EVENT SERIES

MUSE Creative Gathering

A monthly event combining workshops led by local artists, artist networking, and collaborative experimental experiences meant to stoke curiosity, craft honing, and creative confidence building.

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APRIL 2025 - CURRENT

The MUSE Creative Gathering event series, hosted at Bar DKDC every second Monday, provides an intimate atmosphere for learning and creative wayfinding.

These ticketed events change every month, inspired by everything from the Greek Muses to tarot archetypes.

I develop concepts and hire local artists across multiple disciplines to host workshops. This event series emphasizes dual workshops that intermingle different media, such as writing and visual arts.

MUSE hosts the popular and recurring Artist Speed Date, where local creatives can connect and set up future collaborations in a fast-paced, energetic environment.

View the event series page.

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BRAND IDENTITY

With a signature logo, I design announcement flyers based on images found in the public domain, creating modern collage with bold colors and graphic elements.

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Concepts

  • Artist Speed Date

    A FAST-PACED CREATIVE MIXER

    Meet your creative soulmate, show off your work, share ideas 1:1, and plan collaborations. Everyone is assigned either a Statue or a Wanderer. Statues stay seated while Wanderers move from Statue to Statue in 7-minute increments.

    April 7, 2025; August 11, 2025; February 9, 2026.

  • MUSE:SOUND

    A COLLABORATIVE SOUNDSCAPE

    Inspired by Euterpe, the Greek Muse of Music and led by musicians Victor Sawyer, Natalie Hoffmann, and EsMod.

    Musicians, producers, instrumentalists, vocalists, and curious spectators were invited to immerse themselves in the energy of collective sound, shaped in real-time.

    The soundscape began with a single note from each of the three featured musicians. Attendees intuitively joined in, adding their own sounds to build evolving layers of collaborative music.

    July 14, 2025

  • MUSE:STANZA

    A MIXED MEDIA POETRY WORKSHOP + OPEN MIC

    Inspired by Calliope, the Muse of Epic Poetry, MUSE:STANZA was mixed media poem workshop led by artist, poet, and singer-songwriter Justin Williams. Attendees dug through a mix bag of words and prompts and wrote poetry on vintage typewriters provided by Ryan Knop. Then, they stepped up to the mic to perform what they created.

    May 12, 2025

  • MUSE:REMEDY

    ART THERAPY EXERCISE + MEDITATION

    Attendees turned tragedy into treasure with Virginia Erholtz, LMSW, who will lead an art therapy exercise and meditation.

    They wrote a letter to their Future Creative Self while listening to binaural beats. Inspired by the Muse of Tragedy, Melpomene, they focused on the other side of strife: the remedy.

    June 9, 2025

  • MUSE:HISTORY

    JOURNAL MAKING WORKSHOP + NARRATIVE ART THERAPY

    Attendees learned the craft of bookmaking with a journal making workshop by artist Shelda Edwards. In their journal, they completed a narrative writing art therapy exercise led by Virginia Erholtz, LMSW.

    Inspired by the Greek Muse of History, Clio, the workshop was built for attendees to discover, honor, and preserve their story at this dual workshop.

    September 8, 2025

  • MUSE:PLAY

    UNCONVENTIONAL WRITING + PLAYFUL ART WORKSHOP

    This dual workshop, inspired by the Muse of Comedy Thalia, brought together English literature teacher Lyall Quelch to challenge classic conventions of writing, along with Something 2 Chew On for creative play stations meant to invite playfulness and humorous exploration.

    October 13, 2025

  • MUSE:LOVE

    A MIXED MEDIA POETRY WORKSHOP + OPEN MIC

    Attendees wrote a love song together—from lyrics to vocals to melody to instrumentation—alongside vocalist/musician Raneem Imam.

    Poets, percussionists, key players, violinists, and guitarists all joined in on the performance.

    Inspired by the Greek Muse of love poetry, Erato.

    November 10, 2025

  • MUSE:TRANSCENDENCE

    GUIDED DANCE PARTY

    MUSE:TRANSCEDENCE was an experimental dance party where the music started off slow and gradually increased in tempo. After the peak, the music gently faded out until the space entered a meditative peace.

    Andrea Jacobo, creative wellness practitioner and researcher, guided everyone throughout the experience, backed by a DJ set by Strooly.

    January 12, 2026

  • Speed Portrait Swap

    A FAST-PACED DRAWING GAME

    Speed Portrait Swap, a laughter-inducing art game—led by artist and musician Justin Williams—invited attendees to takes turns drawing each other in a limited amount of time.

    At the end of the game, everybody had several unique portraits of themselves.

    We encouraged bad drawing to get people out of their heads.

    March 9, 2026

  • MUSE:MYSTERY

    A TAROT COLLAGE + MYTH MAKING WORKSHOP

    Attendees created their own tarot card through collage and wote its meaning in this dual mixed-media workshop led by artist and writer Jasmine Marie.

    This event marked the transition from using Greek Muses as inspiration to using tarot card archetypes.

    Participants were invited to share their work after they created.

    April 6, 2026

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