Art Cars

20th Annual Art Car Show

Ever wonder what a used car lot filled with art cars looked like? This year at Artscape we will be transforming a parking lot into just that—a showy, art car spectacle! The art cars return to Artscape with an impressive offering of cars appearing for the first time at the festival. Local cars mix it up with some old and new favorites in what’s expected to be a fitting celebration for the 20th anniversary of the car show.

Crazy Ray’s Art Car Lounge

Now in its fourth year, the Art Car Lounge features seating made from car parts donated in-kind by Crazy Ray’s. The Lounge will be open to the public during the entire festival weekend and has work from an array of artists who have contributed to the project over the years; the 2013 contributing artist is Tim Scofield. These works of functional art will be set-up just north of the intersection of Charles and Lanvale streets, the center of the art car exhibit.

Art Car Parade, presented by GEICO

The Art Car Parade presented by GEICO travels from the American Visionary Art Museum to Artscape. At 11am, the car parade enters Artscape at North Avenue and Mount Royal Avenue and begins traveling through the festival to Station North.

Art Cart Derby Cars

NEW! Highlandtown community residents and the Highlandtown Arts & Entertainment District organize the Art Cart Derby and bring some of their gravity powered art carts to the show this year. Organizations involved include the Creative Alliance, Southeast CDC, The Loading Dock, The Martin Pollak Project and Banner Neighborhoods.

Art Car Exhibitors

Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS), Clarke Bedford, Kenny Browning, Deb & Bill Elliott, Bob Hieronimus, Collier Hyams, CM Laster, Charlie Lawson, Ted Mangrum, Greg Phelps, Jim Robertson, Cherie Smith, Jimmy “CapMan” Straehla, Carolyn Stapleton, Danny Stuelpnagel, Cody Wright, and many more!

Curator

Julia "Jewelz" Cody serves as the Artist Liaison/Coordinator & Producer for Art Car Weekend at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts. She joined the staff after her return to Houston from the San Francisco Bay Area where she developed and managed the Department of Mutant Vehicles for the Burning Man festival for 6 years. Her involvement in the art car community goes back to the first parade in Houston, a performance during New Music America in 1986. Several years later, she joined the steering committee for Art Car Weekend & began her appreciation for art cars and their artists. She has worked as an event producer, volunteered and worked for a myriad of arts organizations, and is a member of the internationally-acclaimed Flaming Lotus Girls, a group of artists making kinetic, mechanical fire art since 2000.