Bascove received her B.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art. She has worked with The New York, Brooklyn, and Roosevelt Island Historical Societies, and has exhibited, lectured and arranged events with the Museum of the City of New York, the Arsenal in Central Park, the Central Park Conservancy, Municipal Art Society, New York University Fales Library, and Hudson River Museum. Three collections of her paintings have been published, accompanied by her edited anthologies of related writings: Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover’s Anthology of Sensuality and Humor (2004), Where Books Fall Open: A Readers Anthology of Wit and Passion (2001), a2002Book Sense Selection; and Stone and Steel: Paintings and Writings Celebrating the Bridges of New York City (1998).
Her political and literary work is in the Permanent Collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum.
As a culture writer, she has contributed to Arte Fuse, Stay Thirsty and New York Arts Magazine. Chosen by the US State Departments Art in Embassies Cultural Exchange,
Her work was exhibited at the American Embassies of Sofia, Bulgaria and Muscat, Oman from 2016 – 2019