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Field Trip — HPAC Tour of "Cooler by the Lake" with Artist Ann Toebbe

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Ann Toebbe, Backyard Garden, gouache and oil on panel.

Join fellow CHPV Members & Artist Ann Toebbe for an Free Private Group Tour of:

Ann Toebbe: Cooler by the Lake

Tuesday, May 19 at 11am
Hyde Park Art Center
(Partnership Studio on the second floor near the exhibit)
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Lunch at Almendro Cafe (in HPAC) as a group at your own expense

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Enjoy a 1-hour guided tour of the exhibition led by the artist Ann Toebbe. And then join CHPV's DEIA Team and other members for lunch at your own expense.

Our thanks to Kathy Williams and others from CHPV's DEIA Team for generously organizing and hosting this event.

10:50 — Arrive at Hyde Park Art Center
11:00–12:00 — Private Exhibition Tour
12:00 — Lunch with friends at Almendro Cafe (in HPAC) at own expense

Ann Toebbe’s ongoing series, Cooler by the Lake, is set in Hyde Park. For nearly two decades, Toebbe has lived in this Southside Chicago neighborhood with her husband, working and raising her two daughters and stepson. Toebbe’s domestic paintings explore the people, places, culture, and climate that are woven into her daily routine as a working artist and mother—home, garden, studio, grocery store, bakery, park, and local school. Her densely composed multi-point-of-view vignettes capture the sensory impressions and memory layers accumulated in hours and days spent in Hyde Park, meditating on the realization that this is the neighborhood her children know as home and where Toebbe and her husband will grow old.

Read more about the exhibition:

Hyde Park Art Center
A painter’s ode to Hyde Park returns home, Hyde Park Herald
Ann Toebbe Explores Her Mental Map of Hyde Park, Newcity Art

Ann Toebbe installs her painting at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave., on Feb. 27, 2026. Photo by Marc C. Monaghan, Hyde Park Herald.

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