Press and interview requests: travis@nottravis.com.

Selected coverage

National Endowment for the Arts / 2026
Grants for Arts Projects Spotlighting the Spirit of Sports
City of Dallas: $30,000 for The World Is Ours at Fair Park. Photograph credit: Gallery DeFi.

The Dallas Morning News / 2026
Sculpture coming to Big Tex platform at Fair Park for World Cup
The World Is Ours / Risk Rock & Mesplé

WFAA / Good Morning Texas / 2025
Gallery Defi: A multi-sensory art experience in West Dallas
Broadcast / Gallery DeFi

CW33 / Inside DFW / 2025
Gallery Defi showcases over 40 world-renowned artists
Broadcast / Gallery DeFi

FOX 4 / 2025
Gallery DeFi: New immersive art experience
Broadcast / Gallery DeFi

Daily Coffee News / 2024
Black Sheep Coffee is Counting On Texas with First US Location
Murals by not.travis / Plano, Texas

CultureMap Dallas / 2024
Edgy, immersive art gallery for and by artists coming to West Dallas
Gallery opening

Dallas Observer / 2024
From Dave Navarro to Miss Universe, Dallas Artist not.travis Has Big Names Planned for His Gallery
Gallery DeFi feature

D Magazine / 2019
Installation coverage at The Crescent
Exhibition feature / Dallas

Dallas Innovates / 2015
Developer Scott Rohrman Brings Life to Deep Ellum’s Walls With 42 Murals
Public art / Deep Ellum

Artsy / Profile
not.travis
Artist profile, work and exhibition history

Short biography

Travis Haas McCann, known as not.travis, is a Dallas artist working in painting, murals, sculpture and installation. He is a co-founder, owner and creative director of Gallery DeFi, a 16,000 square foot gallery at 2200 Evanston Avenue in West Dallas with work by more than 50 artists. He founded Cella to keep artwork photographs, attribution and history together. His demolished Deep Ellum mural, Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown, remains documented as CELLA-30.