This is the first of many letters—part journal, part bulletin—I will be sharing with you as the new Executive Director of the Museum of Northwest Art. The Director's Notes will be an opportunity for you, as a member and supporter of the museum, to hear it first from me, whether we engage in conversations about exhibitions here at the museum or in other venues in the Pacific Northwest, MoNA's outstanding collection, or the role of the museum within the community as the place where the audience becomes an experience in and for itself.