Art Car Parade Roars Back Into Downtown Houston

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art is thrilled to announce the long-awaited 35th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend presented by Team Gillman will take H-town over April 7-10, 2022 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. The Orange Show’s signature event – Houston’s most iconic and beloved annual celebrations – returns with a vibrant lineup of events and activations that will celebrate and showcase over 250 mobile masterpieces from across the country and engage the public with opportunities to express their personal artistic vision. Team Gillman, one of Houston’s oldest and most established auto retailers, has taken the lead as the presenting sponsor for Houston Art Car Parade Weekend 2022, marrying two of the city’s most recognizable brands and continuing the tradition of honoring Houston’s creative and entrepreneurial spirit.

Through Team Gillman’s support, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art will continue to provide Houston with the world’s oldest and largest celebration of its kind in addition to programming ongoing arts education and outreach to spark creativity in young minds across the region. This year, the Houston Art Car Parade presented by Team Gillman is dedicated to the late Ann Harithas, a leading figure in Texas’ art community whose efforts to support and create new arts organizations impacted generations of Texas artists and creatives. The Houston Art Car Parade’s grand prize will be permanently named the Ann Harithas Legacy Award and given out annually at the Art Car Awards Ceremony. Harithas was an artist, collector and curator, who is credited with organizing one of the first public exhibitions of Art Cars in Houston in the early 1980s, resulting in a wave of Art Cars being seen on Houston streets.