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Thoma Foundation December 2018 Newsletter
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Image: Installation view, I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Chicago, featuring Thoma collection work FORTHCOMING 6, from Ants & Ceramicists (2009) by Elias Sime. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

Season's Greetings from the Thoma Foundation! As we look back over 2018, we are delighted to have been able to support strong programs and to offer 98 works from the collection to exhibitions across the country. We presented the Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art to Mary Flanagan and Dawn Chan, and initiated the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship and the Thoma Foundation Research and Travel Awards in Spanish Colonial Art. The recipients of the inaugural Fellowship and Awards will be announced in 2019.

As we head into the new year, we look forward to sponsoring new publications, exhibitions, and programs in the arts. The Thoma Foundation welcomes bold proposals that align with our mission. Learn more about our grant process and apply here.   
 
GRANTS
In 2018, the Foundation supported exhibitions, publications, and programming at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. A selection of the projects we funded this year appears below.

Image: Lynn Hershman Leeson, Deep Contact, 1984-1989, interactive touchscreen installation, Collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. On view at the Walker Art Center in The Body Electric from Mar. 30 - Jul. 21, 2019.
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, Director of Public Engagement position

Chicago High School for the Arts, ChiArts Digital & Electronic Arts Reach Initiative

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths catalogue

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Light, Space, and Surface: Art from Southern California catalogue

Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Roman Verostko and the Cloud of Unknowing exhibition and catalogue 

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Hearts of Our People: Native American Women Artists publication 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, I Was Raised on the Internet exhibition and publication

Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Pattern and Decoration catalogue

Parallel Studios Santa Fe, 2018 Currents New Media Festival

Rhizome, The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics exhibition

San Diego Museum of Art, Spain: Art and Empire in the Golden Age catalogue

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now catalogue

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Conserving Computer-Based Art initiative

Walker Art Center, The Body Electric exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art, Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018 exhibition
ARTWORK LOANS
This year, the Thoma Foundation loaned 98 works from the collection to museums across the country. New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation traveled to the Hunter Museum of American Art, and the second exhibition of Spanish Colonial Paintings from the Thoma Collection opened at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in September. Select exhibitions to which the Foundation contributed artwork in 2018 are highlighted below.

Image: Installation view of Spanish Colonial Paintings from the Thoma Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Art Institute of Chicago, permanent galleries 

Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine, Drawn from a Score 

Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, You Belong Here: Reimagining the Blanton, second rotation of works from the collection  

Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Experiments in Form: Sam Gilliam, Alan Shields, Frank Stella 

DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Siebren Versteeg: Daily Times (Performer)

Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago New Media 1973-1992

Hunter Museum of American Art, New Media, New Millennium: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portraiture in the Atlantic World galleries 

moCa Cleveland, Jason Salavon: Rainbow Aggregator 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Endless Summer & I Was Raised on the Internet 

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Spanish Colonial Paintings from the Thoma Foundation

New Mexico History Museum, permanent galleries

New Mexico Museum of Art, Contact: Local to Global 

Nevada Museum of Art, Unsettled 
   Anchorage Museum, Unsettled
   Palm Springs Art Museum, Unsettled | Art on the New Frontier 

SITE Santa Fe, Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art & R. Luke DuBois: A More Perfect Union 

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground 

Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, permanent galleries 
ARTS WRITING AWARDS
The Thoma Foundation was pleased to award the 2018 Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art to Mary Flanagan and Dawn Chan. Flanagan received $40,000 in recognition of her sustained dedication to the field as an established arts writer. Chan received $20,000 for her exceptional promise as an emerging arts writer. Both recipients have the opportunity to attend a fully-funded Robert Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island in 2019.

Image: Mary Flanagan and Dawn Chan, recipients of the 2018 Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art. 
OUR MISSION  The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation recognizes the power of the arts to challenge and shift perceptions, spark creativity and connect people across cultures. We lend and exhibit artworks from our collection and support innovative individuals and pivotal initiatives in the arts.


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