I'm really proud. The world is going to look at this. |
It's a huge, huge, amazing sculpture we're unveiling — we're calling it our sky breaking. |
There's a first year for everything and there is a growth process. This is a small sample of what we are going to do, and we think it was a huge success. |
This is a sample of what will grow into a bigger season next year and, hopefully, an even bigger season in a facility [after that]. |
We never in any of our promotional materials promised any sales. We promised a venue, a 10-acre field, where both emerging and established artists could show their works for 60 days and be exposed to a market they normally wouldn't get exposure from. |
We really tried hard to make it look like a high-end show. |
We were looking for amazing. |
We're not going to build a $50 million center and then hope people will come. We want to launch our capital campaign and build an audience at the same time. |
We're thrilled. For us as an organization, it did exactly what we hoped it would do. It created awareness to the site and the types of programs we're going to have here. |