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    THE MURAL ART OF ‘LIGHTNING HEART’

    Nov 24, 2020 2 minutes
    BY LAZELLE JONES

    hrough his public murals Colorado artist Fred “Lightning Heart” Haberlein related stories unique to the locales in which he painted, including La Jara, Manassa, Alamosa, Antonito, Glenwood Springs and Carbondale. The greatest concentration of his 140 murals are in the San Luis Valley of southcentral Colorado, though aficionados of his work can search out others in Arizona, New York and Oregon and as far away as Quito,

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