Boston Center For The Arts

539 Tremont Street
Boston MA 02116

Phone: 617-426-5000
Fax: 617-426-5336
Email: [email protected]

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Description:
Boston Center for the Arts is a  nonprofit performing and visual arts complex that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new work; builds new audiences; and connects arts to community.

About Us

The BCA is located in Boston's South End, the largest landmark district in the United States. The BCA is a four acre complex that includes: The Cyclorama, built in 1884 to display a panorama painting, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 23,000 square foot Cyclorama rotunda is now the site of exhibitions, performances and community events and houses the Community Music Center of Boston, the Art Connection, the Boston Ballet Costume Shop, three small theaters and a rehearsal studio. The Tremont Estates Building, originally an organ factory built in 1850, now houses over 50 artist studios, the Mills Gallery, two rehearsal spaces and Hamersley's Bistro. Boston Ballet's headquarters, a 1991 building designed by noted architect Graham Gund, houses rehearsal and administrative spaces, and a ballet school.

The BCA supports the creation and presentation of work by artists and seeks to connect artists to a large and diverse audience. The BCA's programs include exhibitions, performances, concerts, poetry readings and special outreach. The BCA also offers subsidized work space in the form of studios, rehearsal space and three small theaters to artists and arts groups. A nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, the BCA is governed by a Board of Directors and managed by a professional staff.