Imagine what it would take to build a distinctive arts center in Yellow Springs, with classes, artist residencies, lectures, exhibitions, music and theatre, and multi-media productions.

Imagine a place that would complement the other arts venues in Yellow Springs while providing an acoustically sound performance space.

Imagine a laboratory where established and emerging artists could test their ideas, a place that would coalesce and grow artistic energies of the community and put Yellow Springs back on the cultural map.

What is your dream for an arts center in Yellow Springs?

 

YS Center for the Arts in the YS News:

New Space First Step in Arts Plan

article courtesy Yellow Springs News

Yellow Springs Explores Common Arts Vision
article courtesy Yellow Springs News

download the Community Workshop Summary Presentation

The Yellow Springs Center for the Arts Steering Committee presented the results of the first phase of its work on September 30, 2007.
 
Established in 2006, the Yellow Springs Center for the Arts Steering Committee was formed from an initial working group to explore the potential for the development of a Center for the Arts in Yellow Springs. Working with two consultants from Minneapolis, Tom Borrup and George Sutton, the group has met with local artists and arts organizations, educators, business owners, and community leaders, and held a three-day community workshop in March 2007.
 
At the public presentation, Steering Committee members, along with Borrup, author of The Creative Community Builder's Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture, described how the desired outcome shifted away from building a single new structure that would serve as a Center for the Arts, toward a powerful and compelling vision for the future of the entire Yellow Springs community – a community that is itself a "Center for Arts and Innovation."
 
The event took place on Sunday, September 30, 2007, at the First Presbyterian Church.