Mail Art News #86: June-uary 2025

from Lubomyr Tymkiv to Zack

Well it's only taken me eight months to get back to blogging about mail art. I was planning to get back to it in January, but here it is JUNE! 

I'm in the process of moving, so I will put my new address on IUOMA at some point.

To get the ball rolling again, here's what I had in my folders for January.   


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from M. Conroy to Juan Petry


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Yaşar Kemal MailArt posted on October 25, 2024: 
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Bela Bartok International Mail Art Project Exhibition opened on October 22, 2024 at 17:00 at Osmaniye Cebelibereket Cultural Center. The exhibition will continue until November 22, 2024.



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Some pro-library propaganda (below) from sender unknown. What does it mean to attack libraries? To cut funding? Libraries ARE essential, even in the Age of the Internet. 




Hopefully the keepers of the books are getting paid a decent wage. That includes librarians and all of the other support staff. Inter-library loan anyone? Hello. 

However, the main library in downtown Baltimore has a big painting of dirt bike kids in the main lobby. That certainly should be attacked as extremely questionable judgement, but what are ya gonna do? 

I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes...

(lyrics from Black Sabbath's Fairies Wear Boots)


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