For the first 2019-20 exhibition at the college's Augustana Teaching Museum of Art, colorful, evocative works from artists around the globe will be on display from September 6 through October 12, with the exhibit Small Tapestry International 6: Beyond the Edge showcasing the talents of nearly four dozen artists in a touring presentation by the American Tapestry Alliance.

Boasting dialogue that, according to the New York Times, “crackles with bright wit and intelligence” and described as its author's “finest play since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends,” Tony Award nominee Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still serves as the first studio-theatre production of St. Ambrose University's 2019-20 season, its September 5 through 7 demonstrating why Variety magazine raved, “The play's two hours fly by as if time has stood still and you've barely taken a breath.”

Taking place in the Bechtel Plaza outside the Figge Art Museum, the autumnal Beaux Arts Fair will treat visitors to an outdoor celebration of visual arts and fine crafts on September 7 and 8, with the annual event featuring food vendors, live music, children's activities, and works for sale by more than four dozen artists from five states.

Appearing locally to discuss her most recent book, 2019's Pulitzer Prize nominee The Great Believers, Chicago-based author Rebecca Makkai delivers a presentation at the Moline Public Library on September 9, the New York Times Book Review having called her latest literary triumph “an absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it's like to live during times of crisis.”