The building that currently houses Woodlawn Arts Academy, at 3807 Woodlawn Road in Sterling, was built in the 1950s. It has approximately 20,000 square feet on four levels. The building has been a K-8 school, an alternative school, a child care center and a special education center.

In 2004, the Dillon Foundation purchased the building with the vision of it being an arts center. Today, there are are three wings with 12 classrooms, a lounge and a performance center with a kitchenette.

Woodlawn Arts Academy was built for quality, safety and efficiency, and designed for the pursuit and celebration of the arts. The Academy provides special lighting for optimum visibility when creating visual artwork, soundproof rooms of the highest quality for music lessons, specialized floors in the dance studios to protect dancers’ joints, an environmentally friendly geothermal heating system, the J. Mark Beaty Performance Center for putting on plays and recitals, and much more!