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Postcard from Penelope Timm!

Posted by Coco Muchmore on October 18, 2024 at 2:00am 0 Comments

From the Artist in Seine

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 17, 2024 at 10:21am 1 Comment

And it is a three-fold piece, and comes "naked" (not in an envelope)

How does Dean do it? ...carefully! Front and back of the folded piece.

Lots of fun circles (the iris of the eye!), and…

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From Jimmy Connors in Berlin

Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 17, 2024 at 10:19am 0 Comments

Always good to see Jimmy Connors in the mail,

amazing postage and collage designs,

Danke! Thank…

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Flipside

Posted by Jean Vengua on October 17, 2024 at 3:00am 0 Comments

Here's the flipside of "Family Portrait." I thought I would be conscientious and cover over the addresses digitally (though members can access my address here to send mail art). But used polka dots. I hope that's OK.

Incoming: First MailArt! "Family Portrait"

Posted by Jean Vengua on October 17, 2024 at 2:30am 0 Comments

This is so exciting! Received my first mail art: "Family Portrait" by Richard C. -- from Baby Ruth & Richard! Thank you!

Thank you ML in Salem OR

Posted by Jason Bartlett on October 16, 2024 at 7:11pm 0 Comments

Incoming: Bonniediva, David Stafford, Hanna Wright, and Ricky Long

Posted by William M on October 16, 2024 at 7:12am 0 Comments

A really wonderful fish zine from Bonnie. Loved this one a lot. Also a reminder (to myself) that these sort of zines don't need to be bound.…



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COLLABART postcard

Posted by Coco Muchmore on October 16, 2024 at 2:00am 0 Comments

Meetup with Zorica and Predrag in Serbia

Posted by Kiki on October 15, 2024 at 8:18pm 0 Comments

I am now travelling in Serbia. Today, Predrag and I met our fellow mail artist, Zorica in Serbia at a cafe. I had such an amazing time all together. Thank you so much, Zorica, for your lovely mail art cards!!

We all are supposed to see each other again at a concert on Monday next week. Cannot wait! 

Glasses pastel painting

Posted by Tomoe N on October 15, 2024 at 5:44am 0 Comments

I just finished “Glasses” pastel painting. It has been a while I use pastel but it was good to experiment.

Size 18” by 24” inch

眼鏡のパステル画完成 パステル使うの久々だけど試せて良かった。

サイズ 18 x 24 インチ(45.72 x 60.96 cm)…



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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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My First Mail Art 1 Reply

This week I received my first two pieces of mail art! One from M. L . in Oregon and one from Nick in New Mexico. I mailed off some today as well. I cannot wait to share these with my students!…Continue

Started by Rebecca Lancaster in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Nick Tauro Jr on Sunday.

Send mail or not send? 7 Replies

Dear friends, this is not the first time I have learned that my American friends have not received my mail. This was not the case before.I live in Russia. Maybe the US Postal Service has slowed down? Can I send my collages to the US or is it better…Continue

Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Sep 18.

NYU Libraries Exhibition Explores Mail Art Movement and Mark Bloch’s Postal Art Network

NYU Libraries Downtown Collection presents   "Panmodern!" An Exhibition of the Mark Bloch/Postal Art Network Opening:…Continue

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

Harris Walz stickers 6 Replies

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Started by Mars Tokyo in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by holly johnson Sep 15.

Open call 1 Reply

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Started by Thomas Vandenberghe in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics Sep 7.

Mail art blogs and twitter accounts 52 Replies

Many of us keep blogs and have twitter accounts, and I know that many of us post up our best work there. Personally I love seeing people's work on their blogs, and I follow the latest work of many mailartists on Twitter too, where the banter is…Continue

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Started by andytgeezer in Mail-Art Information. Last reply by Peter Abajkovics Sep 7.

theLetterNetwork - book by 80 mail artists 1 Reply

Me and my partner Lilli made a mail art project together with 80 artists and storytellers from over 20 European countries through analogue dialogical letter-making. These letters are now becoming a book that we are crowdfunding. If the project seems…Continue

Started by Marco Verhoogt in Mail-Art Magazines and Publications. Last reply by Predrag Petrovic Sep 3.

MAIL ART & ART PEDAGOGICS. 8 Replies

Dear Mail Art Family,does anyone of you out there know of any projects or literature dealing with the connection of MAIL ART and ART PEDAGOGICS ? Maybe there are pedagogues who read these lines... and maybe someone of you already brought MAIL ART…Continue

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Started by Mikula Lüllwitz in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by CUTandTEAR Aug 27.

Mail Artists Addresses? 585 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 Stephen Tomasko Aug 26.

Best place to post Mail Art Calls 5 Replies

Thank you for any thoughts or directions n placing mail art calls internationally 💖🌞🪬Continue

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Started by Perry Hoffman in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by CtlAltDel Aug 9.

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