The Seattle Art cars are a loosely knit group of “cartists” who decorate their “daily drivers” , embellishing these vehicles throughpaint, sculptures or glued assemblage (or combinations thereof).
We formed in 1998 to be part of the ‘Arts Edge’at the Seattle Center, displaying 28 ArtCars as part of the alternative Arts Festival. The following year we moved our rolling exhibit to the world-famous Fremont Fair, where up to 75 decorated cars are on view for 2 days in mid-June every year.
We welcome any and all modified vehicles, and show them throughout the year at various other fairs, children’s schools and neighborhood functions, culminating in the 4th largest accumulation of Artcars Solstice (June 20 - 22, 2008) weekend, the ‘Seattle ArtCar Blowout’.
The automobiles come from all over the US and BC to participate, so we fund-raise all year long in order to fete and host the out-of-towners,reimbursing their gas expenses for travel. Artcars often caravan in groups - and liven up the highways in the process- to other exhibits and parades, notably Minneapolis, Houston and the Bay area, but ArtCar events are cropping up regionally all over the States, in one of the fastest burgeoning public art movements.
