All Blog Posts Tagged 'Wendell' (6)

Many of the IUOMA members are familiar with Christine; many were friends of hers both off and online. For those of you who are new to IUOMA and did not know who she was, she was a member of IUOMA, a believer in Fluxus, and a talented artist and teacher. She was also an avid gardener, and for those of you who want to find a way to remember her, my suggestion is that you plant a plant in her memory in the springtime. She would appreciate that. It can be a vegetable, shrub or tree - perhaps…

The following was written and posted on her Facebook page. Please take the time to leave your thoughts on her page or, as she suggested, make some art.

Christine Tarantino, 64, of Wendell, Massachusetts, died on December 7, 2012 at Hospice of the Fisher Home in North Amherst, Massachusetts. She leaves her loving partner, Douglas Dawson, and their two cats, Oscar and Lucy; her brother, Peter Tarantino, of San Carlos, California; her nephew, Kyle, and her niece, Lauren;…

Well, first off, I am one lucky turkey-butt for all the wonderful postal friends I have and for the mail art I receive regularly.  I could sit here and make plaintive excuses for why it is that at this time of year I seem less and less able to come visit my favorite web community, but nobody really wants to hear sob stories about ugly work schedules and keeping one's circadian rhythms as normal as possible during these dark, dark, colder calendar days. Ugh... one gets up when it is dark.…

I have been reveling in the most wonderful stuff from Nadine Wendell. Most recently she sent me a piece of Trashpo that I just LOVED!  Simply a piece of corrugated cardboard that has been altered with the most diverse of materials: print illustrations, ad cards, rafia wrapping, a safe sex brochure, paint, rubber stamping, Nadine's personal doodle-drawings, and a [found?] junior prom picture that Nadine craftily attached so that I could lift it up and see on the reverse what the young lady in…

From Guido Vermenlen

From Philippe Charon

From Amy Irwen

From Cuan Miles…