The Megan Hart Jones’ Mural Conservation Committee...

The Megan Hart Jones’ Mural Conservation Committee has raised $25,000 of the $30,000 needed to pay conservator Nathan Zakheim to remove Jones’ artwork from the Laguna Beach High School cafeteria walls and install it in the theater. The mural by the 1984 graduate, who died of cancer three years later, otherwise would have been destroyed during the school’s $10 million renovation project. The work, “Shadows of the Past,” consists of 15 life-size images of Jones’ classmates, posing with objects associated with their favorite activities. Removal of the mural will begin in a few weeks; it will be re-installed sometime next year.