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America 250

Monthaven

Celebrating America’s 250th with the Art of Tim Yanke and Manuel

For the Love of Liberty

The MACC celebrated America’s 250th Anniversary with a special Eighth Annual Veterans Art Exhibition highlighting the works of some of America’s greatest living artists. The exhibit, titled For the Love of Liberty, included Tim Yanke’s American flag paintings along with the acclaimed fashion designer Manuel’s state jackets honoring the original 13 colonies. The MACC presented For the Love of Liberty in partnership with the Park West Foundation.

Best known for his abstract artwork, Yanke has created a series of U.S. flag paintings that he refers to as (what else?) “Yanke Doodles.” The inspiration for these works came to him following the tragic events of 9/11. In creating the paintings, he started to experiment with non-traditional colors for the flag. These variegated hues represent the different cultures, countries and communities who have come to find a home in America. In some of the Yanke Doodles there is also a Vietnam service ribbon intertwined, a nod to the U.S. military veterans who served in the Vietnam War. For the Love of Liberty will include these flags along with other works the artist has created to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.

Manuel is world-renowned as the Couturier to the Stars. In 2005, he debuted at the Frist Art Museum a fantabulous series of 50 colorfully decorated jackets, one for each U.S. state. For his exhibition at Monthaven, he showcased the jackets that correspond to the original 13 colonies. Each of these jackets contain images that reflect the state’s history and character.

The Gallatin-based artist Don Olea, who was the featured artist for the MACC’s 7th Annual Veterans Art Exhibition, also displayed some of his works celebrating the founding of the United States. Finally, as part of an ongoing Veterans Art Exhibition tradition, military veterans enrolled in the MACC’s Between the Lines healing arts program displayed their art in an exhibit titled I Didn’t Know How to Tell You.

Artist Don Olea joined our podcast MACC Talk to discuss his Revolutionary War-era art. Click the button below to listen to the conversation. 

Don olea

Robin Willis

HEALING ARTS COORDINATOR

Robin Willis is the MACC’s Healing Arts Coordinator. She also works as the Exhibition and Events Manager and Director of Outreach. Robin has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University with a minor in Entrepreneurship. She is a multi-discipline artist with emphasis in writing, mixed media abstract painting, alternative process photography, collage, and book arts and binding. In addition to her art practices, she holds several healing modalities certificates, such as extensive kundalini yoga teacher training and education, Reiki master, systemic family constellation facilitator, and depth psychology-based therapy trainings. As an avid learner, she explores and encourages others in their exploration in art, psyche, and our relationship to the micro and macro worlds within and around us. Influenced by John Muir’s quote, When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe, she fuses art, healing, and organization throughout her work and personal life as a creative-scientist minded person.

Kaylin Warden

Creative Design and Operations Manager

Kaylin Warden serves as the MACC’s Creative Design and Operations Manager. In this post, she oversees the organization’s graphic design work for exhibitions, events and special projects. She also coordinates the MACC’s arts outreach activities and assists with bookkeeping, among other duties. Kaylin, above all, is passionate about the arts. It comes as no surprise, then, that she is now pursuing a master’s degree in art history. When she’s not at the MACC, you can find her reading her favorite books (especially ones dealing with maritime mysteries), cooking, gardening, playing with her cat and two dogs, and cheering for the Nashville Predators.

Ruth Chase

Regional Arts Director
Ruth Chase is the Regional Arts Director of Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, joining the team in 2023. For Ruth, the job is all about community, bringing people together to uplift and educate artists and art lovers alike. Her role at Monthaven is to strengthen the local artist community and build connections that will enrich Hendersonville and our surrounding communities through art exhibitions, art education, and opportunities for regional artists.
 
Prior to joining Monthaven, Ruth worked in the arts for over 30 years and is a multimedia artist and graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artistic practice is inquiry-based and engages in community bridge-building. She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles, curated and juried exhibitions, and has taught at the Crocker Art Museum.
 
Ruth was awarded an Artist-in-Residence for Artist Activating Communities through a grant from the California Arts Council for three consecutive years. Her film Belonging screened at both the 18th Annual Nevada City Film Festival and Wild & Scenic Film Festival. She has received the Legendary Female Artist of Venice award, and she has exhibited in The Crocker Kingsley, the Museum of Northern California Art, and the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. Ruth also continues her work as a Curatorial Consultant and Art director for the Californian Indigenous Research Project, where she has worked with the local tribe since 2018. 
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