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Affordable art studios and live-work spaces are great ways to rejuvenate neighborhoods.

It’s rewarding to see that two area institutions that strive for excellence in their respective pursuits receive the recognition they both richly deserve. Those honors were bestowed on Lowell’s Western Avenue Studios and Fitchburg State University’s chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international education honor society.

The Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) celebrated its inaugural Common Good Awards ceremony Dec. 16 and Lowell’s Western Avenue Studios was among the first class of winners. 

An unlikely group of artists and activists known as the Art Stays Here Coalition has emerged to help combat displacement.