We commend the work of Andy Hull, Jeremy Pedersen, Jennie Knoebel and everyone else who came together Saturday to make the Build Art Bike the success it was in the downtown bank building.

It was the perfect example of what art of all kinds can do and has done for a community and how important it is to the city of Austin.

Putting aside for a moment all the great things the ArtWorks Festival and Austin Area Commission for the Arts has done, the Build Art Bike Show brought people of all backgrounds together to appreciate something many may not consider art — the motorcycle.

Ultimately, that should be the goal of all towns — bring people with vested and mutual interests together; to know each other and to feel more like a community.

Too often places branch into niche efforts rather than try to help the interests of the whole, but art can bridge that gap and that’s exactly what Saturday’s show did.

Whether it was a married mother of two or a motorcycle enthusiast, they were all under one roof admiring motorcycles of all kinds as a medium of art. In short, for a part of Saturday, the downtown bank building was a community.

We can’t say enough about what art has done for Austin. It brings the city of Austin together, turns more eyes toward the community and makes Austin a destination point.

So long as more people keeping thinking outside the box, there is truly no limit to what art can do because that is the opportunity art can afford — the chance to bring something amazing to the community and in the end bring the community closer to one.