suggests that having no arms is the key. lots of cool imagery here, including Grandpa Munster! William must have 1000s of stamps. i also dig the collaged boomerang ATC featuring 'college men at ease'.

(dig? - who says that?)

you know what i…

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i received Mail Art from Coco Muchmore

Posted by Zack on May 13, 2024 at 3:28pm 0 Comments

one edge reads "there should be fringe here"; the other reads "life if a cloud shaped like a poodle".

she calls it a quilt card, but i think of it as a strip tease...

on the other side is a Mail Art quote by Hakim Bey, and Coco's rubber-stamped philosophy: Art is the guarantee of sanity. hear…

i received Mail Art from Greg Diaz

Posted by Zack on May 13, 2024 at 3:20pm 0 Comments

lovely handmade postcard featuring the mysterious Alma Enamorada... there must be a story there.

and --

some pink ink correspondence art stickers;…

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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. The Main address of the Union is at the TAM-address, P.O.Box 1055, 4801 BB - Breda - Netherlands. 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.

 

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Palestine 5 Replies

Interesting that there is no Palestinian solidarity mailart group in IUOMA.Continue

Started by M. Stephens in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Tiziana Tomaselli 9 hours ago.

''SNAIL SONGS'' Postal Art project 3 Replies

It is about the snails and the songs that various nations are using to call the snail to get out from its housing! Please send the lyrics of the song (text) and possible translation into English. All will be translated from your language or from…Continue

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Started by Predrag Petrovic in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Predrag Petrovic on Saturday.

Mail art envelope orientation query 3 Replies

Hey mail art friends, is it correct that if I want to send a mail art envelope with the envelope design and its address info oriented to portrait style vs landscape style, it costs extra postage?Continue

Started by Melanie Reed in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson on Thursday.

How Mail-Art changed the World 2 Replies

Dear all Mail-Artists,as a Germany-based cultural anthropologist, I am interested in how Mail-Art emerged, how it reacted to upheavals in the past, and how it deals with current social change movements. I work with postcards and their role in times…Continue

Started by flo abgrund in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Jennifer on Thursday.

Mail Artists Addresses? 579 Replies

I think, it would be very imteresting to have a mailing list of all of us.

Started by Litsa Spathi / NOBODY in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Perry Hoffman May 6.

Alla 60. Biennale Internazionale di Venezia un emporio equosolidale a cielo aperto 1 Reply

 Lettera aperta  di Sandro Bongiani al Direttore della 60. Biennale Internazionale di Venezia Adriano Pedrosa “A Venezia un emporio equosolidale a cielo aperto”Un bazar coloniale del sud del mondo destinato a passare come una precaria biennale…Continue

Tags: Biennale, 60, di, Venezia, 2024

Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist Apr 28.

Little notion/s on sending. Before sending... 1 Reply

Hello to all who would like to exchange with me.Please read first my IUOMA page, there's clearly stated what I like and what I don't. Don't put me, or you, in unpleasant situation for any given reason, since it is rude and inappropriate. Once again,…Continue

Started by Predrag Petrovic in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Valentine Mark Herman Apr 26.

SPAZIO THETIS VENICE “MAIL ART, ART IN TRENCH” Mail Art meeting by Ruggero Maggi

Arte Moderna e ContemporaneaVENEZIA / “MAIL ART, ARTE IN TRINCEA” - SPAZIO THETIS ItaSPAZIO THETIS VENEZIA“MAIL ART, ARTE IN TRINCEA”incontro di Arte Postale a cura di Ruggero MaggiMERCOLEDì 8 MAGGIO 2024 ore 17.00 …Continue

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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Apr 21.

received from Czechia !

Interesting collage-card, in amazing envelope, which itself is an piece of art, and all of that, by Simona Mihalcova, from Praha (Prague), Czech Republic (Czechia) THANK YOU, SIMONA ! Not often I receive such amazing and uplifting work!…Continue

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Started by Predrag Petrovic in Mail-Art Projects Apr 18.

received from Ireland !

I received amazing envelope from Ireland, from Deborah McMenamy. Inside were 4 of her original works (and when i say ''original'' I mean really ORIGINAL !) Rarely i receive such amazing artwork, interesting, funny, and mysterious, all in one) that…Continue

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Started by Predrag Petrovic in Mail-Art Discussions Apr 18.

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