Pinellas County’s newest murals aren’t painted on the outside of some whitewashed brick building in downtown St. Petersburg. Artists Derek Donnelly and Frankie “G” Gonzales, well-known creators of public art, have collaborated with students from Plato Academy for oversized murals on two of the charter school’s campuses.
The object of the project: To beautify. And to inspire.
Both the St. Petersburg and Pinellas Park campus murals feature bright underwater imagery. Plato students in grades 1 through 8 were invited to submit ideas, and their own drawings…