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In the Toledo Artists' Club at the Toledo Botanical Garden

December 1, 2023,      4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

December 2, 2023,    10:00 am to 5:00 pm

December 3, 2023,    11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Participating in Heralding the Holidays is a major fundraising event for the Toledo Artists’ Club. Many volunteers are needed for various functions:

• committee members
• greeters
• set up and take down sales areas
• donate a themed basket for the silent auction
• create artwork for the mini-gallery
• silent auction manager
  

This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses. These working-class women were a visible presence in the city, washing and ironing in shops open to the street or carrying heavy baskets of clothing. Their job was among the most difficult and poorly paid at the time, forcing some laundresses to supplement their income through sex work. The industry fascinated Degas throughout his long career, beginning in the 1850s and continuing until his final decade of work.

Woman Ironing (detail), c. 1869. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Oil on canvas. Neue Pinakothek, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich,

This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses. These working-class women were a visible presence in the city, washing and ironing in shops open to the street or carrying heavy baskets of clothing. Their job was among the most difficult and poorly paid at the time, forcing some laundresses to supplement their income through sex work. The industry fascinated Degas throughout his long career, beginning in the 1850s and continuing until his final decade of work.

Acrylic skin of Soft Gel Gloss and dried peony petals.

Numerous artists have asked about using acrylic mediums and gels to preserve dried organic materials, such as grasses and flowers. After one such phone conversation, we began our first test, which involved layering dry peony petals over and under thick layers of Soft Gel Gloss. The petals were from a blossom that dried in a vase and held its form for months on a work desk, the Soft Gel came from our testing room where a piece of glass offered the perfect substrate. The peony petal test began years ago and it continues to evolve. This sparked in us a desire to try more acrylics with other plant specimens.