History of
MIDTOWN ART CENTER
In November 1982, the vision of Midtown Arts Center of
Houston became a reality. Many
artists and nonprofit performing and visual art organizations expressed
difficulty in obtaining adequate and affordable office, practice, and
performing and exhibit spaces in the Midtown area.
The Midtown Art Center complex was
conceived to address this fundamental need.
Midtown Art Center was created to provide appropriate spaces to
emerging artists, arts organizations and established artists at a cost that
is affordable to them.
The opportunity to establish the Art Center grew out of
the association between the Founders, who assembled three tracts of land and
building in Houston’s Midtown district across from a budding community
college. Midtown Art Center
facility encompasses a 20,000 square foot Art Center Building housing
individual art studios, Repertory Theatre, the Gallery Connection, Art
Gallery, and a Dance Theatre.
Additional special gifts from Corporate and individual sponsors enabled the
Art Center to survive through the critical start-up phase until it could
generate sufficient revenue from studio space rentals and rental of visual
and performing art spaces. The
City of Houston, banks, art patrons, community and friends embraced the
Midtown Art Center with enthusiasm and encouragement.
Midtown Art Center would be a catalyst for revitalization and
redevelopment in the deteriorating Midtown neighborhood by adding to the
city’s rich diversity of cultures, and serving as a central place for
performances and exhibitions.
Phone (713) 521-8803 Fax (713) 521-9003
midtownartcenter@hotmail.com