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Arts centre

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.

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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 squading spaces and were later on legalized.

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
  • Medford, New Jersey: Medford Art Center
  • Milford, Pennsylvania: Pike County Arts and Crafts
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center
  • Nashville, Tennessee: The Clay Lady's Campus
  • New York City, New York: Apexart
  • New York City, New York: Exit Art
  • New York City, New York: International Studio & Curatorial Program
  • Philadelphia: Painted Bride Art Center
  • Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh Glass Center
  • Pueblo, Colorado: Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center
  • Raleigh, North Carolina: Pullen Park
  • Raleigh, North Carolina: Sertoma Art Center
  • Richmond, Virginia: Visual Arts Center of Richmond
  • Belgium

  • Aalst: Netwerk
  • Ghent: Vooruit
  • France

  • Nantes: Le Lieu unique
  • Germany

  • Nuremberg: DATs Creatives in Residence
  • The Netherlands

  • Amsterdam: OT301
  • EIndhoven: Flipside
  • Eindhoven: TAC
  • Groningen: Galerie Sign
  • Groningen: Galerie Owsum
  • Nijmegen: Extrapool
  • Rotterdam: WORM
  • Rotterdam: Roodkapje
  • Rotterdam: TENT
  • United Kingdom

  • London: Southbank Centre
  • Coventry: [Warwick Arts Centre]
  • Birmingham: MAC
  • Canton, Cardiff: Chapter Arts Centre
  • Milton Keynes: MK Gallery
  • Cambridgeshire: Wysing Arts Centre
  • Ceredigion: Aberystwyth Arts Centre
  • Kendal: (Brewery Arts Centre)
  • Israel

  • Gerard Behar Center, Jerusalem
  • China

  • Huaxia Art Centre, Shenzhen
  • India

  • SOHAM Heritage & Art Centre, Mussoorie
  • Singapore

  • The Substation
  • Objectifs - Centre for Photography & Film
  • Taiwan

  • Changhua: National Changhua Living Art Center
  • Kaohsiung: Dadong Arts Center, Pier-2 Art Center, Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Arts
  • New Taipei: Banqiao 435 Art Zone
  • 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
  • References

    Arts centre Wikipedia