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The sector in 2026
The shape of it: The structure built in 1955 still organizes the field. Arts United's annual fund supports a roster of funded member organizations across heritage, music, theatre, dance and visual art — the companies in this section among them — and its member table in recent annual reports runs to organizations across northeast Indiana, thirteen of them headquartered on the Arts Campus itself. Many of the companies sell through Arts United's shared ArtsTix community box office. The campus companies came home in the fall of 2025 to a rebuilt Arts United Center; Cinema Center turns fifty in 2026; the Fort Wayne Ballet turns seventy; and the Civic Theatre approaches its centennial in 2027 under new leadership for the first time in a quarter-century. The current-year picture — audiences, budgets and the development fights around the campus — is carried in Fort Wayne Today and in Fort Wayne Today.
Sources:
- Arts United, 2017 and 2018 Annual Reports — the member-organization rosters and the thirteen campus headquarters; Arts United press release, May 21, 2025 — the reopening; leg sources above for the 2026 anniversaries.