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Posted by Mikel Untzilla on April 24, 2024 at 6:38pm 0 Comments

Looking For Mail-Art Books

Posted by jon foster on April 24, 2024 at 4:21pm 0 Comments

Want to Help Diana Hale?

Hello, I’m Jon Foster writing to you on behalf of Diana Hale (Virginia USA) Industries.

Diana Hale is looking to build a small library of mail-art related books and publications. This library will be available to the public, and displayed in a building currently under renovation in Staunton Virginia. This space will be a base of mail-art and collage activities.

7 Lawyers Row, Staunton Virginia 24401 USA

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April is Poetry Month

Posted by Carien van Hest on April 24, 2024 at 2:00pm 0 Comments

Mail art with Haiku from Lulu Flanagan:

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Posted by Mikel Untzilla on April 24, 2024 at 12:30pm 0 Comments

24.4.24 From TicTac in Germany

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 24, 2024 at 10:56am 1 Comment

A "special" mail art delivery arrived today, and had to go to the post office to get it,

Great surprise from TicTac was this lovely pepper plant card with seeds!

I shall be adding them to a…

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24.4.24 Mail Art Delivery

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 24, 2024 at 7:43am 1 Comment

Yay, mail finally arrived in Athens, a bundle of some 18 colorful envelopes!

And one large A4 size "naked" card from the Artist in Seine, in Paris?

on the flip side:  Oh, Dali! …

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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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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 on Sunday.

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.

''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 Apr 18.

Pavilion Locust Valley Active Marginal Generation Everywhere

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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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects Apr 17.

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

Pavilion Lautania ValleyForeigners Here And ElsewhereRay Johnson Retrospective “NOTHING / NOIHTNG”Presentation by Sandro…Continue

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

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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Palestine 3 Replies

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

Started by M. Stephens in Mail-Art Discussions. Last reply by Pierpaolo Limongelli Apr 16.

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

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 Apr 15.

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MAIL ART CALL FESTA DEL SOCCORSO DUE DATE: 2024-05-13 SHOW: 2024-05-18 / 2024-05- 20 SHOW ADDRESS: ART GALLERY MAGAZZINO BIANCO SUBMISSION ADDRESS/SEND TO: ART GALLERY MAGAZZINO BIANCO | VIA MAGENTA 30 | 71016 SAN SEVERO (FG) ITALY MEDIUM:…Continue

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