NO FRIDAY DAILY REPORT

PORTRAIT OF MAQUOKETA-THE DIMENSIONAL VIEW WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF THE BEAUTIFUL FIGGE ART MUSEUM IN DOWNTOWN DAVENPORT.    AS YOU STEP OFF THE LARGE ELEVATOR ON THE THIRD FLOOR, ONE WALL HAS THE
ABOVE PAINTED ON IT.    INSIDE, YOU WILL SEE THE 180 ROSE FRANTZEN PORTRAITS OF MAQUOKETA THAT SHE PAINTED THE SUMMER IN 2005 AND THAT WERE ON DISPLAY FOR NEARLY 6 MONTHS AT THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
ALSO, HANGING ON SPECIAL PANELS FROM THE CEILING, THE JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED PAINTING OF MAQUOKETA BY ROSE.
THE DIMENSIONAL VIEW IS UNIQUE AND WILL BE ADMIRED BY THOUSANDS
OF VISITORS STARTING  NOVEMBER 1ST AND THROUGH MID-JANUARY.
AS ALWAYS WITH MY PHOTOS, JUST CLICK-ON THEM TO MAKE THEM
LARGER.    I'M SURE BEFORE THE EXHIBIT ENDS, HUNDREDS OF MAQUOKETANS WILL VISIT THE FIGGE THIRD FLOOR.    HOPE YOU GET A CHANCE TO MAKE THE VISIT ALSO.     I'LL HAVE MORE ON IT LATER.
DENNIS VOY

THE PRESS WAS INVITED (THAT'S WHY I WAS THERE OF COURSE) FOR THE
PREVIEW OF THE EXHIBIT.    TOP PHOTO, QUAD CITY TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER
KEVIN SCHMIDT OF MAQUOKETA DISCUSSING THE PORTRAITS WITH BOB AND ANN OSTERHAUS.    BOB AND ANN ARE BIG SUPPORTERS OF THE
MAQUOKETA ARE EXPERIENCE AND HELPED GET THE POPULAR ART GALLERY ESTABLISHED IN DOWNTOWN MAQUOKETA. 
DAVID BURKE, ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR FOR FOR THE QUAD CITY TIMES
IS SHOWN WITH ROSE FRANTZEN USING HIS MINI HAND RECORDER TO RECORD INFORMATION FOR AN UPCOMING STORY.

TOP PHOTO SHOWS  ROSE FRANTZEN STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF SOME OF THE HANGING PANELS OF HER NEW MAQUOKETA PAINTING.   VISITORS WILL SIT ON A DESIGNATED CHAIR AND WHEN COVERING ONE EYE
(AS DAVENPORT MAYOR GLUBA IS DOING)....THE PANELS WILL BLEND
TOGETHER AND FORM THE DIMENSIONAL PAINTING OF  MAQUOKETA.
WORK STILL  HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE THE NOVEMBER 1ST OPENING
OF THE COMPLETED EXHIBIT.     NOTE...THE TWO PHOTOS ABOVE .....OF PORTRAITS ON FLOOR YET AND PANELS STILL TO BE PLACED.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY LIKE THIS AT ANY
ART MUSEUM....A FIRST FOR ROSE.

WAYNE FRANTZEN STANDING IN MIDDLE OF SOME OF HIS DAUGHTER'S
HANGING PORTRAITS OF MAQUOKETA.    ABOVE, A LOOK AT HOW THE
PHOTOS WERE, WITH WIRES, HOOKED TO THE HIGH  CEILING.   SPECIAL BRACKETS HAD TO BE MADE, ATTACHED TO CEILING, TO HOOK THE
WIRES TO.    THIRD PHOTO UP, AN OVERALL VIEW OF THE LARGE ROOM
THE EXHIBIT IS LOCATED IN.    AND IN TOP PHOTO, AT THE PREVIEW EVENT THIS MORNING, ELLEN FRANTZEN, NANCY MOORE AND ANN OSTERHAUS WITH (LEFT SIDE OF PHOTO)  LISA ARBISSER OF DAVENPORT.     LISA AND HER HUSBAND AMIR ARE STRONG SUPPORTERS OF THE FIGGE MUSEUM.    AMIR IS ON THE FIGGE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TOO.   ALL FOUR ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE ROSE FRANTZEN TEN-WEEK "PORTRAIT OF MAQUOKETA-THE
DIMENSIONAL VIEW" AT FIGGE.
IT WILL BE GOOD PUBLICITY FOR THE MAQUOKETA ART EXPERIENCE, THE OLD CITY HALL GALLERY AND THE CITY OF MAQUOKETA.