The sixth annual POW! WOW! Long Beach mural festival is gearing up for its return on Sept. 28 after a year-long pandemic-related hiatus and Intertrend, the Long Beach-based communications agency that organizes the event, has announced its featured artists.<\/p>\n
The week-long summer art festival, responsible since 2015 for 94 of the city’s massive, beautiful murals, is doing things a little differently this year with the advent of a concurring multimedia and sculpture festival, Art Renzei.<\/p>\n
Art Renzei will be experienced on the Long Beach coast, with contemporary art installations scattered across the shoreline by Tom Fruin<\/a>, Daigo Daikoku<\/a>, Wan-Jen Chen, balloonski<\/a>, Olga Lah<\/a> and Spenser Little<\/a>.<\/p>\n The largest of the beach installations are two of Tom Fruin’s signature colorful glass house sculptures that will be installed at Junipero Beach.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COaDzyblIa9\/<\/p>\n In addition to the introduction of Art Renzei, the mural aspect of POW! WOW! will also take a different tone this year with a focus on healing through art.<\/p>\n Nine former POW! WOW! artists whose works were defaced or graffitied in the last year and a half, have been invited to reinvent the murals, by painting new art over the tarnished works.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough the pandemic, we\u2019ve all had to deal with the increase of damage and graffiti to murals,\u201d Cassandra Leeman, regional director of POW! WOW! Long Beach said in a June interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Typically, the city will have the defaced murals painted over white, but by having the artist create new works, they will be reclaiming ownership, organizers said.<\/p>\n Returning artists include Andrew Hem<\/a>, Edwin Ushiro<\/a>, Brendan Monroe<\/a>, Noelle Martinez aka \u2018BusyBirdy<\/a>\u2019, Bryan Blue The Great<\/a>, Nat Iosbaker<\/a>, Brittney Price<\/a>, Shak Smart<\/a> and Tang Hsu-Wei<\/a>.<\/p>\n The festival will also feature special programming including a beach party, bike tours, a scavenger hunt, pop-up shops, artist talks, and more. Organizers said scheduling and other details including the locations of the murals and Art Renzei installations will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n Organizers noted they are taking necessary steps and precautions to ensure attendees experience POW! WOW! and Art Renzei safely and in compliance with local COVID-19 safety protocol.<\/p>\n POW! WOW! Long Beach and Art Renzei will run from Sept. 28 through Oct. 5. Follow POW! WOW! Long Beach on Instagram<\/a> or visit their website<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/6th-annual-pow-wow-long-beach-returns-september-with-coinciding-sculpture-festival<\/p>\n Take a look at 2019\u2019s POW! WOW! murals:<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/pow-wow-long-beach-2019-finished-murals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Organizers also announced featured artists for its concurrent mixed-media and sculpture festival, Art Renzei. 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