January 2024 News and Notes
Middle Ground Series by Ann Abate
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop. –Charles Hawthorne,
from "The Quotable Artist" by Peggy Hadden.
The Toledo Artists’ Club received another grant from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) for Local Arts and Cultural Organizations and Artists
Thanks to the hard work of several members, the Club received a second round of financial support to make the our programs and outreach better serve the membership and the community.
Gold Stater, Greece, ca. 300 BCE, the Metropolitan Museum of art.
In Memoriam
We note with sorrow the passing of two of our members.
Café: Call for Entries.
A website to facilitate entering or publicizing exhibitions.
Café for artists allows artists to search for opportunities, including exhibitions, festivals, grants
and several other categories, and to limit the search to a local area, statewide or international.
The service is free.
Here is the website for artist calls.
Several of our members have used the
site and recommend it.
Café for art galleries assists in many ways to help create a call for artists. Our Board is considering joining Café. Advantages include broadening the area from which we might get entries, and assisting with most areas of publicizing an exhibition, managing entries and jurying. However, for the club the service is not free. The Board is weighing advantages and costs.
Classes at the Club in 2024
Class are open to members and non-members at modest costs. Classes are held at the Club in our remodeled classroom, with free parking adjacent to the building. Other class will be added as they are developed. Find more information here.
Toledo Artists' Club Groups
Painting and drawing opportunities.
Shanta by Bruce Watrol
The Club hosts five painting and drawing groups for our members at little or no cost:
- Monday Morning Painters
- Tuesday Plein Air painters
- Thursday Morning Painters
- Thursday Evening Figure Drawing
- Hyter Portrait Group
Find more information about the groups here
Please note the Thursday Evening Figure Drawing group is meeting next at the Club, Thursday, January 18, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Caravaggio at the Toledo Museum of Art
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da) ( 1573-1610) The Musicians, ca. 1595. Image Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Toledo Museum of Art will present four important paintings by Caravaggio in conversation with works from the Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition marks the first time in more than a decade that four paintings by this renowned Italian artist have been on view together in the United States and only the second showing ever of Caravaggio’s work at the Toledo Museum of Art.
Member Preview
January 19, 2024 | 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Canaday Gallery
Public Opening
January 20, 2024 | 2:00 p.m. | Libbey Court
