Vancouverites have been able to enjoy an array of street food thanks to an expanded food-cart program—and now they’re about to be able to take in art the same way. Friday (March 23) will mark the launch of the city’s first Art Cart, a mobile art gallery and vending cart created by Gallery Gachet and Oppenheimer Park, and funded by the City of Vancouver’s Great Beginnings program.

The cart, designed by Dean Bennett and manufactured by Toby’s Cycle Works, attaches to a bicycle and opens up with a tabletop and an all-weather awning. “It’s almost like the art gallery taking to the streets, an art gallery on wheels,” said Lara Fitzgerald, programming director for Gallery Gachet. “It’s kind of this multipurpose space.”

Fitzgerald said the cart would serve as a studio, a sales cart for artists, and a workshop space for community outreach.

“We’re hoping it’s going to enable artists who perhaps don’t get to show their work outside of the local area in the Downtown Eastside to traverse and go to other areas of the city where there’s a different economic landscape,” Fitzgerald added. “We’re hoping that it’s going to help artists to build their own sustainable practice so that it will give them the opportunity to sell their works. We’re also hoping that it can be a platform for community arts to have a bigger presence within the wider art scene in Vancouver.”