Modern Muses

I finished writing a grant to do more work on the Modern Muses.  Asking someone for money to make an art piece makes me get very focused.  What is a muse?  Do they have less power now, as most women do?  What are their working conditions and job descriptions?  It came to me that the modern Calliope, would be the muse of communication.  And what better emblem than an antenna.  This is a maquette, (mock up) of an idea.