Nature's Nursery raises funds in online art auction

Apr. 22—Nature's Nursery Center for Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation has organized an online art auction coupled with an in-person art gallery.

The Art of Nature gallery exhibition will be open from 2 to 7 p.m., April 30, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 1 and 2 at the Butterfly House at Wheeler Farms, 11455 Obee Rd. The gallery will include pieces for sale and live art demos.

Participants can then bid on pieces online at 32auctions.com/NatureArt from April 30 to May 3.

The combo show and sale features more than 30 pieces from nationally recognized artists who include Harold Rowe and Ken Thompson, and regional artists Gail Christofferson and Robert Garcia.

The fund-raising event was created with the help of Joe Szafarowicz, a former teacher and creator of Art Works LLC. Nature's Nursery rescues and rehabilitates more than 3,500 native wild animals annually.

For more information, go to the auction site at 32auctions.com/NatureArt or to the center's website at natures-nursery.org/events.

—Members of the Toledo Federation for Art Societies have been juried into an exhibition that opens to the public Tuesday in the Welcome Center at Schedel Arboretum & Gardens, Elmore.

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In the Gardens: TFAS Juried Members' Exclusive Exhibit will feature art from a variety of mediums and is inspired by art that reflects the natural surroundings of the Schedel estate, located at 19255 W. Portage River South Rd. It runs through June 30.

Twenty members supplied 30 pieces to the show, which is being juried by Lynette Scott, executive director of Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, Ind. A Meet the Artists reception will be from 2 to 4 p.m., June 6.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesdays through Saturdays (open until 8 p.m., Thursdays), and from noon to 4 p.m., Sundays.

TFAS was organized in 1917 and unites such art organizations as the Athena Art Society and the Tile Club of Toledo with the purpose of hosting exhibitions. It has its own art collection of pieces purchased from its annual shows over the last 70-plus years, and invites northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan artists to be members of its organization.

For more information, go to tfas100.org or call Schedel at 419-862-3182.

—The Victory Center is hosting its 9th Annual Cancer Survivor Art Show from 4 to 6 p.m., April 30, and from noon to 2 p.m., May 1.

The event features work done in a variety of mediums, including jewelry, knitting, watercolor and acrylic paintings, ink, bead and wire, and collage. Many of the participating cancer survivors will be present during the show to share the stories behind their work.

The Victory Center, which hosts Healthy Spirit Art Therapy free programming, is located at 5532 W. Central Ave., Suite B.

Coronavirus safety guidelines will be followed. For more information, go to thevictorycenter.org or call 419-531-7600.

—Bowling Green State University's art department is hosting a Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition on campus in its Dorothy Uber Bryan and Willard Wankelman Galleries.

The show runs both virtually and in-person through April 30, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, and additional on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m., and from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays.

The show is free and features the thesis work of eight artists. For more information, go to bgsu.edu/gallery.

—The 51st 2021 Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition will open virtually this year on Sunday.

State jurors selected 300 pieces from high school students who submitted work, including from Perrysburg, Napoleon and Lakota high schools, and Toledo School for the Arts.

Twenty-five winners were chosen for the show, which can be viewed, along with scholarship presentations and messages from special guests at govart.org.

Send news of art items at least two weeks in advance to rgedert@theblade.com or call 419-206-8558.