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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 · 25d

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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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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 · 22h

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 · 10h

sweet little faces

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

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 · 11h

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 · 11h

she has been home with us for 332 days 💗

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

girlie

grey tabby cat posing coyly on a pink
cat tree

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 12h

velvet and dusty tones for changing seasons (it was a lot warmer than expected today)

selfie of allison, a white person with bangs, glasses, black clothing, silver jewelry, brown lipstick

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 12h

really lovely

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 12h

honey roasted peanuts + 2 🫣

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 12h

big yikes

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 12h

thank you! all work made over the summer, the cards turned out really nice

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 13h

it would be really fun to get some folks together and scan/photograph/digitize that stuff. while i didn’t freelance for alt weeklies, i def have my own version of this. @k8c.bsky.social and i have been talking about doing something similar for our family

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 14h

wow, that’s fabulous! i love this kind of thing. i’ll keep an eye out for ads and classifieds in the old home magazines i have haha

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 14h

i’m very similar! and the design is glorious!

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 14h

the colors! the type on the box!

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 14h

this was on when i was in high school and i LOVED her

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 14h

she really is you

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 15h

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 16h

oh! i’m so happy you’re here on bsky! and that looks amazing!

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 16h

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

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 16h

been working on some new notecards

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