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This great article with pics is circulating about a mail art show at the Smithsonian:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/collaborative-mail-art-puts-post-postmodernism-180969783/#BkDCsLZYGfDxq1qL.01

Included is a Ray Johnson piece to our own Richard Canard (Richard C) (Richard in the…

From Ed Giecek- a lovely watercolor on his envelope and a great Eagle on the back of his envelope, plus two Add N' Pass.

Back of Envelope:

Thanks…

From Ed Giecek- a lovely watercolor on the envelope.

Mail art by Derya Avci (Elazig, Turkey)

August 3, 2018 - I have not received much mail art from Turkey. So this piece by Derya Avci is a thrill, although I do not believe she is an IUOMA member. Maybe she will be! 

I hope you will share my view that this work could easily be at home in an art museum or a very fine gallery. Derya Avci is a subtle and skilled expressionist painter. Yet the work is also very much in the…

I received this fabulous time machine art from Kathy Barnett.

Always a joy to see a Stripygoose birdie in the mail! Tea and BLUE!

also a wise chicken was included,

and a…

fine drawing and a poem to be read carefully and SMILE :-)…

What a nice surprise to see greetings from David and his mother,

beautiful BLUE like denim...

and a fine rubbing print by David:…

I found some post cards from a photography project a few years ago.  The contact information on them is still good so I was trying to decide what to do with them.  Then I remembered that I have a huge mailing list from IUOMA that I never manage to reach out to.  So you may get a post card from me.  Feel free to send mail art, hit me up on facebook or read my blog.  I welcome the interaction.  

Mail art by IUOMA member Ruth Giles (Tunbridge Wells, Britain)

August 1, 2018 - Networkers often ask me, “DVS how is mail-arting in the Digital Age different from back in the Golden Age of Snail Mail Art when you sauntered down the winding trail under a sky so much more expansive and blue than it is today?”

This wonderful package from Ruth Giles in Britain gives me a perfect opportunity to offer an example of the difference…

Wonderful piece (and envelope) by Ana Kawajiri in Brasil! I learned who Nelson Leirner is -- it really does look like his work! Thanks Ana!

This very lovely painting "on a feedbag" came from Robyn. The feedbag paper is really nice--I like the torn edges. She also sent several ATC's which will be posted in the Jammers Group.

I've been sending mail art postcards out into the world for a long time. And I think Mail and Mail Art is VERY important to improving the world.

And now I've another purpose for sending out postcards. I've become a member of a group sending out postcards to voters.…

Thanks to Ruth and the team, the short comedy Dear Eduardo, received its private screening in London this…

From Linda Rogers- a lovely card of a Madonna with a lovely doodled dress and envelope.

Back of envelope:

From Bill Porter- a lovely sketch on the envelope, an envie of miscellaneous worldwide stamps, a self-portrait ATC (so nice to…

Who? Who? This lovely ATC from Antonia.

We can exchange frequently as mail is FAST delivery between Spain and…

Hi ya! This is on Sabela Bana's envelope :-) Meow!

and inner pic of the handmade envelope:

Awwww... and…

On the envelope, a pic of the Cali Art...

and a collage inside made by Fleur,enjoy the summer!

nice…

My sentiments, exactly! Thanks Uwe.