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.
3-662: Arts at the Old Fire Station ( AOFS ) is a charity operating an arts centre , comprising a theatre, gallery, and cafe, in George Street , Oxford , England . The charity was formed in an old corn exchange and fire station complex by the Oxford Area Arts Council in 1973. Many theatrical performances have taken place in the venue which for much of its early life was known as the "Old Fire Station Theatre". The homelessness charity, Crisis Skylight Oxford , has shared
6-512: 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
9-656: The space, co-located with Arts at the Old Fire Station which manages the venue, since 2011. 51°45′13″N 1°15′44″W / 51.75361°N 1.26222°W / 51.75361; -1.26222 This art -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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 ,
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