General Info

Founded in 1990, Quad City Arts is a visual arts gallery and re-granting program, featuring local performing artists in Rock Island, Ill. Formed due to the merger of Quad City Arts Council, Visiting Artists, Inc., Festival of Trees and Bix Arts Festival, It serves the residents of Rock Island, Henry and Mercer counties in Illinois and Scott, Clinton, and Muscatine counties in Iowa. The organizations which finance the Quad City Arts include Festival of Trees, Quad City Arts Partners (memberships), and operating grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the Iowa Arts Council, which is a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs. It also provides various literary programs and public sculpture programs and programs for the metro youth.