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CHRISTINE HAYES aka Ramona Moon

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Art Cars are moving sculpture. Fun Art straight to the people.

Ramona Moon was born in Columbus, graduated from Thomas Worthington, graduated from the University of California at Irvine, followed fellow theatre majors up to San Francisco where she lived for 27 years (the City and Marin County ).

In Marin she encountered the denizens of the Unknown Museum , some of whom made Art Cars, and began her own Art Car at the Automotive Fashion Show in Mill Valley in 1978.

Her son Lucian is also an artist who lives in Eureka , California . In 1997 Ramona moved back to Columbus , giving up her Montessori teaching career and various art and theatre gigs around the Bay Area (she was artist-in-residence of Fairfax , CA for two years.)

In 1998 Ramona met Greg Phelps, who also had an Art Car, and they embarked upon the promoting of Art Cars in Ohio shows such as Ramona’s International Drive-In, Dragonfly Neo-V events, the Toledo Old West End Festivals, Comfest, the DooDah Parades, various school events, the High Road Gallery, Junctionview Studios, and of course Hot Times. Greg started with leading the Hot Times parade in his That Car and now it has blossomed into twenty cars on the lawn of the Health Department every September.

Ramona now has three Art Cars, one is in the book and film Wild Wheels by Harrod Blank.

She is also known as Christine Hayes, works at Acorn Bookshop in Grandview , and writes a column for the Short North Gazette. Her columns can be accessed at shortnorth.com/Hayes.html