August 2016 Blog Posts (157)

Thank you Suus for commemorating our meeting at the Natural History Museum in London!

Mail art by IUOMA member Joey Patrickt (Oakland, California, USA)

August 19, 2016 - A steady stream of mail is now arriving in my PO box for the Karnival of Trash Mail Art Call (open through September 30, 2016). Some of the…

Did I ever blog this and thank you for it Suus? I'm experiencing a bit of mail-art muddle. Anyway - and this is a message to all - just because I haven't blogged/replied yet, doesn't mean your mail-art is unloved - all in good time :->

I'm going back a bit here, but now's the time to thank Katerina for the mailart haul. The first chicken-related milart to come my way, in acknowledgement of my on-going 365 plus a whole stache of chickeny stuff for me to use. Generosity indeed. And then bananas - to mark Banana Lovers Day, and as a huge…

Mail art by IUOMA member Lin Tarczynski (Sisquoc, California, USA)

August 18, 2016 - I have become a very big Lin Tarczynski fan in the relatively short amount of time I have known about her work. Today I am thrilled to share one…

Brittany Ellis, David Stafford, Lucky Pierre, J.A.D., Katerina Nikoltsou, Amalgamated Confusion, Toni Hanner, Dean aka Artist in Seine, fennabee, Jack Oudyn, David S. Aponte and Virgo.

Thank you all so much for wonderful m-a, and for continuing showing up in my…

I'm pretty sure Richard Burton has never before been pictured holding a mole. "Alas poor Moley!" -- Look at the little toes! Amazing scissor-work! And in the little clear envelope that came with Hamlet, this great stash of Shakespeare ephemera -- note also the…

OMG Denise never stops being amazingly creative. Here's she's made a "first day issue" ATC with her "Commonwealth of Anacrusis" artistamp and a certificate "Celebrate Time Travel." The whole package is beautifully done, of course, right down to the gears on the envelope. Here's the reverse of the ATC:…

From Dean, this amazing collage -- this chicken makes a bigger mess than I do! and then, the reverse!

The bow-tie shaped thing is an actual hanger pasted onto the card. He must use really super-strong glue because it arrived naked and very firmly…

Another mixed media, photo collage on board by TOFU...this is a photo doc of this original piece...which must be just gorgeous..."Haight Forest"

so gorgeous and much thanks!

Redepaired – a collab book by John M. Bennett (Columbus, Ohio, USA) and Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA). This is the first entry in the Karnival of Trash 2016 international mail art exhibition. Redepaired is published by Luna Bisonte Prods.…

This is a signature look, ATC size.  Thank you!

I wonder where in the world this large card has been!  Thanks!

Thanks a lot!