Cargill grant helps Art Space in Granite Falls

The nonprofit Department of Transformation is renovating a building in Granite Falls to promote a rural arts and creative economy and recently received a boost to help that goal.  The West Central Tribune reports The Cargill Foundation last week awarded its YES! House project $250,000.  The project is a community space being developed in a former retail store in downtown Granite Falls. Its upper floor holds two newly-developed apartments that are used to provide lodging for visiting artists and the community’s artist-in-residence program.  The first floor is partially unfinished, but is being used to host a variety of programming. It offers artist-hosted workshops and live theatrical and musical performances.  Officials say the Cargill grant brings the YES! House capital campaign to 88 percent of its goal.