Founded 1943

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

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

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.

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