The birth of the cool (El Segundo Art Walk)
If the annals of El Segundo are ever compiled and some future scribe investigates the exact moment when the little seaside city named after Standard Oil’s second refinery reached a definitive tipping point towards cool, he or she will discover it happened on the third Thursday of June in the year 2015. It then ratcheted up each of the next two third Thursdays of that same summer. This was when the El Segundo Art Walk arrived, and with it a realization that El Segundo had more creativity per square foot than any other city in the region. Unexpected spectacles popped up throughout the city’s downtown and adjacent Smoky Hollow warehouse district, including vibrant, often edgy paintings, surf art, exquisite photography, sculpture, music, aerial performers, and moonshine purveyors. The range of the art walk’s 29 venues was also a revelation, including MotoArt, the exuberantly unconventional business steeped in the deep heart of El Segundo’s past, present, and future, making artful, functional furniture out of vintage aircraft parts; Copper Willow Printing Company, a little shop filled with vintage, hand-powered printing machines; Tyler Surfboards, founded by local legend Tyler…
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