Downside Up DVD

What happens when an impoverished, working-class town decides that its best hope for survival is contemporary art?

Through the eyes of filmmaker Nancy Kelly who's family worked in the factory that would one day become MASS MoCA, Downside Up: How Art Can Change the Spirit of a Place captures the beginnings of America's largest museum of contemporary art and the re-birth of its host city, North Adams, Massachusetts. 56 minutes. Color. Not Rated.