Heavy Rains Delay Today’s Art Car Parade
Fears of rain on Saturday morning in Houston have caused the organizers of the the Art Car Parade to delay the world’s largest procession of [...]
Orange Show Art Bus To Debut At Ikea Houston On March 29
The Orange Show and IKEA Houston have collaborated on the Orange Show Art Bus, a mobile art classroom to be dispatched to Houston-area schools with [...]
Orange Show Adopts 70-Foot Blue Saxophone: Long-time Richmond Avenue Icon Moving to Houston’s East End Today!
The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has acquired Bob Wade’s “Smokesax,” the much-beloved 70’ tall blue saxophone that for the past 20 years has [...]
Rev Your Engines- the Orange Show’s Annual Art Car Parade Entry Deadline is March 22!
The 25th annual Art Car Parade rolls through Houston on May 9-11, 2013, and you can be in it! Just fill out the lengthy online [...]
‘Twas the Month Before Christmas . . .
Second only to Halloween as an art-saturated holiday, the end of each year is an orgy of group gift shows, holiday decorating events, and year-end [...]
Orange Show Announces Mother of All Garage Sales Saturday Sept 29
Houston’s famed folk art envoronment has a famed warehouse, full of stuff that they’ve been storing for many years, including building materials, warehouse equpment, tools, [...]
Orange Show Unveils Dedicated Art Car Parade Website
What better use for some of that Houston Art Alliance hotel tax money than to promote one of the city’s only real claims to fame, [...]
Easter Orange Hunt Saturday
Houston’s Orange Show opens it’s 2012 season with the traditional Easter Orange Hunt on Saturday, March 31. Bring your kids to scour Jeff McKissack’s folk [...]
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 [...]
Texas Art Travel: Houston
Ever since the mid-1970s, I’ve traveled to Houston whenever it was time for a good art fix. Back then, there were just a handful of [...]
Art Car Weekend rolls into Houston
One of Houston’s few legitimate claims to fame, the Art Car Parade, rolls down Allen Parkway from Waugh Drive to Bagby St. this Sunday, May [...]
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, [...]
