Foundation News


Posted: March 23, 2023

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque Joins the Thoma Foundation

In March 2023, the Thoma Foundation welcomed Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque, Ph.D. as our new Curatorial Fellow of the Arts of the Spanish Americas. We asked Verónica to help us get to know ...

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Posted: March 1, 2023

Jaime Herrell Joins the Thoma Foundation Team

Tell us a little about yourself. What did you do before joining the Thoma Foundation team? Hi there! I’m Jaime Herrell. I’m originally from of southeastern Colorado, and currently find myself in beautiful Santa Fe, ...

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Posted: January 27, 2023

Thoma Foundation Announces Support of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Retrospective

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is proud to have awarded a $150,000 grant to the Whitney Museum of American Art in support of its upcoming retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. ...

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Posted: November 9, 2022

Introducing Moving Arts’ New Teen Space! 

The Thoma Foundation sends their congratulations to Moving Arts Española on both the opening of their new teen programming wing, Bowie’s Backstage, and Executive Director Salvador Ruiz’s naming as a UniVisionario. Two ...

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Posted: October 20, 2022

Thoma Foundation Awards $200,000 to Empower Schools

This two-year grant funds the pilot of the LeadRural Fellowship—a coordinated and intentional effort to identify, cultivate, and support rural leaders and to give those leaders the ideas, resources, network, and partners ...

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Posted: October 4, 2022

Thoma Foundation Awards $1 Million to Arizona Student Opportunity Collaborative

A three-year grant to Arizona Student Opportunity Collaborative will create access to high-quality, virtual college & career advising for rural students. The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation has awarded a $1 million ...

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Posted: September 22, 2022

The Thoma Foundation Announces: Message from Our Planet Traveling Exhibition

The Thoma Foundation announces Message from Our Planet, a new media exhibition that brings together 20 software, video, and light-technology artworks from 19 international artists and artist groups working at the forefront ...

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Posted: September 19, 2022

Curatorial Fellow In Art of the Spanish Americas

The Thoma Foundation is accepting applications for a Curatorial Fellow in Art of the Spanish Americas to join our team! The Curatorial Fellow will lead all aspects of our Arts of the ...

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Posted: September 15, 2022

Federico Solmi: Joie De Vivre

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is proud to be supporting the exhibition Federico Solmi: Joie De Vivre at the Morris Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate in Morristown, NJ.⁠ Federico Solmi is a multimedia artist who examines the ...

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Posted: September 15, 2022

Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation has given a grant of $25,000 in support of Shifting Tides: Art in the 18th-Century Caribbean, a symposium and study day to be hosted at the Winterthur Museum in ...

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