writing | The Artistorian

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Girls (in progress)

oil painting series

b (2015)

Girls (in progress)

oil painting series

b (2015)

Girls (in progress)

oil painting series

b (2015)

oral historian and artist

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