St. Petersburg’s SHINE Mural Festival made it through a decade of creative innovation and excellence, its international reputation expanding year by year, without too much in the way of growing pains.
True, the festival’s 10th anniversary was postponed due to the ravages of the twin hurricanes of 2024, but when it came off it turned out to be one of the best SHINEs of them all.
Then the St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, the event’s producer, lost in quick succession SHINE director Jenee Priebe and Alliance boss Terry Marks. All hands rallied to save the murals…