Who are we?
We are a community of students, families, and teachers who place a high value on music-making, individually and together.
Our faculty is made up of some of the finest teachers, professional performers, university faculty members, and emerging hot young artists in our community. We believe in working as a team, and feel that our students benefit from this approach.
Mission 
- Our mission is to help make the arts accessible to everyone, and to serve people who invest themselves in the arts as students, performers, artisans, and appreciators.
- We want to help people find and develop their artistic voices through education and opportunities to experience the arts and help build and strengthen community through shared experiences in the arts.
- We encourage individuals to strive for excellence in an atmosphere that fosters a team spirit, and hope to help develop awareness, understanding, and acceptance of diverse cultures through the exploration of multicultural music, dance, and visual arts.
- We enable collaboration between artists in different disciplines to build community and work to remove barriers that keep people away from art.
History
- The Community Center for the Arts (C4A) was established in the fall of 2006. We started with 3 teachers and about 30 students. At that point we gave private lessons and ran the Bow-Dacious String Band.
- Since then we’ve grown to over 200 students with 12 teachers who offer a variety of individual and group music opportunities for kids and adults.
- Our theatric arts program is becoming more established; we started offering a class in theater foundations in fall, 2011, and have several theater-related summer programs coming up in 2012.
- We also have a growing visual arts program. In January, 2012 we will launch a computer-assisted visual arts program to augment our longer-term offerings of drawing classes for kids and adults.
Current Status
- In the summer of 2009 we were granted tax-exempt status by the IRS.
- In September 2009 we moved to our current location at 202 South Broadway in downtown Urbana, Illinois.
- Our studios occupy most of the second floor. We share a historic building with a branch of the US postal service, the UC-IMC, and a host of other community groups.
Make a donation!
- Gifts to us are fully deductible according to your individual tax situation. We’ll be sure to put your contribution to good use in sharing the arts with our community!
- You may mail your gift to us or charge it to your credit card using PayPal using the Donate button in the sidebar of each page on our website.
Check out our wish list!
Do you have items at home or work that you don’t need that we might be able to use? (Donations to us may be tax deductible!) Please click here to view our wish list!
