Students of the Quincy Art Center have been invited to exhibit work made in or inspired by Quincy Art Center classes. Instructors of classes with the Quincy Art Center were also invited to share their class example artwork or their personal artwork and members of the Quincy Art Center were invited to exhibit artwork from their personal collections or artwork they have created themselves.

In October scarecrows take their fall positions along Nauvoo’s Mulholland Street leading up to the Boo-ti-ful Nauvoo Pumpkin Walk at the end of the month. Some of these homemade raggedy effigies will be comical, while others be life-like.

You are invited to celebrate the legacy of the early pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo Missionaries at the Nauvoo and British Pageants.. Games and activities of the 1840s are provided for guests at the pageant preshow celebration and country fair. These activities are followed by the outdoor pageant performances.

The Quincy Farmers Market is truly a community event that brings people together from the region to buy directly from local Tri-State Area vendors/producers and enjoy the bounty of the locally grown produce, delicious baked goods, flowers/plants and beautifully hand crafted items.

In honor of the Quincy Art Center’s 100th Anniversary, 100 artworks from the collections will be on display representing the work of local, regional, and internationally renowned artists that have been collected over the years. The Quincy Art Center’s collection focuses primarily on works on paper by Midwestern artists, past and contemporary.

Members of the Quincy Art Center have been invited to enter one piece of their work for the Annual Member's Show. This exhibit is held to express the Center's thanks for support for its members and help them present their artistic talent to the Quincy area community and its visitors.

This annual competition for High School students features some of the area’s most talented young artists. All of the artwork is original and has been judged on quality. Held in conjunction with the annual High School Art Competition, the High School Art Teacher Exhibit gives art teachers the opportunity to exhibit with their students, receive recognition, & awards.

The Mary S. Oakley - Lee Lindsay Artist Showcase is an annual showcase of works by local and area artists that opens every fall at the Quincy Art Center. This exhibition includes entries of original art in all media and is open to artists eighteen years of age and older who live within a 50-mile radius of Quincy.

Old favorites and new additions are part of City of Christmas that features approximately 100 displays and nearly one million lights. Visitors to the display will be able to tune into the “Voice of City of Christmas” at 90.1 on their FM radio dial as they near Rand Park and to listen to holiday carols and hear the story of City of Christmas and comments about the various displays as they travel through the myriad of lights and displays.