08/18/2025
Reposted from the group We Are St. Pete, Save Our Street Murals
This mural, Common Ground was the 1st intersection mural in the City of St. Petersburg, Florida, installed in 2016 by artist Cecilia Lueza as part of the SHINE St. Petersburg Mural Festival. It spreads across the intersection of Central Avenue and 5th Street, painted on the street itself outside Florida CraftArt.
Huge triangles and geometric shapes angles across the intersection, 74 feet square. Red, orange and gold spread out in front of Florida CraftArt on the northwest corner, jutting into green and shades of blue moving toward the southeast. It’s as if children colored on the street with chalk.
The brick sidewalks that frame each corner are rounded. So the mural is shaped like a square, with four bites taken out of the corners by the curving sidewalks.
Lueza’s design is painted on the asphalt with street paint, the kind that’s used for lane markers and parking spaces. She mixes sand into the paint, to make it safe for drivers. — at Florida CraftArt.
