Houston Art Bike Parade & Festival

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

SATURDAY APRIL 26, 2025

10AM - 1PM

FONDE PARK

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2024 WINNERS

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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 April 26, 2025 at Fonde Park! This celebration of arts and culture 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!

2025 Houston Art Bike Parade Schedule

Free parking at 5330 Gulf Freeway, Houston 77023

IN FONDE PARK:

9 am - Parade Lineup begins

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

10:15 am - 4th Annual Houston Art Bike Parade Rolls

11:00 - 1pm - Houston Art Bike Awards Ceremony, live music, and 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.

2024 Community Partners

Houston Parks Board

Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

Shape Community Center

Project Row Houses

Harris County Public Health

US Dream Academy

Gulf Coast Chapter of Texas Master Naturalist

Nameless Sound

HPD High School Program

Be Smart

Potter's Smile

Children's Museum Houston

Kids Meals

MECA

Community Family Centers

Houston Volunteers

Houston Public Library

Fonde Civic Club

MacGregor Park Conservancy

NRCDC

Tecolotl

Food & Beverage Partners

GoodPop

Tampico

Hawaiian Brothers

Ray's BBQ

Family Activities

Face Painting

NEO Outdoor Games

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. Deadline is April 6!

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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 2 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park - 2-5pm
April 6 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park, - 2-5 pm
April 10 - Art Car Sneak Peek at Discovery Green - 6-8pm
April 12 - H-E-B Kids Creative Zone at the 38th Annual Houston Art Car Parade - 11am-2pm

Houston Parks Board expands, improves, and protects parks and greenspace in the Houston region. Since 1976, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization has utilized public-private partnerships and its extensive philanthropic, government, and community relationships to provide equitable access to quality parks and greenspace to the Greater Houston region. In addition to leading the transformational Bayou Greenways initiative, Houston Parks Board cares for more than 3300 acres of greenspace and supports park projects large and small.

Learn more at www.houstonparksboard.org

Now in its 44th 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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2024 Houston
Art Bike Festival Winners

In 2024, 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: Mandarin Immersion Elementary

Repurpose with a Purpose Winner: Waltrip High School

Colorfully Artsy Winner: Davila Elementary

Biking Up STEAM Winner: Shearn Elementary

It's Alive! Winner: Carillo Elementary

Crowd Favorite Winner: Browning Elementary

We Made THIS Bike Winner: Paige Elementary

To Bike or Not to Bike Winner: Furr High School

Imagination Station Winner: Black Middle School

COMMUNITY AWARD WINNERS

Wow the Crowd Winner: 4 Life Bike Crew