An artist cooperative (also
co-operative or co-op) is an autonomous
visual arts
The visual arts are Art#Forms, genres, media, and styles, art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as ...
organization, enterprise, or association jointly owned and democratically controlled by its members. Artist cooperatives are legal entities organized as non-capital stock
corporations
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law "born out of statute"; a legal person in legal context) and ...
,
non-profit organizations, or
unincorporated associations. Such cooperatives typically provide professional facilities and services for its artist-members, including studios, workshops, equipment, exhibition galleries, and educational resources. By design, all economic and non-economic benefits and liabilities of the cooperative are shared equally among its members. Cooperative members elect their board of directors from within the membership.
National Cooperative Business Association
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See also
* ABC Artists' Books Cooperative
*Artist-run initiative
An artist-run space or artist-run centre (Canada) is a gallery or other facility operated or directed by artists, frequently circumventing the structures of public art centers, museums, or commercial galleries and allowing for a more experimental ...
* Artist-run space
* National Cooperative Business Association
References
Further reading
*"International Artists Cooperative Forms and Launches Web Site.
''Art Business News''
November 2001.
External links
ABC Artists’ Books CooperativeInternational Co-operative Alliance, Geneva, Switzerland websiteUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for Cooperatives websiteUniversity College Cork, Ireland, Centre for Co-operative Studies websiteMutant space arts resource, Cork, Ireland website
cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...
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