Dolly Parton

Nashville nonprofit Maple Built has made portraits of the Notorious B.I.G., Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton throughout Music City.

“We have created an environment where young men are given the opportunity to learn how to work hard and make beautiful products worth being proud of. [video](https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTsiFag2TB/) shows the apprentices at work, gluing the small pieces on a large slab, gently putting them in place to create the masterpieces. photo is made from 6,000 pieces of wooden tiles by one of the apprentices, while Universal Music Group Nashville commissioned Maple Built to create a giant portrait of Strait that hangs in their corporate office in Music City. Parton’s picture can be seen in The Russell Nashville Boutique Hotel and the Nelson portrait was hand-crafted from 7,000 pieces of wood taken from the old flooring of the 506 Loft building in downtown Nashville where it now sits. “At Maple Built, we believe that success is a combination of hard work and opportunity and that there is no substitute for either,” the organization’s mission states. [Maple Built](https://www.maplebuilt.com), a nonprofit apprentice program that teaches young men the art of woodworking, has portraits all over the city featuring artists in a range of genres, from late rapper the Notorious B.I.G.