Mico Di Arpo is a muralist and master buon fresco artist specializing in devotional images and depictions of renaissance inspired angels. She is an animal rights and environmental activist and uses her art to create works connected to her activism from a place of compassion. Originally from Boston she works between her studio in New York and her home in South Carolina. Mico has always had an affection for the old masters and at 18 left for Italy to study buon fresco painting in the studio Luigi De Pietro. After 4 summers of studies in Italy she returned to the states and briefly studied fresco painting with Stephen Demitroff, Diego Rivera's assistant. She is the 2006 grand jury winner of the NY international art festival in NYC. She has received grants from Education 21, Artist Fund and the Golub foundation for her museum show at The American Italian museum in NY in 2016. Mico exhibits regularly and gives lectures and demonstrations on buon fresco at museums, art centers and universities throughout the states. Her art work has been published in several magazines. Most recently in Professional artist in 2017 and Edge of Faith in August of 2018. Mico is the founding creator of the Compassion Fresco Project. A large, international public fresco mural taking place in 2019 in South Carolina about compassion and the plight and resolve of animal abuse. The mural is making history as one of the first buon fresco murals to be created and painted entirely by female buon fresco artists from around the world.