U.S. Postal Service Release 4 New Forever Stamps with Skateboard Designs
The U.S. Postal Service, also known as the USPS, has continued its path of embracing different American cultures and lifestyles in its stamp designs, including the Thrasher way of life. The release of 4 stamps on March 24, 2023 is collectively called the Art of the Skateboard, and if you’ve ever seen skateboarders in the Olympics, or just Tony Hawk, plus the cool graphics on their boards, then you know that’s a very accurate title.
Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp issuance, using photographs of skateboards created for these stamps. The bold artwork emblazoned on a skateboard deck is often as eye-catching and individualistic as a skater’s most breathtaking moves. As described by the USPS, “Fiercely independent and often rebellious, the skateboarding subculture crackles with raw creative energy.”
The Art of the Skateboard stamps are denominated as Forever stamps and will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price. These four stamps celebrate the Art of the Skateboard with vibrant designs that capture skateboarding’s excitement and reflect the diversity and influences of the four artists whose work is featured:
- Crystal Worl, an Alaskan artist used a blue and indigo salmon formline design to express her Tlingit/Athabascan heritage.
- William James Taylor Jr, a self-taught Virginia artist created an energetic red and orange graphic abstraction.
- Federico “MasPaz” Frum, a Colombian-born, Washington, D.C.-raised muralist painted a stylized jaguar.
- Di’Orr Greenwood, of Arizona represented her Navajo culture with a turquoise-inlaid skateboard that features eagle feathers and colors of the rising or setting sun.
Collectors, and mailers, can find the stamps at Post Offices and at usps.com/shopstamps.
