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ROSE FRANTZEN: 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.   Rose Frantzen Bio A native of Maquoketa, Iowa, Rose Frantzen studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Palette & Chisel Academy where she met her mentor Richard Schmid, and at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, studying anatomy with the late Dean Keller. In the early 90’s, Rose traveled extensively, taking painting tours of Australia, Mexico, Guatemala, Russia, and throughout Europe. Her paintings of people and places in the U.S. and abroad went to galleries in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Oklahoma, Utah, and California. In 1991, with her parents, Rose purchased the former city hall in Maquoketa, opening Old City Hall Gallery on the first floor, using the second floor council chambers as a studio. She began to focus on paintings of small town and rural Iowa, painting subjects from life in the studio, around town, and in the surrounding countryside. Over time, many of her paintings have taken on an allegorical quality in which an abstract or surreal setting presents the individual as an archetypal character seen on his or her own internal stage. For these multi-dimensional works, she incorporates diverse stylistic elements along with gilding, stained glass, and mosaic. With a grant from the Iowa Arts Council a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts, Rose completed “Portrait of Maquoketa”, a yearlong community-oriented project in which she painted any Maquoketa residents willing to sit for a four or five hour session. All 180 portraits completed for the project were shown at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. from November 6, 2009 to July 5, 2010. Rose’s work has been featured in US Art, ArtTalk, Southwest Art, Workshop Magazine, International Artist, American Artist, and Portrait Signature. She has demonstrated as a faculty member for the Portrait Society of America and will teach and demo at American Artist Magazine's Weekend With the Masters in Monterey, CA in September. She is represented exclusively by Old City Hall Gallery in Maquoketa, IA, where she shows with her husband, Charles Morris. |
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