Dorothy Alling and Cathy Bradbury, co-chairs of Senior College's 8th Annual Festival of Arts UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast, are pleased and excited to announce that Senior College's special guest artist and speaker for Saturday, May 15th, will be the nationally renown Belfast artist and resident, Linden Frederick. He is a Maine Arts Commission Grant recipient and has participated in museum and gallery exhibitions across the country, including: the Farnsworth Art Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, the Arnot Museum in Elmira, NY, the Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA and the Forum Gallery on 5th Avenue, New York City and in Los Angeles with one-man shows in Santa Fe, New York, Los Angeles, Old Lyme, CT and others. His series of American Studies, comprising of almost fifty paintings, were drawn from his experience as he traveled by bicycle, (as a semi-professional bicyclist, he recently pedaled across the country), train and bus across America. This series was shown at The Forum Gallery in New York. These paintings depict the mood of the nation and individual the locations of each painting could easily be anywhere. Although never showing a human figure within his paintings, there is always the suggestion of life within each painting. "Linden Frederick is one of the foremost painters of America's byways, highways, and backyards. He can make the humblest objects or places - propane tanks, beehives, a stretch of Route One, self-storage units, a U-haul truck, the leftover string of Christmas lights on a run-down home - resonate with mystery. Frederick is a poet of the overlooked, and by focusing his significant prowess as a painter on these everyday subjects, he draws the viewer's attention to their inherent beauty." Quoted from the Maine Home and Design Magazine. Linden studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, as well as In Florence, Italy, and at Houghton College in NY. His ability to capture the most subtle graduations of twilight in his oil paintings are remarkable. They are at once ominous and sublime, and are uniquely descriptive of the American culture. Linden brings focus and drive to everything he does. He paints reverently, sensitively, accurately, and with a profound and sumptuous palate, he makes life seem new and making beauty where we might have thought there wasn't any. Linden is a realist painter, who has a moral imperative to seeing the thing we miss, and that it can be pleasurable and good for us. The paintings have poetry in them and he gets it exactly right. He provokes our imagination and expands what is possible by making life feel fuller and more our own. They are powerful, unforgettable, amazing, delightful and pleasurable. The 8th Annual Festival of Arts is scheduled for May 13th through May 16th this year. Last year there were 135 artists from across Maine exhibiting at the festival. Visitors and artists numbered over 900 people from 78 towns and cities in Maine and from 13 states. This year, with the new addition to the UMaine Hutchinson Center, we can accomodate twice as many artists. The Call for Artists, (attached), is now out for the public and we hope you will take the time to secure your entry form from Committee person: Rainy Brooks for Entry Form at: 207-548-2502 OR email: rainysart@gwi.net *Deadline Date for Entries APRIL 15 (from maineevents.com)

• December 31, 1969 at 7:00 pm
  December 31, 1969 07:00
• UMaine Hutchinson Center
  80 belmont avenue, route 3, belfast
• Contact Dorothy Alling for more information
  207-548-2425 or mdalling@myfairpoint.net