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.
4-605: The PNC Arts Annex is an arts center in downtown Dayton, Ohio . Opened in 2018, the center contains risers and flexible seating, as well as a multipurpose studio. Dayton Live, the primary performing arts organization for the city, uses the Arts Annex to host programs such as after-school programs and summer camps. One popular program hosted in the Annex is the Community Spotlight Program, which provides
8-481: A diverse and inclusive way for people to be creative and take notice of big things happening in small places." Arts centre 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 ,
12-478: A venue for under-resourced community groups, musicians, poets, performing arts companies, and similar organizations. President and CEO Ty Sutton of Dayton Live said "We build [the Arts Annex] to be for the community to create art". The regional president of PNC Bank agreed, stating "Today is about opening up and investing in our community and creating arts access for all people in our community. Really creating
16-525: 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 the 1980s to serving the whole community with
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