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The MACC presents a dozen local, regional and international exhibitions every year. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated and contribute to continued arts programming.

Selections from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection

The Unknown Picasso

Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center is pleased to present The Unknown Picasso: Selections from the Marina Picasso Estate Collection. Featuring many exceptionally rare, limited-edition lithographs from the legendary artist’s private estate, this rich trove is a comprehensive survey of Picasso’s career which features every family member and love interest, every style and every famous theme.

The legendary magnitude of “Picasso’s Picassos” includes many works that are unknown even to experts, but relate closely to such museum masterpieces as Les Demoiselles D’Avignon and Guernica.

There is a great backstory to this amazing collection of art, which is known as the Marina Picasso Collection. As Picasso’s granddaughter, Marina inherited not only a horde of more than 10,000 original works by the artist, including the most prestigious collection of his ceramics, but the splendid villa La Californie, overlooking the Mediterranean, where Picasso spent many years. The villa proved to be nothing short of an artistic gold mine. Indeed, it was filled with so many never-before-seen works that they have yet to be exhaustively catalogued.

As part of the forthcoming exhibition, renowned art historian Charles A. Riley, II, PhD, will offer his unique insights about the legendary Spanish artist. Dr. Riley has authored four acclaimed books about the artist and curated more than a dozen exhibitions featuring Picasso’s work.

Riley’s visit will feature two special Picasso on the Patio event options, both presented by Park West Foundation. On Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, Riley will speak at a buffet dinner. Tickets for the dinner, which runs from 6 to 9 p.m., are $100. An open bar is included. Riley will also speak at a brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025. The brunch will feature mimosas and more. Tickets for the brunch are $75. Seating is limited. For tickets, click the button below.

For more information, call (615) 822-0789 or email celeste@monthavenarts.org.

 

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The Artistry of James Coleman

Bringing Disney to Life

The story of how native Californian James Coleman landed a job as a background painter at Walt Disney Productions reads like a screenplay for a heartwarming, kid-done-well Disney film. He started at the very bottom, securing a job in Disney’s mailroom when he was just 19. But then entered a painting in a Disney Studio art competition. The rest, as they say, is history.

During his two decades at Disney, Coleman worked on some of the company’s best-known animations, including Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. But in the end, Coleman decided to following a different dream, transitioning away from Disney to become a full-time fine artist.

Coleman still receives inquiries seeking his technical expertise with animated film production. While flattered, he continues to pursue his unyielding passion as an artist working in the Impressionist style. His preferred mediums include oils, watercolors, gouache, and pastels—much like the painters that he most admires, including Monet, van Gogh, Renoir and John Singer Sargent.

Coleman employs a vivid color palette and uses it unreservedly, whether he is creating invitingly lush landscapes, views of Monet’s Garden at Giverny, France, fields of poppies in Provence, the legendary city of Venice at twilight, sailboats tacking across sparkling ocean water or highly intriguing streetscapes. Not surprisingly, Mickey and Minnie Mouse also make appearances in the artist’s paintings on occasion. Coleman says his extensive experience with Disney is reflected in the work he is making today, which qualifies it as “genuinely unique” in his book.

The Paintings and Sculptures of Polly Cook and Somers Randolph

The Art of Love

Monthaven is welcoming Valentine’s Day with an exhibition titled “The Art of Love: Paintings and Sculptures by Polly Cook and Somers Randolph.” Polly Cook, a Texas-based artist,” has long been inspired by themes of love. Indeed, love is at the heart of all of her artwork, along with the accompanying emotions of longing, regret, desire, passion, joy and hope. Cook insists that her works not be interpreted as literal stories. Rather, they are emotional narratives and visual poetry. They are meant to be experienced as well as seen.

Cook grew up in Nashville and attended her first pottery class at the art center at Centennial Park when she was 10. Her love of romantic poets, such as Byron, Shelley, and Keats, along with the Pre-Raphaelite artists took her to England when was 16. There, she was introduced to German Expressionism and the German Realists of the 1920s. Both movements would exert an influence on her style.

A California transplant, Somers Randolph became a pioneer of Nashville’s coffee culture when he lived here in the 1990s. He opened Blue Sky Court in 1991, which is considered Music City’s first true coffeehouse, predating Bongo Jave, Fido and Starbucks. As an artist, he quickly became known for his abstract sculptures, with their delicate curves and arcs, intricate whorls and spirals, and sensuous undulating Knots.

Randolph, whose studio is now located in Santa Fe, NM, showcased his spectacular abstract sculptures at the MACC over the summer of 2025 as part of an exhibit titled “Canvas + Stone,” which also featured the encaustic paintings of Nashville artist Kathryn Dettwiller. For his Valentine’s exhibition, Randolph will be bringing some of his stylish sculptural hearts. Like all of his works, these colorful hearts will be polished to absolute perfection. They are guaranteed to get visitors into the Valentine’s spirit.

For more information about The Art of Love, call (615) 822-0789.

 

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Robin Willis

HEALING ARTS COORDINATOR

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

Creative Design and Operations Manager

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.

Ruth Chase

Regional Arts Director
Ruth Chase is the Regional Arts Director of Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center, joining the team in 2023. For Ruth, the job is all about community, bringing people together to uplift and educate artists and art lovers alike. Her role at Monthaven is to strengthen the local artist community and build connections that will enrich Hendersonville and our surrounding communities through art exhibitions, art education, and opportunities for regional artists.
 
Prior to joining Monthaven, Ruth worked in the arts for over 30 years and is a multimedia artist and graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artistic practice is inquiry-based and engages in community bridge-building. She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the City of Los Angeles, curated and juried exhibitions, and has taught at the Crocker Art Museum.
 
Ruth was awarded an Artist-in-Residence for Artist Activating Communities through a grant from the California Arts Council for three consecutive years. Her film Belonging screened at both the 18th Annual Nevada City Film Festival and Wild & Scenic Film Festival. She has received the Legendary Female Artist of Venice award, and she has exhibited in The Crocker Kingsley, the Museum of Northern California Art, and the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute. Ruth also continues her work as a Curatorial Consultant and Art director for the Californian Indigenous Research Project, where she has worked with the local tribe since 2018. 
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