St. Petersburg’s annual SHINE Mural Festival is returning as part of Pinellas County’s Arts Everywhere celebration, with 12 artists slated to create murals around the city.
The festival, presented by the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, includes local artists as well as visiting artists from the United Kingdom, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina. Arts Everywhere runs through Dec. 6.
Among the announced pairings are Merritt Horan Capurro at PARC Center for Disabilities; Osiris Rain and Reiver at the Skyline Building; Hiero Veiga and Jon Murrill at VIV; Starve and Artist ESH at The Looking Glass Initiative; and Regan McCreight at USF St. Petersburg’s Harbor Hall.
From Nov. 6-8, Alyssa Marie of the Happy Mural Project will lead a no-cost community mural project at the Skyline Building, 2600 Dr. M.L.K. Jr St. N. Members of the public are invited to contribute with a paintbrush.
The festival’s kickoff coincides with an opening for Untitled, a group exhibition curated by Chad Mize at FloridaRama Impact Gallery. The show features 11 artists from St. Petersburg’s creative community, alongside live portrait painting by Danielle Cruit, music from DJ Cue and Bay Breaks breaking crew, and food from Brunch Munch.
A closing reception is scheduled for Nov. 14 at the Morean Arts Center.
SHINE is one of several arts events scheduled during the Nov. 5-11 stretch of Arts Everywhere. The Dalí Museum will host a Nov. 6 opening celebration for Dalí: Disruption & Devotion, an exhibition co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, that places Salvador Dalí’s work in dialogue with painters including El Greco, Orazio Gentileschi and Diego Velázquez.
