La Pittura

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Cassie Fisher, the newest artist-in-residence at the Powell-Gordon Institute for the Arts, has been tasked with giving a presentation on the works of Artemisia Gentileschi, the baroque artist who inspired her to pick up painting again after years away. But as Cassie makes her way through the selected paintings, familiar voices and feelings begin to resurface and she starts to lose track of whose story she's actually telling—Artemisia's or her own. La Pittura deals with breaking cycles of trauma, memory within the body, and the ways we put ourselves back together through art.

“She took control and did what she needed to do. But I…”

Production History

La Pittura was first performed in a staged reading at Skidmore College in May of 2025 as the culmination of a semester-long senior project.

Cassie: Georgie Svrcek

Directed by Hunter Wolf

Advised/Dramaturged by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

Poster by Georgie Svrcek