Editing Frankie Pisano

* Name: Francesca "Frankie"  Pisano (INT+0, EMP+2, WP+1, MGT-1, SPD +1)
* Era & Background: An enigmatic and charming lady artist from New York who effortlessly mixes with any kind of people, from the upper crust to the Bowery. She is superstitious, cheerful, and passionate about everything she does, from staying up until dawn to see the sun rise over a new city to perfectly copying an item that catches her eye.
* Appearance: Long black hair in a ponytail, dark hypnotic eyes, and a round peasant's face.
* Personality & Skills: A great eye for detail, a way with words, a strong sympathy for those in need, and a convincing liar.  She paints and sculpts and takes photographs, but she doesn't make any money off it -- she lives from working for other artists and making very good imitations of valuable artwork -- anything from lost Renaissance masterpieces to obscure Picassos and even Etruscan pots. She seeks the inspiration she needs to make a masterwork all her own.
* Interests: Art and archaeology, art is both her vocation and her obsession and if she can't create masterwork, perhaps she can uncover one. Also the sophisticated layers of society, where she hopes to make a splash.
* Secret Life: Parapsychology.  Frankie believes in seances, past lives, curses, ancient masters, meditation, yoga, and secret messages coded in art.  She has also been reading what the psychoanalysts say about dream interpretation, and she is very enthusiastic about this, and keeps a notebook of her dreams which she uses to inspire her artwork.
* Family Dynamics: The black sheep of her working-class Italian family, Frankie alternates between avoiding them and guiltily trying to help them out.  When she's a famous artist, she'll buy her mother a house, but for now she's tired of arguing about not getting married to Giuseppe the plumber back in the neighborhood.

Other stuff:
Wealth 2

Passion: The stranger the situation, the more it needs to be immortalized in art

Equipment:
Messenger bag with basic art supplies (10 uses)
3 decent works of art (Value 3 each)
Camera

Special Moves:
Art Expert
Devil's In the Details
Forger