Galleria de Paco Restaurant in Waterloo, Iowa, August 17, 2016

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Courtesy of Library of Congress, Highsmith, Carol M., “Owner Paco Rosic calls his Galleria de Paco restaurant in Waterloo, Iowa, "the Midwest Surprise,” 17 August 2016

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Owner Paco Rosic calls his Galleria de Paco restaurant in Waterloo, Iowa, "the Midwest Surprise.” Rosic is a graffiti artist and refugee from the Bosnian War of the early 1990s, and he created this art while lying on his back on industrial scaffolding, 12 feet above the restaurant floor: no less than a spray-paint rendition of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome. Some 2,000 cans of spray paint later, he was finished.

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• Look closely at the photo. Describe what you see in the image.
• The owner of Galleria de Paco Restaurant is Paco Rosic. He is a graffiti artist and refugee from the Bosnian War of the early 1990s. What talents does Paco Rosic bring to Iowa?
• What does Rosic’s restaurant offer to Iowa?

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Highsmith, Carol M., “Owner Paco Rosic calls his Galleria de Paco restaurant in Waterloo, Iowa, ‘the Midwest Surprise’,” 17 August 2016. Courtesy of Library of Congress