Face-to-Face with Picasso’s Imaginary Portraits
[Editor’s Note: Leigh R. Hendry is the guest curator of Picasso Ceramics: Master in Clay Part II, which is on display at the Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center from Sept. […]
Artist Ruth Chase Unveils Her Passion Projects at MACC at the Streets
Gifted young artists usually go to college to pursue their passions. Ruth Chase enrolled in the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute to find salvation. “Before college I had been doing […]
Picasso Ceramics Exhibit Opens in September
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center (MACC) in Hendersonville will present Picasso Ceramics: Master in Clay/Part II, its second Picasso exhibition in recent years. On view from September 17 through November […]
Anne Goetze’s Pray to Love
The first thing you notice when viewing the art in Anne Goetze’s terrific Pray to Love series are the hands. Soft and delicately wrinkled, the hands of these beatific nuns […]
Christian Calvin’s “Lovers Lane” takes its place in the MACC’s permanent collection
Artist Christian Calvin’s manliness is surely beyond repute. The Nashville-based neo-expressionist painter, after all, was once a wide receiver for the University of Tennessee’s football team. To this day, […]
Sweet Sounds of Summer Return to Monthaven
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center is pleased to announce the return of its popular Sweet Summer Concert Series. The four-concert series, which begins Saturday with a performance by Jonell Mosser […]
Men and Metal at the MACC
You can think of Valentine Adams and Jeffrey Burke as heavy metal artists. Now, I’m not talking about guitar-shredding rockers of the Metallica variety, though guitars figure prominently in the […]
Maria D’Souza’s Spectacular Beaded Skull Art
In 1917, the great American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe made her first excursion to New Mexico. There, amidst the state’s vast deserts and forested mountains, she found the inspiration to […]
10 Questions for Nōssi College of Art and Design President Cyrus Vatandoost
Nōssi College of Art and Design from Humble Beginnings to National Acclaim Talk about a humble beginning. In 1973, a Nashville-area teacher named Nōssi Vatandoost decided to start a private […]
The Nashville Ensemble Early Music City Celebrates Rembrandt at the MACC
Nashville Ensemble Early Music City What did the strolling musicians of Rembrandt’s time sound like? Until somebody builds a time machine, we may never know for sure. But thanks to […]