Minnesota Artist Commissioned To Create 10 Frescoes For Catholic Church In Rome

CBS Minnesota

September 7, 2021

In 2020, Minneapolis native and artist Mark Balma received a commission to paint frescoes on the walls of a Catholic church just north of Rome. But COVID-19 found him locked out of the country.

So instead, Balma has been painting his frescoes in a studio in uptown Minneapolis. Soon he will be shipping them to Italy.

In a cavernous empty floor of a new office building in Uptown, Balma is dwarfed by his three, 15-by-20-foot frescos celebrating women of faith.

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