Offering a visual playground of colors, textures, and shapes from four women who push the boundaries of traditional materials to create an exciting collective experience, the Quad City Arts exhibit Hobbs, LeBreton, Montalvo, & Simonson will be on display at the Quad City International Airport Gallery through October 30, showcasing fiber art by Patricia Hobbs and Maria Montalvo with ceramic sculpture by Sara Simonson, all three from Macomb, Illinois, and paper sculpture by Laurie LeBreton of Chicago.

Offered in conjunction with the Art Bridges Collection Loan Partnership, an innovative art lending model of displaying outstanding works of American art from the Joslyn Art Museum, Davenport's Figge Art Museum will host the virtual program Manierre Dawson: Cubist or Civil Engineer? on September 6, with Dr. Randy J. Ploog exploring the art, life, and civil-engineering curriculum of the famed abstract painter, sculptor, and Chicago native.

An insightful exhibition aimed at fostering dialogue about how University of Dubuque students practice and promote the tenets of IIED, the university's Bisignano Art Gallery is housing Student Perspectives on: Inclusion, Intentionality, Equity, & Diversity through September 8, the exhibit displaying framed questions posed to 15 students from a variety of vocational pathways and their responses to those queries.

An impressively wide and beautiful variety of paintings by a trio of Midwestern talents will be on display at the Quad City Arts Center through October 6, with the Rock Island venue showcasing oil paintings by Barbara Curtis of Urbana, Illinois; sculptural paintings by Amanda Mulcahy of Chicago; and oil paintings by Tim Olson of Dubuque, Iowa.

An eagerly awaited weekend happening taking place, for the first time, in conjunction with the Quad Cities' annual Alternating Currents Festival, the 2023 Beaux Arts August Fair will treat visitors to an outdoor celebration of visual arts and fine crafts on August 19 and 20, with the event in Davenport's Bechtel Park featuring food, live music, children's activities, and works for sale by more than two dozen artists and Midwestern vendors.

On August 24, Davenport's Figge Art Museum invites art fans of all ages to see a trio of popular summer exhibitions before they leave, with guided tours focusing on The Life & Art of Charles M. Schulz, Ansel Adams Yosemite Portfolio III, and Endless Flight all taking place in the venue's Last Chance Exhibition Tour Night.

Rich and expressive works by a former Muscatine High School teacher who later taught at Augustana College will be on display at the Muscatine Art Center through October 29, when the venue hosts an exhibition of new photographs by John Deason, an Iowa talent who, at the age of seven and following a move to Sioux City, became friends with a neighbor boy whose father was a talented photographer named Grant Jensen.

Beautiful and evocative works by an orthopedic surgeon pursuing a Studio Arts degree at the University of Iowa will be on display at the Muscatine Art Center through March 10, when the venue hosts an exhibition of new mixed-media works by Cory Christiansen, an Iowa talent who shared a special bond with noted Muscatine printmaker Jon Fasanelli-Cawelti, whose works will be on display at the Art Center in September.

With the presentation held in conjunction with the venue's current exhibition Endless Flight, Davenport's Figge Art Museum will welcome scholars and the exhibit's artist Edouard Duval-Carrié for the August 17 program Celebrating Haitian Art, a discussion of major collections that exist outside of Haiti, and how making them accessible to artists and scholars throughout its diaspora are important to the preservation of Haitian culture.

George Davenport traveled with an army expedition in 1816 to establish a frontier military outpost on the Mississippi River. The outpost would be built on a wooded island within several miles of Native American villages. The military estimated that 10,000 people lived these villages.

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