{"id":65290,"date":"2025-11-30T11:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/65290\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:43:24","slug":"shine-mural-festival-83-degrees-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/65290\/","title":{"rendered":"SHINE Mural Festival \u2013 83 Degrees Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s St Petersburg SHINE Mural Festival returned to its roots with SHINE Origins, an all local lineup that included a mix of emerging talent and well-established Tampa Bay muralists artists who\u2019ve been part of the festival since it launched in 2015. Here are photos of some of the newest additions to St. Pete\u2019s collection of vibrant public art.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Covering two building walls on the 600 block of Central Avenue, surrealist artist Isac Gres\u2019s \u201cThe Taste of Creation\u201d is an impressive large-scale mural filled with symbols dear to Gres. <\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Elevated by a boom lift, Isac Gres adds touches to his mural \u201cThe Taste of Creation\u201d while Taylor Smith, aka Dreamweaver, is on another lift\u00a0 busy creating her own giant masterpiece on the 600 block of Central Avenue.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Taylor \u201cDreamweaver\u201d Smith works on her large-scale mural on the wall of Vernis & Bowling. Over the last decade, SHINE has helped transform St. Pete into an open-air art gallery with more than 170 murals throughout downtown and the surrounding arts districts.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

A retired minor league baseball player, Aaron Tullo let his creativity loose and switched to mural art and graphic design for a living. His peacock mural, still in progress here, is at the historic Cordova Inn, the title sponsor for this year\u2019s SHINE festival.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Dwarfed by her bigger-than-life hummingbird, Argentine-born artist Cecilia Lueza works on her eye-catching mural. Lueza likes the challenge of transforming large walls into public art displays. Her mural for SHINE covers the side wall of Haddy, the world\u2019s largest 3D printing factory.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Returning to the ground on a boom lift, art teacher, yoga instructor, and muralist Sara Salem is no bigger than a fish next to her whimsical painting of a pelican, St Petersburg\u2019s official bird, at Lake Michigan Credit Union\u2019s St Pete branch. Local residents were able to help Salem paint the mural.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Johnny Vitale and Sionna \u201cSio\u201d MacLeish\u2019s mural at the Factory St Pete in the Warehouse Arts District pays tribute to St Petersburg and features, among other things, another iconic bird, the roseate spoonbill. Johnny Vitale also painted another mural on the 600 block of Central Avenue.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Muralist Derek Donnelly, the operations lead for this year\u2019s festival, selects a color from his supply of spray paint while creating a scene from an imaginary adventure featuring a beloved family member.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

Derek Donnelly\u2019s contributions to this year\u2019s SHINE are this painting of his son riding a pelican that\u2019s gobbling a fish and a mural at the Hollander Hotel.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

The creations of Brain The Genius, Amy Ilic-Volpe, Rebekah Lazaridis, and Karel Garcia span \u201cArt Alley\u201d on Seventh Avenue South at 31st Street. Other artists in the SHINE 2025 lineup include Elizabeth Barenis, Jenipher Chandley, Quinn Cale, and Reid Jenkins.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carole Devillers<\/p>\n

A prolific muralist whose work can be seen throughout St Pete and across the country, multi-media artist Carlos Culbertson, aka Zulu Painter, worked on two types of canvas to create his artwork of a Florida alligator for SHINE 2025.<\/p>\n

For more information, go to SHINE Mural Festival<\/a><\/p>\n


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