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Nov. ane, 2021
U.South. Postal Service Reveals New Stamps for 2022
Upcoming stamps honor Pete Seeger, Katharine Graham, Edmonia Lewis and women cryptologists of World War Two, commemorate passage of Championship Ix and the establishment of the National Marine Sanctuary System and much more
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service has announced several new stamps to be issued in 2022.
"The new 2022 stamps are miniature works of art, designed to exist educational and appeal to collectors and pen pals effectually the globe," said USPS Stamp Services Director William Gicker. "As always, the program offers a diversity of subjects celebrating American culture and history. The vivid colors and unique designs of this year'due south selections will add a special bear on of beauty on your envelopes."
This is a partial list of the 2022 stamp plan, with more to be announced in the weeks and months ahead. All stamp designs are preliminary and subject field to change.
Lunar New Year - Year of the Tiger
The 3rd of 12 stamps in the latest Lunar New year's day stamp series celebrates the Yr of the Tiger. Calling to mind the elaborately decorated masks used in the dragon or lion dances often performed in Lunar New Year parades, this three-dimensional mask depicting a tiger is a contemporary have on the long tradition of newspaper-cut folk fine art crafts created during this auspicious time of yr. The tiger mask design incorporates colors and patterns symbolic to the holiday. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp and pane with original fine art by Camille Chew.
Blueberries
The new four-cent Blueberries postage stamp volition be available for sale in panes of 20 and coils of 3,000 and 10,000. The postage features a pen, ink and watercolor illustration of a cluster of blueberries and leaves. Blueberries will join other similarly designed depression-denomination stamps available separately for purchase: 1-cent Apples, two-cent Meyer Lemons, 3-cent Strawberries, 5-cent Grapes and 10-cent Pears. Art managing director Derry Noyes designed the stamps using existing illustrations by John Burgoyne.
U.Due south. Flags
The Postal service continues its tradition of celebrating the U.South. flag with this stamp, which will be available in panes of twenty, booklets of 20, and coils of 100, 3,000 and ten,000. The postage fine art is a painting of iii flags in a circular formation, reminiscent of the 50 flags encircling the Washington Monument. The artist used 3 photographs of the same flag taken seconds autonomously as reference and stitched together the images into a single composition. Laura Stutzman was the stamp designer and illustrator. Ethel Kessler was the art director.
Love 2022
The 2 new Dear stamps celebrate the joy that flowers bring. Inspired by old European folk fine art, the stamps feature digital illustrations with like designs: 3 round, stylized blooms ranging symmetrically along the pinnacle, with smaller circular blossoms in each of the lower corners. The background colour of ane stamp is powder bluish, and the other is coral. Twisting vines, which hold small multi-petaled flowers, course abstract center shapes. The letters of the word "LOVE" are interspersed among the decorative vines. Bailey Sullivan designed the stamps and created the original art. Greg Convenance was the art director.
Edmonia Lewis
The 45th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors sculptor Edmonia Lewis (circa 1844-1907). As the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition, Lewis challenged social barriers and assumptions about artists in mid-19th century America. The postage art is a casein-on-wood portrait of Lewis, based on a photo taken in Boston between 1864 and 1871. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp with original art by Alex Bostic.
Butterfly Garden Flowers
The two nondenominated Butterfly Garden Flowers stamps are intended for bulk mailings past authorized nonprofit organizations. Each stamp features ane of two flowers that butterflies love to visit: scabiosas or cosmos. Inspired past block-printed textile and pattern pattern, the creative person paw-carved the images into linoleum blocks. After inking the blocks, she pressed them onto paper, scanned the images and added color digitally. Art managing director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamps with original art by Rigel Stuhmiller.
Mountain Flora
These four new stamps gloat the beauty of mountain flowers. Each Mountain Flora stamp features a dissimilar bloom: a purple pasqueflower, an orange-red forest lily, a bright yellow alpine buttercup and a nighttime pink Woods' rose. The artist's hand-drawn illustrations, refined digitally, create a block-impress aesthetic. The stamps volition be issued in booklets of 20 and coils of 3,000 and ten,000. Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps with original art by Lili Arnold.
Championship 9
This postage stamp release commemorates the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title 9, the ceremonious rights police prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex activity in any educational program or activity receiving federal fiscal assist. Applied at educational institutions over a wide range of programs, its most visible impact has been on school athletics. Iv dissimilar stamps characteristic dark blue silhouettes of one of 4 female athletes: a runner, a swimmer, a gymnast and a soccer player. Yellow laurel branches, symbolic of victory, rest in their hair and on the swimmer'southward cap. Artist Melinda Beck designed the stamps. Derry Noyes was the art director.
Sunflower Bouquet
The Sunflower Bouquet 2-ounce postage features an assortment of sunflowers, irises and other small flowers priced to suit the weight of heavy invitations, oversize greeting cards and other mailings that crave actress postage. The Sunflower Bouquet stamp is similar in blueprint to the new Tulips Forever stamp, and the 2 course a natural pair. The stamp was designed by art director Ethel Kessler, with digital photography by Harold Davis.
Tulips
The Tulips Forever stamp features a luminous, nigh ethereal assortment of overlapping tulips in ruby-red, orange, xanthous, imperial and white against a bright white background. Like in blueprint to the two-ounce Sunflower Bouquet stamp, this postage tin can be used on RSVP envelopes oft enclosed with nuptials invitations. In addition to regular correspondence, it is besides perfect for party invitations, thank-y'all notes and important announcements. This stamp was designed by art manager Ethel Kessler, with digital photography past Harold Davis.
Katharine Graham
The 17th postage in the Distinguished Americans series honors Katharine Graham (1917-–2001), the offset female head of a Fortune 500 company and a pivotal figure during turbulent moments in American history. The postage features an oil portrait of Graham, based on a photo taken in the 1970s, during the peak of her influence as owner and president of The Washington Post Co., where she was also publisher of its flagship newspaper. Art manager Derry Noyes designed the stamp with original art by Lynn Staley.
Women Cryptologists of Globe War Ii
This stamp honors all the women cryptologists of Globe War II. I of the conflict's best-kept secrets, their service played an costive role in the Centrolineal victory. The stamp art features an epitome from a World War II-era recruitment poster for the U.S. Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, whose members were known every bit WAVES. The image has an overlay of characters from the "Purple" encrypted code, which was used by Japan. In the pane selvage, seemingly random messages can exist deciphered to reveal some key words. The opposite side of the pane discloses the cipher needed to read the words. Antonio Alcalá was the art manager and designer for the stamp and pane.
Pete Seeger
The 10th postage stamp in the Music Icons series honors Pete Seeger (1919-2014), a champion of traditional music and its ability to inspire activism. Seeger's clear tenor voice, iconic banjo and enormous charisma transformed concerts into singalongs. The stamp art features a colour-tinted black-and-white photograph of Seeger singing and playing his banjo in the early 1960s, by Dan Seeger, the performer's son. I side of the pane includes 16 stamps and the image of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the meridian of the sleeve. A larger version of the postage stamp fine art photograph appears on the reverse side. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp and pane.
Women'southward Rowing
These stamps gloat women's rowing, a graceful just demanding sport in which American women have excelled, including in the Olympics. The artwork, which covers the entire pane, is a stylized illustration of v eight-person rowing teams competing or practicing. Four stamp designs are featured in a pane of 20 stamps bundled as five staggered rows of four. Nancy Stahl designed and illustrated the stamps and pane. Ethel Kessler was the fine art manager.
Eugenie Clark
Affectionately known as the "Shark Lady," pioneering marine biologist Eugenie Clark (1922-2015) spent her career working tirelessly to change public perception about sharks as well as to preserve marine environments around the earth. The stamp art features a digital collage, including a photo of Clark and a lemon shark. Wavy blueish elements in the background evoke an undersea scene. Multidisciplinary artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya designed and created the stamp. Antonio Alcalá was the art managing director.
National Marine Sanctuaries
For 50 years, U.S. marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments have protected areas with special ecological, cultural and historical significance. Each of the xvi stamps on the pane features a photograph from a site that is part of the National Marine Sanctuary System, showcasing merely some of our nation's precious natural treasures. A map of the National Marine Sanctuary Organisation is printed on the dorsum of the pane. Art director Greg Breeding designed the pane using existing photographs and a newly illustrated map.
Pony Cars
Over the past 6 decades, pony cars take go a uniquely American obsession, bringing a youthful spirit to the automotive world. These stamps celebrate 5 iconic U.Due south. automobiles — the 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 302, the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-seven GT and the 1969 AMC Javelin SST. The assuming and dramatic artwork, painted with oils on panel, captures the energy and mystique of pony cars. Zack Bryant designed the stamps with original art by Tom Fritz. Greg Breeding was the fine art director.
Elephants
This lighthearted and playful stamp celebrates America's affection for elephants. A graphic illustration of an elephant interacting with its immature calf represents the loving nature of these beloved animals. Two stylized plants and a brilliant orange dominicus add whimsy and colour. The Elephants postage stamp will be sold in booklets of 20. Art managing director Derry Noyes designed the stamp with original fine art by Rafael López.
George Morrison
I of the nation'southward greatest modernist artists and a founding figure of Native American modernism, George Morrison (1919-2000) challenged prevailing ideas of what Native American fine art should exist, arguing that an artist'due south identity can exist independently from the nature of the art he creates. Morrison is best known for his abstract landscapes and monumental wood collages. A pane of 20 colorful stamps showcases five of Morrison's artworks. The selvage features a photograph of the artist in his abode studio. Antonio Alcalá was the art managing director and designer for this stamp pane.
Mighty Mississippi
The Mississippi River is variously referred to as America's backbone, heart and soul. The Mighty Mississippi release honors the big river with a portfolio of x photographic stamps, each representing a state along its grade. On the dorsum of the pane is a map of the central United states, detailing the river and its major tributaries. Art manager Ethel Kessler designed the pane using existing photographs.
Postal Products
Customers may buy stamps and other philatelic products through the Postal Store at usps.com/shopstamps, by calling 844-737-7826, by mail through USA Philatelic, or at Postal service Role locations nationwide.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage stamp, products and services to fund its operations.
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