Back in November of 2024, I was an undergraduate student in my final year of college at Texas State University. Being a fine arts major, part of our thesis portfolio class required us to set up a fully student-led art exhibition with our classmates, in which we had to figure out the venue space, funding, curation, installment, and more.
Our team decided to proceed with San Marcos' first U-Haul art show, Leave The Bones, in which we funded and rented out two large U-Hauls for a night of art fun hosted at Sean Patrick's Irish Pub. It was wildly successful, and the payoff and planning were well worth it.

Some of our original members of our team found the experience so unforgettable that we want to try to pursue this and make it a legitimate event to look forward to in the future, one that can happen semi-regularly, starting with our personal hometowns. Not only that, but we want to make it into a self-sustainable event, eventually being able to gain enough traction to where we can function with help from our own community, and open up to submissions from the public, local artists by us, not just limited to our original team of artists.

Our duo- U-Haul art show will follow the same blueprint as our current Leave The Bones show did-- we will find a venue (ideally a downtown local restaraunt or pub with a lot space), and settle on the curation for each truck. Trucks will ideally be operating during the night of first friday, and perhaps the rest of the weekend nights as well. This is a free to visit exhibition open to any and all ages. We have catering and a separate booth where the artists from the trucks can sell prints and stickers. Artists can also sell their pieces in a red-dot fashion if they want to. A very limited amount of profits will be used to fund the next show, and with a small pool going, hopefully enough to continue sustaining itself as a bi-montly or so event.