Tucson Mailbox Art

As I ride my bike around Tucson looking for artistic mailboxes, from time to time I realize that a clever design I first spotted a while ba...

I noticed this mailbox on October 25th, while I was visiting an artist on one of the fall Open Studios Tours. The post is made from a (for...

I spotted this Halloween-themed mailbox — surrounded by cobwebs — (naturally enough) just before Halloween. For some reason, I forgot to sho...

This whale of a mailbox even has a canoeist as the flag (which you can see in the first photo below): I floated by on October 25th.

One side of this mostly lavender and blue-greenish box has a tidy tile number sign on the post. The number on the other side is made wit...

Subtle coloring makes this mailbox different from many. I found it October 23rd.

Back on November 25th, we posted an entry about the project named Dímelo (“You tell me”): Stories of the Southwest. Watch their website — a...

Their mailbox is on a pile of rocks, at least. :) And whenever I ride my bicycle past the school (it's between Aviation Bikeway and t...

A sunny welcome to Tucson's Ward 6 Midtown Council Office: The bottom of the other side has part of a bumper sticker, and the top of ...

If you're moving like a snail today after a big Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, this mailbox is for you: I actually found the mailbox ...

Here's a entry from the Limón y Sal blog that's partly about a story mailbox project. Click the “this one” link, underneath the phot...

As you're headed southbound on Swan past Grant, just to your right — or headed northbound past Pima, across the road on your left — is ...

What happened to this mailbox? Is that duct tape around it? I didn't make a note about it when I stopped by on October 17th. The big...

We've got bountiful boxes now, so I'll start posting two a week. I think this might be a ladybug mailbox: red with black spots an...

This flag-covered mailbox is just in time for Veterans Day. Although the address is on Manville Road, I spotted it a bit farther north on ...

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...