in the time that you've been here, sort of since the start that the facility opened in 2016, what have been the biggest challenges to make the vision come to life?

I think, I mean, at first we were concerned that people, you know, might not come or like we were like, we were kind of a long ways away and it's, you know, classical music and contemporary art.

Um, and I mean, we have just been completely impressed and, um, honored at the reception, you know, locally from our community, um, regionally from the state of Montana and beyond.

Um, something really clearly resonates with people who seek out this place.

And that's been, I think, that was the challenge in the beginning was like, okay, people aren't gonna come.

We were like calling University of Montana and Montana State University, like send your students, like come, like we'll create these partnerships.

And then to have like our second year, like the website crashed because so many people got online to like book tickets on the same day.

So how does that even happen? I don't really understand the art world, but how does something of that scale go under wraps and then decide to come out 30 years later