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2e ATC ruilbeurs 21 april in mijn atelier in Zutphen

Posted by Carien van Hest on April 18, 2024 at 8:46pm 0 Comments

Zondag 21 april organiseert Zutphen aan Zee voor de tweede maal een ATC ruilbeurs:

Schoolgebouw Poort van Zutphen,  Zweedsestraat 1, 7203 CK Zutphen, Ruimte 23

Tijdstip: van 12.00 - 17.00 uur

Er is een ruime gratis parkeergelegenheid

Van harte welkom, zeker als je zelf ook kaartjes meeneemt. …

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Annalisa Ventola 240416

Posted by Mikel Untzilla on April 18, 2024 at 8:10pm 0 Comments

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Mail Art Call

Posted by Michael Orr on April 18, 2024 at 7:27pm 0 Comments

From Nicolas Malevitsis in Thessaloniki

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 18, 2024 at 7:40am 0 Comments

A very large envelope arrived in Athens from the north country of Greece :-)

Thank you, Nicolas, for the nice collage cards!

"the problems with the hats"

...and some interesting news…

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Puzzling ...Mail Art from Richard C dated Mar 18 2024

Posted by Penelope Timm on April 17, 2024 at 10:15pm 0 Comments

Because I received a similar one last week dated April 2, 2024! Thank you Richard for the NOT JUNK mail...The USPS must be overworked and PRICES FOR STAMPS ARE GOING UP again!

Received from Michael Spence

Posted by Maxima Strange on April 17, 2024 at 5:00pm 0 Comments

Wonderful! Thank you!

Received from Michael Spence - Canada #BooKOfDeaD

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on April 17, 2024 at 3:34pm 0 Comments

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Michael Spence

Author: Michael Spence

City: Ontario

Country: Canada

Today i recived this two great works from Canada..

Resurrectas..

And

DeaD...

Love the colors.

love the collage..

Thanks very much Michael…

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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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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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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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''SNAIL SONGS'' Postal Art project 1 Reply

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 Penelope Timm 19 hours ago.

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Press releasePavilion Locust ValleyActive Marginal Generation EverywhereFor this collective event, 28 selected artists of different nationalities are presented in 28 individual rooms, each with a solo show of selected works. …Continue

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Pavilion Lautania Valley, Foreigners Here And Elsewhere Ray Johnson Retrospective “NOTHING / NOIHTNG”

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Pavilion Lautania ValleyForeigners Here And ElsewhereRay Johnson Retrospective “NOTHING / NOIHTNG”Presentation by Sandro BongianiWith the collaboration of the Ray Johnson Archive of Coco Gordon, Colorado (USA).Salerno, 5 April 2024 …Continue

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