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Hi Afritha,

Just send mail. 

     People send postcards, or decorated envelopes, or art inside envelopes, or miscellaneous objects. Often they send a note with the art, but not always.  It depends on what art you make, and your budget and your interests.  Look at the groups that interest you. 

     Its been my experience that the people that are currently  active on the IOUMA site will respond to your mail.  Even though there are thousands of members, not all are currently doing MAil Art.  Click on someone's name and on their page, half way down is their address. . 

     Heck, send me something.  I promise to send something in response.

is there a way to reverse the photo albums so that the photos recently added are shown first? If not could we see that some time if possible, please?

On your page,  choose view all on the photos. There is a pull down menu on the right side  above the photos.  You can sort them by "latest", "random" or "most popular".

Yes Heide the photos can be sorted when all together but not the ones in an album. I have a link to an album from my mailartmartha.blogspot.com and would like to see first the most recent photo.

Like your Jennifer, I would like a better ordered display.

Jennifer- it is possible to move de photos and rearrange them once they are inside the album but it is quite fiddly and I have not the patience, or the time.  So not for me.

As to the trolley first I wrapped it in canvas and pinned the work on. Not very good. So I got a piece of stiff clear plastic and stuck them there with blue tack but the trolley got too small for the volume of Mail Art and I had to change the display every few days.

The door, so far, lasts for six to eight weeks and it is in a small porch so it is protected from the rain.

What is a Brain Cell?

hi Carien...BC is a long running project from Ryosuke Cohen, and anyone can participate to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Cell

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/brain-cell-ryosuke-cohen-compil...

Vorrei chiedere, se pensate che la Storica Mail Art, possa oggi confluire

totalmente nel web, abbandonando la carta spedita. io ci stopensando

da tempo.  n/*p(

I think we will finish there unfortunately.

Postal prices are increasing every year to pay for costs, they say.

More likely to make money for the shareholders, I say.

Soon we will only be able to send parcels through the post at considerable price, I think

I really think that letter post will disappear Jennifer, so we would not be able to send paper post at all. A sad day.

Digital art has its charm too but I love the texture of different papers and even the smell.

How do I respond correctly to the "ATC Buddy Jam" note I got? I recently received a mail art packet that included a card with a picture on the front and a two-entry name and address list on the back, with only the first entry filled in. Do I add something to the picture, and then send it to the first person's address, and then add one of my own mail art friends' addresses to the second entry slot?

In my mailbox I saw a question from Amanda - sent from this group 'Ask anything' - about rubberstamps. I wanted to reply but I cannot find the original question!..

Amanda, please see also the group about rubber stamps (one of the groups, as there is also a group about hand carving your own rubberstamps!)

Thanks Heleen, I have found the group and have now joined the rubber stamps group, I am also looking up your suggestions I really appropriate it.

Hi everyone a friend of mine sent me some stamps of energyman 1. silly by michael lamb. I just wanted to get some more information on him if anyone knows of him? thank you for any help, really like the stamp and just wanted to know abit more if possible. 

possers, why don't people stay with mail-art? i see ppl on here for 3 wks and they disappear,focus, try to focus!, ppl are so scattered anymore, any serious mail-arters left?

How do I connect to Twitter? When I click on "connect to Twitter," it sends me to a page that has a number. It says go back to Ning and input the number to "complete the process." But where do you input the number? 

obvious front is shown as a member online but then i search in members directory(all members overview) and nothing comes up, why? who is a member? how are u listed as a member but not really, is this fake news?

retraction, now there is something listed, sorry.(see below)

Is there any way to delete a photo or edit its title once uploaded?

Answered my own question. It's at the top under Options.

I can say with confidence that I will never exchange digital works of art for such art objects that are made by hand from material, paint, paper ... Art does not exist in the human brain or on the retina, but it also relates to our entire body, with the dimension of the body, with touch, smell. A flickering screen cannot replace live communication with a thing. If the terrible high cost of mail stops mailing, I will still make my collages sitting in my room: postcards, stamps, paper, glue ...

How to do store your postage stamps?  I have quite a few, and have been sticking them in a little binder, where they continually fall out and get mixed up.  I was thinking of a index card box, but that seems like work.  Thoughts?

Stock books are the answer, books with transparent strips across the pages which you can tuck the stamps behind. You can get them from philatelic suppliers.

I also recommend to visit thrift stores, often they have a lot of office supplies that you can use.

These stamp albums with the transparent strips are available at Amazon, I prefer the 16-page ones as larger sizes get too heavy when filled with stamps and covers. They also have nice rice-paper dividers:

I use a stamp album for the small samples I get of artistamps:

but when mail artists send me full-page sheets, then I use the clear plastic in a large binder. Here i keep the original sheets and can easily take them out for making photocopies. Photocopies of these artistamps are often on my mail art:

I saw a question from Susan Weinberg about ATC, bit I cannot find where to answer. So I hope she/you will find it here :-)

Q: what is atc?

A: Artist Trading Card, a small handmade card, size 2.5 inch x 3.5 inch, which you can send to or swap with other artists. Any material is possible (if I read well, you like mixed media, and that is okay, too), if sent randomly and/or spontaneously, and sometimes there are specific ATC projects in which there can be suggestions about theme or material, depending on the project.

It has been inventief by a Swiss guy, and more information about history and more you can read on https://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/artist-trading-cards/ .

Thanks, Heleen. Mail Art is so much more complex and multi-layered than I realized!

08.12.20 Dare Ms. Susan Weisberg, ..."Mail Art is so much more complex and multi-layered than I realized!" A very perceptive statement on your part...& still, you don't know the half of it.---- & while I have been involved in mail art for over 50 years now...  I too, &  still, don't know the half of it. Best to you. SinCelery, Richard Canard

Mail Art is a primary factor in determining the nature of energy  received from the others, and by exeynsion the mail currents.

Dare I call you Richard, M. Canard? You seem very involved in canards as well as mail art. I don't have 50 years to go, so given the progression of half-lives I'd better get cracking!

The beauty of mail art is that it's largely defined by the artist and within each individual definition there are roads that lead to many other destinations. 

Heide; on storing artistamps. A very perceptive friend, not a mail artist so double so, gave me a plastic box with divisions to store screws, I believe. It works great.

Just a bit confused. I've joined a couple of groups in which people say they are are happy to send and receive work but do I have to send them a friend request first? 

Sharon, I was confused by this too at first.  But you can just send mail. 

The advantage of the friend thing is you can send messages privately.

Thank you, Heide!

I have moved.  I can't find the address list.  How do I update my address?  

Allison, I think:  if you look at the top of the page, there's 'My Page' i the menu. click on that, it'll take you to your personal page. Scroll down a little and there will be a section called 'Profile Information'. To the right of that, there is a little grey 'edit' box. Click on that and you can edit your address details. I'll post this on your comments wall too.

How do I delete one of my uploaded photos?

Melanie Reed--- on the photo page of your home page, choose (click on) the photo you wish to delete.  On the upper right hand side there will be a button that says "options" (it also has a pic of a couple gears)  there are three choices in the drop down menu: edit details, add tags, delete .

I received some nice Mail Art from Russell Manning in Dallas, but it didn't have any personal message with it. I looked him up in the IUOMA artists' profiles and he doesn't seem to be there. I'm wondering how he got my name and address. Does anyone know him?

In order to find an address to send out mail art, do I need to request it from addressee?  I cannot find addresses on the menu.  thanks

Peggy Huff---Each artist's address is on thier page.  Click on their icon or name and scroll down halfway down the page is usually the address.

Occasionaly an artist's page doesn't have their address. You can send them a message and ask for it.

When was Mail Art Cow established on I.U.O.M.A.? Please post to jackkidmusic@gmail.com with any texts pertaining to the origin of the mail art cow.  

https://www.facebook.com/artistasplasticospr/?ref=pages_you_manage

THIS CALL IT'S FOR ALL ARTISTS AROUND OF THE WORLD...

ENVIAR A:

Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico, Inc.

P.O. Box 8608

Fernández Juncos Station

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00910-0605

got this envelope approx 14 Aug 21 and am not sure who it came from... MY decryption of the return addresses has me responding to Chuck Welch but I see it could also be Nick Johnson. Can anyone out there help me?