One of the many Quad Cities nonprofit leaders attending Monday’s roundtable on planned federal funding cuts was Brian Allen, executive director of Quad City Arts. One of the many funding sources for the local nonprofit agency (which serves six counties in eastern Iowa and western Illinois) is the National Endowment for the Arts, which has […]

A new exhibit at Quad City Arts’ Rock Island Gallery through Dec. 11, is called “Extraordinary Women,” large-scale paintings by Jaclyn Garlock. Garlock’s paintings depict life-sized women engaging in non-salaried work — from cooking to laundry to volunteering — and enjoying themselves as they do it. The titles of her paintings are borrowed from song lyrics, […]