Songstress, writer, photographer and native North Carolinian Tift Merritt returns home after the release of her lauded album Another Country (Fantasy Records 2008) and a heavy touring schedule to exhibit her first photography show. These images are the visual component of the record Tift wrote. In pictures and at the piano, feeling like another country herself, her work held fast to the idea that the distance between people - even just two people - is hard enough to translate that we are all like other countries unto ourselves.

The Mahler is a new fine art gallery located in downtown Raleigh in the historic and newly renovated Mahler Building opening in April 2009. The Mahler is a dynamic venue dedicated to significant art of our time, committed to offering the best in regional and national fine art by emerging and established artists.

Cost: free