On October 16, guests of Davenport's Figge Art Museum are invited to watch a recorded fashion program in the second-floor John Deere Auditorium, with historical costumier Ninya Mikhaila's fascinating program Stitching up History - Clothing in NGA Portraiture being held in conjunction with the current exhibition The Golden Age: Featuring Northern European Works from the National Gallery of Art.

On October 2, patrons of Davenport's Figge Art Museum are invited to learn more about C.A. Ficke, the founder of the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery (now the Figge), with historian Dr. William Roba in C.A. Ficke & the Birth of a Museum, a special Thursdays at the Figge presentation sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn.

An art project spanning more than 20 years and including some 150 photographs, he photography exhibit Huang Qingjun: Family Stuff opens the 2025-26 art-show season at Galesburg's Carl Sandburg College, this showcase through October 11 a series of deeply personal works by the artist who has been featured by the New York Times and the BBC.

An arresting exhibition designed to capture the sensation of the memory of a place – its mood, its texture, its atmosphere – through imagery and abstraction, Kristin Quinn: Luminous Flux Paintings from the Watershed enjoys a September 13 through 28 showcase in the Gildehaus Gallery of Davenport's Figge Art Museum.