2023 Art of the Skateboard Forever First Class Postage Stamps

The bold artwork emblazoned on a skateboard deck is often as eve-catching and individualistic as a skater’s most breathtakingmoves. These four stamps celebrate the Art of the Skateboard with vibrant designs that capture skateboarding’s excitement andreflect the diversity and influences of the four artists whose work is featured.
On a pane containing five rows of four stamps, each skateboard appears once per row, Each subsequent row begins by repeatingthe last stamp from the previous row, creating a staggered arrangement of designs.Alaskan Crystal Worl reflects her indigenous TlingitAthabascan heritage with a blue and indigo salmon rendered in formline, thestriking curvilinear design style of the northern Northwest Coast.
A bold graphic abstraction embellishes a deck by self-taught Virginia artist Wiliam James Taylor Junior. His skateboard features adesign of red lines and curves against an orange background.
Arizona native and expert skateboarder Di’Orr Greenwood created a skateboard design with paint, artistic woodbumning, and inlaidcrushed turquoise. Her Navajo culture is further relected on a deck featuring eagle feathers and a colorful burst in hues evoking arising or setting sun.
A black, white, and gold jaguar design is the work of muralist MasPaz (Federico Frum), a Colombian native raised in theWashington, D.C., area. The largest cat in the Americas, the jaguar symbolizes authority and power in the art and lore o
Indigenous peoples.
Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamps.
The Art of Skateboards stamps are being issued as Forever® stamps, Forever stamps are always equal in value to the curent
First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.
Made in the USA.