Current Edition
Formula KWelcome Race Fans! Get ready to roll by choosing your winning vehicle. Race day is at the Bayard Bᴸox Party!
Previous Editions
| # | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Photo Studio | Take a selfie with the Bayard Box photo studio |
| 18 | Postcards from the Bayard Box | Custom designed postcards featuring Kenton, Bayard, and the Bayard Box |
| 17 | April showers bring May flowers. But seeds help | To usher in the Spring of 2024, the Bayard Box offered seed packets of flowers. |
| 16 | March Madness Very Unofficial Fan Buttons | A 3 pack of 1" March Madness-themed buttons. Our first box featuring audio. |
| 15 | The Bayardemy Awards | Superlative awards for you and your neighbors in the spirit of the Academy Awards. Our first box featuring lighting effects. |
| 14 | Super Startmatic | An installation of the fictional company Janus Mechatronics' machine that helps ease anxieties ahead of a new year. |
| 13 | The North Pole Review | The fictional paper that debuted The Bayard Box returned for it's second year. Donations collected with $10 donated to Street Roots. |
| 12 | Tim Burr’s Quality Firewood | Mr. Burr returned with another bundle. |
| 11 | Miss Maude's Adoption Agency | A nest wee baby spiders with big eyes just waiting for adoption. |
| 10 | Core Curriculum | Each "apple" (of sorts) provided food for thought for only 25 cent at a sidewalk "fruit" box. |
| 9 | Space Chalk | Supersize chalk for claiming sidewalk space, marketed with unlicensed allusions. |
| 8 | Yard Sale in a Box | A multi-family yard sale with all items 25 cents, but all in a single box. |
| 7 | The Bayard Box presents the Bijou Gallery featuring Kristina Shaffer | A miniature art gallery featuring impressionist pieces by a local Bayard artist— available for viewing or purchase. |
| 6 | Lucky Ducks | A paddling of small "lucky" rubber ducks on a tropical vacation. |
| 5 | The Bayard Bark | A dog-written newspaper presenting "canine views on local news." Donations collected with $10 donated to Family Dogs, New Life, a no-kill shelter in Portland. |
| 4 | Kazoo Zoo | Adopt a Kazoo for 25¢. |
| 3 | Cut-Price Poetry | Original typewritten poems |
| 2 | Tim Burr Quality Firewood | Locally-sourced, hand-split firewood bundles |
| 1 | The North Pole Review | A fictional holiday newspaper. Donations collected with $10 donated to Hand Up Project, a local food pantry. |
About
The Bayard Box started as an abandoned newspaper vending machine. This box was originally manufactured in the late 1990s, but the TK-80 Sho-Rack by Kaspar wireworks was a highly popular model that saw service throughout the heyday of newspaper vending (1970s-2010s).In 2022, it was reclaimed and reinvented as a community art project with rotating editions.
We are currently keeping the exact address off the internet. But it's in North Portland, just east of Trenton Park in the Kenton neighborhood. Spend some time walking around and perhaps you'll stumble across it!
Is there an issue with the box? Feel free to pop up to the front door and give a knock. Leave a note with contact info if we're not available. This old machine can get flustered easily.
Photo taken December 2023 for Edition #13