The works of two artists with long, distinguished careers in photography and painting will be explored in a September 2 curator talk hosted by the Figge Art Museum, with the Davenport venue's director of collections and exhibitions Andrew Wallace speaking on the recently opened exhibition Jim Dine & Lee Friedlander: Work from the Same House.

On September 5, the architecture and construction of traditional European farmsteads, as well as the Midwestern edifices inspired by them, will be explored in Hallenhaus & Haubarg Barns in Germany, Denmark, & Iowa, a German American Heritage Center presentation by native German Dr. Wolf Koch.

Lauded by Irish Music Magazine as an artist whose “range is stunning” and whose “interpretation is perfect,” Irish-born, Chicago-based tenor Paddy Homan will, from August 26 through 28, bring his acclaimed vocal skills to the area as one of the first guests in Quad City Arts' 2021-22 Visiting Artist Series, the popular crooner revered by Irish American News' Bill Margeson as “perhaps the best male Irish singer I've ever heard.”

An annual presentation of entertaining education sponsored by River Action, Nahant Marsh, and the Tony Singh Family Foundation, the QC Environmental Film Series kicks off its 2021 season with filmmakers Pete McBride's and Kevin Fedarko's Into the Canyon, a magnificently photographed journey through the Grand Canyon that will be screened at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on August 29.