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His career as an artist/illustrated began early. Pictured above
is one of Dominic's early masterpieces, his dog, lady, that he
drew at age four. |
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This is not his first artistic success, although it must be his
biggest, this year Dominic's art was selected as the official
2010 Bridgefest design, pictured above is a 2010 Bridgefest Pin
displaying Dominic's art. |
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Fredianelli project began as a large oil painting on canvas,
however, Dominic soon realized that there would be a better way.
Moving his work to south wall of the Finlandia’s Jutila Center
and 160 cans of spray paint later Dominic's Urban Art
masterpiece became a reality.
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Dominic spent a great deal of time working on a
scaffold, climbing up and down and running back fifty feet to
check his work was impractical, so he utilized the help of
friends standing across the parking lot, that would guide him
along.
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Fredianelli painted two black panels at the end of his mural
where others could come and add to the project. |
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Of course a large part of the Fredianelli story is that
Dominic joined the National Guard as a means to help defray his
college tuition. As you might expect, Dominic's National Guard
Unit, 1431st Engineer Company of the National Guard, Calumet,
Mich. was deployed to Afghanistan. |
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The mural is a chronicle of the first 24 years of Fredianelli's life.
On four panels, he has depicted—in reverse order, if viewing the
painting from left to right—his personal history as a soldier
and young man, as a teenager, and as a small boy. |
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Heather Courtney, originally from Houghton, Mich., and now a
reporter for an NPR station (National Public Radio) in Texas, will
film the painting’s unveiling.
Since 2007 Courtney has been filming a documentary that follows
Fredianelli and several of his friends and fellow soldiers, all them
in the 1431st Engineer Company of the National Guard, Calumet, Mich.
Each of the young men graduated from Hancock High School in 2005,
all were deployed to Afghanistan in 2009; and all have now returned
to the Upper Peninsula.
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