![A giant paper airplane is one of the new additions to the art attraction "Mix-Tape" at Factory Obscura in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]](https://scceu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Arts-collective-Factory-Obscura-is-expanding-its-home-in-OKCs.jpg)
![Kelsey Karper, Factory Obscura's co-founder and Director of Logistical Creativity, talks about some of the changes to the art attraction "Mix-Tape" at Factory Obscura in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]](https://scceu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1580591266_731_Arts-collective-Factory-Obscura-is-expanding-its-home-in-OKCs.jpg)
![Colorful lights, a slide and plush cacti are featured in the "Wonder" room inside the art attraction "Mix-Tape" at Factory Obscura at 25 NW 9 St. in Oklahoma City, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. [Nate Billings/The Oklahoman]](https://scceu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1580591267_382_Arts-collective-Factory-Obscura-is-expanding-its-home-in-OKCs.jpg)
A version of this story appears in Saturday’s The Oklahoman.
Artistic expansion
Factory Obscura is growing its home on Automobile Alley
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 already 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 announced this week at a private event for passholders and supporters that it will open a unique 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 and studio space, which Factory Obscura has now moved to the previously vacant building at 8 NW 8.
