Skateboarder Di'Orr Greenwood is an artist born and raised in the Navajo Nation in AZ--her work is featured on one of four new stamps from USPS that showcase artists from around the country. Read how the stamps are featuring indigenous art . AP_Images
PHOENIX — Years ago, skateboarding was branded as a hobby for rebels or stoners in city streets, schoolyards and back alleys. Those days are long gone.
The postal agency is debuting the “Art of the Skateboard" stamps at a Phoenix skate park. The stamps feature skateboard artists from around the country, including Greenwood and Crystal Worl, who is Tlingit Athabascan. William James Taylor Jr., an artist from Virginia, and Federico"MasPaz" Frum, a Colombian-born muralist in Washington, D.C., round out the quartet of featured artists.
Antonio Alcalá, USPS art director, led the search for artists to paint skate decks for the project. After settling on a final design, each artist received a skateboard from Alcalá to work on. He then photographed the maple skate decks and incorporated them into an illustration of a young person holding up a skateboard for display. The person is seen in muted colors to draw attention to the skate deck.
“I was born and raised with my great-grandmother, who looked at a stamp kind of like how a young kid would look at an iPhone 13,” Greenwood said."She entrusted every important news and every important document and everything to a stamp to send it and trust that it got there.”
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