Janet Pavone is an artist, muralist, activist and educator with a 35 year career. Janet studied at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass, before setting out on a life adventure to Nicaragua, where she joined other international artists at the Public Art School David Alfaro Siquieros in Managua.

At the school she met Argentinian artist Cecilia Herrero and British artist Daniel Hopewell and together they formed the Boanerges Cerrato Muralist Collective and were commissioned to paint many murals across the country. She has also painted murals in Mexico, Germany, Cuba, the UK and the USA with members of the Collective or with other artists.

The Collective created the Children Muralism Workshops (FUNARTE) in 1987 in Managua and then transferred to Esteli in 1989. 30 years years later FUNARTE is still going strong, and many of the teachers and staff are the children who attended the very first workshops. Janet continues to work as a consultant with FUNARTE in yearly visits to Esteli.

Janet and Daniel Hopewell and painters from FUNARTE restored the Quiabu' mural in January 2016, almost 20 years after it was finished.

Filmmaker Francesco Clerici is currently in post-production on La Paz del Futuro, a forthcoming documentary film about Janet’s life and work in Nicaragua.

The film has since had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival in October 2022.

THE MURALS OF REVOLUTIONARY NICARAGUA (David Kunzle, 1995) is a beautifully illustrated and thouroughly researched book with much of Janet’s work.

Janet now lives in Brighton, England.