Allison's Blog (25)

hi! i've been working with Ramsey County Library to prepare a mail art exhibition. it's on view until the end of july, and includes 275 works from a 2020 Twin Cities Collage Collective project, several from a community library project, and a few things from my own archive to round things out (mostly from IUOMA members).

photos forthcoming! if you're in the twin cities, the work is on view at Roseville and Shoreview libraries.

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handcut paper collage and vinyl on recycled…

drowning…

can't make the details fully public yet, but the collage group i'm part of (twin cities collage collective) is partnering with a local organization to make collage mail art kits freely available to 100 participants in the twin cities, minnesota, usa. really excited…

a four-piece suite -- handcut paper collage, vinyl, recycled paperboard.…

here are a few pieces made for printed matter's mail art call last year -- …

brady and i have a loose ongoing joke about pivoting our creative output to only making kpop-related collages. when i got a magazine in the mail with a big feature on the south korean pop group BTS, i knew what i had to do. (scans are prior to addressing/adding postage)…

verso/recto views of four mail art postcard experiments, january 2021 -- paper collage, decollage, carbon transfer and pva glue on recycled paperboard. the texture is almost leathery because of all the layers and the dried glue, which i really love. [also on my personal blog…

to keep myself busy during the holidays, i started making a huge batch of mail art postcards using leftover collage bits, paper, ephemera, zine trimmings, stickers, plastic, bubble wrap, tape, various packaging, laminate and other junk in my workspace. some of these are hard to really show because they have…

took a bit to get things sorted out after the post office fire, but i have a new mailing address:



post office box 23193

minneapolis mn 55423



just a note: i'm still having difficulty accessing my informed delivery records due to errors on the USPS's website that no one seems to know how to fix. as a result, i have not been able to make an inventory of what was…

DO NOT SEND ME MAIL ART AT THIS TIME.

DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TWIN CITIES COLLAGE COLLECTIVE OPEN CALL.



the post office where my p.o. box is located in minneapolis is currently burning down as part of the minneapolis uprising. i had not been able to pick up my mail for about two weeks because of…

lots of junky recycled materials for this one -- and some very old masking tape! i finished a canister of coffee over the weekend and saved the lid for a project.…

really marvelous cyanotype from IRL local pal trudy s.! trudy isn't on IUOMA but has been sending me great mail art on and off for a long time!…

howdy, neighbor! always quite exciting to find a local mail artist — more accurately, in this case, he found me through IUOMA! treasure hunter…

a really fabulous and energetic collage from carmen kennedy…