Originally from Boston Mico 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. Mico 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.