An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, workshop areas, educational facilities, technical equipment, etc.
In the United States, "art centers" are generally either establishments geared toward exposing, generating, and making accessible art making to arts-interested individuals, or buildings that rent primarily to artists, galleries, or companies involved in art making.
In Britain, art centres began after World War II and gradually changed from mainly middle-class places to 1960s and 1970s trendy, alternative centres and eventually in the 1980s to serving the whole community with a programme of enabling access to wheelchair users and disabled individuals and groups.
In the rest of Europe it is common among most art centres that they are partly government funded, since they are considered to have a positive influence on society and economics according to the Rhineland model philosophy. A lot of those organisations originally started in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as squatted spaces and were later legalized.
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List of arts centres
Americas
Canada
- Calgary, Alberta: Arts Commons
- Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Confederation Centre of the Arts
- Ottawa, Ontario: National Arts Centre
- Toronto, Ontario: Toronto Centre for the Arts
- Vancouver, British Columbia: Firehall Arts Centre
United States
- Arlington, Virginia: Artisphere
- Atlanta, Georgia: Eyedrum
- Chicago, Illinois: Hairpin Arts Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Lillstreet Art Center, South Side Community Art Center
- Dallas, Texas: The Dallas Contemporary
- Indianapolis, Indiana: Indianapolis Art Center
- Milford, Pennsylvania: Pike County Arts and Crafts
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center
- New York City, New York: Apexart, Exit Art, International Studio & Curatorial Program
- Philadelphia: Painted Bride Art Center
- Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh Glass Center
- Raleigh, North Carolina: Pullen Park
- Richmond, Virginia: Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Europe
Belgium
- Ghent: Vooruit
Italy
- Sesto al Reghena: Art Aia-Creatives/In/Residence
France
- Nantes: Le Lieu unique
The Netherlands
- Amsterdam: OT301
- Nijmegen: Extrapool
- Rotterdam: WORM
Spain
- Matadero Madrid
- Gijón: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
United Kingdom
- Aberystwyth: Aberystwyth Arts Centre (1970-present)
- Belfast Metropolitan Arts Centre (2012-present)
- Birmingham: mac (1962-present)
- Bristol: Arnolfini (1961-present)
- Cambridgeshire: Wysing Arts Centre (1989-present)
- Cardiff: Chapter Arts Centre (1971-present)
- Coventry: Warwick Arts Centre (?-present)
- Derby: Quad (2008-present)
- Dundee: Dundee Contemporary Arts (1999-present)
- Edinburgh: Summerhall (as arts centre, 2011-present)
- Fareham: Ashcroft Arts Centre (1989-present)
- Glasgow:
- Third Eye Centre (1975-1991)
- Centre for Contemporary Arts (1992-present)
- Havant: The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre (?-present)
- Leicester: Attenborough Arts Centre (?-present]]
- London:
- Barbican Centre (1982-present)
- Camden Arts Centre (1965 (as Hampstead Arts Centre)-present)
- Southbank Centre (1951-present)
- Battersea Arts Centre (1980-present)
- Manchester:
- Cornerhouse (1985-2015)
- HOME (2015-present)
- Newcastle: Newcastle Arts Centre (founded 1980, opened 1988-present)
- Norwich: Norwich Arts Centre (1977-present)
- Omagh: Strule Arts Centre (?-present)
- Plymouth: Plymouth Arts Centre (1947-present)
Middle East
Israel
- Gerard Behar Center, Jerusalem
Asia
China
- Huaxia Art Centre, Shenzhen
Indonesia
- Ciputra Artpreneur, Jakarta
Philippines
- National Arts Center, Los Baños, Laguna
- Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, City of Manila
Taiwan
- Changhua: National Changhua Living Art Center
- Chiayi City: Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse
- Kaohsiung: Dadong Arts Center, Pier-2 Art Center, Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts
- Miaoli: Wu Zhuo-liu Art and Cultural Hall
- New Taipei: Banqiao 435 Art Zone, Xinzhuang Culture and Arts Center
- Pingtung: Pingtung Performing Arts Center
- Taichung: Taichung City Tun District Art Center
- Taipei: National Taiwan Arts Education Center
- Taoyuan: Taoyuan Arts Center, Zhongli Arts Hall
- Yilan: National Center for Traditional Arts
Thailand
- Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Maps Arts centre
See also
- Artivism
- Cultural center
- Infoshop
- Music venue
- Not-for-profit arts organization
- Social center
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia