create useful functional and expressive traditions , into abstraction , contemporary art practices , and an entirely different way of looking at art .

What does that mean to you ? It ’ s a desire to invent a future that causes us to be awake to our lives while we are living it . And we all can belong to it ; we just need a ladder toward what it might be , and it doesn ’ t mean we need to become it . It ’ s just another framework of the pursuit of life , in generous service to ignite our imaginations in different ways . In a place like MASS MoCA , you can do that in small sublime ways , or in monumentally scaled ways , but it ’ s the human endeavor of trying to manifest something into

the world that might matter to a complete stranger .

What are you most excited

about your coming to MASS MoCA ? Everything . I ’ m excited to learn more about place . If you are not born here , you are not a local . I ’ ve been in this situation before , when I moved to Australia . You can see things anew , because you are not from it . So things that people become acclimated to and don ’ t look at anymore , or forget to feel celebratory over , or no longer identify as neglected — you see it , and it is all vivid . That is helpful . It is not judgmental , but it ’ s a way of learning , and it can help to open people to remember to see something

that they had forgotten .

So you are most excited about everything then ? I ’ m all caps ! Space in-between each letter , underlined , bold , italics , exclamation point !

What do you bring to MASS

MoCA from your past that is

unique or beneficial to this institution ? I am my least favorite subject to talk about , so it ’ s a little hard to answer that question . I have a deep commitment to creative potential that takes its form through multiple art forms — it ’ s really about the human beings who have the drive to manifest those ideas . I have a profound love of the human spirit when it is operating toward a sense of

possibility that is not self-beneficial , but humanistically beneficial . That is what I see in this organization , in this town , in this region , that makes sense here , and that then tells me that I will make sense here .

Is there a lot to learn ? I am interested in the why , and I look at things through the lens of why , and that gets me to the meaning quicker . Why do we do it this way ? Or , Why did the artist give 20 years of their life in service to this project ? The why helps us find where the emotional meaning lives . I ’ m incredibly aware of the what , the why , and the how and with whom , those would be immense for me to experience . I come full of questions , but I don ’ t come with an absence of

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