Classes

Jessica Taylor graduated from Cumberland University in 2013 with a BFA in Studio Art as well as a focus in K-12 education. She spent several years assisting in teaching elementary classes and most recently taught high school Art I and II classes for five years for Wilson County Schools. In 2021 Jessica went back to school to pursue her second love, in healthcare, and is currently working as a Sonographer at a Nashville hospital. She is excited to blend both of her passions into her daily life and teach art classes with MACC. She enjoys using a variety of mediums but finds her biggest love comes from the simplicity of drawing with graphite. Currently Jessica resides in Hendersonville with her husband and three dogs and in her free time you'll be sure to find her outside being inspired by Mother Nature. 

Brooke Hammond is a Nashville based artist with a passion for painting and sculpting. She expresses herself through creating surrealist art inspired by nature and self discovery. She grew up surrounded by a family with multiple artist and has been creating since a young age. She’s taught multiple painting classes in Hendersonville and also ventured out to painting murals locally. She is enthusiastic about teaching art and helping other’s experience creative learning and pursuing their passion in art.

Brooke Sanders is a classical pianist turned singer-songwriter and theater musician based in Nashville TN. Brooke recently graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston MA with a degree in songwriting and minors in musical theater writing and musical theater conducting. Brooke wears a lot of hats as a musician working in writing, performing, music direction, orchestration, business and arts administration. As a theater music director, Brooke recently music directed the Curtain Up concert at Berklee, featuring original theater songs that won the Curtain Up contest for new musical theater. She also recently music directed Anastasia at Boston University earning her an award from Boston University: On Broadway for Best Music Direction of the 2023-2024 season. She is also coming off her term as the President of the Broadway Band, the premier student run orchestra for musical theater at Berklee.

As a music director and lover of theater, she is known for being collaborative and a great communicator with people from all different kinds of backgrounds. She has worked as a director and music director for a variety of camps and community theater productions in the Nashville and Southern Kentucky areas including Mathilda the Musical with the Franklin Simpson Arts Council (2023), the Alice in Wonderland performance camp at Davidson Academy (2019), any Camp Creative at Calvary Baptist Church (2016-2023). She has also worked extensively as a private instructor for piano and voice, having taught students from ages 6-70.

Her love of theater stems from her love of storytelling and she hopes to help instill that love in young artists discovering their passions for the arts! 

Shahnaz Lighari was born in Connecticut and raised in Kingston Springs, TN. She studied Fine Art at Watkins College of Art & Design with a special focus on art history and the history of cinema. As a visual artist she is Inspired by the natural world, her work in painting and clothing design showcase a unique impressionistic style using organic forms. In addition to her independent artistic ventures she has worked within th tourism industry sharing the history of Tennessee with groups of all ages and as an account manager with a local screen printing company in East Nashville. She enjoys staying connected with the local art community and sharing her creativity.

Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, Sandra started out her art teaching career in 1970 at the Junior High School level for two years in Pennsylvania and then moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee with her husband Larry, and started teaching at Hawkins Jr. High School. In 1985 she started teaching at Hendersonville High School and is currently teaching the upper-level art classes including A.P. Art. She also teaches two nights a week at Hendersonville Arts Council where she has been teaching since the mid 1970’s.She has served as a board member of TAEA, taught Arts in the Park, participated in Fall Into Art, mentors new art teachers, shown her work at Monthaven and has been a strong advocate for the Arts in Tennessee.

Sadie Collins is a director, actor, writer, stage manager, and graduate student of Randolph College studying Theatre Directing. While pursuing her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, she revitalized a student-led Shakespeare Company and was a co-creator of the Chattanooga Film Festival: The Roosties. Throughout her career in the performing arts, she has had the opportunity to work with many wonderful theatre companies including The Chattanooga Theatre Centre, The Robertson County Players, and Obvious Dad. 

A life-long theatre advocate, Collins is interested in directing performances that show the importance of the arts in our everyday lives. 

I help people get more creative with mixed media art classes. I help women deal with anxiety and stress while exercising their intuition. I want to help people get exactly what they are looking for, the perfect gift for someone special. I hope to bring more feminine energy into their lives by classes and home décor.

I love teaching art to children and adults at my home and various other places around town.  And when I am not teaching or in my home studio, I can be found watching TV with my husband. I also like to read romance novels or young adult fiction books by the pool on my kindle.

I have a Bachelor of Fine Art in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Atlanta. I worked as a web designer teaching and designing hospital websites. Then I decided that I needed to do what I loved and became a full-time Mixed Media Artist. You can find my work at The Artisan Hatchery in Gallatin TN and The Basement Marketplace in Mt. Julliet. 

My name is Diane J Stockard and I am a freelance artist. I started painting and drawing when I was 6 years old. Our house burned to the ground during the week of Christmas. I painted Christmas cards and sold them to get money to buy Christmas presents for my family, because we lost everything. I am known as the Artist of Glow, because my paintings are full of colors and jump off the canvas. I have an Associate Degree and a B.S Degree in Political Science, International Relations and Fine Arts. I was ranked 7th in the nation by Creative Artists of America (No longer exist) a few years ago. I won 3rd place in an international art contest, China was first and Germany was 2nd. I have had art in several galleries across the country. I am so known for my colorful music paintings and my Acrylic fluid painting records. I do large group painting classes with children, seniors, adults, etc. I am a Realtor as well and my gifts to my clients are paintings that represent their new home or lifestyle. I paint glowing Angels for those who have lost a love one. I love sharing the gift that God has given me with others. God was the greatest Artist of all time.

Lily Prince has her B.F.A. from The Rhode Island School of Design, her M.F.A. from Bard College and studied at Skowhegan. Lily participated in The Bronx Museum's Art-in-the-Marketplace Program and studied abroad on R.I.S.D.’s European Honors Program in Rome. Prince has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including in England, Germany, Israel, Poland, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, among many others. In 2020 Prince was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner award in painting. Prince joined Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, NY in 2017 showing her work in the Art on Paper Fair. In 2018 they had her solo exhibition Recurring Waves of Arrival. Prince was awarded an artist residency at Galerie Huit in Arles, France, summer 2019 and was awarded a sabbatical from teaching for 2019-2020. Her solo show There There was curated by Jen Dragon of Cross Contemporary Art at 11 Jane Street Gallery, Saugerties, NY, July 2019. In fall of 2021 Prince had a solo show American Beauty at Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY. Spring 2022 Lily had a solo show Both Sides Now at the Carrie Chen Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. Her work was included in the show Mountains at Collioure, curated by Jared Quinton, spring 2022. Prince’s work was in the Sunrise/Sunset exhibition at the Albany Airport Gallery, fall 2021. Spring 2022 Prince had her solo show Both Sides Now at the Carrie Chen Gallery, Greatt Barrington, MA. Spring 2023 Prince’s solo show at Windows on Hudson opened in Hudson, NY. October 2023 Lily Prince’s solo show Making Marks opens at the Garage Gallery in Beacon, NY. Her work was included in the GarveySimon Gallery booth at the Art on Paper Fair in NY fall 2023 and at the Art Taipei Fair in Taiwan in the Carrie Chen Gallery booth. Prince’s works will be in a show at The Brattleboro Museum spring 2024 and she will be having a solo show in Nashville, TN fall 2024. Lily has been awarded commissions by numerous hotels and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition to her recent residency at Galerie Huit in Arles, France, Prince was Artist-in-Residence at state historic site Olana in 2016. In 2014 Prince was chosen for Draftsmen’s Congress, a residency with international artists at New York’s The New Museum. Lily was one of only two international artists awarded a fully-funded residency at the BAU Institute’s residency in Italy, 2013.

Lily Prince’s work has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, the Newark Star- Ledger, New American Paintings, San Francisco Weekly, The Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, Jewish Currents Magazine, Chronogram magazine, and the literary journal Crossborder. A catalogue of her drawings The Ten Plagues was published, with poems by David Shapiro, by The Paterson Museum. In 2021 Zephyr and Maize published her work: American Beauty with Lily Prince and Richard Klin, edited by Varia Serova and also Studio Visit with Lily Prince by Varia Serova. Lily was interviewed for ArtSpiel,in 2020 by Etty Yaniv and also by Ann Landi in Vasari21. Prince has lectured widely, including at Yale, Vassar, Cornell, RISD’s European Honors Program, Pratt and at the Artists Talk on Art series. Lily was interviewed on WVKR radio for their cultural currents show as well as on WBAI and WAMC, among others. Her book of portraits with writer Richard Klin’s profiles, Something To Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics in America, was published by Leapfrog Press, 2011. Prince was commissioned to create 100 illustrations for Klin’s book Abstract Expressionism For Beginners, published by For Beginners Books, 2016. Lily Prince lives in NY and after 30 years as an associate professor she now teaches online and offers in-person workshops.

Cole has been playing music as long as he can remember. He first fell in love with music when he picked up the fiddle at the young age of 3. He started touring at the age of 8 with a group of violinists and played all over the southeast. 

He picked up singing and playing the guitar at 13 when he was gifted his Great-Grandfather's Guitar. This was the beginning of Cole's artistry.

Cole’s favorite part about playing with his band is getting to share stories and  precious moments with friends and fans. 

No one has passion for music like Cole. His soulful, jazzy voice mixed with his country and rock and roll roots gives a unique sound of the Night Owls.

Rooted in the woods of upstate New York, my artistic journey began with childhood
adventures, collecting rocks, wood, and clay alongside my artist mother. She, my first teacher, ignited my passion for stones and wood, now an inseparable part of my being. From oil to acrylic, we explored various mediums, crafting art from foraged
treasures.

As a full-time artist, the trinity of rock, paper, and wood has defined my magical
journey. Starting with colored papers, I evolved to crafting pigmented pieces and
now elevate my trademark style with Japanese paper, employing batik resist, mono
printing, and intricate sewing for refined finishes. Sculpting, another forte, blends sacred stone figures with welded brass, bronze, and copper. Stones from local streams and gifted wood compose my larger, taller sculptures, each piece holding memories of its origin. My mentor, master artist Anton Weiss, shaped my meticulous work ethic, guiding my success in various mediums.

My art, housed in the TN State Museum and private collections worldwide, reflects a
love for nature and divinity. Teaching and mentoring allow me to share, learn, and
celebrate the profound connection between art and the human spirit. My work, an
organic journey, invites viewers to delve deeper, seeking a liberation of their own
spirits.
https://lisajenningsart.com/
Curriculum Vitae 2023