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Reverse Mail Art Call
Posted by PoRKeNiGMa on April 12, 2021 at 10:41am 2 Comments 0 Favorites
Has anyone done a call that asks the general audience (non-artists) to draw or write something on cards or paper then funnel those to a singular address for exhibition?
Would anyone know where would be a good destination mail artist for such a venture?
Would anyone know where would be a good destination mail artist for such a venture?
DADAnautik sends via Luftpost
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 11, 2021 at 8:12am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
A fine A4 collage came maybe via Lufthansa cargo plane?
Mail art does come "quickly" from Europe, yay!
on the envelope (by way of Egypt :-):…
ContinueAnn Golden sends ORANGE
Posted by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 11, 2021 at 8:00am 0 Comments 1 Favorite
Coming from California, Ann sends sunshine:
and lots of ORANGE, stickers, mail art omens galore!…
ContinueFOUR HANDS COLLABORATIVE COLLAGE
Posted by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on April 10, 2021 at 6:59pm 0 Comments 1 Favorite
The collage started by Lise Tessier and completed by me. Lisa Tessier is an artist from Canada, Quebec.
FOUR HANDS COLLABORATIVE COLLAGE
Posted by Ilya Semenenko-Basin on April 10, 2021 at 6:41pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
FOUR HANDS COLLABORATIVE COLLAGE
The collage started by Lise Tessier and completed by me. Lisa Tessier is an artist from Canada, Quebec.
Fabulous card from Penny arrived today
Posted by Sally Harrison on April 10, 2021 at 1:48pm 0 Comments 3 Favorites
Incoming mail art from the States
Posted by Carien van Hest on April 10, 2021 at 1:43pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Day of the Innocence, from Cascadia Art Post. Thank you, Jack
Incoming mail art from Portugal
Posted by Carien van Hest on April 10, 2021 at 1:41pm 0 Comments 1 Favorite
Incoming: Braincell 1109 and The CrackerJack Kid
Posted by William M on April 10, 2021 at 1:06pm 1 Comment 0 Favorites
Braincell 1109 arrived recently.
A couple of Artistamp sheets from The…
Volume 37: Mel Anie & Sharon Silverman
Posted by Mel Anie on April 10, 2021 at 12:21pm 0 Comments 4 Favorites
My part in Sharon Silverman's expansive and generous 50 Mail Art Books project arrived. It is very sleek and she has arranged mine and her work in a complementary manner that I think is also complimentary. …
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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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"francis,
fabulous, so u have done MA all yr life, a collector of ephemera etc, yes i have the bantock book, the forgetting room. just perfect, yes i have boxes&boxes of MA, so what can i do? maybe trade pces from our archives?happy to hear about…"
Just for SQUARES!
There was a prompt from CreativeSprint to make something just using squares. I'd forgotten how I'd learned to love squares while teaching 2D design with Wucius Wong and Josef Albers Interaction of Color (years ago) I thought, Wow, there must be…See More
"who wants orange-themed postcard(s)??? USA only, don't have other postage, sorry."
"Love the Banana stamps. Brilliant"
"Dear All,
So far I see we have;
Mim Golub Scalin
Amanda
Heleen
Martha
Katerina
and me.
So we do our best to send whenever we can. But before the bananas get too ripe!"
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"Mail Art Book # 42 - A Collaboration Between Me and Jacqueline Perkins of Ft, Irwin, CA"
"Attention All Mail Artists: Only 5 Mail Art Books left to do in the 50 Mail Art Books Project, then the project is over."
"I've got an archive dating back about 35 years. It's mostly in a pirates treasure chest. My grandparents send me cards and invitations for sleep overs, including lists of stuff to bring, images I liked at the time and decorated with…"
"One of the things I like about Mixed Media is that materials have different qualities. Oil and water for example. I'd like to know which materials or techniques you'd like to mix. And I'd like to see more pictures :) "
Mixed Media Mail Art
Anyone interested in doing some mixed media mail...??Postcards-Tags-Atcs-Index Cards-Envelopes-Journal Pages....anything you can put different mediums on...See More
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The old envelopes
Started by Ilya Semenenko-Basin in Mail-Art Projects. Last reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) 12 hours ago. 13 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 12 hours ago. 2 Replies 0 Favorites
new mail art call
Started by ArtbyJac in Mail-Art Projects on Tuesday. 0 Replies 1 Favorite
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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