Mona the muralist

A portrait of Swiss artist Mona Caron.

This content was published on January 17, 2011 - 11:32

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Mona Caron, a native of Ticino, now works as a muralist in California, creating large-scale paintings on walls. She’s the daughter of Swiss theatre and opera set designer Peter Bissegger, and attended the San Francisco Academy of Art in Illustration. Filmmaker Kate Stilley Steiner caught up with the artist in San Francisco. (Kate Stilley Steiner, swissinfo.ch)

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