From Minnesota to Italy: Rare fresco project spotlights biblical women The project, Women of Faith Frescoes, is quietly taking shape inside a Minneapolis office building before the work moves to Italy this summer. March 6, 2021 5:36pm Text size Copy shortlink:
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.
The paintings are the heart of an unusual project that brings to life the contributions of women in Christianity, Judaism and Islam, using the ancient art of fresco to portray the women in contemporary ways. The project, Women of Faith Frescoes, is quietly taking shape inside a Minneapolis office building before the work moves to Italy this summer.