Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation

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The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is an American art foundation located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Dallas, Texas. [1] The foundation exhibits work in its Santa Fe Art Vault, lends work for touring exhibitions from its permanent collection, and funds various artistic and criticism initiatives through grant programs.

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History

The foundation was formed by Carl Thoma and Marilynn Thoma in 2014. [1] [2] The Thomas donated their personal collection of over 1500 works, which they had begun collecting in 1975, to the foundation. [3] [4] [5] The foundation's collection focuses primarily on three areas: digital art, Spanish Colonial art and Japanese contemporary painting and sculpture. [4] [6] The value of the foundation's assets were reported to be US$79 million in 2015. [1]

Grants and awards

The foundation administers an award for writers who specialize in digital art. [7] [8] [9] The Thoma foundation also offers scholarships to graduate students conducting research and writing about Spanish Colonial art. [10] [11] In 2019 the foundation awarded US$159,000 for the scholarship of Spanish colonial art. [12] The same year, the Thoma foundation awarded US$500,000 to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland support its initiative to offer free admission to its galleries. [13]

In some cases the foundation has funded thematic exhibitions on subjects related to its collections, such as the 2018 Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition I Was Raised on the Internet. [14] [15]

Exhibition activities

In Santa Fe New Mexico, the foundation operates a gallery on Canyon road called Art House, where it exhibits works from its permanent collection. [3] [16] [17] The Thoma foundation also frequently loans items from its collection for museum exhibitions. [1] [18] The collection is also shown in Chicago by appointment, in its own warehouse and exhibition space called the Orange Door. [6]

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  5. ↑ "Carl Thoma pursues the art of the deal". Crain's Chicago Business.
  6. 1 2 Zastudil, Nancy (11 July 2016). "Collecting: Carl & Marilynn Thoma - art ltd. magazine".
  7. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (7 June 2018). "Thoma Foundation's Digital Arts Writing Awards Go to Mary Flanagan and Dawn Chan".
  8. ↑ ""Indispensable." Who are the Funders Backing Writing on the Arts?".
  9. ↑ "Thoma Foundation Reveals First-Ever Digital Arts Writing Award Winners". www.artforum.com.
  10. ↑ "Announcing the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship in Spanish Colonial Art - Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation". 1 May 2018.
  11. ↑ "Call for Thoma Latin American Art Scholars - University of Texas Libraries - The University of Texas at Austin". beta.lib.utexas.edu.
  12. ↑ Selvin, Claire (2019-02-05). "Thoma Foundation Awards $159,000 to Scholars of Spanish Colonial Art". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  13. ↑ "Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Adopts Free Admission Policy". www.artforum.com.
  14. ↑ Villarreal, Ignacio. "The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens 'I Was Raised on the Internet'". artdaily.com.
  15. ↑ Morris, Jane (2018-06-27). "From Y2K to Tor: new show explores how artists make sense of the internet". The Art Newspaper.
  16. ↑ "Collecting Digital Art: Highlights + New Acquisitions from the Thoma Foundation". 1 August 2017.
  17. ↑ Abatemarco, Michael. "Preserving old new media: Digital art from the Thoma Foundation".
  18. ↑ "New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation". Hunter Museum of American Art.
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