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Incoming: Jimmy Connors, Dr. Zack, and Jean Jacques Dorne

Posted by William M on May 3, 2024 at 7:02pm 0 Comments

An envelope and its contents from Jimmy. At first I wasn't even sure there was anything inside the envelope, but when I opened it there was indeed another layered collage inside.



A rubber stamped postcard from Zack.…

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Mail art from Mexico

Posted by Carien van Hest on May 2, 2024 at 12:47pm 0 Comments

By the hand of Mizael Contreras:

thank you

Received from Jon foster - USA

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on May 2, 2024 at 10:13am 0 Comments

So nice to received a beautiful envelope..

and inside many goodies..

thanks Jon Foster..

love All

Received from CasadelDragon - Spain

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on May 2, 2024 at 10:12am 0 Comments

Always a great work.

Thanks for the 4 work, love it...

Received from Leslie Atkins - The Netherlands #MailTrainArt

Posted by Paulo Alexandre Rocha Teles on May 2, 2024 at 9:57am 1 Comment

So nice to received one more mailart to my first mailart project #MailTrainsArt....
thanks so much Leslie for this work..

Welcome on board...

an invitation to travel...

Thanks again

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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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