JOHN DAY – Painted Sky Center for the Arts, which for the past five years has fostered art practice and appreciation for the region's residents, closed on its acquisition of the former Madden building on Northwest Bridge Street on Nov. 1.
The building, which had been the former Blue Mountain Jr. High School, seems well-suited as a place to help the nonprofit organization teach different mediums of art to area residents, with spacious classrooms, a conference room, office spaces and a large basketball gym that can be used for performing arts.