A Joyful Journey in the Holiday Spirit Join artist Lisa Jennings for this special healing arts workshop centered on matters of the heart. In this workshop, you will explore emotions like love, vulnerability, grief, and joy. With watercolors, acrylic, pastels, and collage, you will create a mixed-media piece representing the heart and its emotional story […]
FREE EVENT This session is an invitation for regional artists to come together and engage in a collaborative discussion about marketing your work and using social media effectively. It's a chance to learn from each other's successes, share strategies that have worked, and tackle the common challenges artists often face in promoting their art. Whether […]
Black Vibrations is a bold celebration and exploration of the complexity of the Black experience, history, and culture. This group exhibition of more than a dozen Black artists from different backgrounds and generations serves as a platform for the celebration of Black history at the MACC. Artists participating in this exhibit include Michael McBride, […]
Join Donna Woodley, visual artist and educator, for a Lunch & Learn session that delves into the beauty of painting simple objects in life. Through a series of quick, expressive painting exercises, you’ll create a couple of vibrant, finished paintings while gaining valuable insights into the fundamentals of painting. This hands-on experience will leave you […]
Fat Tuesday at the MACCMar. 4 @ 6 pm - 9 pm Bourbon Street is coming to Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center courtesy of our annual Fat Tuesday Celebration. Live blues music from Gil Gan the Blues Man will have you dancing the night away. Bryson McCarley Agency will be cooking up a delicious fish […]
Join artist Lisa Jennings for this special healing arts workshop celebrating the enduring strength of women. Through the lens of stories and symbols from the ancient world, like the caregivers or goddesses of old, you will create a mixed-media piece using acrylic, watercolor, and collage. You will be guided into drawing parallels between the resilience and resourcefulness of women in our modern world and their counterparts in the ancient world. […]
Some of the Nashville area's preeminent Black artists will gather at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center for an Artist Talk. These artists currently have their works on display at Monthaven […]
Artist Tony Sobota will discuss his creative journey in this March 16 Artist Talk at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center. The artist, whose exhibit Finding YES runs Feb. 18 to Apr. 13 at the MACC's Papillon Gallery, showcases works that span a variety of forms, from structured grids to free-form improvisations to observational painting. During […]
In this hands-on mixed media workshop, participants will explore the art of layering and texture to create a unique, dynamic composition. Using materials such as paint, magazine images, and textured […]
Forged in Creativity - The Art of Soldering & Welding (March 22nd & 23rd) Unlock the hidden potential of metal in this hands-on soldering and welding course, where sparks fly […]
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.
