Press

Radio – Television – Internet

Many of the articles have been put into PDF format. (If you do not have Acrobat Reader for the PDF files it can be downloaded here free.)

2021

“Grate Expectations” by Rona Gindin, Orlando Arts Magazine: Artist Space, Sept/Oct 2021

 

Podcast: Avant Interviews Manhole Artist, Bobbi Mastrangelo by Natalia Guerrero
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2019

Bobbi Mastrangelo Artists Space by Connie Sue White, Orlando Arts Magazine May/June 2019

Photo credit to Pheken Ebenhack – Print PDF

2016

October – Michell Ward – October Manhole Madness WebsitePDF of Website Bobbi Mastrangelo and Featured Artists from The Polasek Museum Exhibit: “Unseen Art: Touchable Sculpture”

2015

Q & A with a“GRATE” Artist May 2015 Edition of Today & Tonight Magazine

Turning manhole covers into artThe Municipal Posted on January 1, 2015 by Barb SieminskiPrint PDF

2014

Orlando Museum of Art hosts artist specializing in manhole covers – Orlando Sentinel http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news April 2014print version by Mike Freeman PDF

2013
 

WUCF-TV Artisode # 108 Features Bobbi Mastrangelo’s Grate Works of Art Nov 21, 2013

2012

“Artist enters the age of Cyberspace and all its benefit” Freeline Media.com by Michael FreemanPDFAugust 8th, 2012

2011

“Poinciana Artist Heads to The Orlando Museum of Art” Freeline Media.com by Michael FreemanPDFDecember 27th 2011

“Artist Draws on Spirit of Unity at 9/11 Event” TheLedger.com by Michael FreemanPDFSeptember 23rd, 2011

“Artist Has Patriotic Passion” The Ledger by Michael FreemanPDFJuly 7th, 2011

Poinciana Artist Freeline Media by Michael Freeman – PDF – June 27th, 2011

Catch Grate Exhibit ‘Water Reflections’ at Toho Water Authority May 18th, 2011

2010

“Shakeout from Streets to Galleries” Modern Casting Magazine (p. 56: Mastrangelo and Christiansen, featured manhole artists) – Sept. 2010

“Poinciana Artist becomes well known as ‘The Grate Lady'” The Ledger, May 18, 2010

Artsy Shark Interview Bobbi Mastrangelo’s interview ArtsyShark.com – May 2010

National Resources Defense Council Environmental Art Prize: Mastrangelo, one of eleven finalist: April 2010

2009

Interview Celestopea Times October 2009

2007

Interview – Mental Contagion by Sam Edsill– Cause & Effect. (PDF) – September 2007

2006

Artist of the Month – Osceola Center for the Arts Orlando Sentinel, Life in Osceola by Sara Sheckler. – February 26, 2006

2005

“Paper Works” to “Grate Works “ Friends of Dard Hunter, Inc. Newsletter by Bobbi Mastrangelo – June 2005

“Three Sewer Hitter” and “Gaz” These sculpture relief works were selected for the 2005 Annual Juried Art Exhibitionat The Osceola Center for the Arts . The exhibition was from April 8 – 30 – 2411 E. Irlo Bronson Highway Kissimmee, Florida 34744April 2005

2004

“Maryvale Alumna Featured in Art display at Buffalo State” by Stephen Koenig, Cheektowaga Times – July 2004

2003

“Beauty Under Foot” TV Park (Guide) Moscow, by Anna Baskakova – March 12th, 2003

2002

“Cover Girl” Vital Signs by Caryn Eve Murray, Newsday – December 15th 2002

2001

“Finding Beauty in the Grate Beyond” Feature by Michael Ollove, Baltimore Sun – September 3rd, 2001

2000

“When the People Care” Distinction Magazine by Marcia ByalickOctober/November 2000

1999

“Art Review” New York Times by Helen Harrison – October 10th 1999

1998

“The Artist & Grate Works” Long Island News 12: Reporter, Sara Muller – 1998

TV Presentation “Manhole Art” Oxymoron, The Fringe: Oxbridge Com – 1998

“Bobbi Mastrangelo Has Grate Expectations” Postcard Profile by Lewis Baer, Post Card Collector Magazine – 1998

1997

Bobbi Mastrangelo “’The Artist with an Enviromental Edge “ Interviewed by Lynn Sanders Curley, April 1997

1995

Time Capsule –1995

“I’m Moving so is my Manhole Art” Our Town Magazine – Names in the News – 1995

1994

“Looking at the Grater Picture” Feature by Danielle Hayduck, Suffolk Women – 1994

1990

“The Manhole is the Message” Feature by Susan Howard, Long Island Newsday – December 5, 1990

1989

“Everything Is Beautiful In Its Own Way”

by Doris Meadows – November 1989

“On People: Bobbi Mastrangelo” by Doris Meadows Spotlight Magazine October 1989

Manhole Art Interviews WUSB FM – by Walter Skretch, Lou Stevens, and Bonnie Connelly1986-1989

1987

“Manhole Covers Fascinate St. James Artist” Long Island News, Channel 12: Reporter, Rosemary Gomez1987

1983

Bobbi Mastrangelo Inside Newsday Interview by Karen Hasby 1983

This was Bobbi’s very first time on TV. She had done a good deal of classical art (Classic Works), experimented with modern art (Mod Works) and was beginning to delve into manhole art (Grate Works). View her art career stages.