Cleaning is the first step to preparing a wall for a mural. Dust, dirt, grease, or old paint can interfere with how well the ...

Art conservator Naomi Ruiz uses a cotton swab on a mural by Maxo Vanka that depicts the hand of God handing a tablet to Moses, inside St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., Wednesday, ...

The walls and ceiling of the church are covered with an acclaimed set of murals painted by the late Croatian American artist Maxo Vanka in 1937 and 1941. They mix religious imagery with dramatic ...

When Clean Drains Fort Wayne wraps up this year, the project will have created more than 70 sidewalk drain murals, placed thousands of drain markers and installed a wall mural near Promenade Park to ...

MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve 80-year-old murals that have accumulated decades’ worth of soot, salt and other deterioration? Slowly and carefully, using everything from scientific analysis ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MILLVALE, Pa. (AP) — How do you conserve ...