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Aug. 2-31, 2026

Freedom to Create 

Open to Members only

Theme: Artists' choice: Freedom to Create

Location: Toledo Artists’ Club Gallery

Freedom to Create Show
Open to Toledo Artists’ Club Members

The Toledo Artists’ Club invites members to participate in the Freedom to Create Show, a celebration of artistic expression without boundaries.

This exhibition is an Artists’ Choice show, encouraging members to share work that reflects their unique vision, creativity, and artistic interests. With no prescribed theme, artists are free to explore any subject matter, style, medium, or technique.

The Freedom to Create Show highlights the diversity and talent within the Toledo Artists’ Club, offering visitors an opportunity to experience a wide range of artistic perspectives and approaches. From traditional to contemporary works, this exhibition showcases the freedom artists have to create what inspires them most.

Members are encouraged to submit artwork that demonstrates their individuality, passion, and creative voice. Whether exploring familiar subjects or experimenting with new ideas, this exhibition celebrates the limitless possibilities of artistic expression.

Although the theme of this show is "Freedom to Create", we will have size constraints for this exhibit. We are looking at having a large-size show in the future to have a story to tell.

Juror Barbara WF Miner

Biography

Barbara WF Miner holds the position of tenured Professor and Chair in the Department of Art at the University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. Miner has been a working artist/scholar for 28 years and a full-time, self-employed studio artist producing ceramic tableware for 10 years prior to that time.

Her mixed media sculptures, installation works, paintings and prints, informed by the nexus of human/nature interaction, and the practice of meditative repetition, have been exhibited nationally (Maine to California) and internationally (Sweden and Poland) in over 109 exhibitions.

Most recently, she was a finalist for the Uptown Green Shade Public Art Project, Toledo, Ohio, first place award winner for the third international online juried art exhibition of the International Visual Literacy Association, and awarded an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Ohio Arts Council. She has curated three exhibition events, including a lecture/workshop with the noted Author and Photographer, Rosamond Purcell and the sculptor Dewey Blocksma. Miner has participated in numerous national and international artists’ residencies, from Maine to Poland and Sweden. She has presented at national and international conferences and contributed articles to Ceramics Monthly, Dialogue/Arts in the Midwest, and the journal published for the International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability. Miner has received many internal and external grants in support of her research and art practice, as well as numerous Awards for Excellence/Merit. She has work in the following notable collections:

Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA

Eastern Michigan University, Permanent Art Collection, Ypsilanti, MI

Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC

Museum of Art, Wroclaw, Poland

Juror Comments

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