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ZMAG meetings are on the 3rd Wednesdays of the month at 7:30 US Eastern time and lasts until about 9PM. Each meeting starts with a round of show-and-tell and ends with a Sticker Dude Happy Hour, after 9PM, which is untimed and has no agenda.

Meeting #65 :|: 17 December 2025

Neosho // ZMAG Swap-O-Matic Project envelope exchange
Quick Hit Presentations // Reid Wood, Chuck Welch
 Adam Roussopoulos // MailArt “Gems” from the Collection of Ed Higgins courtesy of Ginny Higgins (PDF)

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Meeting #64 :|: 19 November 2025

Jack Lattemann (Cascadia Artpost) // Cascadia Diorama (PDF)
Diana Hale // With Love from the Art Hive – Art which hopes to inspire moments of levity and foster long-term interpersonal connections through correspondence (PDF)
Newsletter // ZMAGGAMZ Vol. 4

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Meeting #63 :|: 15 October 2025

Imogen Pranger // ZMAG Postal Film #1
C. Mehrl Bennett // Remembering Ginny LLoyd (Ginna Lotta) Part II (presentation)
Group Sharing // “Decades of Mailing It In” Minneapolis Mail Art gathering experiences
Newsletter // ZMAGGAMZ Vol. 3

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Meeting #62 :|: 17 September 2025

Nonlocal Variable // The Beginning of Nothing
Group Discussion // An International Mail Art Red Cross – Helping the Mail Art Movement Under Tariff Postal System Barriers
C. Mehrl Bennett // Remembering Ginny LLoyd (Ginna Lotta) Part I (full book)
Joey Patrickt // Postcards – Crosstown Correspondence 1983-2018
Newsletter // ZMAGGAMZ Vol. 2

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Meeting #61 :|: 20 August 2025

Jokie Wilson // Report on D.C. Educators Conference on AI
John Held, Jr. &Adam Roussopoulos // Remembering Ginny Lloyd (Ginna Lotta)
Group Discussion // ZMAG extended Mail Art project: Where do we go from here?
The Sticker Dude // Poem Reading – The Tin Man
Newsletter // ZMAGGAMZ Vol. 1

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Meeting #60 :|: 16 July 2025

Jim Stewart // Tour of the Zymoglyphic Museum, hosted by NonLocal Variable
Mail Art Postcards // The Sticker Dude’s submissions to William Mellott’s “The Rubber Postcard” assembly project, 2020-Present

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Meeting #59 :|: 18 June 2025

Group Presentations // Mail Art Postcards – Adam Roussopoulos, theo nelson
Presentation //  Mail art Call from Ruggero Maggi

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Meeting #58 :|: 21 May 2025

Imogen Pranger // ZMAG Film discussion/questions
Group Presentations // Mail Art Postcards – Reid Wood, Ruggero Maggi (presented by The Sticker Dude), Joey PatrickT

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Meeting #57 :|: 16 April 2025

Imogen  Pranger // Film Proposal discussion
Group Presentations // Mail Art Postcards – Pedro Pescador, Ficus Strangulensis*, Jokie Wilson
Carl Chew* // A Mailart Song – Lyrics by Carl Chew, Music by AI
Sticker Dude // Annual Reading of HE (on the Nature of Good and Evil)
*Presented by Sticker Dude

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Meeting 56 :|: 19 March 2025

Imogen Pranger // ZMAG exquisite corpse film proposal
Group Presentations // Mail Art Postcards – Darlene Altschul, Nonlocal Variable, Cascadia Artpost (Jack Lattemann)

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Meeting 55 :|: 19 February 2025

Imogen Pranger // Film Proposal
Sticker Dude // The ZMAG Anna Banana Artistamp Project
Group Presentations // Mail Art Postcards – C. Mehrl Bennett, Mike Dickau, John M. Bennett

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Meeting 54 :|: 15 January 2025

Stephen Perkins // Creating an Alternative Culture: San Francisco 1980-1990
Anna Banana Remembrance // Presentations & stories by C.M. Bennett, The Sticker Dude, Pedro Pescador & others
The Sticker Dude // Song performance about the painting “Dr. Gachet”

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Meeting 53 :|: 18 December 2024

Discussion // Plan for an Anna Banana Remembrance Meeting
Reid Wood // Personal Delivery: Hand Delivery Around the World, a Project by Peter Kusterman and Angela Pahler
Mike Dickau (Captain Biology) (via The Sticker Dude) // Add & Pass Sheets & The Eternal Network;  Discussion on Add & Pass Sheets (PDF)
The Sticker Dude // “Name That Mail Artist,” A ZMAG contest

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Meeting 52 :|: 20 November 2024

Theo Nelson // Book of Stuff: Mailart Envelopes
Darlene Altschul // Assembly Zines from 2009-2013: Femail Portraits (with Anna Banana); Can Boreal #13 – ATC’s; Eraser Carving Collective (PDFs below)

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Meeting 51 :|: 16 October 2024

Group Presentations // Mail Art in Elections – Made, Found or Collected
Ruggero Maggi // Mail Art events in Italy, Oct. 16 onward (Ray Johnson’s birthday)
Sticker Dude // Promo video for in-the-works Joel Cohen documentary

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Meeting #50 :|: 18 September 2024

nonlocal variable (PDF), Joey Patrickt, Adam Roussopoulos // “Quick Hits,” brief Mail Art presentations/stories
Ruggero Maggi // Video Presentation-“Maggi Mailart 2021,” Archivio Amazon book (PDF)
Group Discussion // ZMAGazine feedback and discussion

click here for PDF

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Meeting #49 :|: 21 August 2024

Carl Chew, RCBz, Joey Patrickt // “Quick hits” – brief presentations of mail art images and their backstories
The Sticker Dude // ZMAGazine progress report
The Sticker Dude // Video – early development of The Sticker Dude at Grateful Dead concerts

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Meeting # 48 :|: 17 July 2024

C. Mehrl Bennett // Mailart and Visual Poetry from Color + Visual Poetry exhibition curated by Willie Marlowe
The Sticker Dude // ZMAGazine progress report

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Meeting #47 :|: 19 June 2024

Imogen Pranger // Mail Myself to You: Oberlin College Mail Art Documentary
The Sticker Dude // ZMAGazine progress report
Discussion – Carl Chew (pro) & Nonlocal Variable (con) // AI in Mail Art: Death Wish or Not?

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Meeting #46 :|: 15 May 2024

Reid Wood // ZMAGazine progress report
RCBz // The Past is Prologue: Collages from 1970’s to the Present (PDF)
Joey PatrickT // What is Art to a Posturban Artist? A History of Eat It Up Mail Art Zine

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Meeting #45 :|: 17 April 2024 

ZMAGazine progress report // deadline is May 15 
Goodbye Tribute to Buz Blurr // Matthew Thompson, Adam Roussopoulos, John Held, C.Mehrl & John Bennett, Reid Wood, & Boog 
Two Songs for Buz // Roger Silverberg – Where’d He Get Off? (SD & R. Silverberg) & Sticker Dude – Life Goes On (Matt Bednarsky)

A comprehensive retrospective of buZ’s life and works, the 2022 book buz blurr: People, Portraits and Polaroid Derivatives, curated by The Sticker Dude, Joel and Adam Roussopoulos with 40 contributors is available for download here.

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Meeting #44 :|: 20 March 2024

Sticker Dude // ZMAGazine progress report – new May 15 deadline 
Nonlocal Variable // There and Back Again: Returning to the Eternal Network (download) 
Musicmaster // Internal Rhyme and more

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Meeting #43 :|: 21 February 2024

Group Discussion // Plan Tribute to buZ blurr for April ZMAG Meeting
Group Discussion // ZMAGazine No. 1: Agreement on Guidelines and Practices
Thomas Kerr // Ink in the Water: Editorial Art, Collaboration & Deconstruction of Drawing

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Meeting #42 :|: 17 January 2024

Adam Roussopoulos // Letterpress Printing From Soup to Nuts: A Complete Demonstration by Adam on his own equipment
Group Discussion // Contemporary Mail Art Calls – Do they inspire us to participate? Do we want to see more posted here? Is documentation important?

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Meeting # 41 :|: 20 December 2023

Sticker Dude // Fundraiser Report
Nonlocal Variable (Duane Schulz) // New Website Report
Discussion // What happens when a mail artist “returns to sender?” We’re not talking about envelopes
Jon Foster // The Magnet Project
Jon Foster // Book Reports
Jon Foster // ZMAG book proposal

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Meeting #40 :|: 15 November 2023

Joey Patrickt // Updating our Web Site
Barbara Prior & Reid Wood // The Oberlin College Mailart Archives
Imogen Pranger // Oberlin College Mail Art Archive Student Documentary
Viv Vassar & Jokie K. Wilson // Fluxfest 2023: Lived it, Loved it, How to Document it

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Meeting #39 :|: 18 October 2023

Boog Highberger // @RtH*Le: A Sporadic Correspondance Assembly Magazine
Carl Chew // My Favorite Mailart
Sticker Dude // Song: “Please Mr. Postman” With Updated Lyrics

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Meeting #38 :|: 20 September 2023

Vivian Vassar & Mary Campbell // Day De Dada Performance Art Collective, Fluxfest NYC 2023 – Oct. 12 -15
C. Mehrl and John Bennett // Luna Bisonte Prods: Fluxus Publications & Past Fluxfest Snap Shots

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Meeting #37 :|: 16 August 2023

Coco Muchmore // Mailart in the Classroom – Art Educator Presentation (download)
ZMAG 3-Year Birthday Party! // Celebrate!! Reminisce and then Brainstorm the Year Ahead

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Meeting #36 :|: 19 July 2023

Jack Kronebusch // A Potential Project with Juan Petry – Update
Joey Patrickt // The Life’s Work of Artist Beki Rose
Diana Hale // From the Philpott Lake to the Redwork Post:
2 Biennial Mailart Projects

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Meeting #35 :|: 21 June 2023

Juan Petry // Social Dada Mailart Project
Discussion // What kind of art do you do beyond Mailart?

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Meeting #34 :|: 17 May 2023

Carl Chew & Theo Nelson // A Brief History & Description of Brain Cell: The Longest-Running Mailart Publication
Adam Roussopoulos & Michelangelo Mayo // The One-of-a Kind “Whiz Bang” Artistamp Perforator
John HeId Jr., Skooter La Dada, and friends // Remembering H.R. Fricker, 1947-2023
C. Mehrl Bennett // Call and Response Poetry, “YOU…”

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Meeting #33 :|: 19 April 2023

Mike Dickau // Ceramics, Fishheads, Artistamps, Add & Pass and more: The Studio, the Sculpture and the Archives of Captain Biology
Coco Muchmore // Mailart goes to High School in Kansas (download)
Sticker Dude // Song: Don’t Shoot That Bunny Down
by Mailartist David Stafford and The Sticker Dude

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Meeting #32 :|: 15 March 2023

Jon Foster // Board Books as Add and Passes
Discussion // Add and Pass projects and how do we relate to them
Coco Muchmore // Memorial for Bill Porter

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Meeting #31 :|: 15 February 2023

Neosho // A Passion for Pottery
CarI Chew // AI Update and Discussion

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Meeting #30 :|: 18 January 2023

Judi Kauffman // How to Turn Envelopes and Scrap Papers
into Accordion Pocket Folders
CarI Chew // Latest AI Creations
Adam Roussopoulos // State of the Studio

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Meeting #29 :|: 16 December 2022

Mars Tokyo // My Back Pages
Adam Roussopoulos // The Rubber Stamps of Mars Tokyo

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Meeting #28 :|: 18 November 2022

Sticker Dude & Thomas Kerr // Ragged Edge Press: 1990s Rubber Stamp Collaboration (PDF)
Thomas Kerr // From Op/Ed Art to Mail Art

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Meeting #27 :|: 21 October 2022

Joey Patrickt // The Famous Artists’ Residence Postcard Series, 1979-1982
Discussion // Mailart Mysteries: Bring Yours, Solve Ours

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Meeting #26 :|: 16 September 2022

Reid Wood’s Personal Journey // Mail Art Collaboration and Networking
Discussion // Rubber Stamps in Mailart – False Dichotomies?

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Meeting #25 :|: 17 August 2022

Discussion // What is Mailart to me?
Jokie X Wilson // Guide to LGBTQ+ Activism With Mailart

Meeting # 24 :|: Jul 20 2022

Neosho // How to portray ZMAG to Mail Artists who reach out to us?
Adam Roussopoulos // Social Media and Mail Art: Possibilities and Problems

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Meeting #23 :|: 15 June 2022

Mars Tokyo // Life On Mars, Theaters of the Thirteenth Dimension
C. Mehrl Bennett // History and Practice of The Mail Art Cow

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Meeting #22 :|: 18 May 2022

Sticker Dude // Anatomy of our own ZMAG
Bibiana Maltos // A Life of Mail Art Exhibitions & more

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Meeting #21 :|: 20 April 2022

Discussion // What should happen to your Mail Art and collected works, post mortem?
Sticker Dude // ZMAG Outreach Follow-up
Jas Felter // Art, Mail Art, Ecuador and More: Picking Jas Felter’s Brain

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Meeting #20 :|: 16 March 2022

Sticker Dude // Outreach Follow-up
Ginny Higgins // On Ed: My Brother
Carl Chew // Ed and Me
Discussion // Ed’s Fluke Interview led by Mathew Thompson,
Fluke Editor
ZMAG members // Pictures of Ed’s work
C. Mehrl Bennett, Monty Cantsin, Reid Wood & others // Comments, Stories, Anecdotes

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Meeting #19 :|: 16 February 2022

Discussion // Mail Arts’ Eternal Network: A Fountain of Youth by Vittore Baroni, group discussion led by Tiny Whisk
Sticker Dude // ZMAG Outreach Piece…
Discussion // Mail Art Wave 2022: Images, ideas, projects

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Meeting #18 :|: 19 January 2022

Vittore Baroni // Videos on The History of (Mailart) Decentralized World Congresses: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
Sticker Dude // Mail Art Wave ideas for 2022
Tiny Whisk // A Fountain of Youth Mail Art Project Documentation

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Meeting #17 :|: 15 December 2021

Ex post facto // Fluxus Bucks in the Mail: My Mailbox is my Museum
Discussion // Fluke article, interview (PDF) on buZ blurr

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Meeting #16 :|: 17 November 2021

Adam Roussopoulos and John Held // History of Artistamps
Neosho // Discussion of Fluke article on Anna Banana

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Meeting #15 :|: 20 October 2021

C. Mehrl and John Bennett // Our Life in MailArt and Publishing
Discussion // Meeting Time and Length

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Meeting #14 :|: 22 September 2021

Gerda Osteneck // Discussion on Controversial or Offensive Topics in ZMAG meetings
Gerda Osteneck // Round table: What have you been up to?
Mia Salazar // USPS Postal Chart “For Mail Artists” with new rates
Theo Nelson // Report on the ZMAG website
Adam Roussopoulos and Sticker Dude // How to Create Rubber Stamped Art Using Masking

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Meeting #13 :|: 25 August 2021

ex posto facto (Julie Jeffries) // Personal History of MailArt and Fluxus Bucks
Discussion // Membership and New Energy, Group Maintenance, Structure of Meetings

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Meeting #12 :|: 21 July 2021

Show & Tell // Share a favorite technique, medium, new tool
Discussion // MailArt feedback

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Meeting #11 :|: 16 June 2021

Sticker Dude // Formation, early history and raison d’etre for Ragged Edge Press

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Meeting #10 :|: 5 May 5 2021

Karen Chew // Simple pamphlet book (PDF) with recycled grocery bag covers
Neosho // Simple and “Scrappy” bookmaking
Gerda Osteneck // Accordion book (PDF) and Spliced accordion book (PDF)

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Meeting #9 :|: 7 April 2021

Adam Roussopoulos // Creating Artistamp Sheets
Show & Tell // Share a favorite tool, a new trick, great artistamp, etc.
Kathleen McHugh // SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day (PDF)

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Meeting #8 :|: 10 March 2021

Discussion // Group Ethics
Jennie Hinchcliff (Red Letter Day) // The San Francisco Correspondence Co-op
Theo Nelson // Studio Tour
Kathleen McHugh // Women Arts Day project

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Meeting #7 :|: 10 February 2021

Pedro // A 1990’s Kinko Insider
Tiny Whisk // A Studio Tour
Discussion // Mailarta Portrait Collection: Options for proceeding

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Meeting #6 :|: 13 January 2021

Discussion // Envelopes or Postcards?
Sticker Dude & Gerda Osteneck // ZMAGazine: Newsletter of the first Zoom Mailart group
Karen Chew // Outreach to Sojurner Library about Zines

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Meeting #5 :|: 16 December 2020

Gerda and Sticker Dude // Planning presentations and demonstrations
John Held, Jr. // History of Mailart Tourism and Mailart Meetings (pdf)
Pedro // “Cover Up” Offensive Mailart, the new Sweater Stickers project
Adam Rousopoulos // Send Me Offensive Art project
NeoSho // Pass On Zine Project and her new Offensive Holiday Cards
Sticker Dude // ZMAG – Zoom Mailart Group logos
Sticker Dude // The Exquisite Corpse project

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Meeting #4 :|: 18 November 2020

Discussion // Group name ZMAG – Zoom Mailart Group
Roundtable // Why do we do Mailart?
Adam Rousopoulos // Send Me Offensive Art
Ex Posto Facto // Masked Mailartist rubber stamp project
Neosho // Zine: What it is, and what it isn’t

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Meeting #3 :|: 21 October 2020

Sticker Dude // “Porn-Free” rubber stamps available

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Meeting #2 :|: 23 September 2020

Discussion // What is Porn in MailArt?

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Meeting #1 :|: 24 August 2020

Gerda Osteneck and Sticker Dude // The MailArt Community During Social Distancing