2009 Art Car Weekend
Media Center

Welcome to the Media Center
for the
World's Oldest, Largest and BEST
Art Car Parade!


Please scroll down the page for our press release, story ideas and high resolution images.

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The 22nd Annual Houston
Art Car Parade rolls on Saturday, May 9, 2009!

Click here for our most recent Art Car press release


High Resolution
Art Car Images:

Click Thumbnails for Full Size Pictures


Draka the Dragon by Lisa Nigro
Photo Courtesy of Mike Herrera

 


Rancha by Mark Bradford
Photo Courtesy of Richard Freilich

 


Noggin Del Fuego by Brian "Visker" Mahanay
Photo Courtesy of Jeff DeBevec

 


Warehouse of Mass Distribution by Mel Chin & Students from East Tennessee State University
Photo Courtesy of Richard Freilich

 


Big J by Isaac Cohen
Photo Courtesy of Arnold Franco

 


Orange-A-Peel by Ben Gibson
Photo Courtesy of Delaney Harris-Finch

 


Trojan Horse by David Moore
Photo Courtesy of Jeff DeBevec

 


A-B Original by Jim Settles & Yolle Lemberger
Photo Courtesy of Arnold Franco

 


The Roachster by Kenny Browning
Photo Courtesy of Jeff DeBevec

 


Touring Tub by Ashley Stanford & Mary Forbes
Photo Courtesy of Tom LaFaver

 


Story Ideas:

  • Follow a local Art Car Artist or school children as they create their mobile works of art
  • Visit Houston area students and childrens hospital patients in an Art Car during the Main Street Drag on
    Friday, May 9, 2008

  • Wacky and off-beat news

  • Houston, Texas Travel Story

  • Emergence of Houston, Texas as a diverse, artistic mecca

  • The business behind event sponsorships

  • The science and mechanics behind building an Art Car

  • Trend story in mobile expressions of art
 

 

For additional information please contact:

Stephen Bridges, stephen@orangeshow.org

or

Katie Butler , Vollmer Public Relations
713-970-2100 or katie@vollmerpr.com