Tucson Mailbox Art

Let's start a sunny, warm January day with the sun (and the moon) on a plain gray mailbox — painted by a young artist, I'm guessing:...

There's no was I could I miss this red mailbox with white flowers as I rolled along Lee Street. (By the way, Lee is a great east-west bi...

We usually don't show mailboxes with posts made of chain . But this black box is too different — at least, I haven't seen anything...

Here's a mailbox with blue-green desert plants on a lavender background and a snake-shaped flag... The other side and the front are f...

This gorgeous handpainted mailbox popped out along my early-morning bike ride November 7th. But the lighting — spots of bright sunshine and ...

This cheery blue mailbox — with touches of red and a light-green post and door — made me feel at home on October 26, 2015.

This plain gray mailbox is covered with stencils (?) of horses. I galloped by (on my bicycle) October 26th.

Let's start the new year at a mailbox decorated for one of places — the Orient. (It's west of the International Date Line, which me...

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 ...