Robert grew up in Lee, New Hampshire and enjoyed expressing his creativity in multiple different ways. In school he enjoyed his painting and drawing classes, as well as his writing and storytelling classes. He graduated from Syracuse university with a BFA in Illustration, as well as 16 credits in creative writing. One of the biggest goals of his life is to write and illustrate his own books. He is a creative spark plug, currently working on a number of different projects including a few children's books. His passion and creativity make Robert a great addition to the Muse team.

Raquel currently lives in Biddeford, Maine. Graduating from the University of Southern Maine in December, she received her Bachelors in English, with minors in Spanish and Studio Art. Her concentration is in Painting and Drawing. Art has always been a reflective experience as well as a way to escape. Her work centers around her self-portraiture, as she uses art as a medium to heal, reflect, and grow. Being a young artist, Raquel is open to exploration in her choice of medium, as well as content, embracing mistakes along the way, turning imperfections into beauty. Along with her paintings and drawings, you can find her taking instant photos with her vintage Polaroid cameras or her Fuji Instax. She has hundreds of them...

Ayla Wolfram is a wife, mother, and artist from Chicago, IL currently making her home in Portland, ME. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art with focus in painting, drawing, and curatorial studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her studio work includes graphite portraiture, watercolor flora and fauna, and mixed media atmospheric color fields. She looks forward to raising her family between the mountains and forests of Maine's countryside and the rich urbansetting of her new home city.

Katie has been painting for about 8 years, and it has become her passion. Her grandmother Valerie Baier was her first inspiration for painting. Valerie's love for nature and watercolors inspired Katie to grow into an artist herself. Katie currently lives in Portland, ME. She has moved throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine. She graduated from the University of Maine in Orono with a B.S in Human Development and Studio Art. She finds that painting is a way to focus completely and crack open one's inner creativity. She loves using expressive brush strokes and vivid, contrasting colors in her paintings. When Katie is not painting she loves to explore nature, practice and teach yoga, and cuddle with her two loving puppies Loui and Scarlett.

Always marching to the beat of their own drummer, Skylar found their love for art at the age of 8 and has been practicing ever since. From being recognized for their artistic prowess in high school, where one of their works is proudly displayed in the Board of Education confrence room, they went on to study art at Alfred University. Their experiences have made them a firm believer that art is less about innate talent and more about practice. Their fondness for philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and art history drew them to the conclusion that in order for art to be sustainable, the practice of art has to be as accessible as possible. In addition to the acrylic medium used at Muse, they also do watercolor and oil painting, wood burning, drawing, ceramics, and occasionally glass blowing. When Skylar's not making art, they are usually either singing and playing guitar or hiking to find some waterfalls.

Lucy delights in artistic expression across many mediums: from painting to dancing to writing. She received her BA from Bowdoin college in 2014, where she double majored in English Literature and Visual Art. Ever fascinated by people, she particularly loves painting portraits. While in school she painted a 14-foot multi-figure mural that hangs in the Midcoast Walk-In Clinic in Brunswick. Lucy is also a writer, and her writing has been published by the Center For Maine Contemporary Art and Taproot Magazine. She has most recently been dabbling in black-out poetry (check out her poetry zines at the Muse bar). When she is not at Muse, Lucy works for a nonprofit called Spindleworks, where she mentors adult artists with developmental disabilities. In her free time, she takes to the roads as a dance gypsy, traveling to Grange halls throughout New England and beyond to contra dance! She loves nature, food, and the wind in her curly, curly hair.