Markus Muse self-taught artist with more than a decade of professional experience and owner of Oklahoma A City’s Museart Tattoo Co., Markus Muse was introduced to oil painting through his career as a tattoo artist. As a painter, with mediums including oil, watercolor, aerosol, and acrylic, Muse emphasizes the connection between African and world history. Through daily research he discovers the pieces of African history that have been untold or distorted and preserves those pieces on canvas. He focuses on the historical link which creates the contrast that not only attracts attention to art as a whole, but to culture and its measurement as a moral compass. His work, classical yet contemporary, invokes historical dialogue and provides an education for the viewer. Muse’s objective is to record the art of today with the traditions of the past; to involve the everyday working man with a sense of unity through supported cultural awareness. MARKUS MUSE WITH SISTER-COUSINS. 10