Maria Mangano
@mariamangano.bsky.social
Artist, parent, musician, birder, in and around Pittsburgh
What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?
June 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
What’s a poster you had in your room growing up?
Coming up for air from bad cold/power outage/solo parenting with a sketch of the hellebores in my yard
May 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Coming up for air from bad cold/power outage/solo parenting with a sketch of the hellebores in my yard
Love your turkey vulture! I have two bird tattoos by Pittsburgh tattooist Jessi Cramer! Here’s the big one, an American Robin perched in a redbud tree.
April 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Love your turkey vulture! I have two bird tattoos by Pittsburgh tattooist Jessi Cramer! Here’s the big one, an American Robin perched in a redbud tree.
#printpromptmonday this week is #foliage ! Trying to challenge myself with some fast carving so I made this trillium and printed it on some gouache brushstrokes. #reliefprint #printmaking
March 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#printpromptmonday this week is #foliage ! Trying to challenge myself with some fast carving so I made this trillium and printed it on some gouache brushstrokes. #reliefprint #printmaking
This week’s #printpromptmonday is #inprogress so here’s a #linocut I’m carving. It’s a big departure from my bird-centric work but I needed something in my life with a bit of whimsy!
March 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This week’s #printpromptmonday is #inprogress so here’s a #linocut I’m carving. It’s a big departure from my bird-centric work but I needed something in my life with a bit of whimsy!
Detail here of the birds, relief print on reclaimed paper with gouache and watercolor embellishments.
March 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Detail here of the birds, relief print on reclaimed paper with gouache and watercolor embellishments.
Coming very late to #printpromptmonday with this big installation I made in 2019, Lesser Bodies. It’s about the collapse of chimney swift populations in the US. Not in the water, but I was inspired by the motion of water circling a drain.
March 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Coming very late to #printpromptmonday with this big installation I made in 2019, Lesser Bodies. It’s about the collapse of chimney swift populations in the US. Not in the water, but I was inspired by the motion of water circling a drain.
It’s #printpromptmonday and today’s theme is #flipped! Here’s a linocut I printed using the same block twice on one paper. They’re starlings, a beautiful, smart, fascinating bird that’s also invasive where I live (in the US).
March 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It’s #printpromptmonday and today’s theme is #flipped! Here’s a linocut I printed using the same block twice on one paper. They’re starlings, a beautiful, smart, fascinating bird that’s also invasive where I live (in the US).
If you see this, post something red! ❤️ (look closely, it’s there!)
February 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If you see this, post something red! ❤️ (look closely, it’s there!)
Monday moth. Colored pencil, ink, and collage with linocut and woodcut
February 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Monday moth. Colored pencil, ink, and collage with linocut and woodcut
Drop something yellow. Here’s a cool mushroom from Ithaca, NY.
February 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Drop something yellow. Here’s a cool mushroom from Ithaca, NY.
I’m back for another #printpromptmonday with an etching of my (#indoors) cat Freyja from 2008. My work has changed a lot since I did this piece but I still really love it.
February 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I’m back for another #printpromptmonday with an etching of my (#indoors) cat Freyja from 2008. My work has changed a lot since I did this piece but I still really love it.
my sweet babies reminding me that little pockets of the world are still soft and warm and nice
February 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
my sweet babies reminding me that little pockets of the world are still soft and warm and nice
It’s the first #PrintPromptMonday organized by @gemmatrickey.bsky.social and @strangford.bsky.social! This week’s theme is #IntotheWild . Here’s a collagraph I made using Tetra-Pak (a milk carton, specifically!) of a white-throated sparrow. #collagraph #printmaking
February 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It’s the first #PrintPromptMonday organized by @gemmatrickey.bsky.social and @strangford.bsky.social! This week’s theme is #IntotheWild . Here’s a collagraph I made using Tetra-Pak (a milk carton, specifically!) of a white-throated sparrow. #collagraph #printmaking
New stamps and banned books today for Black History Month. Maybe I can use some of these to write some angry letters and make Good Trouble ✨ #bhm #blackhistorymonth #readbannedbooks
February 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New stamps and banned books today for Black History Month. Maybe I can use some of these to write some angry letters and make Good Trouble ✨ #bhm #blackhistorymonth #readbannedbooks
Cats. Carved and proofed at the studio today. #printmaking #linocut #cat #animalart #pittsburghart #pittsburghartist #art
January 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Cats. Carved and proofed at the studio today. #printmaking #linocut #cat #animalart #pittsburghart #pittsburghartist #art
My 2024 reads as tracked by @thestorygraph.com . Yikes, you can see the tone/my mood plummet as the year progresses
January 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My 2024 reads as tracked by @thestorygraph.com . Yikes, you can see the tone/my mood plummet as the year progresses
Truth: one of my favorite parts of parenting is seeing the cool art my kids make
January 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Truth: one of my favorite parts of parenting is seeing the cool art my kids make
Well, here I am! Let’s see what it’s like outside the land of algorithms and involuntary-follows. Do I even need to say “for the algorithm” when I post this pic of my cat now?
January 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Well, here I am! Let’s see what it’s like outside the land of algorithms and involuntary-follows. Do I even need to say “for the algorithm” when I post this pic of my cat now?