The creation of the arts center has four phases:
Phase I—Planning begins with research and community visioning. This process will result in several conceptual models of an arts center. Phase I of the project is complete.
Phase II—The conceptual models become the basis from which to conduct feasibility studies, including building design, programming, and short- and long-term fiscal requirements. Phase II of the project is underway.
Phase III—Based on the feasibility studies, architectural models and a business plan will be developed that address a capital campaign and establishment of an endowment for maintenance and operating expenses.
Phase IV—With investors and broad-based community support secured, the arts center will be built with an endowment and staffing in place.

The arts and Yellow Springs have long been a fine fit. From its inception in the mid- 1800s inventive, accepting minds have shaped the community. This is especially true since Arthur Morgan redesigned and revitalized a moribund college in the 1920s and in that process recast the nature and quality of the Village. These creative energies are still evident in the quality of the schools, in the many artistic endeavors that have come out of Antioch College, in the Village’s innovative businesses and industries, by the fact that the only movie theatre in the Village is still an art house, that we have a home-grown organization that brings to the Village some of the finest chamber ensembles in the world, that we have one of the top commercial art galleries in southwestern Ohio, and that we boast in the YS Kids Playhouse one of the most inventive children’s theatre companies in the country. One need only spend five minutes downtown to feel the Village’s creative energies or look in the Yellow Springs phone book at the listing of nonprofits to understand the vital contribution cultural organizations play in Village life.