25
Apr
2017
Margaret Muza: Musing About Her Muses (Part 2)
Before my time is up as the Narrator, I wanted to sit down with the new Artist-in-Residence Margaret Muza one last time (though I’m sure I’ll be back many times during her residency!) to get and share with you some of the back stories of the tintypes currently hanging in her studio. As the walls […]
17
Apr
2017
Margaret Muza: Musing About Her Muses (Part I)
Her last name is pronounced “myuza,” which sounds like music and muses. Its origin is Kashubian, from an ethnic group that hails from Poland on the Baltic Sea. Interestingly, Margaret Muza is related to the Jacob Muza who in 1872 established a colony on Jones Island (really a peninsula named after James Monroe Jones), essentially […]