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Posted: May 5, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Thoma Scholars

The Thoma Foundation is proud to introduce the 43 newest recipients of the Thoma Scholarship—an award recognizing exceptional students from rural communities across Northwest Oklahoma, West Texas, and Eastern New Mexico. Each ...

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Posted: April 25, 2025

Kathleen Forde Appointed Director and Curator, Media Arts

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation announced the appointment of Kathleen Forde as Director and Curator, Media Arts. Forde, who has spent the past year consulting with the Foundation, will oversee its ...

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Posted: March 6, 2025

We’re Hiring! Assistant Director of Scholarships & Education

The Thoma Foundation seeks an Assistant Director of Scholarships and Education to advance the Thoma Scholars Program, which supports recipients from the Texas Panhandle, northwest Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico, and to ...

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Posted: September 18, 2024

Thoma Foundation announces appointment of Kambra K. Bolch to new Scholarship Program Director role

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation today announced the appointment of Kambra K. Bolch as the Foundation’s Scholarship Program Director. The new Thoma Scholars program offers transformative scholarships to exceptional students from ...

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Posted: August 12, 2024

FILTERED, a new exhibition from the Thoma Foundation now on view at Art Vault

Filtered through hue, tone, and spatial perception, our visual experience of the world is shaped by the technologies of our time. In Filtered, an exhibition of newly selected works at Art Vault, ...

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Posted: July 17, 2024

Thoma Foundation and Oklahoma State University announce Thoma Scholars Program partnership

A transformational gift from the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation has established the Thoma Scholars Program at Oklahoma State University. This innovative scholarship program aims to empower exceptional young leaders in underserved ...

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Posted: June 17, 2024

Thoma Foundation Announces Inaugural Art of the Spanish Americas Conservation Grant Recipients

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural Art of the Spanish Americas Conservation Grant recipients: Rodrigo Villalobos Ruiz, a cultural conservator and restoration specialist in Querétaro, México, ...

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Posted: June 11, 2024

Inaugural Recipients of The Next Generation Bamboo Art Prizes Announced

Congratulations to the inaugural recipients of The Next Generation Bamboo Art Prizes: Nakatomi Hajime, Coffland Grand Prize Winner Kondo Masayo, Excellence in Tradition Prize Winner Watanabe Chiaki, Excellence in Sculpture Prize Winner ...

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Posted: May 29, 2024

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque Appointed Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque as Associate Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas. Verónica will continue her work with the Foundation’s ...

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Posted: May 1, 2024

Thoma Foundation Announces 2024 Fellows of the Art of the Spanish Americas

This year, the Carl & Marilynn Foundation is pleased to award three scholars whose work advances our knowledge of viceregal South American perspectives on the artistic depiction of race during the 17th ...

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