Art Car: Game of Life

Growing up in Houston I saw a number of art cars and often stumbled upon abandoned ones throughout town. This became a regular scavenger hunt for my friends and I. When I met Kate Warren and heard her passion to bring an art car parade to Chattanooga, I was determined to make one with one of my classes. We partnered with her organization “Art 120” to fly in Rebecca Bass, Art Car guru, for a weekend workshop with our students. Rebecca taught the students some simple methods for application and we launched the Game of Life. My middle school classes partnered with a local underserved elementary class at Calvin Donaldson to create a breadth of thematic items based on a student led design. We didn’t have a standard in mind or any limitations and so were surprised to discover that among the other professional contestants our very own won first place in the competition!

Thanks to Kate Warren, Gayle Ligon and Susanne Bowling of Art Part and CCS Art Teacher Lauren Delamater, the kids were surprised to end the day taking home the prestigious “Golden Gnome” Award!