The Dougherty Arts Center is an award-winning Cultural Arts Center that offers a variety of visual and performing arts experiences for a broad audience through its three programming components: DAC Theater, the Julia C. Butridge Gallery and the Dougherty Arts School. Over the years, the Dougherty Arts School has been the recipient of many awards from the National Recreation and Parks Association and the Texas Recreation and Parks Society to the Austin Chronicle Readers Poll and Austin Family Magazine. The Arts School provides programming for ages 4 – adults.