Author

Contributions

  • Cutler, Miriam - Contributor
  • TPOG, Inc - Contributor
  • Center for Independent Documentary - Contributor
  • WMHT (Television station : Schenectady, N.Y.) - Contributor
  • Banff Centre for the Arts - Contributor
and 1 more
  • Independent Television Service - Contributor

Publication

2002 - New Day Films, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

14,000 words, Guess

Page Count

56 pages

Physical Format

Video Recording

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • How art can change the spirit of a place

Description

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. It opened in the abandoned Massachusetts factory where director Nancy Kelly's grandparents and parents once worked. The documentary explores whether something as ephemeral as contemporary art can breathe life into a dying city.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • ART 323 (NU course)
  • PAD 402 (NU course)
  • PAD 622 (NU course)
  • PAD 631 (NU course)

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