Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation

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

History

The foundation was formed by Carl Thoma and Marilynn Thoma in 2014.[1][2] The Thomas donated their personal collection of over 1000 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]

References
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  6. 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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