Houston Art Bike Parade & Festival

A CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF HUMAN-POWERED ART ON WHEELS

SATURDAY MAY 11, 2024

10AM - 1PM

MACGREGOR PARK

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About the Houston Art Bike Festival

Houston Parks Board & Orange Show Center for Visionary Art are proud to present the Houston Art Bike Parade & Festival on Saturday May 11, 2024 at MacGregor Park! This day-long arts and culture celebration brings together community members and youth programs from across the city as we explore our personal creativity, promote health and wellness, and celebrate the artist in everyone!

2024 Houston Art Bike Parade Schedule

MACGREGOR PARK | 5225 Calhoun Rd. Houston, TX 77021

9am - Parade Lineup begins

10am - Houston Art Bike Parade Festival opens - music, community & art activations!

10:15am - 3rd Annual Houston Art Car Parade Rolls

12-1pm - Houston Art Bike Awards Ceremony & community activations

Through our partnership with Houston Independent School District (HISD), students from participating schools proudly pedal and accompany their art bikes along the parade route, as families and community members cheer them on from the sidelines.

We also welcome you, your family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors, to design and create an Art Bike of your own. Anyone and everyone can participate, as we celebrate diversity through artistic interpretations of how the outdoors connect us - embracing our health, our environment, our families, our friends, our civic pride, and our creativity.

How to Participate

Participation is FREE and open to anyone interested in building and showing off their two (or more)-wheeled human-powered mobile masterpiece! Simply click the button below to fill out the participation form. You'll receive information about where and when to meet up on parade day after your participation form has been reviewed.

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Art Bike Workshops

Interested in learning more about how to build an art bike? Join us for any of our FREE upcoming Art Bike workshops! Bring your bike, your helmet, or just yourself and create some amazing art to transform your bike and your gear!

March 12 - EOG Resources FUNomental Spring Break at Discovery Green - 12-4pm
March 23 - Art Bike Workshop at River Oaks District - 12-2pm
March 30 - Easter Orange Hunt at Smither Park - 10am-1pm
April 7 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park - 2-5pm
April 11 - Art Car Sneak Peek at Discovery Green - 6-8pm
April 13 - H-E-B Kids Creative Zone at the 37th Annual Houston Art Car Parade - 11am-2pm
May 5 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park - 2-5pm

For more than 40 years, Houston Parks Board has advocated to improve the lives of all Houstonians through equitable access to green spaces. Our vision is ambitious. We are committed to ensuring that every single person in our city lives close to parks and trails, creating a greater quality of life for all. That vision means our work isn’t close to done. It isn’t easy. But it’s worth it. The initiatives below take important steps in reaching our goal, and we’ll get there together.

Learn more at www.houstonparksboard.org

Now in its 43rd year, The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art is a non-profit organization with a mission to preserve, promote and document visionary art environments, provide opportunities for the expression of personal artistic vision, and create a community where that expression is valued. The Orange Show owns and operates The Orange Show monument, The Beer Can House, and Smither Park, as well as produces the annual Houston Art Car Parade.

Learn more at www.orangeshow.org

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2023 Houston
Art Bike Festival Winners

For 2023, Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, Houston Parks Board, and HISD Fine Arts Department distributed awards to three community groups and ten HISD schools that exhibited exemplary Art Bikes in this year's Houston Art Bike Parade. Each HISD school winner received a $500 gift card for Art Supplies for their classroom.

HISD AWARD WINNERS

You Call This School Spirit? Winner: Carvillo Elementary

Repurpose with a Purpose Winner: Sam Houston High School

Colorfully Artsy Winner: Harvard Elementary

Biking Up STEAM Winner: Davila Elementary

It's Alive! Winner: S.C. Red Elementary

Crowd Favorite Winner: Burbank Elementary

We Made THIS Bike Winner: Clifton Middle School

To Bike or Not to Bike Winner: Fonwood Early Childcare Center

Imagination Station Winner: Frank Black Middle School

Recognize the Size Winner: Shearn Elementary

COMMUNITY AWARD WINNERS