Lunch & Learn: From Photo to Canvas: Finding Your Voice Through Line & Color - with Dayo Johnson - March 20th/11:00 - 1:00 OR March 21st/11:00 - 1:00 Inspired by the expressive poster work of Henri de Toulous-Lautrec, this beginner class invites students to transform a personal photograph into a painted portrait.Led by artist Dayo […]
Healing Arts Workshop: What's Your Spirit Animal? - with Fiona Capuano Saturday, March 21st - 10:30 - 12:30 In this 2 hour class, we will explore different animals’ qualities that can help guide you as you move through the world. Example: Do they retreat, soar, charge, observe, or adapt? We will give our animals a […]
Heritage Music Series: Wade Hayes 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 26, 2026 at the MACC $100 Country music star Wade Hayes is headlining the MACC’s Heritage Music Series concert in March. Hayes first came to prominence in 1994 when he released his gold-certified debut album Old Enough to Know Better. The album’s title song […]
Forged by Fire: Creatures in Steel - with Val Adams Saturday, March 28th/10:30 - 12:30 & Sunday, March 29th/1:00 - 4:00 In this two-day art welding course students will transform forgotten metal, rusted tools, discarded hardware, and other found objects into original animal sculptures of their own design. Through guided instruction in basic welding techniques, […]
Connecting Through Rhythm and Breath: A Music Workshop for Everyone - With Dave Isaacs and Liz Johnson March 28, 2026 - 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Join master music coaches Liz Johnson and Dave Isaacs for another special MUSICAL healing arts workshop. Connecting Through Rhythm and Breath is a shared experience in how listening, breathing, and making […]
Artist Talk: Morris Shapiro on the Genius of Toulouse-Lautrec Sunday, March 29, 12 to 2 p.m., Monthaven Arts and Cultrual Center, $25 As part of its current exhibition From the Moulin Rouge to Music City: The Graphics of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center is hosting a special guest lecture featuring art expert […]
Lunch & Learn: Finding Your Inner Child with Cindy Birdsong & Melanie Leidy - April 10th/11:00 - 1:00 OR April 11th/11:00 - 1:00 Reconnect with your sense of play in this imaginative Lunch & Learn led by artist Cindy Birdsong on Friday and Melanie Leidy on Saturday. Inspired by the creativity of local students featured […]
Join us in our Artist Lounge for a special conversation with country music icon William Lee Golden. Known for his distinctive baritone voice, Golden will be on hand to discuss his new book Golden Memories – Landscape Photographs Taken on Tour With the Oak Ridge Boys. This beautiful, hardcover, limited-edition coffee-table book features over 200 […]
This session brings regional artists together for a thoughtful conversation about one of the most underrated parts of making art: titling your work. We’ll dig into whether you should title your pieces, how a title can open the door for an audience (or quietly shut it), and what might be missed when work goes unnamed […]
Heritage Music Series: Carlene Carter 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 16, 2026 at the MACC $100 Country music star Carlene Carter returns to the MACC to headline April’s Heritage Music Series concert. Carter has deep roots in country music. She’s the daughter of June Carter Cash and Carl Smith and the granddaughter of Maybelle […]
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.
