Who: Mary Scurlock Where: Richmond, Virginia What: Artist and Teacher. Mary is a a painter and mixed media artist. She teaches in the Center for the Arts and the International Baccalaureate programs in Henrico Public Schools. In Her Words: What do you consider most valuable about your time at La Muse? The [...]
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Thomas Bouwmeester
Who: Thomas Bouwmeester Where: The Netherlands, Holland What: Tom is close to obtaining his bachelor’s degree in Journalism. Next to that, he’s been active with creative writing for about four years now. He has won local short story writing competitions and is currently working on a novella. During his stay at La Muse he was [...]
Åse Pleym Bakken
Who: Ase Pleym Bakken Where: Norway What: Ase is an abstract artist who paints expressionistic, spontaneous work. Her ideal is “to capture a moment of experience,” whether it’s inspired by music, travel, meetings with people, or from something she’s read. Sentences can frequently appear, parts of words or just letters, as well as phrases, often from [...]
Eckart Woertz
Who: Eckart Woertz Where: Current location, Princeton and Barcelona. What: Eckart is an economist specializing in the Middle East and the Gulf region. He has an MA in Middle Eastern Studies and a PhD in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany. Eckart’s interests include energy issues, the political economy of the Middle East, and financial [...]
Cila Warncke
Who: Cila Warncke. Where: Current location, London. What: Cila’s an Anglo-American writer, journalist and occasional barista. She’s living her dream by writing a book about people who live their dreams. In Her Words: I am still trying to wrap my head around La Muse and figure out what happened there — all I know is I [...]
Larry Specht
Who: Larry Specht Where: Washington, DC What: Larry has just completed a novel: Now Appearing in Baghdad. It’s a black comedy about an American software salesman who winds up in Baghdad a year after the US invasion. He figures he is the ultimate hip war profiteer, but pretty quickly he’s in way over his head [...]
Deborah Clarke
Who: Deborah Clarke. Where: Born and educated in South Africa but since 2001 lives in Grenoble, France. What: Deborah got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1995 and went on to receive her Post-graduate honours degree in 1996, specializing in traditional printmaking methods with digital imaging and photography (yes, there were digital cameras in [...]