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Arts centre

For specific Arts Centres, see Arts Centre (disambiguation).

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.[1]

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. Many of those organisations started in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as squatted spaces and were later legalized.

List of arts centres

Dadong Arts Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Americas

Canada

United States

Europe

Belgium

  • Ghent: Vooruit

Italy

France

  • Nantes: Le Lieu unique

The Netherlands

  • Amsterdam: OT301
  • Nijmegen: Extrapool
  • Rotterdam: WORM

Serbia

  • Belgrade: The Cultural Center of Belgrade

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:
  • 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

Asia

China

Indonesia

Philippines

Taiwan

  • Changhua: Lukang Artist Village, National Changhua Living Art Center
  • Chiayi City: Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi Cultural and Creative Industries Park
  • Hsinchu City: Hsinchu City Art Site of Railway Warehouse, National Hsinchu Living Arts Center
  • Hualien: Hualien Cultural and Creative Industries Park
  • Kaohsiung: Dadong Arts Center, Meinong Cultural and Creative Center, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Pier-2 Art Center
  • Keelung: Embrace Cultural and Creative Park
  • Miaoli: Wu Chuo-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, Taichung Cultural and Creative Industries Park, Taichung Shiyakusho
  • Tainan: Blueprint Culture and Creative Park, National Tainan Living Arts Center
  • Taipei: Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Mind Set Art Center, National Taiwan Arts Education Center, Puppetry Art Center of Taipei, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei City Arts Promotion Office
  • Taitung: National Taitung Living Art Center, Taitung Railway Art Village
  • Taoyuan: Taoyuan Arts Center, Zhongli Arts Hall
  • Yilan: National Center for Traditional Arts

Thailand

  • Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

See also

References

  1. ^ Evans, G. (2001) 'Amenity planning and the arts centre', Chapter 4 of Cultural Planning: an urban renaissance? London, Routledge
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