POW! WOW!

POW! WOW! is an international mural arts festival founded by Jasper Wong in Hong Kong in 2009. In 2010, the first edition of POW! WOW! as a week-long mural arts festival was held in Honolulu, Hawaii. The festival has since exhibited in 17 cities worldwide with the purpose of city beautification and community building. [1][2][3] Past festivals have also featured local restaurants,[3] partnerships with local sports teams,[4] and musical performances from artists such as Eminem.[2]

While POW! WOW! shares the name of the Native American pow wow gathering, the festival's name originates combining the "Pow" of comic book action bubbles with the "WOW" of a reader's reaction.[1][3]

In April 2020, POW! WOW! celebrated its tenth anniversary by releasing a 256-page hardcover book through Paragon Books[5]. All international editions of the festival are represented through a photo reportage of a mural created there at least once.

Notable Participants

Festival Years
FestivalLocationFestival Years
POW! WOW! HawaiiKaka'ako District, Honolulu, Hawaii2011 - 2019
POW! WOW! Long Beach[6]Long Beach, California2015 - 2020
POW! WOW! Worcester[4]Worcester, Massachusetts2016 - 2019
POW! WOW! DCNoMa neighborhood, Washington, DC2016 - 2019
POW! WOW! San Jose[7]San Jose, California2017 - 2019
POW! WOW! Korea[1]Seoul, South Korea2017 - 2019
POW! WOW! Rotterdam[8]Rotterdam, The Netherlands2018 - 2020
POW! WOW! Cleveland[3]Cleveland, Ohio2020

References
  1. Kriel, Celeste (25 Sep 2019). "Pow! Wow! bombs Seoul with public art". The Korea Times.
  2. Jones, Jay (6 Feb 2019). "Oahu's Pow! Wow! fest elevates and celebrates street murals as the art they are". Los Angeles Times.
  3. Hlavaty, Kaylyn (12 Nov 2019). "International mural arts festival, POW! WOW!, coming to Cleveland in 2020". ABC News 5 Cleveland.
  4. Lyford, Joshua (17 Aug 2017). "The Return of POW! WOW! Worcester". Worcester Magazine. Gannett Media Corp.
  5. "Pow! Wow! Worldwide!: 10 Years of International Street Art". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
  6. Berkoff, Nancy (21 Jul 2019). "Pow! Wow! Underway In Long Beach". The Grunion. Retrieved 11 Dec 2019.
  7. Pizarro, Sal (24 Oct 2019). "POW!WOW! San Jose Mural Fest Expands into New Territory". The Mercury News.
  8. Bogojev, Sasha (3 Oct 2019). "RECAP: POW! WOW! Worldwide Returns to Rotterdam". Juxtapoz.
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