The celebration marks the completion of CSA: Community Supporting Arts, a year-long project matching artists with farms in and around central Maine. Join project organizers, artists and farmers as we celebrate the 2012 harvest together. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the gate (if available and while they last). Kids 12 and under are free when accompanied by an adult. Attendees must bring a potluck dish to share created using local food. We will celebrate come rain or shine. For tickets call the Harlow Gallery at 622-3813, email kvaa@harlowgallery.org or visit www.harlowgallery.org.
Ticket holders will enjoy ...
... a local food feast and giant community potluck! - guests should bring a dish to share created using local food ingredients ...
... a chance to win a prize: every ticket holder will be entered in a prize drawing! We'll be giving away lots of local food items, gift certificates and more at the event ...
... "Local Bites": taste dishes prepared by celebrity chefs ...
... live music and a mini-farmers market ...
... a chance to explore the grounds of the historic Vaughan Homestead ...
... a complimentary custom souvenir wrist band commemorating CSA: Community Supporting Arts will be given to each attendee in lieu of paper tickets....
.. a chance to come to Hallowell early and visit the CSA: Community Supporting Arts exhibition at the Harlow Gallery at 160 Water Street; and check out Hallowell's Fall Festival, which includes an annual scarecrow contest and other family events galore for more information visit http://hallowell.org/.
So what is this CSA: Community Supporting Arts project?
CSA: Community Supporting Arts is a project aiming to promote both local art and local food by partnering 14 artists with 13 CSA farms in and around central Maine through the 2012 growing season. The artists have been creating art inspired by their farmers’ lives, work, landscapes, challenges and ideals since the beginning of the growing season in early spring 2012. The public can follow the artists' progress by visiting the project blog site at csaart.org, or view a slide show here: http://www.harlowgallery.org/wordpress1/?p=5873
CSA: Community Supporting Arts is a project of the Harlow Gallery and the Kennebec Valley Art Association in partnership with the Kennebec Local Food Initiative. The Kennebec Valley Art Association is a 501(c)3 membership based arts organization, which has owned and operated the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell since 1963. The Kennebec Local Food Initiative is an organization based in Gardiner, Maine that strives to strengthen community food security through access, education, information and advocacy. For more information, visit their website at http://klfi.org/.
CSA: Community Supporting Arts has been made possible by grant funding from the Maine Community Foundation, the Maine Arts Commission, the Davis Family Foundation and by donors to our online Indiegogo campaign.
Participating Farms and Artists
Our partnering farmers are all operating CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farms in and around central Maine. In joining a CSA, folks make a financial commitment to their farm by investing in a share of the produce at the beginning of the growing season. In return farmers are committed to producing the freshest, most flavorful, high quality food possible for their members (most CSA farms adhere to organic standards as much as possible). Typically each CSA member gets a weekly delivery of produce from early summer through harvest. Community Supported Agriculture is a grassroots response to the growing social and environmental problems of our modern industrial food system, and this local foods movement is transforming relationships between people, food and farms. According to the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association website (http://www.mofga.org/), Maine’s CSA community includes over 160 farms with more than 6,500 families investing in their local food through the purchase of shares.
CSA: Community Supporting Arts artist/farm partnerships are as follows. Please visit http://csaart.org/ for more information on our artists and farms.
Kate Barnes of Oakland is partnered with Grassland Organic Farm in Skowhegan.
Susan Bickford of Newcastle and Kelsey Kobik of Portland are partnered with Goranson Farm in Dresden, and Dig Deep Farm (in residence at Goranson Farm).
Aleana Chaplin of Gardiner is partnered with Winterberry Farm in Belgrade.
Kim Christensen of Albion and Jamie Ribisi-Braley of Manchester are partnered with Wholesome Holmstead in Winthrop.
Matt Demers of Gardiner is partnered with SNAFU Acres Farm in Monmouth.
Kerstin Engman of Liberty is partnered with Treble Ridge Farm in Whitefield.
Tyler Gulden of Walpole is partnered with Morning Dew Farm in Newcastle.
Christine Higgins of Readfield is partnered with Annabessacook Farm in Winthrop.
Scott Minzy of Pittston is partnered with Long Meadow Farm in West Gardiner.
Maina Handmaker of Brunswick is partnered with Milkweed Farm in Brunswick.
Petrea Noyes of Lincolnville is partnered with Crescent Run Farm in Bremen.
Emily Trenholm of Portland is partnered with Fresh Start Farms in Lisbon.
CSA: Community Supporting Arts, the Exhibition Series
Maine’s artist and farming communities are vibrant, idealistic groups, both key to our state’s unique sense of place. CSA: Community Supporting Arts organizers believe that artists can use the power of their artistic voices to effect social change. Artwork by all the participating artists will be exhibited at the Harlow Gallery in October 2012. Additional exhibitions focusing on select artist/farmer pairs will take place at partner venues between November 2012 and February 2013. The timing of the art exhibition series is meant in part to help spread awareness about local CSA farms as they begin recruiting new members for 2013.
EXHIBITION and EVENT DATES
Common Ground Fair — CSA: Community Supporting Arts will have a booth in the exhibition hall at the Common Ground Fair! Stop by the exhibition hall to learn more about the project and to meet some of our artists and farmers. September 21, 22 & 23, 2012. FMI www.mofga.org/TheFair/
Harlow Gallery in Hallowell, October 5-27, 2012. Opening Friday, October 5th from 5-8pm. FMI http://www.harlowgallery.org/
Common Street Arts in Waterville, on view November 3 - 30, 2012. Opening Saturday, November 3rd from 5-8pm. FMI http://commonstreetarts.com/
Sheepscot General in Whitefield, on view November 9 – December 1, 2012. Opening Friday, November 9th from 5-8pm. FMI http://www.sheepscotgeneral.com/
Savory Maine Dining & Provisions in Damariscotta, on view November 13, 2012 - February 5, 2013. Opening on Friday, November 16 from 3-5pm. FMI http://www.savorymainedining.com/
Maine Farmland Trust Gallery in Belfast, on view January 4 through February 27, 2013. Opening on Friday, January 4th from 5-8pm. FMI http://www.mainefarmlandtrustgallery.org/
Art Gallery at Frontier in Brunswick, on view January 11 - February 24, 2013. Opening Friday, January 11th from 5-8pm. FMI http://www.explorefrontier.com/gallery/current-exhibitions
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