About Us

The DeathTrapArtCar is a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt with faulty mechanisms that may, at any time, turn the car (and its airbags) off. The fix is not forthcoming so the car will be used as a moving art gallery, showcasing art with a message of caution to commuters and shame to General Motors.  All for bad recall: General Motors knew about this problem, and did nothing for ten years.

This car was recalled (a second time) not because General Motors wanted to do the right thing but after ten years of deaths and public outrage.  For ten years General Motors knew of the problem, when this car was being built, owned by its previous owners, and subsequently sold to me -- and did nothing.  Though recalled, the car has not yet been fixed and there's no telling when it will be, so...

With the help of local visual artists the DeathTrapArtCar Gallery will be a moving gallery of art -- painted directly on the car -- containing visual images and words intended to shame General Motors into fixing the two million faulty cars, and somehow atone for between 13 (GM's claim) and 302 (other reputable claims) deaths caused by cars like the 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt that is being reborn as The DeathTrapArtCar.

The DeathTrapArtCar Gallery is the brainchild of Kevin Six.  Kevin is a San Diego actor, director and some time art gallery manager who didn't get enough attention growing up in a large Irish/German Catholic family.  He has experience in not-for-profit arts education, public relations, marketing and fundraising. 

Kevin is the co-founder of New Play Cafe, an organization that supports new plays, hot beverages and dessert.  He is also a theatre director, playwright, improviser and actor. Kevin learned about community activism and guerrilla theatre as a member of New Image Teen Theatre directed by Kathy Najimy in the 80s.

The rest of the collaborators on this project have yet to identify themselves but they will be artist-activists interested in social justice.  And they will have a sense of style and humor.  More soon...