The winner of 50 awards on both national and regional levels, Midwestern artist Cathie Crawford is, though April 6, displaying her latest collection of beautiful and arresting works at Black Hawk College's ArtSpace Gallery, with her Luminous Layers, Woodcuts a showcase for the talent who has exhibited in 29 states as well as Bulgaria, France, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom.

The beauties of trio of artistic mediums are current being showcased by a pair of Midwestern artists exhibiting at the Quad City International Airport, with the airport gallery, through April 25, presently housing ceramics by Bo Bedilion of Columbia, Missouri, and acrylic paintings and mixed-media sculpture by Jay Reed of Ottawa, Illinois.

Perhaps the most fanous mural in the history of world art will be examined in a special exhibition at the University of Dubuque's Bisignano Art Gallery through March 26 when the venue hosts Anatomy of a Painting: Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, a showcase about which gallery director Alan Garfield says, "“For those who wondered why Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is so famous, I hope this show will begin to answer that question in a number of ways.”

Held in conjunction with the haunting, deeply personal works on display at the Figge Art Museum from February 25 through May 21, the Iowa City talent behind Veiled: The Art of Heidi Draley McFall will take part in a March 2 artist talk at the Davenport venue, her latest exhibit a showcase in which, according to New American Paintings, McFall lends "an openness and volatility to her subjects that instills a closeness and sense of shared humanness between the artist, her viewers, and her subjects."