In an unprecedented initiative, juvenile offenders across 3 states will work together to design and create a traveling work of art for charity. ArtCarTraz is an art car piece that will kick-off at the Alabama Department of Youth Services facility at Mt. Meigs outside of Montgomery, AL on May 2 and travel to the Oakley Training School outside of Jackson, MS, and the Bridge City Correctional Center for Youth outside of New Orleans, LA.
ArtCarTraz will be a mobile work-in-progress mural that will be created, using Auto Air Colors paint, one section at a time by the juvenile offenders housed at these correctional facilities. Once completed, ArtCarTraz will travel to Houston, TX to ride in the 17th Annual "Everyones Art Car Parade," produced by the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art on May 14.
After participating in the parade, the car will be auctioned off and the money will be donated to Skip, Inc., a Montgomery, AL based organization that mentors children of incarcerated parents.
