Long Beach Walls
Murals and public art give a city character, injecting colorful elements of human expression into urban spaces and contributing to a shared cultural iconography. Several movements and organizations have created public art in Long Beach, perhaps none as prolific as Long Beach Walls, a week-long festival that celebrates street art and mural painting. In 2024, the festival returns for its ninth year with new murals, artist talks, a bike tour, and an art exhibition, all of it free to the public.
2024 FESTIVAL
This year, the Long Beach Walls and Art Renzei Festival takes place June 22 to 29, with 25 artists from five countries creating new murals across the city, with a focus on projects that bring the murals “off the walls,” including a traveling mural on a Long Beach Transit bus. The festival will also include a kickoff at the overlapping Day Trip Festival, a house music festival at the Queen Mary Festival Grounds on June 22 and 23. Artists will create dynamic projections onto the ship during the festival from 8PM to 12 midnight.
FESTIVAL HISTORY
Since 2015, Long Beach has added more than 100 public murals to buildings throughout the city, created by artists participating in the Long Beach Walls festival. Formerly known as POW! WOW! Long Beach, the festival is part of a global network of Worldwide Walls events that aim to enrich communities through art programs. In 2023, Long Beach Walls featured local artists Jason Keam and Jess Weymouth, installations by Balloonski, artwork created with recycled materials and live projections.
ARTISTS
This year, more than 1,600 candidates applied to participate in Long Beach Walls, up from 600 in the previous year. The 2024 lineup includes Andrea Wan from Vancouver, BC; Colombian artist SakoAsko; and Detour from Denver, Colorado. Learn more about all the participating artists on the Long Beach Walls website. Artists will be working with this year’s theme, “Platform for Youth,” with local schools partnering with the festival.
FIND THE MURALS
Take a look at all of the murals created during past festivals on the Long Beach Walls website and find their locations on an interactive map. To take a tour of the new murals being created this year, visit our map below, or join the bike tour on June 26. The public will have the chance to see the artists at work painting their murals from 11AM to 6PM on June 24 and from 9AM to 6PM each day between June 25 and 28.
2024 Long Beach Walls Mural Locations
Alepsis Hernandez
A.L. Grime
Andrea Wan
Detour
ILL.DES
KATBING
LEDANIA and SakoAsko
Lula Goce
Noah Worldsmith
SAWAI
Persue and Rain
W3AR3ON3
594evah
MORE EVENTS
Artist talks will be held at the Edison Theater on June 25 and 27 at 6PM. A bike tour of the 2024 murals will be held on June 26 at 5PM, departing from the festival’s downtown hub and ending at ISM Brewing on The Promenade. The gallery show and closing party will take place on June 28 at 6PM at the Edison Theater.
