Here’s more mail from Jack at Cascadia Artpost (Olympia, WA): A postcard from March, “Library Card No. 1,” featuring some of the best known mail art books (I own four of the books shown). Another postcard from October pays homage to EX POSTO FACTO’S “Fluxus Bucks,” which turned 25 in 2019. Great mail from Cascadia Artpost! Thanks, Jack!
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Received August 14, 2019: two pieces of mail from Atte Ourie, a fellow IUOMA-ning member from Finland. Many thanks to Atte Ourie!
Mail art received March 13, 2019... Thomas Brown's postcard from earlier this year certainly looks like mail for the Autumn season - the orange color, the stamped squirrel image under the return address. The thing is - Tom's card states that "Spring is on its way." Always great to get mail from Thomas Brown.
Thanks so much! Mail Art from September 16, 2019: While out for a morning coffee or at your favorite haunt, chances are you've come across a free single sheet, double-sided publication known as Coffee News. You know the one - it's on tan paper, and it features a cute and goofy image at top. I pick it up every chance I can, and I look forward to reading the fun little tidbits. If I'm with my family, I like to see how well they do at answering the trivia questions. So when I received the latest mail art from Jack at Cascadia Artpost, I was quite amused. You see, Jack has published CASCADIA COFFEE CLUTCH, Olympia Edition - a parody of the ubiquitous restaurant publication. A few differences in the layout set Jack's spoofy paper apart from the real publication. Cascadia Coffee Clutch is 8 1/2" x 11" in size, which is smaller than the real paper. It also sports a white border, which is not typical of Coffee News. Beyond that, it looks pretty darn close:
Great mail art from Jack at Cascadia Artpost! Thanks so much! Large envelope from Ed Giecek received March 26, 2019. Lots of stuff inside the envelope:
Thanks so much for the mail, Ed!
August 19, 2019: Great mail art day, with the arrival of Steph Dodson's beautifully decorated envelope (chockful of awesome stuff)... This is the first mail I received from Steph Dodson, who has been involved with mail art since 2011. I believe my first encounter with Steph is via the IUOMA-ning group, "A TOUCH OF VINTAGE." Another postcard from the fab Richard Canard - this one received April 17, 2019. Gotta love the smily face! Richard's wisdom on this face card reads, "The shortest distance between two points is a parallel line next to the outer edge." Loads of thanks to Richard!
Mail art from Jimmy Connors (Germany) received February 15, 2019... I had to look through my mail art logbook to see if I had received any mail from Jimmy Connors in the past. As it turns out, this postcard is the first piece from him.
Mail art from Judith Dagan (Israel), received May 14, 2019... So thrilled to receive this piece from Judi Dagan. We are both members of the "Asemic Writing for Mail-Artists" group on IUOMA-ning, where Judi shared it with the group in April. When I saw the piece on our group wall, I told Judi that it was awesome. So naturally Judi sent it to me!!
This wonderful post card arrived from Germany on May 2. It is the first piece of mail from Werner Noske, a professional artist and fellow member of IUOMA. The card features a pink and white woodcut print of a bearded man. He appears to be crestfallen.
The artist provides his web address on the back of the post card, so I spent time browsing the site. I discovered that, since the early 1970s, Werner Noske has worked with various forms of visual art: painting (watercolor, acrylic, oil), drawing, printmaking (etching, linoleum & wood) and sculpture. |
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