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Fact Sheet: The Munroe Center for the Arts
	The Munroe Center of the Arts building houses the Lexington School of Ballet, the Dance Inn, the Lexington Music School, the Children’s Art Corner, the Lexington Players, Musical Mondays, the Chung Do Kwan karate school, and the Munroe Gallery, a small art gallery. Also within our walls is Artspan, a program run by the Munroe Center that offers over 80 classes in everything from watercolor and woodworking to digital drawing and belly dancing. The Munroe Center also hosts classes for LABB, Chinese Folk Dancing, the B’not Torah Women’s Study Group, and the Special Needs Art Fund. Seventeen practicing artists have studio space at the center, where they create in a variety of different art forms.
	Approximately 2,000 people pass through our doors each week. Of those, about 80% are Lexington residents, and about 75% are children ages 3-13.
	The Munroe Center for the Arts runs an 8-week summer multicultural arts camp, as well as vacation camps for school-age children during school breaks throughout the year. The summer camp employs 30 – 50 teenagers each summer, as well as adult instructors. Approximately 330–500 children attend the camp each summer. The majority of them are Lexington residents.
	The Munroe Center for the Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that manages the various arts education schools and programs located in the old Munroe School building at 1403 Massachusetts Avenue. The Munroe Center is managed by the Lexington Friends of the Arts, Inc.