Art cars, bikes on parade in Minneapolis

Nearly 50 colorful cars, bicycles and a "couch-mobile" descended on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis Saturday evening for the 18th Annual ArtCar + ArtBike Parade.  [Slide show by Aaron Hays and more photos by Pamela Diedrich below.]

An event like none other, hundreds of people gathered near the Lyndale Park Rose Gardens to relax and enjoy the art.  For some, it is an opportunity to freely express their individuality through creation.  For others, it's a chance to enjoy the sunshine and see something unique.  One person who stopped to watch described it as something like a "Harley convention."  Tom Carlson, the parade emcee, said the ArtCar community is tight knit, and held together by a "connection of nice-minded artists."  The parade started near the rose garden at 6 p.m. and made a loop around the lake.

Photos below by Pamela Diedrich

• If you are a Cartist, please let me know. I would like to invite you and your car to Trinidad, Colorado's ArtoCade in Sept 2013! - by Peggy Westmoreland on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 4:59pm
  • Peggy just ran a cross your post on the Cartust. I replyed to your message I didnt know what you were talking about? Sorry I dont know any one that would be involved in something like that. I just know the motor head type. What I see in your post are the old urban hippies having some fun? lol. If you noticed those pictures of a couple by the name of King and Queen Vive and Jerry they are sitting in the back seat of a blue car? They are a couple from some where in Mpls but they have a tv show on a local community channel and they are hawking cheap party favorites they are just halirous they have quite the following Jerry seems to be half in the bag when ever they are on. lol lol Good luck with that looks like fun are there any fun people left in T-dad anymore seem like everyone down there are always fighting with each other all the time. lol lol - by George Tafoya on Sat, 12/08/2012 - 6:35pm