It is located on Rua Dr. Ilídio Amado, city and municipality of Caldas da Rainha, District of Leiria, Central Portugal
The Arts Center is a municipal structure supervised by the Department of Culture whose mission is to preserve the municipal artistic heritage and support artistic development in the municipality.
The Center includes Municipal Museums, one of the most significant centers of Portuguese sculpture of the 20th century, several infrastructures have been created by the City Council since the mid-1980s, whose function is to support artistic production by promoting cultural events and activities.
The Center offers artists and students favorable conditions to develop their work by maintaining temporary residency programs and institutional/private partnerships.
The Arts Center consists of: Ateliers Pavilion, Artists' Residence, Temporary Exhibitions (consisting of four galleries: two in the Atelier-Museu António Duarte, Atelier-Museu João Fragoso and Museu Barata Feyo), Open-Air Spaces for the creation of large-scale works, where the "International Stone Sculpture Symposium" has been held since 1986.
The Center is one of the most important centers of Portuguese sculpture of the 20th century: Atelier-Museu António Duarte, Atelier-Museu João Fragoso and Museu Barata Feyo.
The Concas Space opened in 2009, brings together part of the work of the painter Maria da Conceição Nunes, known as Concas (1946-1991), who was part of the so-called "Grupo dos Seis" and which was linked to the genesis of the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha.
Maria da Conceição Nunes, better known as Concas (Coimbra, 9 October 1946 - Caldas da Rainha, 17 January 1991) was a Portuguese teacher and painter.
In 1984, Concas and other artists founded the so-called "Grupo dos Seis" made up of João Fragoso and Antonino Mendes, and participated in several collective exhibitions.
His work is represented in several private collections in Portugal, France, Denmark, Germany and Brazil, as well as in the José Malhoa Museum in Caldas da Rainha and the Luís de Camões Museum in Macau, in addition to the halls of the municipal councils of Óbidos and Beja, or the Espaço da Concas in the Arts Center in Caldas da Rainha.
The pieces were donated by the family to the Municipality of Caldas da Rainha and represent the different phases of the artist's work, from her first drawings (Mozambique, 1960s), through works from the period in which she attended the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, to the work that ended the day before her death.
The Center includes Municipal Museums, one of the most significant centers of Portuguese sculpture of the 20th century, several infrastructures have been created by the City Council since the mid-1980s, whose function is to support artistic production by promoting cultural events and activities.
The Center offers artists and students favorable conditions to develop their work by maintaining temporary residency programs and institutional/private partnerships.
The Arts Center consists of: Ateliers Pavilion, Artists' Residence, Temporary Exhibitions (consisting of four galleries: two in the Atelier-Museu António Duarte, Atelier-Museu João Fragoso and Museu Barata Feyo), Open-Air Spaces for the creation of large-scale works, where the "International Stone Sculpture Symposium" has been held since 1986.
The Center is one of the most important centers of Portuguese sculpture of the 20th century: Atelier-Museu António Duarte, Atelier-Museu João Fragoso and Museu Barata Feyo.
The Concas Space opened in 2009, brings together part of the work of the painter Maria da Conceição Nunes, known as Concas (1946-1991), who was part of the so-called "Grupo dos Seis" and which was linked to the genesis of the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha.
Maria da Conceição Nunes, better known as Concas (Coimbra, 9 October 1946 - Caldas da Rainha, 17 January 1991) was a Portuguese teacher and painter.
In 1984, Concas and other artists founded the so-called "Grupo dos Seis" made up of João Fragoso and Antonino Mendes, and participated in several collective exhibitions.
His work is represented in several private collections in Portugal, France, Denmark, Germany and Brazil, as well as in the José Malhoa Museum in Caldas da Rainha and the Luís de Camões Museum in Macau, in addition to the halls of the municipal councils of Óbidos and Beja, or the Espaço da Concas in the Arts Center in Caldas da Rainha.
The pieces were donated by the family to the Municipality of Caldas da Rainha and represent the different phases of the artist's work, from her first drawings (Mozambique, 1960s), through works from the period in which she attended the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, to the work that ended the day before her death.
