Compose Arts is an organization that champions women composers and visual artists.

Their current project to support the work of composer Angela Rice and artist Lindsey Kiser, and their collaboration on an illustrated musical called The Royal Red Bird.

MOORE And this week's look at art and culture we call Tapestry.

Angela Rice.

She composed this beautiful children's musical fable.

It's an hour and a half musical fable about a red bird that the lead character saved from his blinds.

And it happened to have been the royal red bird who possessed all the melodies of Birdland, over 10,000 melodies.

And so his life was blessed from then on.

So it's a wonderful lesson about one small act of kindness can change the world.

I saw the whole scene.

I saw the whole scene play out.

And then the way I write music is I just write it spontaneously.

I wrote that story from the beginning to the end, and once swoop the text, the lyrics came with the melody at the very same time.

Just live stream like watching a movie and I can sing and see the pictures and write the words and write the melody at the same time.

The first time she asked me to illustrate, I said, No way, I don't.

I would love to.

It's a perfect position, perfect art project to work on with you because I love nature and the whole theme takes place in birds land, but I just didn't feel like I had time and I had this Plan B career I was working on in patent law and it was very serious work.

And but then I had a dream and I woke up and I saw all the illustrations completely finished from the dream and the pathway forward to actually making them.

So I would get up at 5 a.m. and paint until seven and we did that.

I went back to Angela, we worked out the details and two years later we had a finished book in print and that was this time last year.

The first time again.

This is a world from the year.

I really wasn't aware of the gender problems until I was going to Lincoln Center and heard that a woman was going to have a production in 2016 and she was the first woman composer performed there in 103 years.

And that I read that women composers, especially living in New York City, will just give up.

Even though they were talented, they realized that they would never, never make it.

I didn't believe that I could make it.

As an artist, you're kind of always told that the arts is just too impossible.

I was ironically supporting myself as a muralist when I went through law school at night, but I still didn't believe in it.

With the with the support of my board, we got to Lincoln Center and seven years as a woman artist in Kentucky, and it took all that effort just to put into me.

But now that I've made these accomplishments, it's it's time to go.

It's time to open it up and help other women because we are underserved audiences.

We're looking for talented women composers and visual artists in the States, and we're looking to educate the next generation of of young women composers and artists.

The arts, to me, are our chance of really exploring our potential.

And I think for many artists, it's okay to have another job, it's okay to have other things.

But when there's an organization like Compose Arts that can really support you and your efforts, you can really do your highest level work.