Whanganui Arts – at the Centre is a volunteer-run space for our community that celebrates all forms of art and the diversity that the arts engender.

If you are looking for a venue in the heart of Whanganui’s Creative Riverfront precinct, the Arts Centre exhibition spaces and Awa Room are fully accessible and available for hire at a very reasonable cost. We welcome all creatives and artists, no matter how experienced or inexperienced, to showcase their work and be supported in that endeavour.

Each year around 15,000 people visit the Arts Centre to view exhibitions of art, participate in a range of workshops and classes, visit the Saturday Craft Market and check out the excellent range of locally made art for sale at The Boring Gallery. The Centre is also home to The Boring Gallery, Louise Herdman Mosaics, the Amitabha Buddhists, the Whanganui Potters Studio and the Theosophical Society.