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Rose Frantzen's Portrait of Maquoketa recently completed a showing at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. The exhibition ran from November 6, 2009 through July 5, 2010. In 2005/2006, Rose invited anyone in town to sit for a portrait from life. All 180 portraits that she painted for the project were on display in the Portraiture Now: Communities exhibition. The portraits were accompanied by Voice of Maquoketa, a sound installation by Rose's brother, composer John Frantzen that features the voices of many of those whose portraits are shown.

The National Portrait Gallery has posted a video of Rose's Gallery360 talk given at the exhibition in DC, on April 24, 2010.

The Portrait of Maquoketa book is now available from Old City Hall Press.