ACGT Announces The Glass City Landscape Exhibition
The Glass City Landscape: 10 Area Artists Interpret the Urban Landscape of Toledo will be on display January 18 – February 25, 2011 in the Parkwood Gallery. The public is invited to join us for a reception for the exhibition on Friday, February 4, from 6 to 8 pm.
Toledo, Ohio. City population 316,851 (2009 Census). Founded in the 1830s nestled on the west side of the Maumee River, our city has much history, from rail center, to port town, to jeep country to the studio glass art movement legacy, among other notables. Toledo, like other post-industrial cities, has many remainders of the past intermingled among our present everyday realities.
This exhibition is the response of 10 local artists as to their experience of life in the contemporary built environment of the greater Toledo region. Familiar encounters with our city and its suburbs are amplified with color, distortion and visual repetition to deepen our sensitivity to our own Toledo reality.
This exhibition was curated by Seder Burns, faculty of the University of Toledo Art Department, and includes works created by his photography students: John Aston, Fred Bretzloff, Susan Castillo, Aubrey Kirkendall, Kristen Long, Katy Payne, Noah Roszczipka, Jacob Tebbe, and Cherilyn Von Maluski. The exhibition also includes work by the curator himself.
The Parkwood Gallery is open Monday thru Friday 8:30 am – 4:30pm and is located at 1838 Parkwood Avenue, Suite 120 off of Monroe Street in Downtown Toledo.
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo is the longest standing arts commission in the state of Ohio that develops and promotes the arts in the community, serving Northwest Ohio since 1959. www.acgt.org. 419-254-ARTS
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Organization Name: Arts Commission of Greater Toledo