BlackRock Center for the Arts was founded in 2002 after the developer of Germantown town center donated land for the facility. It has an annual budget of $1.6 million. Since 2022 Katie Hecklinger has served as Chief Executive Officer. The facility includes an art gallery, a 210-seat
proscenium theater, a
dance studio, a
black box studio theater, a second-floor display gallery, music rooms, and visual art classrooms. It has 11 full-time and 23 part-time staff members. The center provides a range of music, dance, and arts classes, and camps, and presents a season of music, dance, and family-oriented performances. In April 2013 it was announced that
blues singer and guitarist
John Hammond would provide a guitar workshop at the center. ==References==