With their works deemed “fresh and innovative” by the Chicago Tribune and“so imaginative, so playfully revisionist, so superbly realized” by the Chicago Sun-Times, the Windy City hoofers of Chicago Dance Crash serve as the latest guests in Quad City Arts' Visiting Artists Series, their January 16 public performance at St. Ambrose University's Galvin Fine Arts Center sure to deliver, according to the Tribune, “a show that so floods the stage with energetic talent."

A trio of gifted Midwestern artists find inspiration from the natural world around them in the first 2025 exhibition at Moline's Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery, with the fascinating collection Holz, Kluever, & Ryan boasting mixed-media assemblages by Cheryl Holz, landscape paintings by Kevin Kluever, and blown-glass art by Michelle Ryan through March 3.

Touring in support of their 2024 release Her Way Out and praised by Glide magazine for songs that "radiate a sense of optimism and purpose ever so welcome in these fragmented times," the alternative rockers of Big Head Todd & the Monsters return to Davenport's Capitol Theatre on January 14, the platinum-selling Billboard artists also hailed by the Los Angeles Times for their "great songs that incorporate blues, folk, rock, and country."

Performing delightful selections for families in the morning and a classical repertoire in the evening, three Quad City Symphony Orchestra talents and narrator Misty Dais present two versions of Up Close with Emily, Bruno, & Kit on January 11, the respective concerts at Rock Island's MILK Center and Davenport's Figge Art Museum treating patrons to the skills of violinist Emily Nash, viola player Bruno Vaz de Silvis, and bassist Kit Polen.