The Austin ArtWorks Festival is back and bigger than ever for its third year.

The festival takes place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 23 and 24. There’s every expectation the festival will be bigger than ever — the event drew 5,000 attendees in 2012 and 6,500 in 2013.

Eleven authors will be featured at the festival this year, including P.S. Duffy, author of “The Cartographer of No Man’s Land,” this year’s Austin Page Turners selection.

There will also be glass blowing, a potter, a hoola-hoop artist, a mosaic artist and an artist who sets up a canvas and allows anyone who wants to participate in making a painting. The Volkswagon Bug will also be set up for children to paint, as in previous years.

For the second straight year, Cloud Cult is playing the Music in the Outfield concert at Marcusen Park at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. Last year, Cloud Cult played with Austin natives Martin Zellar and Nick Ciola of the Gear Daddies. This year, they will join Pert Near Sandstone.

The Austin ArtWorks Center will be front and center during the festival. Motorcycles — along with two-wheeled vehicles of all shapes and sizes — will be on display during the Spare Arts Motorcycle Show from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday outside the center on Main Street between Second and Fourth Avenues.

The show is an expanded version of the Build Art Bike Show held at the bank building this spring.

ArtWorks schedule

Saturday

Galleries Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; ArtWorks Center Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Spare Arts Show Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Authors

10 a.m. Phil Formo

11 a.m. Randy Hilmer

12 p.m. Julie Kramer

1 p.m. Carole Hyder

2 p.m. P.S. Duffy

3 p.m. Sherrie Hansen

4 p.m. Kristy Bina

Outdoor Music

9 a.m. Austin High School Jazz Band

9:45 a.m. Brian Gorman

10:30 a.m. Full Circle

11:15 a.m. Terry Schmidt

12 p.m. Weathered Ivan

1 p.m. Echo Messenger

2 p.m. Joshua Whalen

3 p.m. Cosmic

4 p.m. Trace Bundy

Indoor Music

9 a.m. Cedar River Strings

10 a.m. Kalle Akkerman

11 a.m. LeBelle Vita

12 p.m. S a.m. Bergstrom

1 p.m. Jim Knudson

2 p.m. Peter Jacobs

Music in the Outfield

Cloud Cult and Pert Near Sandstone

Tickets $25, available at the gate.

Doors 6 p.m.

Concert 7:30 p.m.

Austin’s Marcusen Park, 901 S. Main St.

Sunday

Galleries Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; ArtWorks Center Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Authors

12 p.m. Al Batt

1 p.m. Grant Blackwood

2 p.m. Lydia Emma Niebuhr

3 p.m. Chuck Keller

Outdoor Music

11 a.m. DC Drifters

12 p.m. The SPAMettes

1 p.m. Jeremy Jewell

2 p.m. Kevin Bowe & the Okema Prophets

3 p.m. The Last Revel

4 p.m. Charlie Parr

Indoor Music

12 p.m. Confuocoquartet

1 p.m. Ted Hingecliff

2 p.m. Stringendo

3 p.m. Jon Stowell