Staff photos / R. Michael Semple YSU Art Department Professor Dragana Crnjak explains to YSU students and volunteers how the mural is going to take shape and how to apply the paint.

YOUNGSTOWN — A group of Youngstown State University students, most enrolled in the mural and site-specific painting class taught by YSU Professor Dragana Crnjak and a contingent of older individuals recruited through a collaboration with Ohio Living, met in Beecher Court at The Butler Institute of American Art on Tuesday to paint portions of a mural that will be assembled and installed in a community location.