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Rose Frantzen's Portrait of Maquoketa book is now available.

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Current Exhibit: Terry Rathje Sculpture and Digitalia

Maquoketa Art Experience presents the work of Terry Rathje, artist and professor at Western Illinois University. Terry's art covers a wide range, including sculptural assemblages of discarded objects, interactive installations, and digital images.

The outside world contains many amazing things- natural phenomenon, ancient ideas, discarded objects, people in love, and communication on many levels. The world inside us is equally interesting and contains another world- one made up of flesh and blood and which also contains misinterpretations, genetic propensities, events colored by experience, and a mental junkyard that contains memories waiting to be retrieved or abandoned. Things in this internal world are always linking to each other and to the outside world, inspiring new forms. Technology is a great tool for realizing these forms, but imagination is the most important.
-Terry Rathje

Portrait of Maquoketa is Returning Home

Rose Frantzen's Portrait of Maquoketa has recently finished an eight month showing at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. All 180 portraits that Rose painted for the project were on display in the Portraiture Now: Communities exhibition. We are pleased to offer the Portrait of Maquoketa book for sale at our studio/exhibition space at 124 S. Main St. in Maquoketa, and we are currently seeking support to create a museum-quality display space for Portrait of Maquoketa.

For more information about Portrait of Maquoketa, go to the Old City Hall Gallery web site
or the National Portrait Gallery site.

Maquoketa Art Experience is revitalizing downtown Maquoketa, Iowa
by supporting the development of a thriving arts community.

Maquoketa Art Experience (MAE) is working to turn downtown storefronts into studios, galleries, and workshop spaces for visiting and resident artists. A newly opened exhibition space is designed to house thematic shows that will be created in collaboration with visiting, regional, and resident artists. The exhibition space at 124 S. Main St. is open Thursday & Friday from 2-8pm, Saturday and Sunday 12-5pm.

Accomplished artists are invited to apply for residencies. Short-term residencies can last for one week to a year, with MAE offering partially to fully funded storefronts to select artists. Support for permanent residency is also considered. Click here to see works by our current resident artists.

Maquoketa Art Experience, PO Box 993, Maquoketa, IA 52060 * 563-652-9925 * info@maquoketa-arts.org

Maquoketa Art Experience activities are funded in part by a grant from the Iowa Community Cultural Grant program administered by the Iowa department of Cultural Affairs.