El BioArte Bayou-torio regresa al Parque Natural Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend en 2021! / The Bio Art Bayou-torium returned to Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend Nature Park in 2021!

The BioArt Bayou-torium operated for three weekends in October (2-3, 9-10, 16-17 - 9am-3pm), 2021 for outdoor activities: natural science explorations and nature tours; cyanotype workshops; sketch hike and wildlife of a live great horned owl; plant hunting maps; with free seeds and soil from Finca Tres Robles were offered to all visitors. The BioArt Bayou-torium was free and open to all ages! Parking on site and portable toilets were made available. All programs were outdoors and standard Covid protocols were observed. See below for the images from each day of operations!

Click the image below for schedule of art, activities and nature tours! Updates are ongoing.

This years BioArt Bayou-torium programing is sponsored by the City of Houston’s Houston Arts Alliance; Harris County Pct. 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia; and the Buffalo Bayou Partnership.

Day 6 - October 17th

Day 5 - October 16th

Day 4 - October 10th

Day 3 - October 8th

Day 2 - October 3rd

Day 1 - October 2nd

The Buffalo Bayou Partnership presented the BioArt Bayou-torium’s opening evening on September 25th, 2021, 4pm-9pm, at Yolanda Black Navarro Buffalo Bend Nature Park on 2300 Sgt. Macario Garcia Drive @ in Houston’s East End along Buffalo Bayou. The Buffalo Bayou Partnership paired the Bayou-torium with bio-artist Brandon Ballengee's "Bugstock" for a night of science, bugs, microscopes and a Beatles cover band!

https://buffalobayou.org/event/bioart-bayou-torium/2021-09-25/

Opening night - Saturday, September 25th

The Bayou-torium @ Yolanda Black Navarro Nature Park 2021

The Bio-Art Bayou-torium's bilingual, social practice, bio-art project shipment container will move to the Yolanda Black Navarro/Buffalo Bend Nature Park in the Fall of 2021. Its mission is to bring an aesthetic and educational art experience to cultivate stewardship of the Bayou among our bilingual and Spanish-speaking residents of the East End. Weekend series of free activities include: nature tour with experienced guides; animal care-givers and bird watchers; artists creating pigments from plants and performance; farmer and horticulturalist classes with natural science drawing and painting; microscopy observations; art classes identifying the shapes of birds in flight and of nature. Free and open to all ages.

The Bayou-torium coordinates with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership (BBP) and Harris County, Precinct 2 Parks Department at the site to schedule 3 weekends of programs from September 25-Oct. 17, 2021. A variety of activities and tours will be scheduled each weekend and early evenings. During school hour-weekdays, the Bayou-torium is open to schedule field trips with local schools. Artists working in the fields of bio-art, socially engaged practices, drawing and painting will be hired and encouraged to collaborate on specific programs and events. Each will be paid an artist fee. Hired tour guides will conduct new excursions around the nature-park and Bayou. Collaborations with bayou/nature preservation organizations will be invited for their expertise and tour related events. All events, collaborators and hired assistants are bi-lingual or have interpreters on hand to serve our Spanish-speaking neighbors and visitors. All events and programs are free, open to all ages, for all Houstonians.

Please return for updated information as we approach the Fall months.