In the days following the November election, some folks buried their heads, argued with others, or swore off social media and avoided communicating with the wider world. But two Montana women dialed into their creativity to make sense of the sweeping political and social changes coming in 2017. Visual artist and former Billings teacher Rachel Long organized the Community Art Project to express the hopes and fears of Montanans in 2017. Freelance theater director and educator Sarah Butts chose to interview people from all viewpoints. Butts conducted 50 interviews that she is turning into a nontraditional play. “There will be some monologues mixed in with some vignettes. It’s an abstract, movement-based piece. The trap that I wanted to avoid was with a piece that is just words,” Butts said.

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