Program areas at Big Car Collaborative
Tube programming/facilities/houses and gallery: Big Car owns and operates a 12,000 square foot former manufacturing building, known as tube factory artspace (1125 cruft st.), which serves as an art gallery and space for community meetings and cultural events, drawing 20,400 people per year. Big Car also owns listen hear, a 1000-square foot space for gallery shows and small concerts (2620 shelby st.), and an artist residency house/gallery (1135 cruft st.). Big Car programs all three spaces with cultural events and art shows.
Design for good: Big Car offers quality, moderate-cost design and branding services, and event and marketing planning to non-profits, community organizations, and other public entities. Good, thoughtful design engages people and transforms communities, energizing these pro-social missions. Big Car also provides video production, t-shirt design and production, exhibition design, signage and wayfinding, as well as experience design. Public art and programming: Big Car brings art activities to public locations including markets and parks. Big Car produces murals in public places.
Fee-for-service and placemaking: Big Car engages the public by activating locations with engaging cultural/creative activities, at the invitation of governmental, corporate and non-profit partners. These placemaking efforts bring people to a space, connect with it, and/or re-imagine future uses.