You are cordially invited to attend the MACC’s Boots & BBQ Fundraiser at the Bagsby Ranch in Gallatin. Proceeds from the event support the MACC’s Between the Lines Healing Arts Program for military veterans suffering from PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury. This year’s event will be interactive, with attendees participating in art projects led by the MACC’s healing arts facilitators. The Bryson McCarley Good Neighbor Foundation will provide the delicious BBQ. There will also be an open bar and a vibrant art auction to support the healing arts. Grammy Award-winning country artist John Berry will provide the entertainment. Tickets for this worthy cause are $60 each. For more information, call (615) 822-0789. Click the button below for tickets.
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 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.