Nobody gets media attention like ArtCar Fest. We have been profiled in
every one of the outlets depicted above and then some. The articles
listed below are just a selection. We are covered by local, national and
international television, print and radio, and were featured in film
documentaries by the Smithsonian, National Geographic, Disney Studios,
the Travel Channel, the Odyssey Channel and many many more. In 2007 the
Smithsonian Channel named ArtCar Fest one of the top four festivals in
the country.
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Recent Press Coverage
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2009 ArtCar Fest Documentary
National Geographic is airing a documentary on ArtCar Fest July 30th, 2010 -
Smithsonian TV Documentary
Smithsonian TV, 2006 -
ArtCar Fest - Folk Art on Four Wheels
MSNBC, April 29, 2010 -
Auto Exotica
The Dominion Post (New Zealand) April 1, 2010 -
Nonfiction Filmmakers Still Tell Rich Stories
New York Times, January 23, 2010 -
Art Cars Descend on New York - Automorphosis wins Best Documentary
NBC - New York City, October 15, 2009 -
Car as Art
MSN June 15, 2009 -
Assemblage, Collage & Construction - Philo Northrup
Good Times (Santa Cruz, CA) February 26, 2009 -
Motoren, Monster, Mutationen
SPIEGEL (Germany) February 24, 2009 -
Car-Crazy Automorphosis wins Audience Choice Award
San Francisco Chronicle, February 8, 2009 -
Street-Legal Driving Sculptures
Trend Hunter Magazine, October 5, 2008 -
Live Coverage of ArtCar Fest
ABC Television, September 26, 2008 -
Live Coverage of ArtCar Fest
NBC Television, September 25, 2008 -
ArtCars at Burning Man
National Geographic, September 12, 2008 -
Snail Car is Born When Match, Dreams Collide
WIRED Magazine, August 29, 2008 -
Phone Car Roams the Playa
WIRED Magazine, August 27, 2008 -
Tales of the Nerd, Stink-Bug, Ho and Other Vehicles
National Public Radio, July 15, 2008 -
Whacky Wheels
San Francisco Chronicle 96 Hours, September 27, 2007 -
Art Utility Vehicles
Santa Cruz Sentinel GUIDE cover, September 26, 2007 -
ArtCar Fest
San Francisco Chronicle DATEBOOK, September 23, 2007 -
ArtCars - Museums
Metro Santa Cruz ARTS section, September 21, 2007 -
Supermodels
ZOOM Magazine, Fall 2007 -
Leah Garchik
San Francisco Chronicle 96 Hours, August 28, 2007 -
Art on Wheels article and slideshow
American Profile, July 16, 2007 -
Drive an ArtCar article, videos and slideshow
Yahoo! Underground, May 1, 2007 -
Mobile Politics: It's All Art
San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, 2007 -
Mobile Masterpiece
Oakland Tribune - Cover Story of Preview Section, September 15, 2006 -
10th Annual ArtCar Fest
Wired Magazine, September 2006 -
ArtCar Fest
San Francisco Chronicle Datebook - Front Page of Pink Section, September 10, 2006 -
ArtCar Fest '06
Prestige Hong Kong , September 2006 -
Fall Arts—Museums
METRO, SiliconValley, August 23, 2006 -
In Defense of Burning Man - ArtCars and Mutant Vehicles
Art in America, July 2006 -
ArtCar Fever
Road Trip Magazine, Summer 2006 -
Readers Digest Top 100 issue
Readers Digest, May 2006 -
Eccentric California
(book published Aug 2005 - cover story, 2006) -
Artful Dodges, and Hondas, and...
Washington Post, May 8, 2005 -
Art Cars Find a Lane on the Main Drag
USA Today (front page), September 16, 2003 -
1, 2, 3, Go!
San Jose Mercury News, September 27, 2003 -
Berkeley Streets Prove Friendly to Outrageous Autos
Berkeley Daily Planet, September 26, 2003 -
A Vehicle for Expression
AAA Auto Club World Magazine, July/Aug 2003 -
The Road Less Traveled
LA Times Magazine, March 16, 2003 -
Esctasy is an Art Car
SF Weekly, April 9, 2003 (Cover Story) -
Coming Up This Weekend...
San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2002 -
Jump-start Your Art
San Jose Mercury News, September 27, 2002 -
Auto Art Coming to Jack London Square
Oakland Tribune, September 23, 2000 -
Fall Fairs
San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 23, 2000 -
Hip Horsepower
San Mateo Times, September 21, 2000 -
Car Artists
New York Times, October 26, 1999 -
Haute Wheels
US Air Magazine, September 1999 -
Smile it's the Camera Van!
Smithsonian Magazine, March 1998 -
Cars for Art's Sake
GettingIt, September 29, 1999) -
Domus
Domus (April 1999) -
Automotive State of the Art
Motor Trend (August 1998) -
Art on Wheels
Juztapoz (Fall 1998) -
Wacky Wheels
Life (April 1998) -
Holy Cow
Wired Magazine -
Drive-By Shooting
San Francisco Focus -
Driven to distraction
San Jose Mercury (October 26, 1997) -
Performance art on wheels
CNN (September 30, 1997) -
Hot Wheels, and Then Some
San Francisco Examiner (September 28, 1997) -
ArtCar WestFest
The Wall Street Journal (September 23, 1997) -
Cars for Arts Sake
Wired News (September 22, 1997) -
Driven to Create Art
San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook (September 21-27, 1997) -
Wild Wheels
San Francisco Bay Guardian (September 3-9, 1997) -
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times (July 23, 1997) -
Vehicle For Their Art
Los Angeles Times -
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Los Angeles Times (April 12, 1997) -
Auto Auteur
People Weekly -
Brutus
Brutus, Japan -
Wild Wheels
Esquire, Japan -
No, It's Not a Mad Vision. It's an Art Car. Want a Ride?
New York Times - Cyberbuss (1997)



