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 December of 2018.  Mico is the founding creator of the Compassion Fresco Project. A large, international public fresco mural taking place in 2020 in the United States 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.

Isabelle Bonzom: Master frescoist Isabelle Bonzom holds a Doctorate in painting and art from the École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (France) and studied fresco painting at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, birthplace of the worldwide buon fresco renewal in the beginning of the 20th century. She also studied art history and philosophy at the Sorbonne. As an art researcher, she is a member of ICOM and of the College Art Association. In 2018, she lectured on Goya's rare fresco work at the annual CAA conference as part of a panel chaired by Frick Collection curator David Pullins.  Her talk was supported by a grant from the Kress Foundation and dealt with issues of compassion and commitment. Ms. Bonzom has also given talks at the New York Academy of Art and at Baruch College. Isabelle Bonzom is the author of a 160-page book on fresco : "La fresque, art et technique", 2010, Eyrolles Publishing House, Paris. In it, she shares her unique combined expertise as a fresco painter, a fresco teacher and an art historian while providing an unprecedented in-depth study of the relationships between the fresco technique and the iconography.  She also rehabilitates the role of Jean Charlot, a Guggenheim fellow who was a major force in the revival of fresco on the American continent. As an artist, Isabelle Bonzom's work aims to foster empathy and harmony in and between people. She creates, practices and teaches fresco without nostalgia. For her, fresco is an ancestral art totally suited for today, especially because it connects people to their environment. Since 1993, Ms. Bonzom has trained hundreds of fresco practitioners from France and other countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and from Australia, notably at the International Center of Mural Art in Saint-Savin, France, and at the École Duperré in Paris. She has painted on walls since 1987 and practiced fresco since 1988 on public and private commissions. She has painted mural paintings in a prison when jointly commissioned by the French Ministries of Justice and Culture. Two years after completion of that project, the inmate rehabilitation program reported  better understanding and improved relationships between various generations of prisoners, different social classes, prisoners and guards. The rehabilitation service also found that prisoners and staff appropriated the murals as an integral part of their lives. Later, Ms. Bonzom created mural paintings at the Paul Parquet Foundation, a home and hospital for abused and disabled children. "For the kids, these remarkable and brilliant paintings are a real place of exchange, attention, observation, learning and life," said Paul Parquet Foundation director Joëlle de Roux. Paintings by Isabelle Bonzom are shown in museums, galleries and art fairs, and are held by public museums and collections, private collectors and corporations in France, the United States, Mexico, South Korea and other countries. Ms Bonzom's art is perceived as a loving and constructive vision by critics, philosophers and fellow artists such as iconic American painter Eric Fischl. In his text about her painting, Mr. Fischl writes : "You seem to be saying to me, through the vision of your painting: « If you see a leaf on fire, could you understand love? If you see trees explode with the force of a waterfall, but burn hot with desire, would you finally realize that love has consumed you? »."

JULIA ALEXANDRA MEE is an artist and art historian specialising in traditional mural painting techniques, notably buon fresco and also spirit fresco and its variants, working between her studio in Edinburgh, Scotland and her home in the Tuscan hills in Italy.  Her figurative painting explores the character and mood of the sitters, drawing on traditional techniques which are developed and applied to contemporary culture. Born in England in 1975, she trained under her father, the painter and ceramicist Raymond Victor Mee before undertaking a BA Hons in History of Art and Architecture, a Masters in the History of Drawing and subsequently a Fine Art Degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze where she graduated with a first with distinction (110 e lode) specialising in fresco painting. She exhibits regularly in Great Britain and Italy and gives lectures, talks, workshops and demonstrations on the technique of buon fresco. Recent lectures and demonstrations include those given to the National Galleries of Scotland, The Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy and the new Kirkcudbright Galleries in Scotland. She is currently working on a mural cycle at Marchmont House in Berwickshire, Scotland.