Daniel Van Allen has been creating a visionary environment in Baltimore since 1980. He has been driving an art car since 1976. Van Allen has operated his own furniture restoration business for 35 years. He is the founder and organizer of the Intertribal Powwow (an annual cultural expo) and The Arabber Preservation Society (for our horse cart vendors); Dan directed The Sowebo Arts Festival for 6 years and helps organize several art organizations around town. His work includes multimedia art and architecture documentation, installation; mixed media, found object and wood sculpture; painting and performance.

Dime Store Therapy
A carnivalesque push cart with signage announcing therapeutic services (Dime Store Therapy) will lead the public to engage with the three artists,providing access to alternative counseling and prescriptions (legal) from an outsider friendly, non clinical point of view.