Author and Artist, President Emeritus, Zac Graves
(middle picture)
A Passion filled Mission
C-MACC, Multicultural Art Care Center is a 501(c)(3) charity organization founded in 2007 with the help of the Team of Professor Michael Bressman – Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee.
Our Departments, The American Art Academy and Brainbow Creative Recovery, serve isolated people with mental or physical disabilities and their families through support, education and advocacy. We use art as a language to lift-up lives and support creative recovery. We are dedicated to improving quality of life and increase opportunities to benefit from one of our 7 programs.
Our Center strives to commission, produce, and present performances reflecting the highest standards of excellence and diversity indicative of the world in which we live. We develop and implement Fine Arts Departments & Art Galleries in Behavioral and General Hospitals, Rehab and Peer Recovery Centers, Shelters, Community and Memory Care Facilities. We support Medically Fragile peers, Alzheimer’s and hospice care patients, Military Veterans , Acute At-Risk Youth, Seniors, less privileged families, suicidal and terminally ill children.
Our Artistic Team
We use Art, Music and Dance as a multi-sensory language to lift up lives. All our facilitating creative recovery specialists, artists, musicians and dance instructors are living themselves with various disabilities. Their professional academic skills, expertise and life experience are valuable tools to lift up and support the ones we serve.
Art Gallery & Gift Shop
The Art Gallery & Gift Shop carefully source, produce and sell a curated selection of high-quality, unique products, the proceeds of which provide major financial support to our performing arts programs. In the online shop you will find performance related works of art, products, paintings, drawings, sculptures, unique jewelry, pottery, poetry and art books, accessories and apparel, fine arts materials, high-quality gifts and collectibles, music CD’s and books, Brainbow inspired gifts and unique branded merchandise inspired by and reflective of the C-MACC center’s recovery mission and creative arts.
We need your support to establish ”Enhance Your Dreams Through Art” State and Nationwide.
Since the COVID-19 Post Pandemic area there is a growing need for implementing our Resilience Fine Arts Programs Nationwide in other States of America and beyond. A landmark study completed by the U.S. Census Bureau and five different federal agencies found that those who have had previous issues related to their disabilities are struggling more due to the pandemic and post-pandemic isolation experience. People feel hopeless as they have no access to participate and enjoy Fine Arts programs. Funding will benefit the public health and economic well-being of the ones we serve.
Our Artistic Team is ready to continue to take this task on their shoulders but we can only establish this by :
A) Monetary support and strategic partnerships with your Organization, Individual donations, Foundations, Hospitals, Churches, Businesses, Health Care Providers, Departments of Mental Health and substance abuse services, Rehab Centers and Museums of Fine Arts.
B) Funded Assignments to implement and support our programs in your own State, County, City, Town, Village or rural area.
C) Visiting our online Art Gallery & Gift Shop and purchase a valuable work of art.
We need your support to extend and implement our programs State and Nation wide. Being able to present our Programs at your own locations such as : Regional Hospitals – Peer Recovery Centers – At-Risk Neighborhoods – Homeless Shelters – Libraries – Museums – Memory Care and Behavioral Facilities – Military Veterans and Rehab Centers.
Invitation – Become Friends of The American Art Academy
Now that you know a little about us we invite you to look around. See the pictures, read the stories, see what we offer, donate, or contact us about starting a program in your area.
We believe if you start to save one life, you become part of saving the entire world.
