Coverage: Friday's Mural Walk for POW! WOW! Long Beach with Julie Faith : Cartwheel Art

Coverage: Friday’s Mural Walk for POW! WOW! Long Beach with Julie Faith

Posted by Julie Faith

POW! WOW! Long Beach returned for the second consecutive year from Monday, July 11th to Sunday, July 17th, 2016. Artists from around the globe were participating in the week- long event bringing art and culture to the city.

POW! WOW! is a gathering of contemporary artists that engages with the broader community in the process and creation of art. Long Beach played host to an exciting week filled with live mural paintings, art exhibitions, talks and more. In addition, the Long Beach Museum of Art in collaboration with Thinkspace Gallery and POW! WOW! hosted the opening of “Vitality and Verve: In the Third Dimension,” on Friday, July 15.

“Long Beach is the perfect setting for POW! WOW! The creative community in the city is thriving with art and music and has become a hub for artists,”

stated Jasper Wong, founder and lead director of POW! WOW!

“The amount of support that the city has shown is incredible and we look forward to another great event.”

Featured artists included Pantonio, Ernest Zacharevic, Aaron Li-Hill, Sarah Joncas, Cinta Vidal, Hitotzuki, Andrew Hem, Edwin Ushiro, Yoskay Yamamoto, Hula, and more. The public was invited to watch and experience the process of the artists as they created their murals throughout the city.

Julie took the photos below for Cartwheel Art, who was a media partner, during a walk on friday.