On her third birthday, Frassetto's parents brought their daughter to the Pacific island of Samoa where they began working on Moana, their 1926 documentary film.
[1] While in Europe she apprenticed with German scenic designer Hein Heckroth and Swiss painter Kurt Seligmann.
[4] Frassetto then returned to Puerto Rico, where she lived until 1970, when she moved back to the Flaherty farm in Dummerston, Vermont, to look after her mother.
[1] Frassetto received an NEA grant in 1975 on which she returned to the island of SAVAI'I in Western Samoa, where her parents had first filmed Moana in 1924.
[7] In 2018, her rubbings of Taíno petroglyphs like ones found in the town of Jayuya in the mid-1950s were selected by artist Jorge González for inclusion in his installation titled Ayacavo Guarocoel, shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art.