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From Minnesota to Italy: Rare fresco project spotlights biblical women Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Photos by Jerry Holt •jerry.holt@startribune.com/Star Tribune/TNS In Minneapolis, Mark Balma worked on a fresco of Eve and Adam, the first of three panels celebrating women in scripture that will be permanently installed at a church in Italy. Mark Balma stood atop a 20-foot-high platform, paintbrush in hand, highlighting the faces of Eve and Adam on a colorful fresco the first of 10 by the Minnesota-born artist and several collaborators that are destined to cover the walls of a church outside Rome.

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