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Creative Soul, Alyssa Muse, uses colors and brushes as instruments of angelic light to transform the gray walls around us, adorning them with her meaningful art.

Alyssa is an artist and animal rescuer from Louisiana, and a recurrent live painter at Sugarshack Live Sessions. She’s the founder and director of The Aviary, an art studio and creature sanctuary dedicated to the arts and animal rescue. She offers live paintings at weddings, private events, and parties, and takes custom orders such as animal portrait commissions and mural projects. In addition, Alyssa weaves dream catchers and makes custom-made shirts with her art, available at her online shop.

The love for the arts and animals has allowed Alyssa to merge her two passions and positively impact her community. Using acrylic painting on nontraditional canvases, Alyssa’s art is unmatched and beautiful. Everything she adds to the canvas is pure magic, intuitively letting the brush and colors guide her. A portion of the proceeds from her art pieces go directly to supporting The Aviary.

Founded in 2018, The Aviary provides comprehensive animal rescue services to aid animals suffering from cruel circumstances. Alyssa’s and her team’s unwavering dedication and compassionate approach have significantly impacted countless animals’ lives, providing them with hope, healing, and a chance for a better future.

Growing up, Alyssa couldn’t foster her creativity, unaware of her innate talents as an artist. Life went on as she dedicated herself to becoming a professional doing legal work for an oil and gas firm near where she grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. She went on to work for an international firm in Houston, Texas, and while being there, a headhunter found her for another job in Naples, Florida. It was at this job that her creativity started to spark. From decorating her office to doodling on her co-workers’ boards, these small moments of creativity birthed her artistic seed, not expecting it to grow in the most tender, strong, and fruitful way, as it has.

The delusion found in our busy schedules prompted Alyssa to find the courage and put her artistic superpower into full mode, leaving behind her career as a Paralegal. She started making Christmas ornaments, flipping thrift store items into art pieces, and selling them online. These ideas proved beneficial, and since then, she’s had between 2 to 3 commissions on deck, with a calendar flowing with bookings for events that have taken her on memorable adventures.

During the time she worked in Naples, Florida, Alyssa reached out to a Facebook group of ladies doing aerial acrobatics, joyfully hanging out from trees. Alyssa connected with one of the ladies from the group, Lisa, and asked to join, and a bond beyond the veil of cosmic love was born between these soul sisters.

Lisa, an aerialist and professional photographer, partner of Sugarshack’s founder, Eddie Kopp, offered her home (the Shack) for Alyssa to stay while she visited Bonita Springs. Oftentimes, Alyssa would be at the Shack during the Sugarshack Live Sessions, an unforgettable MUSIC DISCOVERY experience by attending an up-close, exclusive, and live recording of a Sugarshack Session. At one of the Sessions, Alyssa found herself spontaneously capturing the band’s live performance. Needless to say, she naturally became part of the Sugarshack family as a recurrent live painting artist.

After moving back to Louisiana from Florida, Alyssa connected with a group of animal rescuers, where she met her animal rescue partner, Carla Kates, and learned about fostering dogs. She then fostered a puppy pitbull, witnessing the substantial work behind animal rescuing and how much help was needed.

Alyssa recalls that after she had found a home for the pitbull, she started having surprise visits from ill dogs, including birds, as if she was holding an invisible sign letting them know she was their angel. Without any hesitation and feeling aligned with her true purpose, Alyssa established The Aviary.

Although local law enforcement regulations limit her from bringing her rescue programs to their full potential, she has been connecting with the right people who have helped her with her visions and goals to provide animals with the best care possible. Alyssa now counts with a team of volunteers and provides rescue programs, facilitating services to help find loving homes for animals in need. It’s been a journey of arduous work mixed with triumphs and disappointments, with a bold heart ready to work even harder. Alyssa is taking the necessary steps to help expand her horizons as a creative entrepreneur and to help The Aviary find acres of land for a sanctuary that can rescue all animals.

“It’s been a wildly organic process. All those things, they have found me,” Alyssa explains, grateful she can assist animals and at the same time restore hope to the world through her art.

Alyssa Muse motivates us to be there for those in need, especially the animals that fall victim to cruel treatment. She speaks on their behalf with her artistic creations, inspiring us to find beauty amid the ugly circumstances of life.