Manhole Art – Bobbi Mastrangelo

Category: Story Behind the Art

  • Grate Art Happening

    April 2007 Grate Art Happening Bobbi Mastrangelo invited Jacquie Brunner and Glenda Stearns to participate in the project of setting the scene for this year’s post card theme. Each year Bobbi photographs one of her manhole cover sculptures complete with its background to be reproduced for National Post Card Week. This year’s theme was more…

  • Why Manhole Covers? (instead of portraits or landscapes?)

    The question most people ask is “Why did you ever pick such a ridiculous theme?”  Some people even shake their heads when they think about the mundane iron covers we all walk over. Well it all began when I was a Mom going back to college to study art. I experimented in every style and…

  • 2006 NPCW Postcard Dedication

    2006 NPCW Postcard Dedication “Grate Spring”, my 2006 issue for National Post Card Week is dedicated to Landscape Architect, Brian Mahoney. “Grate Spring”  (Daffodils) 28” Garden Sculpture Pub: Monarch Graphics Post Card page One Autumn, Brian secretly planted daffodil bulbs under my garden grate.  That was over a decade ago and yet I still fondly recall…

  • 2005 Bobbi Mastrangelo’s NPCW Postcard Dedication: Atlanta Engineer’s Sewer

    “Atlanta Engineer’s Sewer,” my 2005 issue for National Post Card Week, is dedicated to my Russian Friends: Alexander Kholopov and Natalie Lamanova who founded the fascinating website in Moscow entitled “Sewers of the World, Unite!” Atlanta Engineer’s Sewer – 1984 Sculpture Relief 36″ x 48 ” x 3″