Mural Questby Pelican Digital
Every mural in St. Pete has a person behind it. Most of the time you walk past without knowing. Mural Quest tells you who painted it, why, and what they did before the brush.
“The Milwaukee Brewers drafted him twice. He picked up a paintbrush instead.”
Drafted in 2006 out of high school, again in 2007 out of the University of Tennessee. Pitched six years in the Brewers’ minor league system. Injuries ended it around age 25. He started with nursery murals and pet portraits. His SHINE 2025 mural is a five-story peacock on the Cordova Inn.
“She used to be a piano teacher. Her client list includes Apple, The New York Times, and Microsoft.”
Born Hong Kong, raised Vancouver, eight years in Berlin. Her work appears in NYT Magazine and on Lululemon storefronts. Her SHINE 2023 mural — Earth Song, surreal figures intertwined with plants — came down with the building in April 2026. The app keeps it.
“He left Cuba in 2019 and walked through twelve countries — including the Darién Gap — before reaching the United States. He brought his brushes.”
Born Bayamo, Cuba, 1993. Studied at the E.I.A Jose Marti Perez academy. Tattoo studio in Uruguay, then Miami, then St. Pete. His SHINE 2025 mural is the tallest he has ever painted — melting clocks, a nod to Dalí, on the Melting Pot.
Photo realism. Cut-paper. Sign painting. Surrealism. Pop. We catalog them the same way: who, where, what year, and what was on the wall before this.
Every mural in the app is plotted. The colored lines are the seven curated walking tours — pinch, zoom, see the city the app sees.
Reordered, re-pinned, and walked by hand. Each tour is sequenced for foot traffic, shade, and the right mural at the end. None are longer than two hours.
Where SHINE started. The 600 block, the waterfront, the Cordova Inn — fifteen murals in the heart of it. Some of the best work in the city sits in Mural Alley, between the dumpsters and the back doors.
The brewery belt. Green Bench to the Edge — twelve murals between the craft beer and the train tracks. Posner’s mirrored sunglasses watch the traffic.
Seven murals along MLK. Shorter walk, bigger stories. Cecilia Lueza’s 2025 birds are worth the walk on their own, with lots of vintage SHINE along MLK.
The stadium loop. Thirteen murals around Tropicana Field — including a Morning Breath mural from 2015 that’s now a narrow sliver between two buildings. The rest of it is still in there, behind the wall.
The main drag. Fourteen murals along the avenue that defines the city — coffee shops, cocktail bars, brunch lines. Bunnie Reiss’s Phoebe & Friends will surprise you mid-block.
Warehouses turned canvases — lots of walls, few sidewalks, little traffic. Twelve murals deep in the district where the studios are.
Fifteen murals strung along the Pinellas Trail — a long, thin route best for serious walkers or bikes. Frankie Gonzalez’s slingshot kid to Chris Dyer’s psychedelic sPEACEship.
Seven walks. 88 stops. 128 artists — every pin checked by foot, every bio researched by hand, no algorithm picked these. Tap any one and you get the full story: who painted it, where they came from, what they did before the brush. A mural pointer aims at the next stop. A walking path on the map shows the way. You can stop looking at the screen.
Filter by tour, year, or artist. Tap any pin to read who painted it. The mural pointer rotates as you turn — haptic taps tell you when the mural is in front of you.
Every artist has a hook fact and a real bio. We don’t paraphrase the festival site. We do the reading. Three excerpts from what’s in the app.
The Milwaukee Brewers drafted him twice. He picked up a paintbrush instead.
Aaron Tullo was born in St. Petersburg in 1988 and grew up throwing fastballs. He played at St. Petersburg High School, made second-team All-County as a sophomore, and tried out for the USA Baseball Youth National Team at 16. The Brewers took him in the 17th round of the 2006 draft — he turned them down for college. They took him again in 2007. This time he signed.
He pitched in the Brewers’ minor league system for roughly six years before injuries ended it. He was around 25. What came next was a pivot, not a restart.
She used to be a piano teacher. Her client list includes Apple, The New York Times, and Microsoft.
Andrea Wan was born in Hong Kong in 1985 and moved to Vancouver at ten. Her parents were graphic designers. She studied Film, Video and Integrated Media at Emily Carr, then six months at Designskolen Kolding in Denmark — where she developed her current drawing style. She lived in Berlin for eight years before returning to Vancouver around 2019.
For SHINE 2023 she painted Earth Song at 155 17th St S — surreal figures intertwined with plant forms, in blue and lavender against a warm yellow dome. The building came down in April 2026. The mural is still in the app.
He left Cuba in 2019 and walked through twelve countries — including the Darién Gap — before reaching the United States. He brought his brushes.
Isac Gres was born in 1993 in Bayamo, Cuba. He studied cubism, hyperrealism, surrealism, and conceptual thinking at the E.I.A Jose Marti Perez art academy, then three years of psychology at Celia Sanchez Manduley, then a year of mandatory military service. He left Cuba on November 12, 2019.
His work is contemporary surrealism in mixed media. Recurring symbols: jellyfish (resilience), apples (knowledge), pathways and doorways. Light drives everything. “Color for me means light,” he says, “and also good energy.”
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