ROCKLAND — This Friday, March 18, radio station WRFR, 93.3 FM, and Rockland's Old School will host Suzette McAvoy of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. McAvoy will participate in a broadcast interview from 4-5 p.m. on the Rockland Metro show, and then join an Old School dinner symposium beginning at 5:30 p.m. The topic for the symposium is the art of Maine.

McAvoy has been director and curator of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art since September 2010. She served as curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum from 1988 to 1995 and again from 2000 to 2006, and has more than 30 years experience in the art and museum field. She has lectured and written extensively on the art and artists of Maine, and has organized national traveling exhibitions of the work of Maine artists.

WRFR's Rockland Metro show each week invites a guest to bring a unique perspectives on life in and around Rockland. Guests on the show are invited also to participate as special guests at an Old School dinner symposium following the show.

Dinner symposia at the Old School are free and open to the public. Participation in each symposium is limited to twelve, so participants must reserve their place in advance. Participants must also be ready to help. The dinner is prepared, and served — and the dishes washed — in collaboration by the participants. To reserve a place at the table for this Friday's dinner symposium with Suzette McAvoy, interested persons are invited to contact Joe Steinberger at joe@interhuman.org

Further information about WRFR visit wrfr.org and for the Old School, visit oldschoolrockland.org.