2008 Art Car Weekend
Media Center
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to the Media Center for the
World's Largest and Oldest
Art Car Parade.
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Schedule, High Resolution Images,
Press Releases and Story
Ideas.
The
21st Annual Art Car Parade rolls again on Saturday, May 10,
2008!
Art
Car Weekend Schedule:
Friday, May 9
Main Street Drag 9am to 1pm
A select group of 80 Art Cars visit children in hospitals
and schools to spread joy and excitement while distributing
20,000 Art Car activity books. The caravan departs from the
Continental Club.
Sneak
Peek 6pm to 9pm
at The Orange Show
We're closing down Munger Street for an old-school block party
with an art car twist. Get your first peek at amazing new art
cars for 2008. There'll be live music in the street and the
annual Shop Talk art car symposium inside the monument. FREE
Saturday,
May 10
Art
CARtailgater! 9am to 1pm
Tailgaiting Art Car Style! Thousands of people
get to Allen Parkway early to watch the vehicles line up, talk
to the artists, listen to the live bands participating, and
get a good long look at the amazing mobile works of art.
HOUSTON ART CAR PARADE 1pm
More than 250 amazing mobile works of
art dazzle over 250,000 spectators all along Allen Parkway and
one block of Bagby in Downtown.
Party
on the Green: Art Car Awards Ceremony and Celebration!
Art Cars invade Houston's newest downtown destination
for a rockin' after-party. See the art cars close up and cheer
the winners when they're announced. Immediately following the
parade, at Discovery Green - Lamar Street at Crawford. FREE
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
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