We are currently getting ready for our grand opening on April 16th, 2016.
On Saturday, April 16th, from 11:30am to 4pm, celebrate the opening of the new Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art, beginning with the 2016 Victoria Art Car Parade with a FREE family event and parade. Ann Harithas, founder of the new museum, has been a judge at the annual Orange Show Houston Art Car Parade for over 25 years and is also founder of the Art Car Museum in Houston. For the 2016 Victoria Art Car Parade, Harithas has organized award-winning art cars from noted car artists for display both at Jam Fest 2016 downtown, and on North Moody Street in and around the Five Points Museum with a new exhibition, Lost Worlds: New Drawings and Sculpture, by Houston artist Noah Edmundson on view inside the museum. In addition, students from local schools participating in the Manhattan Art Program (MAP) will have miniature sculptures on display. There will also be kids’ crafts areas hosted by MAP, and food and beverages.
Festivities will kick off with Victoria’s 5th annual Art Car Parade beginning at Main and W. Commercial (by The Victoria Public Library) at 11:30 am and continuing down Main Street, right on Church Street., then right on Bridge Street, where some art cars will park so Jam Fest 2016 visitors can take a closer look. The rest of the parade cars will proceed to Five Points Museum at Moody and North Street for the museum exhibition opening. Between 12pm and 4pm, free shuttle buses will transport visitors between Jam Fest and Five Points.
The more than 50 art cars and low riders on exhibit will display a variety of painting and sculptural techniques, including welding and metal craft, gluing and assemblage, and collage. Art cars scheduled to appear include “Rex Rabbit” by Larry Fuente and several exquisitely detailed lowriders by the Leal Brother from Corpus Christi. All of the art cars have won top honors at the Orange Show Houston Art Car Parade and several can be found on display all year round at Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art in Victoria.
From April 16 through May 30, 2016, Five Points Museum of Contemporary Art will be exhibiting Lost Worlds: New Drawings and Sculpture by Houston-based artist Noah Edmundson. This exhibition features a range of new work, with intricate drawings, metal sculpture, and an example of Mr. Edmundson’s own art car work. Evolving from skilled oil field equipment fabricator, Mr. Edmundson has been working as an artist for over 30 years. His work has been exhibited and commissioned throughout Texas and the United States. He currently is the director and curator of Houston’s Art Car Museum.