Category: Story Behind the Art

  • National Post Card Week 2013 “City of Orlando”

    National Post Card Week is celebrated annually during the first full week of  May.  Since 1991, I have been a participant, sending out a post card usually based on one of my manhole cover  relief works. See my collection:  Bobbi Mastrangelo- Postcards -“The Grate Works” -transforms manhole covers, sewers and grates into artistic streetscapes.I exchange…

  • Mastrangelo’s Sculpture Celebrates Pride in Port Washington Sept. 24 – Oct. 5, 2012

    Pride in Port Day Saturday Sept 29, 2012 PRIDE IN PORT WSHINGTON EXHIBITION At My Studio • Sept 24 – Oct 5, 2012 284 Main Street ~ Port Washington NY 11050 1 (516) 384- 8181 My Studio, located  in the Historic Harbor District of Port Washington My Studio is located on Main St, in the…

  • St. James Streetscapes by Bobbi Mastrangelo

      During their residence in St. James New York, Bobbi recorded grates, manhole covers and water covers in their paved environments. She captured the street ambience in her prints and sculpture relief works: “Buckeye” Sculpture Relief  “Buckeye” was based on a former Lake Ave North Sidewalk in St. James.  This water valve cover was eventually paved over with asphalt.  During…

  • Poinciana Sculptors: Bobbi Mastrangelo and Eloise Ritt in Juried Exhibit at Osceola Center for the Arts Kissimmee FLorida

    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…

  • # “Sewers of the World, Unite” in Moscow started out as an April Fool’s Joke

    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…

  • The Creation of “City of Orlando,” Mastrangelo’s Sculpture Relief

    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…

  • Nine Eleven Memorial Tribute in 2011

    ARTISTS’ CONTRIBUTIONS FOR 9/11/2011 TRIBUTE Curated by Bobbi Mastrangelo & Posted by Cheryl Wilson The Attack The Ruins Rescues and Searches   Waiting, Hoping Angels Memorials Poems, Music, Artifacts   Operation Iraqi Freedom Ground Zero Memorial 2011 Photos. THE ATTACK “Soaring Spirits at Ground Zero” Oil on Canvas 5′ x 6′  2002 June Long -Schuman…

  • Mastrangelo’s Very First TV Interview

    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…

  • Bobbi Mastrangelo’s art highlighted in “How to Present Your Art with Impact”

    Carolyn Edlund  included a bit about my art in her article “How to Present Your Art with Impact.” She gives  fantastic advice to help advance an art career.  There are many practical suggestions for portfolio presentations and marketing  art.   http://www.artsyshark.com/2010/06/19/how-to-present-your-art-with-impact/  If you have a great presentation on your website, Carolyn Edlund would appreciate your comments and  your website link at www.artsyshark.com I would like to share the…

  • ABOUT is more than a BIO

    ABOUT on Bobbi Mastrangelo’s web site has:   A  Bobbi’s Bio with a Photo, Achievements Accolades and Resumes “A Teacher Turned Artist” by  Robby Grisafi, a Fifth Grade Student “Bobbi Mastrangelo, a former elementary schoolteacher is now a Port Jefferson Artist. Her art is very different than most people’s idea of art. She makes reliefs and sculptures of…