Tucson Mailbox Art

Here's another of Emily Mann's creative custom-made mailboxes. She just sent a photo and wrote: It is over in La Cebadilla at the ...

Unlike the first mailbox in this series , whose artist will remain anonymous (for now, at least), this wild box is by Emily Mann of solaz.b...

OK, so I keep insisting that this is the Tucson Murals Project, but I've also been showing a few out-of-state mailboxes in the last few...

That's the second of two mailboxes that aren't (yet) permanent. Last week's box was on a stack of blocks. This week's rust...

This week and next, we'll check on the progress of two under-construction mailboxes. This plain black one is mounted (or just set? :)...

It looks like this home gets a lot of mail! Their mailbox is a regular US Postal Service mail-deposit box, with peeling brown paint. I w...

Two sunny scenes on July 1st: The mailbox is mostly green, with a pond with fish, the sun and cattails on one side — and, on the other, a...

Once in a while, I like to post a mailbox from somewhere outside Tucson. This is one of those times... This happy pair was at 155-156 Riv...

This plain black mailbox is mounted on a not! plain steel sculpture of a horse that the artist told me is “a bucking Sicilian Donkey! Just ...

A white mailbox with floral designs in (mostly) reds, oranges and browns: The other side has some of what looks like peeling: I spotte...

This udderly fun mailbox shows a cow with its back left leg (and udder!) half-falling-off: I moooved by on July 1st.

This article is from the Arizona Daily Star on August 5th: Community mourns Michigan man who waved at passers-by Mailboxes are more tha...

I used to do a lot of road trips. Back then, in the days when folks could pay extra to send a letter by Air Mail, quite a few families pu...

An artistic mailbox on an artistic post, from April 25th... Closer on both sides:

That's the second box I found along my April 25th trip up this part of Orchard Avenue past Grant. It's purple with white topped by ...

The next three mailboxes are in two blocks of Orchard Avenue between Grant and Glenn. This is one side of the box at 2444. It's pain...

This mailbox has scenery (a Native American pueblo, maybe?, at the left side, with hoodoos at the right side and a flag that's a US fla...

Here's our Independence Day special edition: a mailbox with Uncle Sam along the post. I found it on my April 18th Mailbox Mission. B...

I'm guessing that this mailbox is a tractor. (Any other ideas? Please leave a comment below.) The box, the house and the curb didn...

I'm on the road for much of June. At one campsite, one of the few radio stations I could get was a sports station with lots of baseball ...

Here are two mailboxes mounted on a spoked wheel: I rolled by on April 18th.

The homeowner probably does some traveling, or moving, or something... It's a mailbox covered with license plates. I spotted it, or t...

I'm trying to imagine what a new letter carrier might think upon seeing this bewilderingly fun mailbox for the first time. Rube Goldber...

Here's a rusted steel mailbox with a white hand as its flag. Next, a photo from another corner: I found the box on April 18th.

When I photograph mailboxes, I don't ring the owner's doorbell or do anything else to get the story of the box — unless I see a resi...

This tan-colored mailbox sprouts a couple of long leaves from the bottom of its post. I couldn't find a good angle to show both leav...

That's a white mailbox with the family's name and handprints in blue. I found it on April 14th.

Last week, David Aber sent me a photo of a mailbox he'd photographed (according to the datestamp imbedded in the photo file) June 9, 2...

A plain-vanilla (actually, black) mailbox embedded in a post made of stones: I snapped the photo a week ago, April 14.

Here's a blue-green mailbox with saguaros and a skull that I spotted earlier today:

A plain white mailbox on top of a brown chest with brass fittings, from April 4th:

Too bad this green box, and post with a white handle and spout attached, doesn't have real water for thirsty bicyclists. (Actually, I...

(Yes, really: East North Street. Just a couple of blocks east of this spot, south of Grant, are North Farwest Drive, North West Drive, Nort...

The tiles around the top of the stuccoed post that surrounds the black mailbox match the tiles in the entry walk. Address tiles on the wall...