Article: ART-A-WHEEL; It's a cupcake! It's a shark! It's an art car! A Macalester professor's new book explores how people take their art for a drive.(VARIETY)

Byline: KIM ODE; STAFF WRITER

Ruthann Godollei is a really good driver. She drives defensively, avoiding fender benders and sideswipes with the sort of Spidey-sense that comes with having created an art car. Maybe you've seen her tooling around in her green 1985 Volvo custom-stenciled with thousands of gears. When the police once pulled her over, she was incredulous, until she learned that they just wanted a photo.

She has 280,000 miles on her car, and not just from commuting to her job as an art professor at Macalester College. Many of those miles have come from driving to various shrines to artistic cars, to art car parades and to cities where she ...

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