Enabling visitors to explore the remarkable ways in which animals across 500 million years have adapted armor for survival, and how these adaptations continue to inspire human innovation, the traveling exhibition Animal Armor takes residence in Davenport's Putnam Museum & Science Center from September 20 through February 15, the fascinating exhibit exploring the evolutionary battle between protection and predation.

Drawing inspiration from virtuosos such as Samvel Yervinyan, Yanni's violinist Sayaka Katsuki, and the legendary Jascha Heifetz, musical partners Umoja McNeish and Malcolm bring their exhilarating outfit Sons of Mystro to the Galvin Fine Arts Center of St. Ambrose University on September 26, delivering innovation, inspiration, and pure sonic brilliance as the first guests in the 2025-26 season of Quad City Arts' Visiting Artist Series.

Touring in support of his 2025 release Roadkill Poetry, a work whose title song was praised by Lightning 100 as "a cathartic, introspective road trip through an alt-country landscape," touring singer/songwriter Austin Sawyer brings his musical project Drumming Bird to Davenport's Raccoon Motel on September 27, his latest recording inspiring Xavier Newswire to state, "Give Drumming Bird a chance, and you'll find a new indie artist to brag to your friends about.

With his 2022 debut Wellswood hailed by Americana UK as "an impressive and arresting debut" boasting "powerful, dramatic, and poetic story songs from the dark underbelly of the southeastern U.S.," New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum headlines an October 1 concert at Davenport's Raccoon Motel, PopMatters adding that the artist "fuses vivid lyric imagery with eclectic musical choices on his impressive debut album."