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.
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, 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 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. A lot of those organisations originally started in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s as squading spaces and were later on legalized.
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We can we can we can take a walk down to the arts center and have some tea
They have pretty vessels there, we have some time to spare and we don’t have to be
Enclosed in the environment of their serious world of form and style
We’ll go there bring a smile, sip drinks and stare a while at what is going down
Oh, observing eyes would fail the biggest signs with you
Come on, come on, come on, bring a cover it’s still cold we’ll catch the sundown
Let’s have one for the stars and drink around in bars and have a holiday
We can dress in something close to rags and seize the time in careless ways
Hop in the car and drive, the engine roaring wild, you’re young, I’m still ok
Oh pitch perfect ears would fail to keep the tone with you
Then in silence you can get my hands immortalized in two plain lines