A giant paper airplane flies over Kelsey Karper's head in a yellow room devoted to exploring the emotion of angst.
The new addition to the Factory Obscura artist collective's immersive "Mix-Tape" attraction, the adolescent-inspired adornment covers a fair swath of the ceiling.
But it's nothing compared to what's coming.
Less than a year after opening to the public in the Automobile Alley landmark formerly known as The Womb, Factory Obscura is expanding its permanent home by summer, with longer term plans to develop a multimillion-dollar indoor-outdoor immersive art campus on NW 9 Street.
"The response has been great, and people seem really excited and hungry for more," said Karper, Factory Obscura co-founder and director of logistical creativity. "We would like to continue to grow here on Ninth Street and expand on what we have already built, because while this building is not big enough to hold all of the ideas that we started with, it does contain a lot of those components, especially now that we're going to have a performance space."
The arts collective plans to open a performance venue, cafe, lounge and business incubator in the 7,000 warehouse space on the east end of its building at 25 NW 9. The space was previously used as the artists' workshop, which Factory Obscura has now moved to the previously vacant building at 8 NW 8.
“Factory Obscura has brought opportunities to experience something truly unique to our city and the Automobile Alley district. Oklahoma City is quickly becoming known as an arts and cultural destination and Factory Obscura’s presence has only enhanced that," said Jane Jenkins, president and CEO of Downtown Oklahoma City Partnership, in an email. "Their new expansion will benefit the entire district, bringing more people to the neighborhood and further opportunities for collaboration in our community."
The collective has already booked the first event in the planned space: a June 18 performance by Perpetual Motion Dance Company, which will use it for two consecutive weekends of shows.
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