{"id":356983,"date":"2026-06-11T23:48:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356983\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:48:33","slug":"in-photos-walls-that-wow-long-beach-walls-continue-beautifying-long-beach-in-its-11th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356983\/","title":{"rendered":"In Photos: Walls that wow! \u2014 Long Beach Walls continue beautifying Long Beach in its 11th edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Beach has long been known for its rich artistic history. Bolstering this creative tradition is the annual Long Beach Walls, a chance for artists from different backgrounds to use the city\u2019s streets as their canvas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA wall is just a wall, but most of us walk past walls every day without noticing them, but something magical happens when an artist transforms that wall into a mirror,\u201d Jasper Wong, founder of WorldWide Walls, said during the welcome ceremony. \u201cPublic art also makes art accessible. It takes art out of galleries and museums and gives it back to the people. It becomes part of your daily life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Elizabeth Munz\u00f3n stands on a small step stool and paints a flower as part of her mural inside Ceasar Chavez Elementary school on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

Long Beach Walls, one of the city\u2019s premier and recognizable events, is back for year 11 with mainly first-time participants.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, day three of the Long Beach Walls yearly event, they held a variety of events to engage the community and to show off the different murals across Long Beach.<\/p>\n

A morning welcome ceremony was held on Wednesday for the community to learn about the initiative and meet different artists. A few hours later, Downtown Runners LB hosted a mural run event, with around 30 runners jogging to see the new murals, allowing them to hear each artist\u2019s process and watch them work up close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Runners from Downtown Runners LB jog over to the outside of Ceasar Chavez Elementary school to view Ms. Yellow\u2019s mural titled, \u201cSiempre Adelanto\u201d on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune) <\/p>\n

After the mural run ended, runners headed back to the Edison Theatre to watch a creative trampoline artist, Brian Floats, paint spontaneously as he jumped on a circular trampoline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Before he began painting, the artist walked around, talking with the attendees, fist-bumping and shaking hands with them as he prepared to create his paintings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"As trampoline artist Brian Floats jumps high in the air, the couple he\u2019s drawing, Brian Floats, watch in surprise and intrigue on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune) <\/p>\n

Floats made three different paintings during the event \u2014 one that stood out was a live painting of a couple in the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two [the couple, Mark and Luna] were beautiful [and] they saw all three of my performances. They asked really thoughtful questions [and] they were really sincere,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was basically \u2026 I\u2019m not going to do this one as a performance \u2026 let\u2019s just have a really cool me and them moment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Brian Floats jumps high in the air as he draws a couple in the audience, Mark and Luna, just before he ends the trampoline event on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

This was the first time Floats had ever done a show in Long Beach, and it marked his first performance since taking a multi-year break to focus on his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also about the giving and the generosity towards the community and beautifying a city for everybody\u2019s benefit and having it be open and public rather than private and exclusive,\u201d he said about the Long Beach art scene. \u201cIt\u2019s not for a marketer, a wealthy patron, but instead for a whole city, in a whole town, in a whole neighborhood. That\u2019s a much different gift than somebody\u2019s literal investment portfolio.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long Beach Walls will continue through June 13. Upcoming events include a Moonlight Mash Bike Mural Tour Thursday at 5 p.m., Floats\u2019 final performance Thursday at 6 p.m. and the festival\u2019s Summer Night Market Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To learn more about Long Beach Walls and to keep up with their events, check out their website<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"John Ramirez, who works for J Graphix Studio, creates Long Beach Walls T-shirts to sell to audience members during the welcome ceremony on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"One of the Long Beach Walls artists, Elizabeth Munz\u00f3n, colors in a flower near the bottom of the mural, while looking at her reference paper, on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"Holding her reference paper in one hand, muralist Elizabeth Munz\u00f3n quickly dips her paintbrush in one of the buckets as she colors in an orange flower on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"Ms. Yellow, an artist for Long Beach Walls, moves up the scissor lift with her materials as she continues spray painting her mural titled \u201cSiempre Adelanto\u201d on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"Brian Floats, a life-long artist, jumps onto a trampoline below him slowly as he looks at his art and thinks on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"After he did his second painting, artist Brian Floats jumps up in the air to celebrate as attendees watch in excitement on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"As trampoline artist Brian Floats jumps high in the air, the couple he\u2019s painting watch in surprise and intrigue on June 10, 2026. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

\"\"Two-time Long Beach Walls artist, Ms. Yellow, spray paints from left to right outside of Ceasar Chavez Elementary school just before the runners from the mural run event stop by and ask her about her process on June 10, 2026. Ms. Yellow created her first mural for Long Beach Walls back in 2018. (Samuel Chacko | Signal Tribune)<\/p>\n

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