Our Mission

"To preserve the classical arts through performance and education."
The Muses Project creates new productions, using classical elements and highly-trained professional performers, in mentoring roles with students and young artists, to inspire audiences and generate interest in, and support for, the classical arts. 

Who We Are

The Muses Creative Artistry Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable arts organization dedicated to preserving classical art and music through performance and education. Our vision is to inspire, educate, heal, and delight our audience and participants by providing diverse expressions of classical art and educational enrichment opportunities to all of the citizens of Arkansas.      
     Each year, under the leadership of Founder and General Director Deleen Davidson, theMuses Projectpresents over 30 multi-arts productions including a series of concert events, aligned with the Four Seasons, representing different artistic disciplines and styles, including: visual art, vocal and instrumental music, dance, poetry and drama. Various seminars and workshops are planned each season for participants to experience creative renewal and deeper understanding of their own need for artistic expression and balance in their lives.

     These productions are based out of the Muses Cultural Arts Center in Hot Springs, and then toured throughout the region. Each performance is designed to personally enrich participants through direct encounters with the Arts, and inspire excellence and creativity in everyday life.

Through our educational outreach we interface regularly with high school and college students, as well as “life-long learners” (ranging in age from 15 – 90), providing them with teaching, mentoring and performance opportunities. These artistic encounters are designed to activate a sense of purpose and value, and to strengthen life skills such as, communication, cooperation, commitment, discipline, and teamwork.

AllMusesprogramming is based on the belief that classical artistic education and high quality cultural experiences through live performance are crucial to a well-rounded and healthy community.

Your support enables us to offer programs that would otherwise not be available in Central Arkansas. Please give a gift that inspires, and support the belief that Artistic Excellence has real value, for the individual and the community. We appreciate every gift, and steward our resources carefully. All donations are tax deductible and go directly to support the mission, operations, and programming of the Muses Creative Artistry Project. 
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These programs operate within three areas of influence:

Healing Arts

Collaborating with physicians, researchers and therapists to explore the connection between music, creativity, and wellness, including promotion of the healing power of art, music, creativity and musical sound therapeutic massage.

Creative Arts

Exploring and encouraging each individual’s creative potential, offering seminars, workshops and an arts integration program in collaboration with public and private schools, colleges and universities in Central Arkansas that blend elements of visual art, music education, creative writing, personal expression, and peak performance life coaching.

Performing Arts

Continuing dedication to excellence in classical music and live performance, poetry, drama, and dance.

Healing Arts

Collaborating with physicians, researchers and therapists to explore the connection between music, creativity, and wellness, including promotion of the healing power of art, music, creativity and musical sound therapeutic massage.

Creative Arts

Exploring and encouraging each individual’s creative potential, offering seminars, workshops and an arts integration program in collaboration with public and private schools, colleges and universities in Central Arkansas that blend elements of visual art, music education, creative writing, personal expression, and peak performance life coaching.

Performing Arts

Continuing dedication to excellence in classical music and live performance, poetry, drama, and dance.
All Muses programs reinforce the organization’s dedication to excellence and inspiration; to be accessible to the whole community, committed to healthy business practices, using the arts to educate and enlighten, to offer a glimpse into some extraordinary possibilities of life.

Muses Cultural Arts Center Staff

Deleen Davidson- Founder, General Director, Soprano

deleen@themusesproject.org



Toni Spears - Healing Arts Director,Troupe Manager, Life Coach

toni@themusesproject.org

Muses Project Board of Directors:

Al Carney, Chairman

Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Deleen Davidson, President

Muses General Director

Carol Thomason, Treasurer

Suzanne Babbie, Secretary

Sharon Heflin

Legacy Termite & Pest Control

Anita Cabe

C. Louis Cabe & Mary C. Cabe Foundation

Ron Mills

Wealth Manager, BancorpSouth

Camila Holden

Young Artist representative

In Memoriam:

Don Munro

Munro & Company, Inc.

All Muses programs reinforce the organization’s dedication to excellence and inspiration; to be accessible to the whole community, committed to healthy business practices, using the arts to educate and enlighten, to offer a glimpse into some extraordinary possibilities of life.