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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 · 27d

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 · 32m

one of the funniest parts of this weekend is how many of us would get to squirrel haus early before the festivities and just get right down to it! clocking in 🫡 i made and mailed 20+ pieces this weekend

table with piles of mail art, collage materials and rubber stamps

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 34m

soooo fun to meet bibiana in person 💞

selfie of two smiling people with glasses and dark clothing

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

hamil and i are trying to get something to catch on, maybe a new memetic

hamil taking a selfie under bright light

the selfie transformed into a mail art card that says MAIL ART NEPO BABY on it

hamil holding the MAIL ART NEPO BABY cards and flyers we made

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 40m

adam roussopolous, oh boy (tostie), DKA & bibiana playing dress-up

four people wearing matching mail attire cow shirts where all the sections say “bullshit”

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 40m

what a whirlwind of a weekend! how are we supposed to go back to the everyday after being immersed in weird art for three days?

a notepad from the Longfellow Grill with “WHAT NOW?” written on it in pencil, and a golf pencil laying atop the pad

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 10h

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 10h

aww cat tysm! i had been wearing brighter lipstick all summer but now it’s time for a darker shade 🥀

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 10h

i was very alarmed LOL thank goodness

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 10h

day three of DECADES OF MAILING IT IN: my poorly-applied lipstick and i are ready

selfie of allison with dark clothing, silver jewelry, glasses, dark lipstick, buttons on a flannel shirt

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 10h

for the season or for forever??? 😭

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 17h

CARTOON/K_GONZO.GIF

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 12h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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

sure! i’ll be mailing him soon and will include a note about this, but i can mention it today too

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

i do feel pretty “aa(aaaaaaa)”

@jpb.bsky.social calls me aa

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

shall i grab one for you? he came to mail art through tape trading! really lovely person

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

i mildly regret not giving myself a cool mail art pseud, though musicmaster weighed in on this with “allison anne is pretty good, you got the alliteration there…”

(also suppose i could give myself one at any time)

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

somehow i managed to find the kraftwerk one (allegedly) on vibes alone

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

Nonlocal Variable (OR) has been giving out mystery tapes with collage covers

two collages cassette tape cases on a pile of collage stuff

a closeup showing one of the tapes to be “L.L. Smith / Kraftwerk”

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Grant McGaheran @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social · 22h

Let's have some Super Nikka at Twinkle.

A snack called Twinkle with potted plants outside
Hirai, Tokyo

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 22h

note the candy corn @orzechowski.bsky.social brought

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 22h

man, you would be loving this!

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 23h

of course

the same magazine hanging on the wall in the exhibition

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 23h

dreamy

huge messy collage table with papers and supplies strewn all over

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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 23h

collage folks are also my people but mail artists tend to have a shared ethos to a much wider degree and this is VERY apparent when you’re with other mail artists

allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 23h

zine, artist book & independent publishing folks usually feel like “my people” but getting a bunch of mail artists together, now THOSE are my people

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