
Houston Art Bike Parade & Festival
A CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF HUMAN-POWERED ART ON WHEELS
SATURDAY APRIL 26, 2025
10AM - 1PM
FONDE PARK / SMITHER 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 April 26, 2025 at Fonde 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!
2025 Houston Art Bike Parade Schedule
Free parking at 2334 Gulf Terminal Drive, 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
IN SMITHER PARK:
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.
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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.
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.
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 2 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park - 2-5pm
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April 6 - Smither Park Sunday at Smither Park, - 2-5 pm
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April 10 - Art Car Sneak Peek at Discovery Green - 6-8pm
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April 12 - H-E-B Kids Creative Zone at the 37th Annual Houston Art Car Parade - 11am-2pm
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 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
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 $500 gift card for Art Supplies for their classroom.
HISD AWARD WINNERS
You Call This School Spirit? Winner: Mandarin Immersion Elementary
Repurpose with a Purpose Winner: Waltrip High School
Colorfully Artsy Winner: Davila Elementary
Biking Up STEAM Winner: Shearn Elementary
It's Alive! Winner: Carillo Elementary
Crowd Favorite Winner: Browning Elementary
We Made THIS Bike Winner: Paige Elementary
To Bike or Not to Bike Winner: Furr High School
Imagination Station Winner: Black Middle School
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COMMUNITY AWARD WINNERS
Wow the Crowd Winner: 4 Life Bike Crew
Spirit of Movement Winner: Dad$Mom
Best Representing the Spirit of Art Bike: Winner: Kaleikini
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!