Children’s Texas Art Festival at Bayou Bend

Visit Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens for an afternoon of free, family-friendly fun. The Children’s Texas Art Festival celebrates art—created by and for children—that helps forge a connection to Texas and American heritage. (Photo courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

Visit Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens for an afternoon of free, family-friendly fun. 

The Children’s Texas Art Festival celebrates art—created by and for children—that helps forge a connection to Texas and American heritage.

Highlights:

• Artisan demonstrations by painter Joseph Dixon, the Houston Area Blacksmith Association, and Raum Furniture
• Music by guitar, banjo, and gourd player JAWAD
• Interactive play and learning at “Texas History Encounters,” hosted by Archaeology Now
• Drumming, dancing, and tribal art with Calmecac Indigenous Organization
• Creating fiber art in a drop-in workshop with teaching artist Deanna Santiago
• Classical music by a trio from Monarch Chamber Players
• Playing “Deep in the Heart of Texas” on diatonic bells
• Discovery activities in the historic house about the lives of children in the 1600s to 1800s