A new mural is fetching some attention in Dunmore Corners.
The nonprofit, Dunmore-based Mosaic Project unveiled its 22nd mural Sunday, and its 20th mural in Dunmore. The vivid dog-and-cat-themed design adorns the Harper Street-facing side of Dunmore Barks, a dog-training business at 111 N. Apple St., with a smaller, portrait-friendly art piece for people and their pups on North Apple Street. Painted by local artists Eric Bussart and Zach Yahn, the mural on Harper Street shows a dog dressed as a sheriff, a cat dressed like a hunter, another dog as a fisherman and a second cat as a bird watcher. A background behind the animals showcases rolling green mountains below blue skies. On North Apple Street, Yahn painted two sets of butterfly wings for people to take photos in front of, with a human-sized pair of wings incorporating two corgis, and a smaller pup-sized pair of wings next to them.
Artwork on the side of Dunmore Barks in Dunmore on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Artwork on the side of Dunmore Barks in Dunmore on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Artwork on the side of Dunmore Barks in Dunmore on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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Artwork on the side of Dunmore Barks in Dunmore on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Liz Naro, who founded Mosaic Project, recalled walking past the blank wall on Harper Street and thinking, “That’s a great wall for a mural.” Then, Rachel Kranick, a Dunmore native and the founder, lead trainer and adventure guide at Dunmore Barks, reached out saying she’d be interested in a mural, Naro said. Kranick told her she wouldn’t mind if it incorporated dogs and cats, and she wanted a scenic backdrop, Naro said. So, Bussart put his spin on it and created the outdoorsy theme, she said.
The Mosaic Project began in 2017 with a documentary telling the life story of her cousin, Ross Cordaro, who was injured in a wrestling accident, Naro said.
“They said he’d never walk, and he did,” she said. “He was kind of broken and turned into something beautiful — he worked for 10 years, and he had kids.”
Operating under the slogan “broken into beautiful,” Naro wanted to expand the Mosaic Project beyond the documentary format to focus on inspiring people through the arts. Since the transition to murals, the project has facilitated the installation of 22 different paintings in the region, with all but two in Dunmore, she said.
The project’s 21st mural, called “Fire and Flight” was finished in October 2024, showing a rescue-themed piece set against a painted backdrop of billowing clouds and a bright blue sky outside the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Pittston Twp. Last year, the Mosaic Project also unveiled its “Once a Buck, Always a Buck” mural on East Drinker Street, honoring the late Coach Jack Henzes and the Dunmore Bucks football players Sonny Crotti and Bill Ruddy. Bussart and Yahn also painted both of those murals.
Naro wants the murals to inspire people and make them think.
“That message kind of sticks with them,” she said, recalling positive feedback she’s received. “I think in some way, it moves people in a positive way.”
She hopes to put together a walking tour of the murals with aspirations to further expand the Mosaic Project into other beautification work.
Kranick, who was born and raised in Dunmore and graduated from Dunmore High School in 2014, has been in business with Dunmore Barks for just over a year. She purchased her building on North Apple Street in November and opened her doors Feb. 1, she said. Dunmore Barks’ services include puppy classes for young dogs, private lessons, a day-school program for dogs, and walks, hikes, field trips and canine gym sessions, Kranick said.
She said she couldn’t be more thrilled with the mural, which brightens up Dunmore Corners, and she hopes it makes people laugh and brings a little joy to them.
“It was such a great depiction of community and connection to wildlife and wild places,” Kranick said. “It was a great way of bringing pets and wildlife … and all the animals that we love all together into one big mural.”
The smaller butterfly wings paintings were a collaborative effort to have something interactive where anyone walking their dogs could stop by and snap a photo, she said.
Rachel Kranick’s dog, Bloo, spreads her wings in front of a new, interactive mural outside Kranick’s business, Dunmore Barks, at 111 N. Apple St., Dunmore. (COURTESY OF RACHEL KRANICK)
Councilman William “Trip” O’Malley, who attended Sunday’s unveiling, praised the mural and said he wanted to support Kranick, who was one of his history students at Dunmore High School.
“People tell me all the time how much they enjoy the murals,” O’Malley said, adding he always tries to attend the unveilings. “Just driving through the borough, you get to see just great pieces of art that would be otherwise plain, blank walls.”
Anyone interested in partnering with the Mosaic Project for a mural, or supporting the project, can contact Naro at 570-510-8041.