Light fills former classrooms on the campus of a historic church nestled between government buildings downtown. Stacked plastic chairs line the hallways, and old chalkboards adorn white walls. In one room, a window looks out toward orange tiles sloping down into a courtyard.
By the end of the year, the rooms will be filled with actors rehearsing their lines, children learning to plié, a photographer directing her subject to stand just so.
Austin Creative Alliance is renting two floors in the building at 11th and Guadalupe from Central Christian Church. The nonprofit, formed in 1974 to support the city’s arts community, is in turn subletting studio space to artists and cultural groups…