It was as much fun to make as it is to look at

This was a job I did for the Nadine Baum Learning Center. First, I spent three days preparing the car at my studio, then we set it up and let visitors to the grand opening celebration for the Center add their own touches.
Even though I had done several day's worth of preparation, I was still unprepared for the sudden onslaught of eager hands and enthusiastic faces which surrounded the partially modified still mostly gold colored Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight. Several hours later, we stood back amazed at how much the car had changed and how each small area of the car had become filled with detail and whimsy.
     
It had gotten somewhat out of control, with paint and glue flying everywhere. After telling the kids not to paint up the side windows and windshield a few times, Mikal and I gave up and agreed "we'll scrape later." Everyone was having so much fun that it felt good to just let 'em go wild. luckily, we had the foresight to drive the car onto a very large drop cloth! Another neat thing was that people of all ages needed no prompting to get involved.
As soon as we gave them a brush or some glue, they dove right into it. It was truly a group effort, Coordinated by Mikal Harelson, funded and supported by WAC and its staff, and of course added to by more little and big people than I can even remember. Looking at it later, after the experience, I think I can see a richness that shines out, a record of the synergy that buzzed around the car that day.
The project was done in September 1999