2026 BAYOU CITY ART FESTIVAL
MEMORIAL PARK
Bayou City Art Festival is a fun-filled weekend dedicated to celebrating the arts! Hundreds of artists from across the nation showcase artwork from 19 different disciplines. Festival goers get a chance to meet artists up close and personal, find works that speak to them, and learn what goes into creating handmade pieces. The experience also includes live music, delicious local food trucks, exciting kids areas with interactive crafts and culinary arts demonstrations.
Bayou City Art Festival is produced by the Art Colony Association Inc, a 501(C3) who gives back to the community with each event. Each festival, we partner with local non-profits who receive a portion of our proceeds. We have donated over 4 million dollars to local community outreach groups over the last 54 years. To learn more about our non-profit partners and the activities they host at the festival, click here.
ARE YOU AN ARTIST?
We welcome all artists to apply to participate! We are a juried fine art festival, and every application is scored blindly. We also offer an Emerging Artist program for any artists new to the fine art festival world!
MEET YOUR MEMORIAL PARK 2026
FEATURED ARTIST
AUBREY HOGAN
The Art Colony Association is proud to announce Aubrey Hogan as the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2026 Featured Artist! Aubrey is an acrylic painter from Eau Claire, WI and works primarily in heavy body acrylic, embracing the impasto tradition of French Impressionism. Where every brushstroke remains visible, texture is never incidental and it becomes part of the story itself.
Aubrey's work explores themes of wilderness, wonder, resilience, and the sacredness woven into ordinary life. Figures like wandering astronauts, bison, wildflowers, and open horizons reappear throughout his work as symbols of longing, exploration, and hope.
PARTNERSHIPS
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IN-KIND SPONSORS
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