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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.

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50th Annual James B. Hawkins Exhibition

Student Art Show

Every spring, some of the most gifted young artists in Sumner County showcase their art at Monthaven as part of the Annual James B. Hawkins Sumner County Student Art Show.

This indispensable art exhibition is open to all Sumner County middle and high school art students. Each school is allowed to enter artwork in drawing, painting, 3D, Mixed Media, and Animation. Students from 15 public and private schools displayed nearly 150 art works at the MACC in 2025.

Student Art Show prizes include awards for “Winning Art Department,” “Best of Show” and “Director’s Pick,” along with First, Second, and Third Place ribbons and cash prizes for painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, digital art, printmaking, animation and mixed media.

Participating middle school and high school art teachers also receive recognition and cash prizes. The exhibition’s presenting partner is Nōssi College of Art & Design. The college typically awards about $10,000 in scholarships to Sumner County’s amazing art students.

The 50th Annual James B. Hawkins Sumner County Student Art Show will run from April 11 to April 26, 2026. For more information about the 50th Annual James B. Hawkins Sumner County Student Art Show in 2026, call Deputy Director Tonya Mirtes at (615) 822-0789 or email admin@monthavenarts.org

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center presents some of the world’s greatest art in galleries that are intimate and inviting.  Subscribe to our newsletter and discover the magic that awaits.

The Paintings of Patrick Guyton

Gilded Modernism

Patrick Guyton will serve as the featured artist at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center’s Seventh Annual Moonlight and Magnolias gala fundraiser. Guyton fuses his experience as an animation background artist and sign painter with ancient leafing and glazing techniques to create contemporary masterpieces. Whether depicting mysterious women, flitting hummingbirds, or moonlit ponds, Guyton’s artwork is adored by art lovers and collected around the world.

Guyton combines Japanese leafing from the 14th-century Kamakura period and Flemish glazing techniques from the 17th century to create a new, contemporary style he calls “Gilded Modernism.” Embracing ancient and modern practices, Guyton’s artwork is wholly unique. “To bring a blend of those art formats into the modern era with a contemporary feel, for someone to simply view, appreciate and experience its emotion, this is what I try to achieve,” Guyton says.

His experience working in animation helped shape his artistic style as well, learning from such Golden Age Animation geniuses as Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble. By painting animation celluloids, Guyton gained first-hand knowledge of how to effectively use negative space and minimalism.

Not surprisingly, it can take Guyton over a month to complete one work. Guyton’s technique doesn’t allow for the creation of limited-edition works, so every artwork from Guyton is unique. Guyton is continually expanding his practice and now integrates other precious metals in his artwork, such as copper, platinum, and palladium. Guyton’s ability to design with sophisticated detail brings drama and poetic expression into his work. With his unique vision, he merges mood and atmosphere, evoking powerful emotions that create harmony.

For more information about the exhibition “Gilded Modernism,” please call (615) 822-0789.

 

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Painting the Pike by Wendy Murray

The Long Way Home

Taking inspiration from pop artist Edward Joseph Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip, artist Wendy Murray set out in early 2025 to document the buildings, vacant blocks and food trucks over a 6.5-mile section of Gallatin Pike in Nashville. The first drawing was completed on Feb. 25, 2025, and Murray is on track to have approximately 250 drawings by May 2026.

Both sides of Gallatin Pike are being drawn plein air for this ambitious project. Her work will capture the complexity and subtly of urban spaces changing under the pressures of gentrification. Recording the human experience and community response to the changes is part of her broader research.

The Long Way Home will include approximately 170 drawings in the MACC’s Papillon Gallery. Taken together, these works reflect the atmosphere of a 6.5-mile section of Gallatin Pike. All of the art will be for sale. The exhibit will include a section that takes a behind-the-scenes look at her process.

Murray is a Nashville-based contemporary visual artist known for her documentation of urban space through drawing, painting and poster making. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville.

Murray will be on hand at Monthaven for an artist reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2026. She will also give an Artist Talk about her process on Sunday, May 31, 2026 from 2 to 4 p.m. Her talk will focus on how she has developed her drawing practice over the past 15 years. Among other things, she will discuss the rewards and challenges of working, painting and drawing on the streets of such big cities as Sydney, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Detroit and Nashville. For more information, call (615) 822-0789.

Paintings by Steve Wariner

The Flip Side

Steve Wariner is well known to true-blue country music fans. Over the course of a 50-plus-year music career, the famed songwriter and instrumentalist sent more than a dozen songs to the top of the country music charts. Less well known is Wariner’s parallel passion for painting.

Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center will shine a spotlight on Wariner’s visual art works in The Flip Side: Paintings by Steve Wariner. The exhibit will feature 60 of Wariner’s works in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media. It will be the most prominent display of Wariner’s artworks since 2013’s Wariner’s Watercolors at the Tennessee State Museum.

Wariner has pursued painting with alacrity since childhood. Growing up in suburban Indiana, he was inspired to paint by his brother David, a gifted professional artist known for his book and album-cover illustrations. Wariner was especially attracted to watercolor.

Wariner’s watercolor style is loose and spontaneous, resulting in images he refers to as “washy.” His preferred subjects often reflect the people and places he has seen during his many travels as a musician. Rural landscapes, seascapes, portraits and guitars often figure prominently in his paintings. Another focus are his paintings of musicians, like the club singer and jazz trio seen in his watercolor “The Crooning.”

Interestingly, he resisted painting in oil for years. But starting in 2020, he began to experiment. Oil paintings like his “Purple Presence” are richly layered and textured, with the artist sometimes spending weeks on one work. Wariner now works in multiple mediums, from oil to encaustic. He also seems perfectly at home painting works that are both representational and abstract.

For more information about The Flip Side, 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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