Jan Hodgman

Female

Anacortes, WA

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:
2004, maybe I could count 8 years of correspondence from a Japanese Zen monastery back in the mid-80's......
My Website (without http://):
http://www.mailart365.com/author/zenjan/ and www.zenjan.com
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
feeds me, community around creativity,
why not? let's use mail to enliven and enlighten, not just stoke the Desire Fires with catalogues
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
3619 W. 4th St.
Anacortes WA 98221
USA

jhodgman@zenjan.com

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  • A s l ı, The Turkish Agent

    Jan, 
    Happy Throwback Thursday...! 

  • stripygoose

    Jan - I've just received number 66 - thank you so much. It's beautiful. I hope you're enjoying the 365 journey.

  • A s l ı, The Turkish Agent

    Right?! Such elegance. Enjoy!!

  • Stacy Lybarger

    Hi! Sorry I didn't post sooner to say THANKS A BUNCH!! for the postcard! I received it the day after the snow storm hit, and it was a refreshing sight. :)  I will start working on yours shortly. I'm presently finishing up a piece for someone else so yours will be off soon. Thank you again!

  • Carmela Rizzuto

    Jan--Thanks for being a friend. I'll be on the lookout for your missive.

  • Stacy Lybarger

    Thanks so much for the friending! :)

  • Carmela Rizzuto

    Jan--your vibrant painting arrived recently--thank you! It has been posted. Congratulations for taking on the 365 challenge--Happy Creating!

  • Carmela Rizzuto

    Jan--glad that you enjoyed the eco-prints. 

  • The Blessed Father

    What a beautiful postcard. . . . thank you very much.  Blessed Father Rick

  • Ana Kawajiri

    Hi Jan, looking forward to receiving your postcard! (:

  • Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist

  • Bruno Cassaglia - poetArtist

    Ciao Cara Amica! arrivata tua cartolina!!!  GRAZIE!!!!!!  ti abbraccio pm@f 

  • Amrit Nectar

    Hi Jan, I'd also be happy to exchange mail art with you, although I'm a bit slow!

    Best wishes,

    amrit

  • The Blessed Father

    To use the stamps I mailed you will need a glue stick.  ENJOY!   Blessed Father Rick

  • Toni Hanner -- tonipoet

    Oh Jan, thank you for the "Cactus, Sun & Flowers" card -- it's really profound and beautiful. I'm afraid it's sideways here, but when I put it up in "Photos" I'll straighten it. I love the see-through effect in the yellow--you can see blue circles, like bubbles underneath. 

  • Ryusho Jeffus

    Thank you muchly for friend request which I gladly accepted. I look forward to our mail exchanges and insights and inspirations. I have many Zen friends in the PNW from my 3 years in Oregon. Most belong to either Dharma Rain or Great Vow. I have retired, mostly, from an active role as a temple priest and now mainly function as archivist, historian, and thorn in the side of the denomination and misguided policies from Japan. I'm always on the cusp of being kicked out or censured or reprimanded and rarely favored. And all of that suits me quite nicely. And with my move to Syracuse I've sort of retired from doing Chaplain work at least for now. I was looking at some of your photos and found some of your decorated papers so similar to some of the things I've done that I wondered how you came by them, but yours are by far nicer than mine and you have taken them in the final stages in a direction I'd not considered before.

    So....
    Thank you

    Ryusho
  • Sabela Baña

    hello my adress: Ramon y Cajal 30-3º Dr

                             15006 A Coruña

                              Spain

    I hope you mail art. Thanks .The best wishes. Sabela Baña

  • Sabela Baña

    Hello my adress: C/Ramon y Cajal 30-3º dr

                                   15006 A Coruña

                                  Spain

    I hope your mail art. Thanks. The best wished. Sabela Baña

  • Sabela Baña

    Estupendo. Gracias

  • Sabela Baña

    I received your wonderfull mail art.Thanks. I send you mail art. When you received send me mail art.

  • Sabela Baña

    I hope you received soon.

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Yes, I did see that on the postcard. But what is this person's complete name ? Any help would be appreciated.

    Norma

  • Norma Soulet

    I found Douglas Galloway!

    I will go to his page.

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Would you like to exchange Mail Art with me?

    I can get something out to you this week.

    Please let me know. :)

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Happy First Day of Summer!

    Hope you are doing well.

    My Mail Art went out today so watch your mailbox! :)

    Hugs,

    Norma

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Hope you are doing well and having a nice day!

    Your Mail Art # 171 arrived today and I love it.

    Thank you and until next time,

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Yes, they canceled BOTH sides...Your Red stamp and the regular PO stamp.

    Go figure! :)

  • Amrit Nectar

    Hi Jan! Hope you received something from me. Best wishes, Amrit Nectar

  • Amrit Nectar

    That's great! Always good to know one's creation has arrived safely! Best wishes, Amrit

  • Lisa Ridolfi

    Hi Jan, I look forward to exchanging mail art with you.

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    My Red, black and white fiber card went out in today's mail.

    Be on the lookout! :)

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Sorry I wasn't in the chat room when you left me a message.

    Thanks for letting me know my Red, Black and White fiber postcard arrived and you like it.

    I will upload it to my photos.

    Until next time.

  • Norma Soulet

    Hi Jan,

    Hope you are doing well.

    In today's mail , I received your Red, Black and White fiber postcard.

    Thank you so much.

  • Norma Soulet

    Happy Birthday , Jan!

    Hope you are having a lovely one. May you celebrate many more. :)

    Hugs,

  • Maria Gallardo

    Hello, Jan!! I have been trying to find a comment you sent me but still learning the know-how of IUOMA and has been not lucky. Was I dreaming? Please let me know if I am confused. Greetings!

  • Sabela Baña

    i received you wonderful mail art. Very thanks, tomorrow send my mail art. Please when received send mail art.

  • Sabela Baña

    I hope my mail art arrived soon.

  • Maria Gallardo

    Thank you Jann!!

  • Maria Gallardo

    Oh, and send me your address, please!

  • Carmela Rizzuto

    Hi Jan--picked up your card today. Many thanks for the expressive sumi-e ink drawing. I love sumi-e ink, too!

  • Camila Mesquita

    Thanks, Jan! that's super exciting! I am so looking forward to that! :)) Can I send you a postcard too?

  • Carmela Rizzuto

    Hi Jan

    Another admirer of Lenore Tawney's mail art--great! The ephemera that I used had been lying around for quite awhile--they all came together for this piece. 

  • Maria Gallardo

    Dear Jan!! I received your fantastic postcard!! I love it! Thank you so much!!! 

  • Laura Urbano

    Hi Jan,
    Thanks for the traveling mail art. Yours will travel soon.
  • Laura Urbano

    Hi Jan,

    the cutest bird arrives today, It's a beautiful linocut work. Thanks!!

  • TIZIANA BARACCHI

  • Josh Ronsen

    Tiny Art Exchange is ongoing, but I haven't done much visual art lately to send anything out. I have a stack of addressed envelopes ready to go out, but nothing to put in them. As the project continues, I have sent out over 450 invitations, that means 450 tiny pieces of art, and I less and less want to send out quickly-made things. It's easy to get a page from National Geographic and cut into inch-size pieces and send those out, but that seems cheap. So: make sure I have your address, and I will put it on an envelope and when I make more tiny art works, I will send you one!

  • Mail Art Martha

    I came back yesterday and found your card. A secluded corner for meditation is just what I need, thank you! 

  • Emory Banker

    Thank you for the mail art! I love the blue streak that incorporated the attached piece of paper to the card. I will send you some art soon!
  • mariano filippetta

    thanks jan !! 

    soon something of mine !!