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i received Mail Art from frips

Posted by Zack on April 20, 2026 at 11:49am 0 Comments

i spy the tail end of a fluxfish in this collage card... the thick envelope contained a Fluxus Buck -

- and 5 - count 'em! - 5 Add & Pass sheets -…

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i received Mail Art from MomKat

Posted by Zack on April 20, 2026 at 11:37am 1 Comment

holiday cards celebrating the (new) Year of the Horse and Banana Day -

also included: an Eat Art envelope + a blue streak of stampings -

thanks Katerina - always great to see you in the…

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i received Mail Art from Giovanni & Renata StraDA DA

Posted by Zack on April 20, 2026 at 11:29am 0 Comments

...or should i say Bonnie & Clyde?

they are walking and talking gesamtkunstwerks, no? …

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Thank you FRNTO for the Mail-Art

Posted by Jason Bartlett on April 19, 2026 at 5:52pm 0 Comments

FRNTO

Manuel Xío Blanco 260417

Posted by Mikel Untzilla on April 19, 2026 at 3:33pm 0 Comments

Nancy Bell Scott thanks!

Posted by Zorica Obradović on April 19, 2026 at 12:59pm 0 Comments

Mail Call! Ed Giecek sent many unused postal stamps, and some very nice prints

Posted by Penelope Timm on April 19, 2026 at 12:28am 0 Comments

Thank you so much! It made my day!

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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.  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 Offer : Lots of My Mail Art for You - REQUEST : Donation to IUOMA ! 8 Replies

Hello dear fellow IUOMA members,In short, I would like to monetarily support IUOMA but currently I cannot. So, I thought of this idea that I send you lots of my mail art, mostly made with my hand-carved stamps prints, and in return, you just donate…Continue

Started by Kiki in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Kiki Apr 13.

Good Art Pens? 89 Replies

What are your favorite pens to use in mail art?  I have a few good (sort of) ones for my regular-size collage work -- for applying lines, not for actually writing -- but they aren't turning out to be great for mail-art scale.  New ones for writing,…Continue

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Started by Nancy Bell Scott in Technical Details in Mail-Art. Last reply by Bradford Apr 12.

[offer] hidicards -- simple collage postcards (no exchange expected) 12 Replies

hello mail artists,during full-time caregiving seasons, i've made postcard-sized collages in spare moments. they are very simple, sometimes oddly composed--but they exist.all are made from found materials, and most include images of women.rather…Continue

Started by J S in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Hélène LAGACHE Apr 9.

Mail art is alive...and well?

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Started by michael thompson in Mail-Art Projects Mar 10.

News from Moscow: Mail Art to The Garage Museum 4 Replies

In 2019, I wrote on the IUOMA portal:“If you want to get rid of excess postal art, you can donate your collection of postal art to the Museum of Moscow. With my participation in the Museum of Moscow, an archive of postal art for art historians and…Continue

Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Mar 6.

Helping to Start a Permanent exhibition on the Island most  Far and isolated on  the planet 6 Replies

Helping to Start a Permanent exhibition on the Island most Far and isolated on  the planet TRISTAN DA CUNHAhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/325192418785691 Please send one of your Art Work…Continue

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Started by MoriceMarcuse in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by MoriceMarcuse Mar 1.

MEMORIAL RUGGERO MAGGI "COME  UN BATTITO D’ALI” - Progetto a cura di Sandro Bongiani 2 Replies

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Started by Giovanni Bonanno in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) Feb 18.

Letterpress Xmas Card Collection - Storage Issues 1 Reply

Over the past decade I have been part of a Letterpress Christmas Card exchange - I probably have around 200 hand printed cards.Does anyone have any room for such a collection or would be interested in using it for another project?Drop me a line for…Continue

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Started by Carl Middleton in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Ilya Semenenko-Basin Feb 18.

end of public mail delivery 17 Replies

Alert! For the first time, since January 1, 2026, a country's public service, PostNord in Denmark, is discontinuing mail delivery. If other nations follow suit, it will spell the end of mail art sent through the public system.Continue

Started by nicolas de La Casinière in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Juan Petry Feb 13.

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In Kolaj #42, “Bye Bye Mail Art” reflects on the global Mail Art movement and the fragile networks that have sustained it for decades. Rooted in the experimental spirit of Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School and Fluxus, Mail Art fostered…Continue

Started by Margaret Jeddry in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Eduardo Cardoso Feb 12.

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