Art Car Prizes Awarded: Everyone’a a Winner, But Scrapdaddy is Still King
A quarter century of Art Car parades is over, and Mark “Scrapdaddy” Bradford is still holding the lead, earning this year’s Mayor’s Choice Trophy (and $2000 in prize money) for his amazing walking-car sculpture “Mr. Green”. David Braithwaite’s “Big Banana”, “Low-Rider from Corpus Christie” by The Leal Brothers, “Earth, Wind, and Fire… and Water” by [...]
StART your engines: Artcar Parade Entry Now Open
Entry forms for the 25th Houston Orange Show Art Car Parade are online now! If you don’t have a car, at least vounteer. The parade is set for Saturday, May 12. You have 80 days to get ready.
Art Car Apostle Rebecca Bass Spreads the Word to Chattanooga: Parade Set for April 2012
Houston art car apostle Rebecca Bass is in Chattanooga, Tennessee this weekend, leading a workshop for educators, artists and the curious as they transform a 1974 Toyota Chinook Camper into the city’s first official art car. Her visit is sponsored by Art 120, a Chattanooga nonprofit that is organizing the city’s first Art Car Weekend [...]
What’s Old, Green, and Amphibious? Kinetic Sculpture Racing!
The Arcata, California, Kinetic Sculpture Race finishes today, amid reports of high winds and tough going. In this venerable (since 1969) “triathlon of the art world” event all-terrain human-powered art sculptures race over road, water, mud and sand every Memorial Day weekend, with typically “art-car” campiness and hijinks. It’s catching: the 13th annual Kinetic Sculpture [...]
The Owl and the Orange Show
You know it’s the first day of Summer when Houston’s Orange Show holds it annual Easter Orange Hunt and Season opening party. That’s this Saturday, April 23, from 10-1. Kids and other greedy scavengers can run wild through every nook and cranny of Jeff McKissack’s folk art monument for hidden eggs, treats, and oranges (BYOB, [...]
Art Car: The Movie
Art Car: The Movie will premier will premiere on Nov. 13 at Miller Outdoor Theatre, with a sneak peek scheduled for Art Car weekend on May 21 at Discovery Green as part of this year’s Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Nov 9-13. The feature length documentary by co-directors Carlton Ahrens and Ford Gunter follows a handful [...]