El Segundo Art Walk (ESAW) is an independently organized, self-guided art event. Creative businesses throughout Downtown El Segundo and Smoky Hollow transform their spaces to allow Los Angeles-based artists to showcase their work.
Attractions also include food trucks, live music and sponsored experiences. Contact us if you would like to be involved.
El Segundo Art Walk is presented by the City of El Segundo and El Segundo Creates
Supporting Sponsors
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The El Segundo Art Walk is great way to build direct, local exposure for your business, all while supporting artists.
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Featured Artist:
Neal Von Flueby Mark McDermott
There is a guy in El Segundo who builds motorcycles in his warehouse lair in Smoky Hollow, reinventing Harleys and other vintage bikes. He's a fourth generation local and looks like it. There is also a guy in El Segundo who is a fine arts painter and sculptor, an artist who has been the subject of academic papers...
Featured Artist:
KopyesonBy Chelsea Sektnan
The new mural taking shape at El Segundo Middle School is muralist Kopyeson’s handiwork, but it carries the fingerprints of an entire eighth-grade class. It is the first mural he has painted at a school, where students will pass his work each day and, he hopes...
Featured Artist:
Standard Ceramicsby Jessie Lee Cederblom
There is something wonderfully unexpected about finding a ceramics studio in a city built around aerospace. Outside, El Segundo is busy thinking about satellites, aircraft and technology. Inside Standard Ceramics, people are sitting at pottery wheels with their...
Featured Musical Artist:
Wais Katubadrauby Gavin Heaney
Wais Katubadrau, known more locally as "Wais," is a one-man music-making machine. Like a reggae jukebox, he performs a seamless and endless playlist of sing-alongs and memorable mashups in his own signature island style, while peppering in his own original heartfelt songs. Strumming guitar while tapping...
Printed maps will be available at the Headquarter venue and most participating businesses. Digital maps will also be released a few days before the event.
Interested in helping out before or during the event? The El Segundo Art Walk is great resume experience!
By Alex Khatchadourian
The dense blocks of Hawthorne Boulevard nestled between Marine Avenue and Rosecrans Boulevard are littered with the familiar businesses that have long inhabited the distinct six-lane roadway, which stretches over twenty miles, coursing from Palos Verdes through Torrance, Lawndale, Hawthorne, and Inglewood. A bustling Jack in the Box, a two-story WSS shoe store, a few dental and medical offices, clusters of insurance and tax service companies, budget motels, and nail or beauty salons with hand-painted...
By Mark McDermott
One day last June, Dave Williamson started getting calls and texts about pink flamingos. “What time can I pick up these pink flamingos?” read one text. Williamson was perplexed. He does like beer, quite a lot, so he thought maybe there was a connection. “Man, what did I do yesterday?” he remembers wondering. It didn’t take very many messages for Williamson to figure out something was up. He may be from El Segundo, by way of Florida, but he...
By Joel Peter Elliott
Recognition as an artist didn’t come until later in life for Dave Harris. It was only after he had finally settled into painting as the medium of choice that his creative endeavors began to take on a life of their own. In that space he found a reason to take himself and the work seriously in a way that he hadn’t done before. Dave and painting got along, and Spooky was born.
Businesses open their doors to community of El Segundo.
ESAW hosts artists and performers from the Los Angeles area.
Multiple venues host live music throughout the summer events.
