Abbott Meader

Biography

Abbott Meader is an American painter, filmmaker and retired Professor of art. Born In the Brooklyn area of New York City, his roots and many generations of ancestors are to be found in the northern, rural state of Maine, where he and his wife Nancy have lived since the 1960s. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, and while in graduate school at the University of Colorado he became a friend of noted filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who encouraged him to explore film as well as painting an...