(Image: "Dreamscape" by Jon Kolkin)

(Rockland, ME) Due to the popular demand of Jon Kolkin's photography, Carver Hill Gallery in Rockland has added images from Jon's surreal Dreamscape Series to its show. These are “stacked” images, all made by the artist, that marry to create places that exist in Jon's dreams. Wildly imaginative and compelling, they create a sense of peace for the viewer.

Carver Hill will also be moving some of the Equilibrium Series to Rockland for the Labor Day First Friday. These are incredible time exposures where the artist “paints” with movement. The show will continue in Rockport, as well, along with some stunning new works in watercolor by Dianne Schelble. Photographer Lynn Karlin's Pedestal Series of "garden produce brought to a higher level" will also be on display in both locations and at the The Edge Restaurant in Lincolnville. There will be an opening reception for Lynn on Saturday, the 11th of September at The Edge.

(Image: "Blue" by Jon Kolkin)

As stated by Jon Kolkin: “It is my feeling that most people’s interpretation of their environment is based on their preconceived perception of reality. This understanding on one’s surroundings is built on previous experiences and the confines of our three dimensional world and five senses. But what if there are other dimensions and other senses? And what might be the benefit of changing ones’ point of view? My art is a vehicle to look below the surface, to see our world from a fresh perspective, perhaps even a fourth dimension. My work is intended to inspire others to recognize that each of us interprets our surroundings in our own unique way. It is my hope that this exercise can lead to more tolerance and understanding in our world.”

For more information, please visit the Carver Hill Gallery website.

(Image: "Zucchini Blossoms" by Lynn Karlin)

(Rockland & Lincolnville, ME) Carver Hill Gallery, Rockland, and The Edge Restaurant, Lincolnville, are pleased to announce a delectable showing of work by Photographer Lynn Karlin. An opening reception is scheduled at the gorgeous waterfront Edge restaurant on Saturday, the eleventh of September, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

Lynn has something beautiful to share with the world about gardens, and both Carver Hill and The Edge are huge fans. She has co-produced three books, the first of which, Maine Farm, A Year of Country Life, written by Stanley Joseph, recounted their experiences living on the farm they purchased from famed homesteaders and authors of The Good Life, Helen and Scott Nearing. Her next book, Gardens Maine Style, written by Rebecca Sawyer-Fay, became an instant best seller and award winner. In 2008 another book, Gardens Maine Style: Act II, also co-produced with Sawyer-Fay featured even more magnificent Maine gardens.

Originally from New York, Lynn graduated from Pratt Institute with the goal of becoming a fine art photographer. Realizing the time it takes to pursue this option as a career, and the amount of effort it takes to market oneself, Lynn decided to change gears and try commercial work. She put all of the creative energy she would have applied to her fine art work into personalizing a style for her clients, and was awarded with accolades for her projects. Lynn has had an impressive list of employers and clients over her four-decade career shooting fashion, interiors and gardens including WWD and W, as the first woman staff photographer, as well as Country Living, NY Times Magazine, NY Magazine, HG, Coastal Living, Garden Design and England’s Gardens Illustrated.

Lynn Karlin’s new body of work is purely personal – it is about the obvious but often overlooked beauty of the harvest. “Weekly visits to photograph at the Belfast farmers market and Chase’s Daily took a new direction when I brought an amazingly beautiful purple cauliflower back to my studio and placed it on an old white pedestal by an east-facing window. The joy I got from that photograph started me on a quest to continue with my concept: honoring vegetables by literary placing them on a higher level. Two years later, I have collected more than a dozen various pedestals and have expanded my search of subjects to fruit, edible plants and flowers.”

Lynn has succeeded wildly in showing her reverence for the remarkable colors and forms of the garden in this show, and “The Pedestal Series” has now brought her full circle - back to her roots. “I am now at a turning point where I am incorporating what I love best about my career and my life’s journey. These still-lifes bring together my technical skill, design background, lighting aesthetics, propping and styling experience, and a commitment to promote organic, local produce.” Her images are breathtaking. They evoke, through beauty that is also sustenance, a sense of connectedness to this planet.

The work is currently on view at The Edge in Lincolnville through Columbus Day, seven days a week from 4:00 to 9:00 pm. Starting on September 14th through Columbus Day, The Edge will be closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Work is on view at Carver Hill Gallery's Rockland location from now through October 11th. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

>link to Carver Hill Gallery website

On Sunday, August 15th at 7:00 pm.

(Rockport, ME) Folk-rock duo Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion will make their first midcoast appearance at Carver Hill Gallery in Rockport. Guthrie is the youngest daughter of folksinger Arlo Guthrie and the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie. Irion is a former member of indie-rock bands Queen Sarah Saturday and Dillon Fence. The couple married in 1999 and have been performing together since 2000, recording several critically acclaimed albums.

(Image: Photograph by Jon Kolkin)

(Rockport and Rockland, ME) Rockport exhibits Jon Kolkin “Equilibrium: Finding the Balance” and “Rhapsody in Hue” continues at the Rockland location.

The Carver Hill Gallery Rockport location will feature a solo show of photographer Jon Kolkin, winner of Color Magazine's Spotlight award in 2009. Kolkin's work is intended to inspire others to challenge their own perceptions of "truth" about their surroundings—to look beyond their experiences of understanding reality. Featured are photographs depicting the delicate balance between the 3 realms of nature: land, water and air. Before Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, putting forth the concept of multiple dimensions invisible to the naked eye, Cubist Georges Braque utilized simultaneous perspectives to also suggest something beyond three dimensions. Featured photographer Jon Kolkin is a self proclaimed spatial explorer. To quote Jon, “I have clearly glimpsed at at least one other dimension. In fact, I suspect there are more than four. As an example, when I look at Leonardo DaVinci's drawings of machines hundreds of years before their invention, I presume he saw them in his mind through another dimension. In a similar way, I have had visions in great detail of things that I could not have possibly imagined based on my life experience. I probably use a little bit of this insight when I envision scenes before they happen and then attempt to capture them with my camera as they occur.”

The photographs depict what Kolkin refers to as the "raw aesthetics" of our planet. The images are serene and enigmatic, and alive within us. They elicit wondrous emotional response from their viewers. There will be an opening reception on Friday, August 6 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm and the artist will speak his work at 5:30 pm. The show, “Equilibrium: Finding the Balance”, will be on display through August.

Carver Hill Gallery in Rockland will feature a continuation of the “Rhapsody in Hue” music exhibition and an on-going group exhibition. New work by Ukranian aritst Alexey Slusar will be featured as a part of our music theme. Slusar's recent works of Flamenco dancers are vibrant, audible paintings evoking a palpable understanding of the relationship between the dancer and her musical accompaniment.

(Painting by Alexey Slusar)

Slusar, who paints in oil, has exhibited world wide and is known for his versatility. Slusar entered The Academy of Architecture in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. He started work as an architect and designer, completing many major public projects, simultaneously working as a sculptor and decorator. Eventually, he began painting which soon became his passion. In 1998 he moved to Prague which has served him well. As a painter, he can feel the spirit of the middle-ages in the narrow streets, the atmosphere of arcades, the courtyards and all of the compelling beauty of Prague. It is his inspiration.

Other featured artists include photographs by Cig Harvey, who teaches at the Maine Media workshops, watercolors by favorite Dianne Schelble, oils honoring the hypnotic sound of the ocean by Dennis Arbour, and Rob Report Magazine's pick Stephen Gleasner's "Finnish Plyscapes," a cerebral wood turner's take on the ocean's horizon as seen in wood.

There will be opening receptions on Friday, August 6th from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at both locations. Please visit Carver Hill in Rockland at 338 Main Street, Monday through Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. The Rockport gallery at 264 Meadow Street is open Monday through Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

>link to the Carver Hill Gallery website

Two Gallery Locations Feature New Shows

(Rockport and Rockland, ME) Rockport exhibits Jon Kolkin “Equilibrium: Finding the Balance” and “Rhapsody in Hue” continues at the Rockland location.

A solo show of photographer Jon Kolkin, winner of Color Magazine's Spotlight award in 2009 will be exhibited in Rockport. Kolkin's work is intended to inspire others to challenge their own perceptions of "truth" about their surroundings—to look beyond their experiences of understanding reality. Featured are photographs depicting the delicate balance between the 3 realms of nature: land, water and air. Before Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, putting forth the concept of multiple dimensions invisible to the naked eye, Cubist Georges Braque utilized simultaneous perspectives to also suggest something beyond three dimensions.

(Image: Photograph by Jon Kolkin)

(Image: Photograph of Gintare' Jautakait)

On Thursday, July 8th, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm.

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery in Rockport is pleased to announce the opening of “Rhapsody in Hue”, a show dedicated to and inspired by music. All of the work will have the common theme of “the audible art” of music. Fifteen artists from Maine to Prague will be exhibiting and the show will run through August 2nd.

The show will open with the accomplished fiddler Lissa Schneckenburger and her guitarist, Bethany Waickman, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm (visit Lissa's website). Fiddler and singer Lissa Schneckenburger has been described as a master of moods; a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new. Lissa has toured internationally, and is known to perform with some of New England's favorite musicians.

The show will wrap up from 6:00 to 8:00 pm with singer, songwriter, pianist Gintare' Jautakaite on Yarkitecture Design's Yamaha F11 piano.

In the early 90's, while residing in Oxford (U.K.), Gintare drew attention of famous producer Gus Dudgeon (who produced Elton John for many years, David Bowie and the Beach Boys), and began a collaboration to produce her songs “Butterflies”, “Trancenavigation”, “Hysteria” and others for her first album. She recorded and co-produced her own music with many distinctive artists and producers such as Gaeton Schurrer (Madonna), Adam Wakeman (Annie Lennox, Travis), Andrew Claxton (Dead Can Dance), Neil MacLallan (Prodigy) and many others. Her voice was described by Gus Dudgeon as “having all the quality of a diamond – it is timeless while being undeniably contemporary, polished by the surreal dream like beauty of her vocal performances, enhanced by in depth intelligence of her luminous poetry.” Gintare is working on another album due to be released in late summer.

Carver Hill Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. For more information, please visit www.carverhillgallery.com.

On Thursday, July 8th from 4:00 to 8:00 pm.

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery in Rockport is pleased to announce the opening of “Rhapsody in Hue”, a show dedicated to and inspired by music. All of the work will have the common theme of “the audible art” of music. Fifteen artists from Maine to Prague will be exhibiting and the show will run through August 2nd.

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery and Sarah Baldwin are pleased to announce the return of Mike Merenda and Ruthy Ungar, the folk-rock duo (formerly of the popular neo-traditional band, The Mammals) to the midcoast area on Friday, June 11th at 7:00 pm.

Their performance at Carver Hill a year ago was sold out and enthusiastically received. Says Mike about the experience, “For acoustic music, there's really no better performance venue than the intimate, restored barn at Carver Hill Gallery. It's a beautiful sounding listening room with a top-notch audience. Performing at Carver Hill was one of the highlights of our year.”

Mike and Ruthy recently announced their new CD, Million to One, which is scheduled for release on July 27. The album is the latest in a growing discography that continues to push the boundaries of the rock-folk-Americana genre. The story behind the making of Million To One is compelling. They issued an appeal to their large base of fans from around the world to help them make what is now being called a “folk-rock masterpiece.”

“It’s challenging enough to make it in this profession as independent artists,” says Ruthy. “To launch our biggest release to date during a recession? That seemed like the greatest test.” To overcome the odds (which were about a “million to one”), Mike and Ruthy turned to the fund raising website Kickstarter.com. Casting their two-year old son, Will, in the lead role, the couple created a short video appealing to their fans to help support the album. The result? “We set a fund raising goal of $5000,” says Mike. “It was met and exceeded within a week.”

The outpouring of fan support only strengthened the duo’s resolve and fueled a full-scale independent release of Million to One on the duo’s own label, Humble Abode Music. “It’s a bit materialistic that it came down to money, but the show of support completely filled our hearts and made us even more driven to totally kick ass,” adds Mike.

The album’s main attraction--whether weaving through the folky, banjo-flavored “As My Eyes Run Wild,” the bar-room blues stomper “Covered” or the pedal-steel-laced “End of Time”--is the gorgeous, white-knuckle-tight harmony singing of Mike and Ruthy, who have clearly been spending the last ten years honing their vocal blend. With its soft, breathy delivery, Mike’s voice (not to mention songwriting) has been compared to Paul Simon, and indeed the vocal duets on this album will call to the listener’s mind that particular quintessential duo. But what that 60’s duo lacked, this one has in spades. And that’s love, of course.

One senses—and at times is overcome by—the love that fills this album’s cup to the brim. It’s a love for each other, for their music, and—now more than ever—the fans who support them.

About Mike and Ruthy
Mike and Ruthy met in New York City when they were both just out of college. Daughter of Hudson Valley fiddling legend Jay Ungar (“Ashokan Farewell”) and folk-singer Lyn Hardy, Ruthy grew up steeped in the folk tradition. Mike had his musical roots planted in the ska-punk and rock scene blasting from the college radio station in his hometown of Durham, NH. The two went on to form the folk-rock behemoth, The Mammals, which toured the world many times. Now married and settled just outside Woodstock, NY, they tour with a full band or as a duo and sometimes share the stage with their fiddling two-year-old son, Will. Their previous albums include the critically acclaimed debut The Honeymoon Agenda and its follow-up, Waltz of the Chickadee.

Tickets are $15. Seating is limited at the Gallery and live events tend to sell out, therefore reservations are strongly encouraged. Please call 207-236-0745 to purchase tickets. Carver Hill Gallery is located at 264 Meadow Street in Rockport.

>link to the Carver Hill Gallery website

>link to Mike and Ruthy's website

On Friday June 11th at 7:00 pm.

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery and Sarah Baldwin are pleased to announce the return of Mike Merenda and Ruthy Ungar, the folk-rock duo (formerly of the popular neo-traditional band, The Mammals) to the midcoast area.

Their performance at Carver Hill a year ago was sold out and enthusiastically received. Says Mike about the experience, “For acoustic music, there's really no better performance venue than the intimate, restored barn at Carver Hill Gallery. It's a beautiful sounding listening room with a top-notch audience. Performing at Carver Hill was one of the highlights of our year.”

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery and Sarah Baldwin are pleased to announce the only midcoast screening of “Breath Made Visible”, a film by Ruedi Gerber about the life and career of American dance pioneer Anna Halprin. The screening will take place on Saturday, April 17 at 7:00 pm and will be followed by a brief talk and contemporary dance workshop with Hannah DeHoff and Mary Blum, who worked with Anna.

Anna Halprin, who is now 86, helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance's power to teach, heal, and transform. This cinematic portrait blends archival footage with recent interviews of counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham.

The film takes its audience from Halprin’s initial explorations of dance in her childhood to the experimental performances conducted on her famous dance deck under the California redwood trees. The film then moves on through her spectacular tours in Europe to her temporary withdrawal from the stage due to cancer, which led to her work in the expressive arts healing movement. “Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art, after I had cancer I lived my art for my life.” Since the illness, she has led countless collaborative dance programs with terminally ill patients, long committed to a belief in the connection between movement and the healing power of dance.

Anna Halprin's diverse career has spanned the field of dance since the late 1930s, creating new direction for the art form and inspiring fellow choreographers to take modern dance to another dimension. In 1955, Anna established the world-famous San Francisco Dancers Workshop, which included John Graham and A.A. Leath. They would go on to earn the highest critical acclaim and controversy in Sweden, while causing scandal in the U.S. for their use of nudity in their performances. In the ‘60s, Halprin would break down more barriers by founding the first multicultural dance company – a poignant symbol of black and white coming together. Her "Planetary Dance: A Prayer for Peace" between peoples and the earth was staged in Berlin at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Potsdam Treaty to end World War II, and involved over 400 participants. In 1995, she was invited by Mikhail Gorbachev to present an invocation at the State of the World Forum in California.

Halprin now continues to make revolutionary work exploring the beauty of the aging body and its relationship to nature. Recent works include the award winning video Returning Home. In 2004, the battles that her husband (acclaimed landscape architect Lawrence Halprin) was waging with illness led Anna to turn her grief into art once more through the dance routine “Intensive Care: Reflections on Death and Dying” at the Festival D’Automne in Paris. In 2005, Anna developed a filmed performance called “Seniors Rocking”. In 2006 The Museum of Contemporary Art presented a major one-woman exhibition of her life’s achievements.

With the aid of truly awe-inspiring footage, Halprin can be seen making her triumphant return to the stage six years ago at the youthful age of 80. A few years later, during her 15 minute solo performance at the sold out Joyce Theater in New York, Halprin profoundly whispered to her audience: “There are so many more dances yet to do – with all you!”

Anna continues to perform, travel and teach with fervor. She gets the most out of her life, living by her adage “Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint.”

“I've always said dance is the breath made visible and that covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.” - Anna Halprin

The screening will be at the Cider Barn at Carver Hill Gallery, located at 264 Meadow Street in Rockport. For more information, please call 207-236-0745. Tickets are $15 and seating is limited to 45 people, so reservations are recommended.

Reviews of Breath Made Visible:

"Engaging. Illustrative. The quintessential Left Coast choreographer Anna Halprin has helped push the boundaries of modern dance." - VARIETY, Dennis Harvey

" A fascinating subject" – San Francisco Chronicle, Leba Hertz

"Ms. Halprin becomes quite as rich a subject for film as Ms.Monk: another odd face, another wonderfully calm (though ardently enthusiastic) and open talker, another (and senior) artist who responds to both politics and scenery."- The New York Times

" An intelligent, beautifully photographed, smartly edited film [...]. Gerber's film reveals not only the important artistic influences Halprin had on such distinghuished artists as Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer, but also what a groundbreaking force Halprin was in political and other cultural arenas." - Backstage

Anna is one of the most important theatre artists of the 20th century. James Roose-Evans, author of “Experimental Theatre”

"I've always said dance is the breath made visible and that covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.” - Anna Halprin

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery and Sarah Baldwin are pleased to announce the only midcoast screening of “Breath Made Visible”, a film by Ruedi Gerber about the life and career of American dance pioneer Anna Halprin. The screening will take place on Saturday, April 17 at 7:00 pm and will be followed by a brief talk and contemporary dance workshop with Hannah DeHoff and Mary Blum, who worked with Anna.

(Image: Painting by Kathryn Oliver)

Opening Wednesday, November 11th.

(Rockport, ME) Kathryn Oliver - playwrite, visual artist, sculptor and painter - will have paintings, ceramic sculpture, large puppets and mobiles on exhibit at the Carver Hill Gallery from November 11th to December 7th. Founder and artistic director of the Terra Diddle Players, Oliver has been blending her art and theatre with quest performers for the past six years. Her vibrant handmade costumes, amazing back drops, and poetry is paired with music and dance to create an experience that is an emotional feast for the heart and soul. Oliver leaves you with a sense of joy, hope, possibility, and connectedness.

During the opening gala on Wednesday, November 11th from 5:00 -7:00 pm, visitors will enjoy a collaboration between Oliver and performance artist, Kristi Williamson. Williamson will interweave the poetry of the Sufi mystic poet Rumi with Kathak dance, expressive movement, rhythm and song to a theatrical backdrop of Oliver's vibrant paintings and hanging mobiles. There will be percussion accompaniment by Noah Plotkin and Tree Sampson. There will be two short performances, one at 5:30 and the other at 6:30 pm. Don't miss this inspirational evening of artistic collaboration!

For more information, please visit the Carver Hill Gallery website.

The Exhibit Runs October 7th through October 14th.

There will be a free opening reception and demonstration for the public on Friday, October 9th from 4:00 - 7:00 pm.

(Image: Pastel by Diane de Grasse)

This special member exhibition and sale will display the works of pastel artists from Pastel Painters of Maine (PPOM), and the Juror of Awards is Robert Carsten. An enthusiastic promoter of the pastel medium, Mr. Carsten is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, the Connecticut Pastel Society, and an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Southwest Florida Pastel Society. He is a contributing writer for The Pastel Journal and the Artist’s Magazine. Mr. Carsten will conduct a demonstration from 5:30 -7:00 pm on Friday, October 9th.

The show will run through September 25th, 2009.

Lisa Svedberg, Christina DeHoff and Thomas Whiting invite you to join them in a showing of new works entitled "Chrysalis". The show represents their collective shared vision of an emergence and transition into new directions of their evolving souls and creative spirits through their works. Chrysalis will open with a reception for the public Saturday, September 19th from 5:00 to 9:00 pm.

The three are veteran Mid-Coast artists, practicing in the area for over thirty years. DeHoff and Whiting have both recently closed their long-running art galleries, in order to apply themselves more fully to pursuing their artistic careers.

On Thursday, September 10th at 7:00 pm.

Carver Hill Gallery is pleased to present the only Midcoast Maine screening of “Throw Down Your Heart”, a documentary film by Sascha Paladino.

Winner of the Audience Award at 2008 SXSW and Vancouver film festivals, and Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Music Documentary at the AFI/Silverdocs Film Festival, “Throw Down Your Heart” follows American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo and record an album. Béla’s boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali, and provides a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of Africa.

The movie presents a portrait of Africa that is very different from what is often seen in the media today. As Ugandan folk musician Haruna Walusimbi states in the film: “There is this negative thinking about Africa. There is nothing good in Africa. They are beggars, there is HIV/AIDS, they are at war all the time. But that is just a very small bit of what Africa is.” Béla’s trip provides a glimpse into the incredibly rich and diverse musical traditions of Africa.

At first glance, it might seem odd that the banjo is the catalyst for this journey. But in fact, the banjo is originally an African instrument, and Béla Fleck’s passion for the banjo runs deep. In his trailblazing 30-year career, Béla has brought the instrument into jazz, pop, classical, and world music settings, and won eleven Grammys along the way (not to mention the 27 nominations, in more distinct categories than anyone else, ever).

Ever since he started playing music, Béla heard stories about where the banjo came from. To many, the banjo is seen as a uniquely American instrument – and even conjures images of white Southern stereotypes. But the banjo is actually a descendant of an African instrument. West Africans have long played an instrument that looks and sounds much like the banjo. When slave traders captured West Africans, many of the slaves brought that instrument, and the knowledge of how to make it, to the United States. On plantations in the American South, slaves were not allowed to play drums, but they were allowed to play the banjo. Soon, whites started copying it, and the banjo evolved into the instrument we know today – and became a part of American culture. Béla wanted to go to Africa to trace the roots of the banjo, the instrument that defines who he is.

But Béla’s journey was also motivated by a deep love of African music. He was inspired by music from all across the continent, and very often he could hear a place for his banjo. When Béla had a year off from his band, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, he realized it was the perfect opportunity to follow his dream – travel to Africa to collaborate with African musicians.

“Throw Down Your Heart” tracks Béla’s tuneful collaborations with a wide variety of musicians – from local villagers who play a twelve-foot xylophone, to a family that makes and plays the akonting (thought by many to be the original banjo), to international superstars such as the Malian diva Oumou Sangare.

As Béla travels across Africa, he uses his banjo to transcend barriers of language and culture, finding common ground with musicians from very different backgrounds and creating some of the most meaningful music of his career.

The film will be screened at the Cider Barn at Carver Hill Gallery, located at 264 Meadow Street in Rockport, on Thursday, September 10 at 7:00 pm for one show only. We encourage advance ticket purchase. To purchase tickets, please call 236-0745 or come to the gallery Monday through Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.

>link to official movie website

>link to the Facebook page

>link to photos from the film

Béla Fleck's CD “Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3, Africa Sessions” is available through Rounder Records.

On Thursday, September 10th at 7:00 pm.

(Rockport, ME) Carver Hill Gallery is pleased to present the only Midcoast Maine screening of “Throw Down Your Heart”, a documentary film by Sascha Paladino.

Winner of the Audience Award at 2008 SXSW and Vancouver film festivals, and Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Music Documentary at the AFI/Silverdocs Film Festival, “Throw Down Your Heart” follows American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo and record an album. Béla’s boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali, and provides a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of Africa.

The Exhibit Runs From August 14th through September 9th.

Carver Hill Gallery will feature more than two dozen of Maine’s finest nature-inspired artists in Contours, a show to benefit Coastal Mountains Land Trust. The second biennial Contours show will hang in the Gallery’s Cider Barn from Friday, August 14 through Wednesday, September 9. The Gallery is open Monday – Saturday, 10:00 – 5:00, and on Sundays by appointment. Proceeds from the sale of every piece in the show will directly benefit the Land Trust’s conservation work. The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday, August 20, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

The Exhibit Runs Through September 9th.

Carver Hill Gallery will feature more than two dozen of Maine’s finest nature-inspired artists in Contours, a show to benefit Coastal Mountains Land Trust. The second biennial Contours show will hang in the Gallery’s Cider Barn from Friday, August 14 through Wednesday, September 9. The Gallery is open Monday – Saturday, 10:00 – 5:00, and on Sundays by appointment. Proceeds from the sale of every piece in the show will directly benefit the Land Trust’s conservation work. The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday, August 20, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

On Wednesday, July 1st at 7:00 pm.

Mark your calendars for another great evening of live music at the beautiful and intimate Carver Hill Gallery in Rockport!

Sometymes Why is a mesmerizing trio of modern-day sirens. Kristin Andreassen, Ruth Ungar Merenda and Aoife O'Donovan are each lead singers in other bands (namely, The Mammals, Crooked Still and Uncle Earl). When not touring with their other bands, they join forces to weave exquisite harmonies, sparse arrangements, and play a wide variety of unusual instruments.

"I promise, this is a show you will not soon forget," says Kathryn Matlack of Carver Hill Gallery. "These women are incredible singers and musicians. Jana Halwick and I are delighted, once again, to have been able to help bring them here. Hope you can come!"

Tickets are $12. Seats are limited, so please call the gallery at 236-0745 to reserve. (Last week's Mike and Ruthy concert sold out early, so call soon!)

>link to Carver Hill website

Wednesday, July 1st at 7:00 pm.

Mark your calendars for another great evening of live music at the beautiful and intimate Carver Hill Gallery in Rockport!

Sometymes Why (www.sometymeswhy.com) is a mesmerizing trio of modern-day sirens. Kristin Andreassen, Ruth Ungar Merenda and Aoife O'Donovan are each lead singers in other bands (namely, The Mammals, Crooked Still and Uncle Earl). When not touring with their other bands, they join forces to weave exquisite harmonies, sparse arrangements, and play a wide variety of unusual instruments.

"I promise, this is a show you will not soon forget," says Kathryn Matlack of Carver Hill Gallery (www.carverhiillgallery.com). "These women are incredible singers and musicians. Jana Halwick and I are delighted, once again, to have been able to help bring them here. Hope you can come!"

Tickets are $12. Seats are limited, so please call the gallery at 236-0745 to reserve. (Last week's Mike and Ruthy concert sold out early, so call soon!)

>link to Carver Hill website

>link to Sometymes Why website