{"id":237397,"date":"2026-04-06T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:23:08","slug":"renaissance-on-wheels-rolling-in-the-art-car-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237397\/","title":{"rendered":"“Renaissance on Wheels” rolling in the Art Car Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON, Texas — The Art Car Parade is one of Houston’s most unique events, celebrating art and creativity.<\/p>\n

Students at Westbury High School have been working on their art car since October 2025. They have been modifying a 2009 Subaru Forester that was gifted to the school by Team Gillman.<\/p>\n

The title of their art car: Renaissance on Wheels.<\/p>\n

The students have been creating sculptures based on Renaissance paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s Piet\u00e0.<\/p>\n

The project is led by art teacher Wendy Bejarano, “Learning how to build things and using your hands, and what materials to use is important for everyday life.”<\/p>\n

Students told us they primarily used beads, buttons, and pennies. “It was pretty tedious,” One art student remembered.<\/p>\n

Nearly 200 students took part in the project, and each had a role: “Some people did the papier-mache clouds, some people did the sculptures, and some people decorated the sculptures.”<\/p>\n

You can see “Renaissance on Wheels” on Saturday, April 11, at the Houston Art Car Parade<\/a>, presented by Team Gillman<\/p>\n

The 39th annual parade will feature over 250 art cars and other entries from 23 states, in addition to international vehicles from Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

ABC13 will live stream the 39th Annual Houston Art Car Parade starting at 2pm on Saturday, April 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas — The Art Car Parade is one of Houston’s most unique events, celebrating art and creativity.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[91331,6595,91328,91329,56,58,57,91327,24027,91325,1049,4114,91330,91326],"class_list":{"0":"post-237397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-91331","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-beads","11":"tag-glue","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-masterpiece","16":"tag-pennies","17":"tag-renaissance-on-wheels","18":"tag-students","19":"tag-teacher","20":"tag-team-gillman","21":"tag-westbury-high-school"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}