Bringing creative experiences for all ages through MUSIC, ART, and DRAMA.

In Spring of 2024, Jill formed the non profit MuseALABAMA to begin fulfilling a dream of bridging teaching artists across communities throughout Alabama especially rural counties. 

Support

October 11, 2025 begins an 18 day 18K campaign to fully support Free Arts Experiences in Butler County for January - May 2026. 

Supporting Marlar Creative in partnership with MuseALABAMA helps build a working blueprint for counties across Alabama showing how they can enrich their community through the Arts for all ages. Funds raised through this campaign provide FREE creative arts experiences for all ages. Money raised will provide materials and supplies, facility fees, needed equipment, fees for accompanists, and compensation for teaching artists. 

Below is a list of current free offerings and upcoming experiences for 2026.

What we do each week

• Weekly Free Music/Drama Experiences at the Library for all ages

• (4) Full Scholarships - 12 Weeks Private Music Lessons with Marlar Studio

• Weekly in school music, art, drama enrichment across Butler County

• Weekly Music and Art experiences for Seniors at area Assisted Livings, Senior Centers and Rehab Centers in Butler County.

• Free Weekly Creative Expression classes in Art, Music, Drama for Adults

• Weekly Youth Choir and Adult/Youth Gospel Choir 

Supporting Marlar Creative in partnership with MuseALABAMA helps to build a working blueprint for all counties across Alabama.

What is MuseALABAMA?

MuseALABAMA is a non profit based in Greenville Alabama with a purpose to connect communities through creative arts by connecting creatives within communities through shared classes, experiences, and workshops.

An inaugural event was held on Saturday January 18, 2025 at the 5 & Dime in Selma, Alabama

Creative collaborations with owner AC Reeves and artists Jamie Alvey, Tara Stallworth Lee and Jill Balch Coon

MuseALABAMA is for anyone. It is time spent together through interactive music, visual art, movement, word and food. Its purpose is to engage the Self through creative forms and shared experiences that connect us with a creative muse. It’s about finding something that we may have lost along the way in our life or explore something new.

Who founded MuseALABAMA?

Founded by Jill Marlar who for over 25 years has taught young children and youth in art, music, and drama through her small business. She is a “Jill of several trades” living her life as a teacher, visual artist, actress, musician, writer, and to top it off in her mid forties opened a coffee shop with her husband James Little in early 2019. Now living near family roots in Greenville Alabama she is building arts outreach for all ages across Butler county.

Jill’s creative business path began in 2001 with teaching music classes after school that later expanded into a thriving enrichment experience for after school students of all ages throughout the year. Her teaching schedule allowed for time in the art studio where she focused primarily on intaglio printmaking creating several thousand hand editioned original prints. Continuing her lifelong love for music and acting she often works on various creative projects. She is a trained singer, voiceover artist, and actress who continues to share her talents in her work as well as teach. For Jill, creativity is the root where she draws from and teaching allows her to share that in her home, businesses or wherever she finds herself. Her mission is to allow others to know that their individual voice matters and to believe they have a fulfilling purpose in life.