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.
5-563: The Ucheldre Centre is an arts centre located in Holyhead , Anglesey , Wales . Formerly, it was the chapel building of Holyhead's Bon Sauveur order of nuns convent. The main hall of the Centre, with its imposing height and arched roof, was designed by Professor R M Butler, of Dublin , a leading architect of his day, responsible for many public buildings in Ireland. The building is in
10-507: A modernized Romanesque style, with a tall square tower, making great use of green local stone. It was saved from demolition in 1988 by a group of local residents to be used in its current guise. The Ucheldre Centre is a community effort to provide those who live in and visit Holyhead, and nearby parts of north-west Wales , with a centre for arts events, exhibitions, and other community activities of an educational and cultural kind. Before its inauguration, Holyhead had no venue for such events. As
15-570: A performance space, it seats up to 200. Extensions have been added at the back and sides, to provide room for a gallery, restaurant, and other facilities. The grounds have been landscaped, and contain an amphitheatre for theatrical events, and sculptures by local artists. The main hall also doubles up as a cinema , showing mainstream and less well-known films, on the Centre's film nights. The Centre has regular exhibitions that have included art by such artists as Kyffin Williams . It has also received
20-580: The Prince of Wales Award, amongst other honours. 53°18′34″N 4°38′18″W / 53.3094°N 4.6383°W / 53.3094; -4.6383 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 ,
25-525: 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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