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The Ludington Area Center for the Arts is hosting a new exhibit, Manierre Dawson: Engineer/Artist. Manierre Dawson, a native of Chicago, lived in Riverton Township in Mason County as a fruit farmer for fifty-five years. Recent scholarship suggests he was also America’s pioneer of abstract art and is considered to be the first artist to paint using only non-representational forms. One…