Convinced that art can help revitalize rural communities, volunteers with the Department of Public Transformation are in the process of converting a once-shuttered downtown store in Granite Falls into a gathering place for artists and residents. The YES! House is already home for a city-embedded artist-in-residence, one of the first such programs in a small, rural community.
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