Painter Robert Pollien earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Rob has been an artist-in-residence at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm, the Carina House on Monhegan Island and was the first person to hold the position of Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park. He has been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in painting. His paintings are featured in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. Rob is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, the Littlefield Gallery in Winter Harbor, Maine and Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine.