Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center
Programs
Budget
$68,000.00
Description
Our Women's Healing Arts program provides small-group intermodal expressive arts sessions that facilitate healing, hope, and quality of life. Women receive creative coping tools that combat PTSD, trauma, depression and anxiety. HARP for women is open to all local Middle TN residents through programs offered on our campus, and also serves 4 closed communities of women in crisis in 3 Middle TN counties.
Partners include Grace Place (Hendersonville), Doors of Hope (Murfreesboro), Thistle Farms (Nashville), and Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry (Nashville). All four sites provide residential programs for women/single moms breaking the cycle of homelessness, addiction, abuse, poverty, prostitution, and/or recent incarceration. Each site provides much-needed life-rebuilding resources for the women in their care, and our Healing Arts program is a treasured part of their recovery experience, offering transformational healing of the heart and mind through the power of the arts.
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
People with psychosocial disabilities
Victims
Program Areas Served
Nashville, Hendersonville, Murfreesboro
$68,000.00
Description
Our Women's Healing Arts program provides small-group intermodal expressive arts sessions that facilitate healing, hope, and quality of life. Women receive creative coping tools that combat PTSD, trauma, depression and anxiety. HARP for women is open to all local Middle TN residents through programs offered on our campus, and also serves 4 closed communities of women in crisis in 3 Middle TN counties.
Partners include Grace Place (Hendersonville), Doors of Hope (Murfreesboro), Thistle Farms (Nashville), and Tennessee Prison Outreach Ministry (Nashville). All four sites provide residential programs for women/single moms breaking the cycle of homelessness, addiction, abuse, poverty, prostitution, and/or recent incarceration. Each site provides much-needed life-rebuilding resources for the women in their care, and our Healing Arts program is a treasured part of their recovery experience, offering transformational healing of the heart and mind through the power of the arts.
Beneficiaries
Women and girls
People with psychosocial disabilities
Victims
Program Areas Served
Nashville, Hendersonville, Murfreesboro
Budget
$35,000.00
Description
MACC's Healing Arts Program provides Expressive Arts sessions that facilitate healing and hope to youth battling depression/ anxiety, and troubled teens in DCS custody.
While all art is therapeutic, our program is led by experienced certified arts therapists, guiding teens in crisis through a process of coping through trauma, abuse, major loss, grief, depression, or stigmatizing SMI diagnoses (PTSD, schizophrenia, paranoia) using arts-based processes often preferred over clinical therapies. Studies show that if individuals are placed into creative arts-based programs as early as possible after a diagnosis of PTSD, clinical anxiety, or depression, they are at less risk for developing greater symptom severity.
Expressive arts therapy applies unique neurological, emotional and cultural strategies. By integrating visual art, music, creative writing, drama, movement and play modalities, teens unlock past experiences, understand pain/ limitation, encourage healthy expression and healing.
Beneficiaries
People with psychosocial disabilities
At-risk youth
Formerly incarcerated people & incarcerated people
Program Areas Served
Davidson and Sumner County
$35,000.00
Description
MACC's Healing Arts Program provides Expressive Arts sessions that facilitate healing and hope to youth battling depression/ anxiety, and troubled teens in DCS custody.
While all art is therapeutic, our program is led by experienced certified arts therapists, guiding teens in crisis through a process of coping through trauma, abuse, major loss, grief, depression, or stigmatizing SMI diagnoses (PTSD, schizophrenia, paranoia) using arts-based processes often preferred over clinical therapies. Studies show that if individuals are placed into creative arts-based programs as early as possible after a diagnosis of PTSD, clinical anxiety, or depression, they are at less risk for developing greater symptom severity.
Expressive arts therapy applies unique neurological, emotional and cultural strategies. By integrating visual art, music, creative writing, drama, movement and play modalities, teens unlock past experiences, understand pain/ limitation, encourage healthy expression and healing.
Beneficiaries
People with psychosocial disabilities
At-risk youth
Formerly incarcerated people & incarcerated people
Program Areas Served
Davidson and Sumner County
Budget
$125,000.00
Description
While all art is therapeutic, Healing Arts therapy focuses on those individuals who are most at-risk in our Middle TN community, providing them a way of processing trauma, abuse, major loss, grief and depression that is accessible and perceived as less threatening as compared to other traditional therapies. This process invites a person to move flexibly among media, following their creative instincts and interests. Expressive Arts directly engages auditory, visual, and kinesthetic senses as well as emotions. Studies show that if individuals are placed into creative arts-based programs as early as possible after being diagnosed with PTSD, clinical anxiety, or depression, they would be at less risk for developing greater symptom severity.
While general mental health therapies are typically administered in-office through more traditional mental health service providers, this program reaches directly into communities that lack health insurance or would not otherwise seek treatment.
Program Successes
"Between the Lines" Veterans Healing Arts program outcomes include the development of specialized, in-house facilitated curriculum, as well as providing weekly interdisciplinary Healing Arts therapy sessions free of charge to more than 1500 combat veterans experiencing PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other debilitating diagnoses, through 8+ partner organizations in 4 Middle TN counties who refer or maintain ongoing relationships with those in need.
Beneficiaries
People with psychosocial disabilities
Veterans
At-Risk Populations
Program Success Monitored By
Our team of Expressive arts faciliators will be monitoring program success, in consultation with Executive Director, Cheryl Strichik, and supported by MACC staff members.
Program Areas Served
MACC campus and multiple off-site locations. Some programming delivered to closed groups of at-risk individuals in collaboration with partner organizations in the Middle TN area.
$125,000.00
Description
While all art is therapeutic, Healing Arts therapy focuses on those individuals who are most at-risk in our Middle TN community, providing them a way of processing trauma, abuse, major loss, grief and depression that is accessible and perceived as less threatening as compared to other traditional therapies. This process invites a person to move flexibly among media, following their creative instincts and interests. Expressive Arts directly engages auditory, visual, and kinesthetic senses as well as emotions. Studies show that if individuals are placed into creative arts-based programs as early as possible after being diagnosed with PTSD, clinical anxiety, or depression, they would be at less risk for developing greater symptom severity.
While general mental health therapies are typically administered in-office through more traditional mental health service providers, this program reaches directly into communities that lack health insurance or would not otherwise seek treatment.
Program Successes
"Between the Lines" Veterans Healing Arts program outcomes include the development of specialized, in-house facilitated curriculum, as well as providing weekly interdisciplinary Healing Arts therapy sessions free of charge to more than 1500 combat veterans experiencing PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other debilitating diagnoses, through 8+ partner organizations in 4 Middle TN counties who refer or maintain ongoing relationships with those in need.
Beneficiaries
People with psychosocial disabilities
Veterans
At-Risk Populations
Program Success Monitored By
Our team of Expressive arts faciliators will be monitoring program success, in consultation with Executive Director, Cheryl Strichik, and supported by MACC staff members.
Program Areas Served
MACC campus and multiple off-site locations. Some programming delivered to closed groups of at-risk individuals in collaboration with partner organizations in the Middle TN area.
Budget
$120,000.00
Description
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center provides a rotating calendar of museum-quality exhibitions of local, regional and international art to the local community, hosting guest artists through a variety of exhibition openings, artist talks, and other offerings and establishing itself as a leading venue for year-round arts and cultural experiences in Middle Tennessee.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Program Areas Served
None
$120,000.00
Description
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center provides a rotating calendar of museum-quality exhibitions of local, regional and international art to the local community, hosting guest artists through a variety of exhibition openings, artist talks, and other offerings and establishing itself as a leading venue for year-round arts and cultural experiences in Middle Tennessee.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$60,000.00
Description
A variety of musical, theatrical, dance and fashion performances and art/music seasonal festivals are hosted by Monthaven on campus throughout the calendar year. The "Sweet Summer Concert Series" was introduced in 2022 and provides four free concerts on the lawn to local residents by top singers/music performers from the region, featuring multiple genres such as country, americana, rock, folk, blues, and more. Monthaven also hosts an Artoberfest each October which features music performances, food, arts activities, local arts vendors, and more. Each exhibition opening event also features music performances that correspond to the theme of each exhibit.
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities - Musical Performances
Beneficiaries
General Public
Program Areas Served
None
$60,000.00
Description
A variety of musical, theatrical, dance and fashion performances and art/music seasonal festivals are hosted by Monthaven on campus throughout the calendar year. The "Sweet Summer Concert Series" was introduced in 2022 and provides four free concerts on the lawn to local residents by top singers/music performers from the region, featuring multiple genres such as country, americana, rock, folk, blues, and more. Monthaven also hosts an Artoberfest each October which features music performances, food, arts activities, local arts vendors, and more. Each exhibition opening event also features music performances that correspond to the theme of each exhibit.
Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities - Musical Performances
Beneficiaries
General Public
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$125,000.00
Description
A series of weekly After-School art programs provide a variety of general and specialized art classes for more than 500 youth annually, primarily grades K-9, once per week for nine months each year. Classes for youth, homeschoolers, adults, and seniors are offered 5 days a week at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Program Areas Served
None
$125,000.00
Description
A series of weekly After-School art programs provide a variety of general and specialized art classes for more than 500 youth annually, primarily grades K-9, once per week for nine months each year. Classes for youth, homeschoolers, adults, and seniors are offered 5 days a week at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$45,000.00
Description
A series of 50 + one-week summer intensive Art and Film Camps for children, adolescents, and teenagers, with camp offerings available throughout 8 weeks of the summer. Average summer enrollment is 300+ participants.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Program Areas Served
None
$45,000.00
Description
A series of 50 + one-week summer intensive Art and Film Camps for children, adolescents, and teenagers, with camp offerings available throughout 8 weeks of the summer. Average summer enrollment is 300+ participants.
Beneficiaries
K-12 (5-19 years)
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$125,000.00
Description
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center partners with schools, organizations and institutions in the local community to provide high-quality art-making experiences to 4000+ at-risk youth and adults annually. The Exhibition Connect: Community Outreach (EC:CO) program targets youth and families in neighboring underserved communities, offering hands-on artmaking activities and cultural experiences at our campus and within their own neighborhoods which introduce artists and mediums that relate to ongoing exhibitions at MACC. The EC:CO program also facilitates yearly collaborative creation projects, such as the Black History Month quiltmaking project, featuring notable historical figures of color who have or had a connection to the state of Tennessee. This 5-year creation project will launch in FY24 as a touring exhibit, providing educational, historical and community engagement content to sites throughout Middle TN and beyond.
Beneficiaries
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
None
$125,000.00
Description
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center partners with schools, organizations and institutions in the local community to provide high-quality art-making experiences to 4000+ at-risk youth and adults annually. The Exhibition Connect: Community Outreach (EC:CO) program targets youth and families in neighboring underserved communities, offering hands-on artmaking activities and cultural experiences at our campus and within their own neighborhoods which introduce artists and mediums that relate to ongoing exhibitions at MACC. The EC:CO program also facilitates yearly collaborative creation projects, such as the Black History Month quiltmaking project, featuring notable historical figures of color who have or had a connection to the state of Tennessee. This 5-year creation project will launch in FY24 as a touring exhibit, providing educational, historical and community engagement content to sites throughout Middle TN and beyond.
Beneficiaries
At-Risk Populations
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Minorities
Program Areas Served
None
