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shows and
events The Juggler: An Illustration Exhibit by Stormy Mochal
  December 10-January 11 Opening Reception & Book Signing Friday, December 16, 2011 6-8 p.m.
Maquoketa
Art Experience welcomes Iowa artist Stormy Mochal this December for an
exhibition of the original drawings from her recently published
storybook, written by Jeanette Hopkins, entitled The Juggler. In her
illustrations, Stormy explores her native Iowa landscape for
inspiration for the illustrations. The Juggler’s pages are filled with
the colorful simple pleasures of starry skies, country sides,
farmhouses, and birds. Stormy Mochal received her degree in painting
from Loras College, has taught at Northeast Iowa Community College, and
is the co-owner of Outside The Lines Art Gallery in Dubuque. The
Juggler, published by Ice Cube Press is her first children’s book.
Maquoketa Art Experience will host an opening reception and book signing for Stormy Mochal on Friday, December 16 from 6-8 p.m. at 124 S. Main Street in Maquoketa. The exhibit will run through January 16, 2012. past events  If you were unable to attend the Fundraiser on Dec 2nd, please consider making a tax deductible donation to Maquoketa Art Experience, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization by contacting Paula Neuhaus at 563-652-9925, or you can make a donation by credit card or PayPal by using the button below: Saturday | November 19 Holiday Art Ornament Making 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free!  Help us decorate our holiday tree! YOU will create an ornament from recycled materials & hang it on MAE's tree or take it home with you. Join us all day for Maquoketa Chamber's "It's a Wonderful Life in Maquoketa" Holiday Event. Shop a variety of holiday vendors at MAE from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m! “Drips + Daubs: Painters Mary Zeran &
Dena
Tollefson Explore Nature”
Regional
artists Mary Zeran and Dena Tollefson have created an exhibit that
explores
what it means to examine nature. Their paintings are about acts of
exploration,
seeing things in a new way. Although their
methods and materials are different, the common link is their
innovative
approaches to leaving a mark on a surface.
The marks are daubs of color, and layers of drips. They
combine these marks to create a bigger
picture. Both artists are adventurers in color, exploring the palettes
found in
nature and in imagination, delighting in combining the two to make
something
new and fresh. PORTRAIT DEMONSTRATION FUNDRAISER FOR MAQUOKETA ART EXPERIENCE JUNE 11, 2011  Thanks to all who were able to attend and support MAE! At our special fundraiser on June 11th, nationally-acclaimed artist Rose Frantzen painted a portrait of the lucky person in the audience whose name was drawn. This fundraiser will help Maquoketa Art Experience to create a permanent home for Frantzen’s 180 paintings of her townspeople, Portrait of Maquoketa, which was shown at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC from November 2009 to July 2010. This informative, art-filled day allowed the audience to watch Rose at work, sharing stories, discussing her painting process, and responding to questions from the audience. The event also featured a wine tasting by Tabor Home Winery, wonderful hors d'ouevres, and our current portrait show with wood sculpture portraits by Fred Cogelow and by Rick Harney, alla prima oil portraits by Rose Frantzen, and mixed media portraits by Chuck Morris and by Heidi Draley McFall.  Rose
Frantzen's portrait demo in front of an audience of 700 people at the
Portrait Society of America national conference in Washington, DC,
April, 2010.
  SINDI
MUELLER EXHIBIT  Maquoketa Art Experience welcomes Sindi Mueller to the MAE Artist-in-Residence Program with an opening reception on Friday, April 1. Sindi Mueller’s exhibition entitled “Unveiling” offers an exploration of kinetic photography and a study in rural and urban landscape photography. Sindi’s kinetic work, photography in which the camera is moved while the shutter is open, captures light, color, motion, and abstraction. Her landscape work explores color, shape, light, and texture of nature in her home state of Iowa, as well as the magnetism of the Chicago urban landscape. Sindi's landscape images have been published in the Maquoketa Sentinel Press and Bellevue Herald Leader. Her first solo exhibit was held at Darkroom in Chicago entitled "Seduced by the Darkness" in December of 2010. Works by
Brent Houzenga  Iowa
artist Brent Houzenga's mixed media works are influenced by modern art,
comic books,
graffiti, and punk rock poster art. Houzenga’s work offers an eclectic
mix of painting styles incorporating drips and graffiti with stencils
on found objects including reclaimed windows, rustic frames, and
antique photographs. The artist has exhibited throughout Iowa and
across the U.S. including the Alcove Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, The
Hive Gallery in Los Angeles, and Art Whino Austin at Seventy-Seven
Gallery in Austin, Texas. The
exhibit also featured ongoing screenings of
Hybrid Pioneer,
a documentary film about Brent Houzenga and his work by
Des Moines film maker Kristian Day.
"Death and Such" Maquoketa
Art
Experience artists/musicians/writers and such made interactive
boxes with openings to stick your head inside or crawl inside... a sort
of haunted houses for your head filled with images, sounds, and words
suitable to
the season.
 Terry Rathje Sculpture and Digitalia Maquoketa
Art
Experience presented 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
Arthur Geisert's Etchings Maquoketa Art Experience presented over 70 of Arthur Geisert's art history related cartoon etchings, which were created for art calendars over the course of ten years. Geisert
practices the 500-plus-year-old technique of
copper
plate etching. He is an artist and illustrator with many books in
print in several languages. His
publishing credits include “Hogwash,” “Nursery Crimes,” “The Giant Ball
and
String,” and “Lights Out,” many telling stories strictly through
visuals. His
works have been featured in national publications such as “The New
Yorker” and
have been on display in the Art Institute of Chicago, the National
Museum
of Art in
Washington D.C. and the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA.
Guitarist Chris Davis' Performance Maquoketa native, Chris Davis' show at Maquoketa Art Experience brought in a crowd to hear a collection of classical songs performed live.Chris holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Guitar Performance and Music Business from Drake University, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in guitar performance.
"What Figures to be Art" by Charles Morris Morris
exhibited his hand-painted
slide mounts with images from art history books viewed through
magnifying glasses.
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