On August 16th 1988 the idea of the IUOMA was born. In November 2008 this IUOMA platform at NING became the home for members.
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And from Chicago: Mah Nu sends fun!
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 22, 2021 at 1:08pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Good to see mail art from Chicago!
There are lots og goodies from Mah NU,
and I'll be sending something soon...for the exchange,
IF the USPS workers do somewhat fast?…
ContinueFrom illinois: from Toni antonetti
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 22, 2021 at 1:07pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Flowers for SPRING!
and a nice doggie, too! From February, arriving in April in Greece!
And my "October" mail art arrived in February...Ah, USPS!
Thanks for the mail art postcard,…
ContinueFrom illinois: in Rockford
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 22, 2021 at 1:06pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Michael Goetz sends fun comics and mail art goodies!
Put a smile on your face during this Covid Era!…
ContinueMail Art Received
Posted by David Jaap aka Jadaway on April 22, 2021 at 9:39am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Thanks for the art Steve O Black. Very good. I really enjoyed it.
Dream No. 34543
Posted by Michael Leigh on April 22, 2021 at 7:15am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
This was like a rummage sale or jumble sale I was attending - no masks or distancing being employed so it may have been in the past ( or the future?) / anyway? I was scrabbling around on the floor picking up these un-mounted rubber stamps - someone else had seen them too and had yelled out "Ooh! Rubber stamps!" so I was pretty nifty and picked up a handful which all seemed quite unusual cartoon characters I'd not seen before or nursery rhymes? All a bit blurry now. Anyway, I asked how…
ContinueDavid Stafford, your post landed
Posted by Borderline Grafix on April 21, 2021 at 3:43pm 1 Comment 4 Favorites
BLOG JAM: mail art delivery 21 April 2021
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 21, 2021 at 11:59am 1 Comment 1 Favorite
Not since April 1st has there been mail delivery!
Thank you dear Greek postman for carrying this load...+25 and a few postcards!
Many, many arriving from the USA, thank you USPS!
...even…
ContinueMary Kindred in Bath
Posted by Thomas Brown on April 21, 2021 at 3:30am 0 Comments 2 Favorites
Bath, Maine, USA, that is.
Incoming from Mary Kindred. That's a good one. Combines flower postage stamp/stickers with hand drawn ink lines and color fields. I guess I could start date stamping my post cards. That will help the art students and gallery dealers pinpoint things better when they are studying my different creative…
Continue20210420 arrival from Luís Filipe Gomes
Posted by Gerald Jatzek on April 21, 2021 at 12:30am 1 Comment 1 Favorite
J ust came back to Vienna and found this drawing by Luís Filipe Gomes from Portugal who loves to listen to the music of Franz Schubert.
You can see the colors of the Eb major Trio which was first performed in Schubert’s concert in the hall of the Vienna…
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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.
Events
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MAIL ART BALCONADAS DEL CONFINAMIENTO
June 1, 2020 at 6pm to May 31, 2021 at 7pm – ATELIER FELIPE LAMADRID
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BALCONADAS DEL CONFINAMIENTO
June 1, 2020 at 6pm to May 31, 2021 at 7pm – PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA
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50 MAIL ART BOOKS
November 21, 2020 at 6pm to November 21, 2021 at 7pm – Haverhill, MA
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MAIL ART PROJECT "ALBENE"
January 28, 2021 to January 28, 2022 – Belgium, Netherlands, Albanie
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Musiamo Cent (Mail art call)
January 31, 2021 at 1am to May 10, 2021 at 11:45pm – Specific Everywhere
16 Comments 3 Favorites
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Dream No. 34543
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The old envelopes
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by ArtbyJac on Sunday. 16 Replies 4 Favorites
Dear friends, I bought at the auction a pack of old envelopes, with a picture, size 114x161 millimeters (4.5 x 6.3 inches), and I don't know how to use them in Mail Art. Maybe someone wants to receive such an envelope as a gift. In the future, you…Continue
new mail art call (FIXED TYPOS :P)
Started by ArtbyJac in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by ArtbyJac Apr 12. 2 Replies 0 Favorites
Mail Art Call - Postal Outliers
Started by Fonda L. Portales in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by william S. Paley Mar 20. 3 Replies 2 Favorites
All submission will be archived in the University's Special Collections and Archives and will be a wonderful complement to the collection of late Professor Tom Trusky.…Continue
Project visual arts "Photography and its contaminations"
Started by Artgallery MCL in Mail-Art Projects Mar 17. 0 Replies 0 Favorites
Comunicato stampaTitolo evento Photography and its contaminationsMostra d’arte CollettivaDal 15/03/2021Al 15/06/2021Luogo Evento online all’indirizzo…Continue
Definition
Started by Paul Toscano in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Paul Toscano Mar 12. 2 Replies 0 Favorites
Again, I am new to the union. I believe “mail-art” may be broader than I thought. Initially, I thought that mail-art was creating art on envelopes, postcards, and letters. Please educate me. Thanks.
Mail Exchange
Started by Paul Toscano in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Paul Toscano Mar 12. 2 Replies 0 Favorites
I am new to the group. Sorry if this is a common question. Is there a way to exchange mail with members to give and receive a piece of mail-art?
new postcards
Started by william S. Paley in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by william S. Paley Mar 5. 3 Replies 1 Favorite
just got a bunch of new postcards to go out. Mailed a slew of 'em today..so some of you, be on the look out..and let me know, when you get one..one of my goals in 2021, is to mail out and receive back mail art postcards from all 50 states...Continue
New Address!
Started by Kayla Cafarella in Mail-Art Projects Jan 27. 0 Replies 1 Favorite
Kayla CafarellaPO Box 2034Philadelphia, PA19103-9997Continue
Help!
Started by Caleigh in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Amanda Becerra Jan 26. 12 Replies 0 Favorites
Hi Everyone, I need to send a mailer piece to 3 people and have them send me one back for a class! If anyone is interested please comment back, my art is very socially conscious and photographic as well as includes text. Thanks so much. Continue
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