{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"As coal jobs left, this Appalachian arts and culture institution gave residents reasons to stay","publication_date":"February 09, 2018","summary":"The Appalachian Film Workshop was started in Kentucky in the 1960s to foster new technical skills and give people a way to tell their own stories of their home. Now known simply as Appalshop, their mission has extended far beyond filmmaking, with a renewed focus on the ways art and culture can stimulate a local economy. Jeffrey Brown reports.","author_name":"By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2018\/02\/6a6757d0789a6674cc4c129d64b26811-Apal1-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}