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✂️ handy with a pair of scissors 📍 queer artist in mpls, mni sota makoce 💌 collage, zines, mail art, publishing ☁️ @twincitiescollage.bsky.social + @nonmachinable.com + @celebratecollagemonth.com ♊️ they/them 🗃️ allisonanne.com / bio.link/allisonanne

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 26d

preceding shadow // handcut paper collage on recycled paperboard, september 2025

#collageart #paper #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

abstract collage in blue, pink, green, white and cream tones. very textured, with a mountainous tall abstract mineral form

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1m

of course, of course!

monte cazazza on the cover of anna banana and bill (picasso) gaglione’s VILE

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 7m

this event in minneapolis has material from five decades of the mail artist musicmaster’s archive amongst many other things, so cool that folks came from around the country, i’m really excited for the rest of the weekend!

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 9m

oh yeah, absolutely! i’ve been involved with it for about 15 years. i think it is starting to get explored academically as a site of importance and interest, especially with the rise in interest re: ray johnson the past few years, and the academic interest in zines too

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 11m

was at the mail art event today for about 20 minutes before i heard someone start talking about monte cazazza

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 11m

so excited to crack into this

book cover for nicolas ballet’s “shock factory: the visual culture of industrial music”

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 24m

the dress looks so much like this fucking 1989 skipper doll outfit i had as a kid (in what world is this a homecoming dress? took me a minute to find it because i kept looking for “bridesmaid”)

1989 homecoming queen teen skipper in a similar white dress to the doll in the initial post

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 25m

Introducing Julia…

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 28m

there were about a million cool things that happened today but watching this short film about blaster al ackerman with a full audience at this mail art event was definitely high on the list

Blaster Al Ackerman This Will Explain

YouTube video by Wayne Nelsen

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 37m

the only MLB i’m talking about is Mail art, Lads and Besties

big display of mail art from musicmaster’s archives

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 39m

me after being offline all day

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1h

my entire feed is baseball did i get transported to the baseball dimension

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 43m

a hand holding a small rubber stamp that says “yikes”

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 44m

getting into historical costuming

magazine clipping of a 1980s porcelain doll in a very eighties dress

“Introducing Julia… a Victorian bride”

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 46m

he’s such a delight, omg, so fun to hang out with him today! never really thought i’d have the opportunity to meet him!

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 5h

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 5h

been sitting with The Sticker Dude (Joel Cohen / Ragged Edge Press) for the past few hours working on mail art. he passed me this big box of rubber stamps he made in the 1990s and told me to pick some out 🥲 i will treasure them forever

a priority mail box filled with rubber stamps

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 15h

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 15h

Happy radiator season, to all who celebrate
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Color photo of a radiator painted red with white designs of spirals and flames. Caption reads Perfection Ornamental pattern of American Radiators. Decorated in strongly contrasting colors for Billiard Room, Theatre Lobby, Hallway or the like, where forceful effects are desired.

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

this weekend! i’ll be there the whole time! come collage with me, look at zines and talk mail art!

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · Aug 2

amazing news via Musicmaster (Tom Cassidy) - he's having an exhibition of mail art from his archive this october at Squirrel Haus Arts in Minneapolis, October 10th to 12th! absolutely thrilled and so excited

Decades of Mailing It In
Friday - Sunday October 10-12, 2025

Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling, Mpls. www.squirrelhausarts.com

Musicmaster (aka Thomas M. Cassidy) is putting together a madness-infused exhibition of 1000+ pieces of Mail-Art called
Decades of Mailing It In, Fri.-Sun. October 10-12, at Squirrel Haus, 3450 Snelling, Mpls. This trail mix of letters, cards, hi-jinx, zines, collaborations, and para-punk debris is from 40,000+ pieces of mail-art yakked up by his mailbox since 1972. It's also a "retrospective" gone correctly awry because 99% of the works aren't by Musicmaster, but are instead pieces sent to him.

There will also be a display of mail-art sent just for this event, mail-zines, artistamps, projects guests can add to, freebies, Fluxus fallout, local mail-artists in person (not just in envelopes anymore), and audio/video enhancements from beyond.

The opening reception starts on Friday at 3:00 p.m. with a short overview and mini Q&A interventions between viewers and artworks. Local spoken word all-stars and troubadours will be featured in the performance space in shows both Friday and Saturday starting at 7 p.m. Gallery opens 1:00 p.m. Saturday.

Starting 1:00 p.m. Sunday there will performances, readings, collaborations and more (I'm not kidding) by Greet-O-Matic, Adam Roussopoulos, Hamil Griffin-Cassidy, Doug Green, Ted King, Wayne Nelsen, special guests John M. and C. Mehrl Bennett of Luna Bisonte Prods, Columbus, OH.
Stay tuned! This will be an active swirling celebration of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Belief System, Freedom of Art, Freedom of Comedy, Freedom of the Absurd, Freedom of Movement, Freedom to Assemble, Freedom to Connect and Freedom to Stay Tuned for Spoken Word All Star Line-Ups!

Questions? Email internalrhyme@outlook.com or message
Thomas Cassidy on Facebook

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

been working on some new notecards

stacks of blank greeting cards with abstract collage art on them

a stack of cards and envelopes on a paper cutter

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

wounded strata // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, october 2025

submission for Andrea Burgay's Cut Me Up Magazine issue 16, curated by Teri Henderson, on the theme of "ritual + collage" cutmeupmagazine.com

#collageart #paper #artsky #abstract #collage #queerart #artist

semi-abstract collage with hands putting a lid on a garden that's inside a bell jar and many small abstractions surrounding and overlaying it

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

sweet little faces

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

also, she can do this

the same grey cat in the same spot, lit with pink light and looking like she’s trying to enact consequences with the sheer force of her brain power

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

her proper name is Ruby Jane but we call her RJ, janie, lavender princess, youngest daughter, sweet lump, rjanesty, mama (she had kittens before coming home to us), the grey one…. but never Ruby really, we don’t call her that

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

she has been home with us for 332 days 💗

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 1d

girlie

grey tabby cat posing coyly on a pink
cat tree

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