Tucson Mailbox Art

You can't miss this red and white mailbox with numbers carved alongside the post! I was blinded :) as I rode by on November 20, so...

Riding my bike by on November 20th, I couldn't miss this mailbox on a peace sign-shaped “post”: That side of the box is painted with ...

When I drove by this home on the route of the fall artists’ open studios tour November 14th, the scene looked as if an artist lives here: ...

Along my route on the fall 2015 artists’ open studios tour, one artist had this mailbox out front with a tour sign hung over it: Those ar...

It looks like the Mann Family have roots in Montana and Arizona: Thanks, Brady and Celia... I snapped their mailbox photo on November ...

Here's the fourth of four mailboxes in the three blocks of this little street: I've read that Sesame Street characters have been ...

This short section of Desert Avenue just north of 6th Street has lots of mailboxes. Here's the third of the series: I was there on No...

Here's a black box with a yellow flower and the house number on both sides: This is one of several mailboxes I found on Desert Avenue...

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...