How does a neighborhood art show fit 85 artists into about twenty houses? The 24th annual Travis Heights Art Trail runs Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7 and 8, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and its map shows most of those artists gathered under a handful of roofs.

A year ago, Glasstire reported that the 23rd edition had "more than 70 participating artists and arts groups at 19 locations." The official 2026 map reads "20 Houses" and "85 Artists!!" The 2026 roster puts many of those 85 names in a few large group houses. That arrangement shapes how a neighbor a few blocks away can plan the weekend.

Fifteen Names Behind One Door on East Annie

The trail's Walk the Trail roster sorts every participant by stop. Count the names at each address and the weight lands in a few places. Stop 8, at 206 E Annie, lists fifteen: Clara Fonte Boa, Anne Bingham, Eve Chenu, Stephen Murchison, HR Wright, Jared F. Rosenacker, Dorothy Bassett, Harshita Shastri, Kyle Gross, Candy Chick-Nichols, Laura Lynn Johnson, Alli Waddell, Maridad Studio, Terri St Arnauld and Dale Truitt. That one house holds more artists than the eight smallest stops put together.

Stop 8 is the largest single address, and the same grouping repeats across the map.

Counted by roster entry, seven addresses hold about two-thirds of the names. They are 206 E Annie, 506 Leland, and five houses with seven names each: 1403 Kenwood, 1511 Alta Vista, 1810 Alta Vista, 509 Lockhart and 503 Leland. The other thirteen stops each host one to four names. Nina Jolly is at 905 Avondale, Sara Jane Parsons at 2008 Kenwood, and Teri and Mike Hubbling at 1331 1/2 Bonham Terrace.

Three Houses on Leland, Three on Lockhart

All that density shapes the walk. On Leland, stops 17, 18 and 19 sit at 503, 506 and 505, so sixteen names share a few house numbers on one street. Lockhart works the same way, with 507, 509 and 522 Lockhart running as stops 13 through 15. On those two streets, one stretch of sidewalk covers what takes several blocks on the trail's northern end.

The numbering follows a loop from the Riverside side of the neighborhood south toward Alameda. Taken in order, the map splits into four natural legs:

1. North Kenwood and Bonham, stops 1 to 4. 1403 and 1404 Kenwood, 1331 1/2 Bonham Terrace and 905 Avondale. Charlotte Bell, Wolf Sittler, Ethan Ham, Chris Celusniak, Debbie Celusniak, Fred Tate and Las Rancheritas open the trail at 1403 Kenwood. Maxwell Nagy, Chetonia Saldana and Bonnie Hall Gerson are across the street at 1404.
2. Alta Vista and Monroe, stops 5 to 9. 1511 Alta Vista, 707 E Monroe, 300 E Monroe, 206 E Annie and 1810 Alta Vista. This stretch holds both the largest house and two of the seven-name stops.
3. Kenwood and Travis Heights Boulevard, stops 10 to 12. Lisa Cushing, Casey Hoskinson, Dana Shultz and Jes Dickson are at 2001 Kenwood. Paola Isola, Vicky Tai Wu and July Sosebee are at 1910 Travis Heights. Sara Jane Parsons is at 2008 Kenwood.
4. Lockhart, Brooklyn, Leland and Alameda, stops 13 to 20. The southern clusters, plus Alex and Jeremy Harrison at 2105 Brooklyn. The trail ends at 2009 Alameda with Sam Anderson, Lyndsee Loves, Johanna Spencer, Megan Mowry and Katharina Michalak.

Someone with one afternoon could finish the third and fourth legs and still see more than a third of the names on the roster. The PDF map marks accessibility and public restrooms, labels Little Stacy Park, and includes a code for buying art online. The map file was uploaded in June, so check the map page the week of the trail for any later changes.

The People Behind the Doors

The trail's own materials describe it as a show run by the artists who take part. Glasstire quoted its billing as "The only neighborhood art show run by the participating artists." That arrangement starts at Stop 1. Charlotte Bell, a photographer whose work hangs at 1403 Kenwood, is also listed as the trail's director. The Trail is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

The individual profiles give a sense of the range on the trail:

• Kendra Germenis, 1511 Alta Vista, paints in acrylic with palette knives.
• Anne Bingham, 206 E Annie, works in ceramics.
• Lauren Hua, 503 Leland, is an abstract-expressionist painter.
• Nina Jolly, 905 Avondale, draws and paints portraits and figurative work.
• Sara Jane Parsons, 2008 Kenwood, and Jes Dickson, 2001 Kenwood, were described by Glasstire last year as a painter and a woodworker.

Stop 7, at 300 E Monroe, belongs to Adventurers Academy of Lifelong Learning. Glasstire wrote in 2025 that the academy shows work by adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Its place on the 2026 map keeps the trail's community-organization side going alongside the large group houses.

A Week Ahead of the Citywide Tour

The timing helps the neighborhood trail. Last year it ran Nov. 1 and 2. This year it lands on Nov. 7 and 8, the weekend right after the Austin Studio Tour holds its kickoff on Friday, Nov. 6. The citywide tour's own studio weekends come later, on Nov. 14 and 15 and Nov. 21 and 22, also from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Because the dates don't overlap, a Travis Heights household can walk its own blocks first and then cross town for the larger tour without choosing between them. Visit Austin's listing repeats the organizers' description of the trail as "The Longest Running Artist/Studio Tour in Austin." It also says the trail draws "thousands of fans walking along the beautiful streets of the Travis Heights neighborhood." Admission is free, and the Austin Chronicle calendar lists it as all ages.

Getting to Kenwood From the East Side of I-35

The houses on Kenwood sit closest to the highway, and the crossings to them have changed since the last trail. TxDOT's Lady Bird Lake segment page lists Woodland Avenue under I-35 as permanently closed. Pedestrians who used to cross at Woodland are sent to the Oltorf Street bridge, and drivers have to use the frontage roads and U-turns at Riverside Drive or Oltorf. East Avenue under the Lady Bird Lake bridge stays closed through late 2026, and the east pedestrian path at the lake and the north sidewalk on Riverside are closed through 2029.

The Trail Conservancy says access along part of the south-shore boardwalk will stay limited into early 2027, and the east-side I-35 pedestrian crossing is closed during bridge work. Guests coming from East Riverside or north of the lake should plan around these closures before heading to 1403 Kenwood. Walking in from the south, by Oltorf, means reaching Alameda and the Leland houses first, and the route can run in reverse from there.

South Congress, a Few Blocks West

The usual places for a meal after the trail have also changed this fall. Perla's, at 1400 S. Congress Ave., closed after a kitchen fire on Sept. 6, Community Impact reported, and the restaurant's own site still lists it as closed. The Austin American-Statesman reported that Taste of Ethiopia's South Congress location closed at the end of September. The Little Nishi trailer at 2118 S. Congress closed Oct. 1 ahead of a planned move into a permanent space.

Some arrivals are scheduled for later. Community Impact reported that the Bergen-Todd House at 1403 S. Congress is set to become Connie's, with an opening projected for late summer or early fall 2027. Hyatt's announcement has the South Congress Hotel at 1603 S. Congress reopening as The Standard, Austin, in spring 2027. How the hotel closure reshaped the avenue over the summer is covered in our earlier Travis Heights summer guide. The same weekend, twenty houses east of the avenue open their doors to 85 artists.

Our team follows Travis Heights the same way the trail is laid out, house by house. If you're weighing what a home on Kenwood, Alta Vista or Leland means for your next chapter, Mary Anne McMahon and our Travis Heights team would be glad to talk it through. Schedule a Private Consultation.