Bobbi Mastrangelo with “Borough of Manhattan” National Post Card Week 2012 National Post Card Week is celebrated annually during the first full week of May. I correspond with almost two-hundred post card pen pals in The United States and abroad. Each year I choose one of my sculptures or art happenings to be reproduced as a […]
Category: My Art Career
The Osceola Center for the Arts presents the 2012 Annual Juried Art Show May 1 – 30, 2012 Opening reception Tuesday: May 1, 2012 from 6 – 8 PM Free, Open to the public Osceola Center for the Arts 2411 E. Irlo Bronson Highway Kissimmee FL 34744 USA Osceola Center for the Arts […]
I see the smirks and hear the silent smiles when people discover that my art is based on sewers and manhole covers. Imagine my surprise when I learned that there was a site in Moscow specializing in the theme I pursued in sculptures and works on hand made paper. Sewers of the World, Unite! What […]
Why I created the Sculpture Relief: “City of Orlando.” download a PDF of this story Orlando Museum of Art’s First Thursday’s Competition for January 5, 2012 was entitled “Sculpture, the Ultimate Process.” Remembering the brick pavers surrounding the Orlando Museum of Art, I thought, “Why not enter the competition with a streetscape scene from the […]
The Heckscher Museum Huntington (Long Island) in New York USA The Heckscher Museum of Art regularly organizes installations highlighting works from their Permanent Collection. Their most recent exhibition, in the far south gallery, is entitled “A WAY WITH WORDS: TEXT IN ART” curated by Lisa Chalif. Included is Bobbi Mastrangelo’s collagraph print on hand […]
“SHAKEOUT: From Streets to Galleries,” page 56 “Cast manhole and utility covers have inspired artists like Bobbi Mastrangelo and Kim Christiansen to create works of art that have been on display in galleries around the country.” This is the Fiber Arts creation that Shannon Wetzel chose for The Shakeout page of Modern Casting Magazine. The various […]
Inside Newsday by Karen Hasby May 1983 Newsday is the leading news source of the borough of Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties of Long Island New York. The thought of an interview at their Big Office in Melville was intimidating. Paula Shengold, the sponsor of my very first art exhibit at Gallery 333, gave me some […]
Over the years, family, friends and even web viewers whom I’ve never met have sent photos and rubbings of manhole covers and water covers from the USA and around the world. Some of their photos and rubbings have already inspired sculpture relief works that are shown in my gallery. Rubbings are saved in huge […]
Over 2,000 votes were cast from 19 countries. The award recipient was the artist, architect or designer who received the total highest number of individual votes and not necessarily the artist who received the most # 1 votes. We’d like to send out a special congratulations to Paul Troyano, this year’s International Public Vote Award […]
3 Reasons to vote for Bobbi Mastrangelo’s “When?” (the people care) 1. When The People Care promotes environmental concern, and anti-Litter action. 2. Mastrangelo’s manhole cover theme urges protection of our precious resources. 3. “When” venerates the work of engineers, foundries, highway maintenance, water authorities and sanitation departments, etc. […]