Tucson Mailbox Art

Here's another great find by David Aber, emailed to me on November 1st. The box is in the middle of the photo, but the surroundings (inc...

David Aber rolled by this mostly-complete mailbox along the Bronx Wash: It's more complete than the front-end bike-box shown on Augus...

David Aber emailed this photo on October 6th. The mailbox has a couple (at least) of coats of paint; one is wearing off. Though I'm no...

David Aber finds lots of mailboxes in parts of town that I don't reach on my bicycle. Here's one he calls “The Little Engine That...

I flew by this welded, rusted bug on September 30th.

Here's the third of three mailboxes along this stretch of Glenn. Let's start with a view from the top: That's the east side. ...

Once in a while, while I'm on the road, I'll show a mailbox somewhere outside of Tucson. Here are nine of them from Santa Fe on Octo...

This is the fourth and last box in the series by custom mailbox maker Emily Mann of Solaz Designs . I asked if she had any new mailboxes t...

Ever seen a ladybug mailbox? I think that's what this is: red with black spots and two springy antennae. Here's the west side: ...

Let's look at the third box in this series by Emily Mann of Solaz Designs . She sent these photos of her “tree of life” mailbox. Fir...

I finally made my mailbox-hunting trip along the east end of Glenn — in central Tucson, not the part near Houghton Road — west to Country Cl...

Here's another photo of a box by Emily Mann of Solaz Designs . Emily makes custom mailboxes. She calls this one a “tailored box.” ...

We've already seen one covered-wagon mailbox . Here's another, from David Aber: He rolled by it on September 10th.

I'm almost out of both mailboxes and time… I also won't be back home and settled until the end of October. A year or two ago, I met...

The mailbox is a tan color with (what looks like a child's) handpainted scene on the east side. The west side was blank when I found the...

David Aber took this photo, of a white mailbox with a handpainted desert scene, on September 10th.

The Blog is Back! I'm also changing the second blog entry each week to publish on Thursday instead of Friday. (The Tucson Murals Projec...

The Tucson Mailbox Art will be on vacation for a while. But we'll be back! You can watch for new entries on the @TucsonArt Twitter feed ...

Driving toward Gates Pass on August 8th, I rolled past a mailbox that looked custom-built. I found a parking place and walked downhill to...

As I've written recently, Glenn Street seems to have more than its share of creative mailboxes. Now that I'm (finally!) getting ou...

This faded white mailbox with desert scenes is in front of the Tucson Community Meditation Center : I drove mindfully by it on June 25th....

This plain black box sits in a rusted frame made of mesh, perched on a square post and a saguaro, with javelina above and below. It's...

Here's another mailbox that David Aber found in the corner of Tucson with streets named for stars and planets — and using calle and ave...

Like the previous mailbox , this one is in the part of Tucson, southeast of 22nd & Wilmot, with semicircular streets named for stars and...

David Aber sent this photo May 19th. He calls it (for obvious reasons) the Choo Choo Box: I'm not sure if the homeowners made this cl...

Here's the second of two mailboxes David Aber spotted along Sylvia Street on May 17th: He's dubbed it Hot Rod Box.

David Aber has turned into a mailbox hunter extraordinaire (though he's told me that he doesn't go hunting; he just spots the mail...

I've seen mailboxes mounted on wagon wheels before, but not like this interesting combination. I rolled by on June 5th.

What a riot of colored tile on the post of this mailbox! I'm not sure why I didn't snap a photo from the back side. While I wa...

For a sewing business named Hem & Her, this plain black mailbox perched on top of a big pair of scissors cuts just right. (Sorry. :) ...

This stack of mailboxes is on the west side of 6th Avenue across from the corner with 7th Street (across from Miller Surplus). I'm not...

There's something about Glenn Street that encourages lots of creative mailboxes. I keep seeing them as I drive by, but I don't alw...

This mailbox looks a bit royal to me in its colors of gold (the box) and blue (the post). The number, as well as a few flourishes, are alo...

This is the last of the four mailboxes David Aber sent on April 4th. He wrote “Someone did a nice job on the tiles.” That's for sure! Th...