Artscene January–June 2018 | Page 12

dear f Thank you for welcoming me and my family to the museum, to the university, and to the Madison community; it has been a remarkable beginning. Over the fall semester, I embarked on a “listening tour” that included one hundred-seventy-five meetings, twenty-four lunches, thirty-five miles walked on campus, and 3,300 air miles, but I know I am just at the beginning of my learning process. If you did not make it to our ice cream social my first week, or one of those one hundred-seventy-five meetings, I hope you will introduce yourself to me at an upcoming event at the museum, or when you see me in the community.