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Hometown Art & Artists.\xa0 Let's explore\xa0the fuel, fate, and fascination of the artist who lives and creates outside of "traditional" centers\xa0of art;\xa0such as New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere.\xa0 Do\xa0artists who defy these hubs of creative traffic do themselves a vocational disservice, or have they discovered the 21st Century's\xa0worst-kept-secret?\xa0 To wit, we've established that an artist needs an audience, but how large a one?\xa0 And are artists even entitled to that ever-elusive\xa0work/life/sanity balance?\xa0 The well-traveled, oft-acclaimed\xa0John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats (currently based in Durham, North Carolina, USA)\xa0could be onto something...and we don't mean merely a better price-per-square-foot.