We design and facilitate interactive programs including global music making (with a varied collection of indigenous musical instruments from around the world) and collaborative Mandala painting projects.

Please contact Massood Taj at: contact@massoodworks.com or 615-969-6858 for more info.
Thank you for your interest. Here's a look at some of the programs we have done.

Collaborative Mandala painted at Window on The World Symposium workshop Tennessee Tech University April 2011
Collaborative Mandala project O’more College of design Celeberation of Nations event Franklin TN

Our past Interactive Programs/ Workshops and some affiliated organizations include:

Autism Society of Middle Tennessee
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts
”The Artist’s Voice” Advisory Committee
Partners in Public Policy Making
Vanderbilt University Kennedy Center

Visual Art & Rhythm workshops:
”Common Ground” series with the VU Kennedy Center
“Celebrate the Jewel in Your Heart” at the Renaissance center for the Arts
Best Buddies
The Williams Syndrome Camp

VSA arts Tennessee:
Professional Development in Visual Art
”Choices” Sensory Garden
“Auditory Arts” TN School for the Blind
"Dream Works" TN Schhol for the Blind
“Start with the Arts” workshop at the Frist Center for the Arts

Williamson County Cultural Arts Commission
Williamson County Library system
Tennessee Technological University
Glendale Elementary School
Parthenon Towers retirement Community
Vine Hill Towers retirement Community
Spring Hollow early childhood learning center

“Auditory Art” series of workshops for The Tennessee School for the Blind
The series of three workshops included engaging the students with no/minimum sight in auditory and tactile forms of expression.
The musical instruments produced as art projects in theses workshops were exhibited at The Country Music Hall of Fame on April 5th 2008 and selected work is on a national tour.
http://www.fullcircleart.org/sightschool.html

Member of the Advisory Group for Artists with disabilities at The Frist Center for the Visual Arts exhibition “Artist’s Voice”.  A Statewide Exhibition of 45 works by adult artists with disabilities. “The exhibition was conceived to provide an opportunity for emerging and professional artists with disabilities a showcase for their work, to promote disability awareness, and to help eliminate barriers for people with disabilities through the arts.”
http://www.fristcenter.org/site/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.aspx?cid=533

Following the Frist Center Exhibition, I was given an assignment to design and develop an online version of this exhibition in way of permanent virtual gallery and to serve as a digital portfolio for some of the artists.

Audio Art workshop at “Window on the World” Symposium an international festival celebrating cultural diversity and global harmony at the Campus of Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville TN.
http://www.tntech.edu/wow/index.html
http://www.tntech.edu/wow/mandala.html
                     http://orgs.tntech.edu/wow/
http://fullcircleart.org/windowontheworld-09.htm

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"Exploring our Musical and Artistic Selves"  workshops for Partners in Public Policy Making conference. Brentwood TN.
Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities

http://www.fullcircleart.org/partners3.html
http://www.partnersinpolicymaking.com/index.html

Five Cities in Tennessee Professional Development Workshops.
A series of workshops for Tennessee artists with physical & cognitive disability to help develop skills necessary for Creating and Documenting a cohesive body of work for submission to juried exhibitions and resources to help provide for additional sources of income through various art merchandising/marketing and Art reproduction techniques.
http://www.fullcircleart.org/vsa.html

                     “Choices”  -Sensory Garden Project Beech High School
Facilitated creation of art collage mosaics by young adults with disabilities.

                     “Celebrate the Jewel in Your Heart”-  at Renaissance Center, Dixon TN for Vanderbilt Kennedy Center - Nashville, TN.
Program included Visual Art and Music Workshop. The work was exhibited at the Kennedy Center.
http://www.fullcircleart.org/jewel.html

Mandala in Vanderbuilt University Kennedy Center

                     “Transitions” program -  Developed Audio/ Visual Digital Portfolio Kits for students enrolled in the Nashville University school’s Transitions program sponsored by Vanderbilt Kennedy center.

                     Williams Syndrome workshop – Vanderbilt University Kennedy Center
program included Music and Visual Art  for the Williams Syndrome summer conference at the Kennedy Center. 
          
             “Common Ground”  - Series of Programs included Visual Art and Music Workshops Funded by Metropolitan Arts Commission
Vanderbilt University Kennedy Center for human development
-Nashville, TN

“After these first series of workshops, there was no doubt for me in regards to the transcending power of art and music”

Mandala Workshop Glendale Elementary School 4 days 80 3rd graders.
http://fullcircleart.org/glendale.html

“World Musical Expression” Franklin Special School District  Young Scholars Institute

Co-Presenter at The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 2010 Anaheim CA
Will be Co-presenter again at 2011 NAEYC Orlando with "Circles of Creativity" workshop with participating educators

http://www.naeyc.org/content/about-naeyc