With the POW! WOW! Long Beach wrapping up yet another successful event for the Hawaii-based mural festival, we wanted to take a look back at some of the amazing works from the past 3 years of POW! WOW! events. Here at 1xRUN we were fortunate enough to be invited in 2013 and since then we have known that any POW! WOW! event is truly not to be missed.
What started out as small indoor collaborative festival in Hong Kong showcasing a handful artists, has sprouted to hosting over 100 participants 2015’s POW! WOW! Hawaii. Their programming has continued to expand as well, with artist discussions, music workshops and more as part of the festivities to help broaden the discussion for every perpetual student. Here at 1xRUN we have been fortunate enough to join for the last three years in Hawaii, as well as heading out for the inaugural 2014 event in Taiwan last summer. 2015 has ramped up as POW!WOW! kicked things off with their annual Hawaii event, following that up with first time activations in Texas for South By Southwest and Long Beach earlier this month. With the year halfway over, the world’s premiere mural festival has showed no signs of complacency and continue to push the envelope and find artists that do the same.
Public murals have always served as way great global communicator. Everyone from casual passersby to art aficionados are beginning to realize the importance of these public works and events like POW!WOW! prove it with the enthusiasm and top notch quality of talent they continue to produce with each event. Founder, lead director and curator Jasper Wong has been one of the driving forces of the festival since its humble beginnings, tirelessly working to make each event one of the best art activations of the year. (Check out POW! WOW!’s Jasper Wong interviewed here.) With the help of Kamea Hadar, Jeff Gress, Christa Wittmier and an ever-growing army of dedicated staff and volunteers, POW! WOW! has now helped artists create over 175 murals around the world. In 2013 1xRUN headed out to Honolulu for our first POW! WOW! print exhibition 1xLand 2xSea we had no clue what we was in store for us, and each passing event POW! WOW! continues to keep things evolving. Read 1xRUN digs into our POW! WOW! photo archives for a few favorites from the past 3 years…
POW!WOW! Hawaii 2013
Woes, Will Barras, Mr. Jago, Meggs
Rone
Nychos & Jeff Soto
Yoskay Yamamoto & Jeff Hamada / Faith47
Ekundayo / Erik Otto
POW!WOW HAWAII 2014
Kofie in action
Roids & Insa sketching out their Gif-iti wall 
Norm & Martha Cooper
Glenn Barr
Prime
Cope 2
Persue & Slick
Fans 
Spencer Keeton Cunningham, Aaron Glasson and Skinner 
Spencer Keeton Cunningham
Roger Gastman at the annual 1xRUN Print Exhibition
Andrew Schoultz
Tristan Eaton in action
123 Klan 
Woes & Tatiana Suarez 
Roids & Insa 
Bask & Meggs
Kamea Hadar
Hannah Stouffer
James Jean / Vhils 
Wooden Wave 
Push MSK 
1xRun painted by Nychos, Bask, Persue, Meggs & Glen Barr / Aaron De La Cruz 
Kofie
Aiko 
Cyrcle 
Dan Armand co founder of 1xRun
The 1st annual POW!WOW! Taiwan
Madsteez & Insa
Aaron De La Cruz & Rone
Dabs
Mr. Ogay
Woes
Woes & Sheryo/The Yok
James Jean
Kamae Hadar, Reach, Jeff Gress + more…
Apex
Sheryo & The Yok
POW!WOW Hawaii 2015
Doze Green 
Woes, Nosego, Etam 
ROA 
Cryptik 
Smithe & Case Maclaim 
Alexis Diaz 
Matt & Tristan Eaton
-1xRUN
Photos by
– 1xRUN Co-Founder Dan Armand – follow him @small__arms
– 1xRUN Editor-In-Chief Pietro Truba – follow him @pietro1xrun
– 1xRUN Contributing Photographer Mike Popso – follow him @mrpopso84
– 1xRUN Contributing Photographer Colin M Day – follow him @seatsontitanic