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 Bike 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.
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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.
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!
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March 12 - EOG Resources FUNomental Spring Break at Discovery Green - 12-4pm
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March 30 - Easter Orange Hunt at Smither Park - 10am-1pm
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April 7 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park - 2-5pm
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April 11 - Art Car Sneak Peek at Discovery Green - 6-8pm
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April 13 - H-E-B Kids Creative Zone at the 37th Annual Houston Art Car Parade - 11am-2pm
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May 4 - Art Bike Workshop at River Oaks District - 12-2pm
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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
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
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COMMUNITY AWARD WINNERS
Wow the Crowd Winner: Bob Wink
Spirit of Movement Winner: Mark "Scapdaddy" Bradford
Best Representing the Spirit of Art Bike: Winner: The Pollinators
Photos from the 2023 Houston Art Bike Festival
Sponsors
Interested in being a sponsor for the Houston Art Bike Parade & Festival and showcasing your brand to a diverse audience? Contact the Houston Parks Board at partner@houstonparksboard.org or the Orange Show at oranges@orangeshow.org
Houston Art Bike Parade wouldn’t be possible without our volunteers!