Sydney Marshall, ISU
Iowa artist Rose Frantzen paints ISU graudate student Derrick Kapayou as part of the Faces of Iowa State series. Commissioned by University Museums and the Office of the President, the portraits will hang in Parks Library as part of University Museums Art on Campus Collection at Iowa State University.
Artist Rose Frantzen is most famous for her work, “Portrait of Maquoketa, a huge mural painted on 34 vertical panels that feature the beautiful landscape of Maquoketa on one side, and the faces of 180 residents of Maquoketa on the other.
Over the past five years, on and off, she’s been painting portraits for the “Faces of Iowa State” collection. This year she added six students to the collection. The students were selected because they have shown resilience and positivity in the face of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Each student was painted wearing a mask, which Frantzen said gives this set of portraits a time element.
Iowa artist Frantzen to speak at ISU; new exhibition open Thursday, February 18, 2021 10:26 AM Fine-art lectures are not an everyday occurrence at the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business at Iowa State, but an upcoming public art installation in the Gerdin Business Building will have everyone talking, including the artist herself. Iowa artist Rose Frantzen will talk about her recent studio and public works of art beginning at 4:30 p.m. on March 4 in the Kingland Hub, 1450 Gerdin Business Building on the Iowa State University campus. The event will offer an opportunity to hear about Frantzen’s artistic philosophy and process and to view updates on her new mural, which will be installed later this year in the Lynn A. and Diane Engh Anderson Family Gallery in the recently opened expansion to the Gerdin Business Building. This in-person event will have limited audience capacity and requires pre-registration. A new exhibition, Perceptions of Identi