Notable and engaging works by 10 artists from Iowa and Illinois will be housed in the Quad City Arts International Airport Gallery through April 29, with Moline's airport showcasing floral paintings by Kathleen Rietz, landscape paintings by Evan Ventris, and 19 works by eight of the region’s finest woodturners.

Always an eagerly awaited series at the Figge Art Museum, the latest incarnation of Young Artists at the Figge will be on display through May 25, with the Davenport venue celebrating the accomplishments of budding creative talents of local elementary and junior-high art students whose works will be showcased in a continuing series of individual exhibitions.

With the exhibition's originator revered for creating Vodou flags known as drapo for more than 35 years, as well as for pushing the boundaries of this traditional Haitian art form, Myrlande Constant: DRAPO will be on display in the Figge At Museum's fourth-floor gallery through May 4, the artist's escalating interest in expansive proportions finding some of the 17 works in the exhibition spanning more than seven feet.

Featuring paintings both from the museum's collection and on loan, the Figge Art Museum's Marvin Cone: Painter offers a celebration of this exceptional artist and teacher who steadfastly pursued artmaking for more than 50 years, the arresting exhibit, on display through June 8, exploring Cone's life as an Iowa artist, the stylistic shifts in his work, and new perspectives on a familiar area talent.

Boasting large woodcut prints and charcoal and pastel drawings of a dying willow tree from her yard in Dubuque, the arresting, fascinating exhibition Louise Kames: I Don’t See Anything That’s Not Beautiful – on display through May 11 – will be showcased in the Gildehaus Gallery of Davenport's Figge Art Museum, the artist focused on creating works that explore the beauty of natural decay, the line between life and death, and what remains after.

In the Muscatine Art Center's new exhibition Muscatine History Revisited, on view through August 25, patrons can take a delightful and informative journey back in time, the exhibition featuring artifacts and historic photographs from the permanent collection, with visitors of all ages are invited to immerse themselves in stories of the community’s past, while learning about the businesses and industries that helped shape Muscatine into the city it is today.

From now through January 4, 2026, masterworks on loan from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will be presented throughout the Figge’s Art Museum's permanent collection galleries, with the exhibition Art Bridges: Partner Loan Network dedicated to bringing American art out of museum vaults and placing it on view in communities across the United States.

The event taking place in conjunction with the venue's current Myrlande Constant: DRAPO, an opening celebration for the exhibition will be held at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on March 20, with artist and scholar Dr. Petrouchka Moïse – assistant professor at Grinnell College and cultural and community-based digital curator at Grinnell College Libraries – presenting a history of Haitian Drapo and its connection to Constant's art practice.

With the event moderated by art therapist Dana Keeton, Figge Art Museum guests are invited, on March 13, to hear from a panel of healthcare professionals, family caretakers, and patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's as they discuss the impact of dementia on those who are directly impacted and their caretakers, the presentation held in conjunction with the Davenport venue's current exhibition Louise Kames: I Don't See Anything That's Not Beautiful.

Taking place in advance of their new exhibition's official opening, artists Cara and Diego Romero, the creative forced behind Days of Futures Past, will discuss their interrelated artistic practices and how they approach societal and cultural issues in their art, their March 6 conversation at the Figge Art Museum moderated by the Davenport venue's senior co-curator Vanessa Sage.

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