Turtle Mural - Menard Park, Galveston, TX
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N 29° 17.222 W 094° 47.600
15R E 325799 N 3241121
This larger than life mural shows the five sea turtles which are found in the Gulf of Mexico. The artist, Gabriel Prusmuck, lives in Galveston and has an impressive portfolio for someone his age.
Waymark Code: WMXXMK
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2018
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Sea Turtle, Menard Park, 28th & Seawall Blvd.
Gabriel Prusmack created the large mural on the band shell at the park at 2222 28th St. It depicts each of the five species of sea turtles that visit the Gulf of Mexico – the green sea turtle, the loggerhead, the hawksbill, the leatherback and Kemp’s ridley. The mural was commissioned by Turtle Island Restoration Network and funded through a generous donation by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.
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About Gabriel Prusmack (
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Gabriel Prusmack is a passionate person and artist who lives in Galveston, Texas. He has lived in Texas all his life and is the youngest sibling of five brothers and one sister. Growing up in Galveston has given him the opportunity to learn to surf and skateboard and has been doing both for over twenty years. He has achieved several state championships in surfing. Both, skateboarding and surfing has helped him obtain sponsorship and support to travel and compete in various places in the nation. Gabriel received his Associate of Arts degree from Galveston Community College in 2013.
Gabriel began to notice the art of graffiti in his life as a rebellious teenager visiting his brother in Los Angeles. Observing and learning from his older brother's skills in sketching, he fell in love with graffiti and began painting it everywhere. His parents, Thomas and Leticia Prusmack, attended Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas throughout his childhood and teen years under the teachings of their loving Pastors John and Dodie Osteen, where Gabriel accepted Christ into his heart at the age of 4 years old. As a rebellious teen, graffiti became a problem and he later gave it up for Christ, but only to become a professional aerosol artist and not consider himself a vandal anymore.
Soon after graduating high school in the summer of 2006, Gabriel came on staff at Island Church with Pastors Rusty and Leah Martin in Galveston, Texas. Gabriel has a passion to seek God and help influence the youth of today to do the same. Because of his passion to reach out to others with the Word of God, he started a skate park ministry called, “Skating for Jesus” in the spring of 2012 and continues to teach there presently.
Through testimonies of deliverance early on, Gabriel serves God with all his heart and is confident to help and encourage everyone around him to seek God as well. He now has the opportunity through the gifts and talents that God has given him to preach the gospel to the youth of all ages. His passion to seek God even through the arts of an aerosol can has helped people find Christ and be set free from the bondage of sin. Gabriel has made a very big impact on lives in the Galveston/Houston areas and seeks to continue to be an effective conduit for Christ. His goal is to help encourage people to live for Christ authentically and through the powerful Word of God to be more than conquerors the way God designed us to be.
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