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He was 27.Mr. Cuatlacuatl’s car was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver who was driving west in the eastbound lanes, the Ohio Highway Patrol. Both Mr. Cuatlacuatl and the other driver, Brianna Hackett, 22, of Defiance, were pronounced dead at the scene. His friend, Sergio Perez, of Plymouth, Ind., said Mr. Cuatlacuatl had been visiting a friend west of Toledo and was on his way home.Mr. Cuatlacuatl, who had been working as the art coordinator for the Sofia Quintero Art & Cultural Center in the Old South End for just more than a year, had a passion for community and culture, said Taylor Balderas-Burciaga, executive director of the center. He had a keen interest in running the center’s art gallery, and he had started working on a community art exhibition he planned to unveil sometime this winter, she said.“He wanted to collect art from all of our community members by going door-to-door and asking residents for art they have made,” she said. “He wanted to bring the community together and say ‘you may see these people every day and not know they were an artist, but look at what they created.’”Mr. Cuatlacuatl was introduced to the South Toledo community by his brother, Federico Cuatlacuatl, who was getting his art degree from Bowling Green State University and mentioned that David was also getting an art degree, from Pennsylvania State University.“David was an admirably committed artist who invested in his work with all his heart and mind,” his brother said.Together, the brothers organized a residency program in their home community in Puebla, Mexico, which they left for the United States with their parents when David was 10 and Federico was 7. This summer, they completed the second year of the Rasquache Art Residency, in which about a dozen artists spent two months in an abandoned residence in a Puebla community creating art, presenting cultural workshops, and collaborating on community projects. David Cuatlacuatl arranged to bring the artists’ work to Sofia Quintero for an exhibition after the summer residency.“The ... (Toledo Blade)