WHAT: ART BIKE 2010 is a month-long installation of approximately 20 bikes that have been transformed by local artists to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis.
WHEN: March 22 – April 25, 2010
6 a.m. – 11 p.m. Daily
WHERE: Discovery Green
1500 McKinney St.
HOW: Free admission
WHO: Presenting Sponsor: National Multiple Sclerosis Society: Lone Star; Additional support provided by Texas Art Supply
WHY: ART BIKE 2010 was created to raise awareness for multiple sclerosis and the National MS Society: Lone Star. Houston’s top ranking artistic and creative minds transformed used bikes into a living exhibit with the hope of providing a visual representation for Society’s theme of “keep moving.”
Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system. There is no cure, and MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S., and 2.5 million worldwide.
MORE INFO: National MS Society: Lone Star
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/
713-526-8967
