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Girls (in progress)


oil painting series

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b (2015)

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Girls is a portrait series of a bunch of badass girls looking badass and not caring about it.

Girls (in progress)


oil painting series

​

b (2015)

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Girls is a portrait series of a bunch of badass girls looking badass and not caring about it.

Girls (in progress)


oil painting series

​

b (2015)

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Girls is a portrait series of a bunch of badass girls looking badass and not caring about it.

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Viva, viva la Befana
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jan 5, 2021
  • 3 min

Viva, viva la Befana

La Befana vien di notte Con le scarpe tutte rotte Col vestito da romana Viva, viva la Befana! Long live la Befana! The more you learn...
In Backyards
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 23, 2020
  • 3 min

In Backyards

It’s been quite a few years since I’ve seen these tents. They’re icons of my childhood summers. Every August, we celebrated my...
Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 2: Pasta e rapini
Cassandra Marsillo
  • May 5, 2020
  • 4 min

Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 2: Pasta e rapini

Week two of social isolation, the week I learned to make pasta e rapini over the phone, was the week I started preparing for ...
Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 1: Nonna Lucia's Italian Birthday Cake
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Apr 1, 2020
  • 3 min

Recipes I Learned Over the Phone, Part 1: Nonna Lucia's Italian Birthday Cake

I’m not one for long phone calls. As a kid and a teen, though, I remember easily spending two to three hours on the phone after school...
Why the yellow line?
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 25, 2018
  • 4 min

Why the yellow line?

Everyone who has spoken to me over the last few months has had the (pleasure?) of hearing about my master's project. At the beginning of...
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jul 13, 2018
  • 8 min

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

On April 16, 2016, I walked into Anna Arcaro’s cluttered-but-clean - in the way it seems only a certain generation of Italian ladies can...
The Shop
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jun 7, 2018
  • 3 min

The Shop

It's pretty hard to write a blog post for a piece that you kind of want to leave self-explanatory, without too many words attached to it....
Oral history is where do we go from here
Cassandra Marsillo
  • May 30, 2018
  • 5 min

Oral history is where do we go from here

On May 14, I arrived in Hudson, New York after an 8-hour train ride through the Adirondack region, not realising how much I needed to be...
Balconies
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Apr 18, 2018
  • 5 min

Balconies

Balconies is the product of my course on Narrativity and Performance. Working with old photos and a website called imaginary landscapes,...
What colour is home
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Mar 25, 2018
  • 3 min

What colour is home

A few months ago, I sat down with a few of my friends in offices, on couches, and on speakerphone, to talk about home. It started with a...
One Saturday Morning
Cassandra Marsillo
  • Jan 4, 2017
  • 3 min

One Saturday Morning

One Saturday morning, sometime in the late 90s, as I sat in front of the three-foot high stereo sound system in our living room, I began...

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the artistorian logo drawings were made by cassandra marsillo and are inspired by the embroidery on traditional aprons from Molise.

Virgo by Sidney Hall, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-10067 is also featured on the home page, as well as a still from "Raccolta delle olive: utilizzo del crivello". all other graphics are open access through Canva x Getty Images, pixabay, and Billion Photos.