Anart centre orarts center is distinct from anart gallery orart museum. An arts centre is a functionalcommunity centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such astheatre space, gallery space, venues formusical performance, workshop areas, educational facilities, technical equipment, etc.[1]
In theUnited 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.
InBritain, the Bluecoat Society of Arts was founded inLiverpool in 1927 following the efforts of a group of artists and art lovers who had occupiedBluecoat Chambers since 1907.[2] Most British art centres began afterWorld War II and gradually changed from mainlymiddle-class places to 1960s and 1970strendy,alternative centres and eventually in the 1980s to serving thewhole community with a programme of enabling access to wheelchair users anddisabled 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 theRhineland model philosophy. Many of those organisations started in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s assquatted spaces and were later legalized.
