Atlantic Center for the Arts
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 Volusia County, Florida
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| Established | 1982 |
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| Location | 1414 Art Center Avenue New Smyrna Beach, Florida |
| Coordinates | 29°04′15″N 80°57′44″W / 29.070924°N 80.962295°W |
| Type | Art |
| Founder | Doris Leeper |
| Director | Jim Frost, Co-Executive Director Nancy Lowden Norman, Co-Executive Director |
| Curator | Nick Conroy, Program & Residency Manager |
| Public transit access | VOTRAN |
| Website | Atlantic Center for the Arts |
Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary artists’ community and arts education facility providing artists an opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary artists in the fields of composing, visual, literary, and performing arts. Community interaction is coordinated through on-site and outreach presentations, workshops and exhibitions. The ACA is located in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The complex was designed by the Boston-based firm Thompson and Rose Architects.
Atlantic Center has often been the starting point for new works which go on to be shown at national museums and performance centers such as the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Spoleto Festival, Jacob's Pillow, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Museum of Modern Art, and Bang on a Can.
Local artist and environmentalist Doris Leeper was instrumental in the founding of the ACA.
Leeper first conceived of the ACA in 1977 as a Florida artist-in-residence program in which artists of all disciplines could work with current prominent artists in a supportive and creative environment. Leeper saw the potential for an artist’s residency as a place for ideas to be created, shared, and come into fruition. Leeper soon persuaded friends and community members to join in her vision. In 1979, she convinced the Rockefeller Foundation to provide a challenge grant that soon was matched. This $25,000 in seed money was the unofficial inception of the ACA.
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