How does a dying working class town end up
betting its future on art? With 80% of its downtown buildings
closed, North Adams, Massachusetts united blue-collar locals
with art world luminaries to transform economic failure into
America's largest center for contemporary art, MASS MoCA.
A film by North Adams native Nancy Kelly, DOWNSIDE UP is about
the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a city widely viewed
as hopeless.
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