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.
7-470: Chapter Arts Centre (often just referred to as Chapter ) is an arts centre in Canton , Cardiff , Wales , opened in 1971. Chapter hosts films , plays , performance art and live music, and includes a free art gallery , café and bars . There are also over 60 work spaces, used for an eclectic range of purposes including Chapter's own training courses. Twenty per cent of the centre's income comes from
14-538: A R.I.B.A. Wales Award in 2010. The new open-plan design was described as user friendly with many great details. Following the Centre's refurbishment in 2009, the number of visitors doubled to 800,000 per year, making it the second most popular attraction in Cardiff. As of March 2014 Chapter installed 60 photovoltaic solar panels to their roof providing up to 15KW of electricity. In the autumn of 2014 Chapter became
21-600: A venue for the international Artes Mundi exhibition and art prize, which expanded for the first time beyond the National Museum Cardiff . In December 2015 Chapter renamed the main Theatre and Stiwdio spaces as Theatr Seligman Theatre and Stiwdio Seligman, following a significant donation from local benefactor David Seligman. 51°28′59″N 3°12′13″W / 51.48309°N 3.20358°W / 51.48309; -3.20358 Arts centre In
28-820: 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 , the Bluecoat Society of Arts was founded in Liverpool in 1927 following the efforts of a group of artists and art lovers who had occupied Bluecoat Chambers since 1907. Most British 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
35-459: 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
42-467: The film theatres. It shows mainstream Hollywood films as well as a considerable array of foreign and independent films on a regular basis. The centre receives a major annual grant from the Arts Council for Wales . Chapter was founded by Welsh artists, Christine Kinsey and Bryan Jones with journalist Mike Flood and opened in 1971. The building was previously a school, Canton High School , and
49-495: Was built in 1905. In the 2000s Chapter underwent a £3.8 million redevelopment, designed by architects Ash Sakula Architects , who were appointed in 2006. The practice prioritised remodelling of the public areas on the ground floor, while adding a storey-high 'light box' above the main entrance as an 'artistic billboard'. The centre remained open through the redevelopment and the new Chapter opened in November 2009. The building won
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