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Sep 5 3:52 pm
  • Long Beach Walls

Here are the 10 finished murals after this year’s Long Beach Walls

Cheantay Jensen

See the before-and-after journey of the 10 new murals painted during the 2022 mural festival (formerly POW! WOW!) that wrapped up on Sunday.

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Aug 24 9:48 am
  • Long Beach Walls

POW! WOW! is now Long Beach Walls; here’s your guide to the colorful mural festival

Cheantay Jensen

The weeklong mural and sculpture festival returns Aug. 29 to Sept. 4.

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Jun 15 9:58 am
  • dave van patten

Popular mural near Alex’s Bar vandalized, to be restored with community help

Cheantay Jensen

The 60-foot mural, one of artist Dave Van Patten’s largest, was created during POW! WOW! Long Beach in 2017.

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Oct 5 2021 11:25 am
  • pow! wow! long beach

IN PICTURES: POW! WOW! wraps up its sixth year in Long Beach

Staff Reports

The weeklong celebration of art ends today, with the completion of murals and multimedia art on walls and along the waterfront in  Long Beach.

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Sep 29 2021 1:50 pm
  • pow! wow! long beach

This week: The colorful return of POW! WOW! Long Beach

Tim Grobaty

This year’s POW WOW! Week includes an Art Renzei Festival series of multimedia art installations along the Long Beach waterfront.

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Aug 26 2021 3:57 pm
  • pow! wow! long beach

POW! WOW! is back with new sculpture fest and 9 artists to paint new works over defaced murals

Cheantay Jensen

Organizers also announced featured artists for its concurrent mixed-media and sculpture festival, Art Renzei. The week-long event begins Sept. 28.

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Jun 8 2021 1:02 pm
  • pow! wow! long beach

POW! WOW! mural fest is back in September, this time with a sculpture festival too

Cheantay Jensen

“The idea is we’re coming together to heal the community through public interactive art,” Cassandra Leeman, regional director of POW! WOW! Long Beach said. “We felt like more than any other year, this year really needed a theme of bringing the community together.”

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Oct 23 2020 5:05 pm
  • pow! wow! long beach

Popular POW! WOW! mural painted over due to vandalism

Asia Morris

Created by Antonio Donat, or DULK, the mural was created during PWLB’s 2017 festival.

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Aug 18 2020 11:17 am
  • coronavirus

POW! WOW! mural festival postponed to 2021, but could be reimagined in the future

Asia Morris

Over the past five years, the summer festival has brought local and international artists together in Long Beach to create public works of art.

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Jul 30 2019 4:00 pm
  • pow! wow! long beach

POW! WOW! Long Beach 2019 finished murals

Asia Morris

The fifth annual POW! WOW! Long Beach has wrapped up a high-energy week of mural making and events; check out all the finished murals.

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