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Spray paint cans used by artist Serafim Yssolo are lined up Tuesday while he creates a mural on a utility shed at Lionel Potvin Park on Cedar Street in Lewiston. Yssolo, of Angola, has been in the United States for six months, and this is his third public art project. Funding comes from the Public Art Committee. The artwork  and part of new City Manager Bryan Kaenrath’s effort to eliminate blight and enhance aesthetics while boosting civic pride. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Angolan artist Serafim Yssolo paints a mural on a utility shed Tuesday morning at Lionel Potvin Park on Cedar Street in downtown Lewiston near the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge. Yssolo has been in the United States for six months, and this is his third public art project. Funding comes from the Public Art Committee. The artwork is part of new City Manager Bryan Kaenrath’s effort to eliminate blight and enhance aesthetics while boosting civic pride. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

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