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Posted: March 7, 2015

History of Computer Art: Class Tour at Orange Door in Chicago

On Saturday, March 7th, the Thoma Foundation curator, Jason Foumberg, hosted a group of thirteen students from Victoria Salinger’s History of Computer Art undergraduate seminar class from the University of Chicago at ...

Posted: March 4, 2015

Symposium on Latin America in the Early Colonial Period at the Newberry Library in Chicago

Saturday, April 11th the Newberry Library in Chicago will host a symposium on Latin America in the Early Colonial Period. Laura Matthew from Marquette University is the keynote speaker. Individuals interested in attending ...

Posted: March 1, 2015

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life at the Tacoma Art Museum

Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life explores the ancient land and rich cultural traditions of the Southwest as it was seen by Georgia O’Keeffe and her contemporaries. The installation, currently at the ...

Posted: February 2, 2015

John Gerrard: Networks and Power at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s lecture series, Conversations at the Edge: Experimental Media Series, presented artist John Gerrard on Thursday, March 5th at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Gerrard ...

Posted: January 9, 2015

Rooted in Soil exhibition at the DePaul Museum in Chicago

The DePaul Art Museum’s exhibition, Rooted in Soil, explored the many facets of a humble yet extraordinary material—soil. From the DePaul Art Museum: Soil is omnipresent: a life-sustaining but overlooked medium whose cycle ...

Posted: November 11, 2014

A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire

The Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition A Voyage to South America: Andean Art in the Spanish Empire provides an introduction to the practice of art and the conditions of life of artists and patrons who ...

Posted: September 30, 2014

Jason Salavon and Siebren Versteeg Artworks at Oklahoma State University

Carl and Marilynn Thoma, both 1971 graduates of Oklahoma State University, have loaned artworks from their digital art collection to the OSU Student Union. Rainbow Aggregator, by Jason Salavon, and Daily Times, by Siebren ...

Posted: September 24, 2014

Luminous Flux

Luminous Flux, the inaugural exhibition at Art House in Santa Fe, NM, features innovative computer, digital, interactive, video and electroluminescent art from the Thoma Foundation collection, including stimulating works by Leo Villareal, ...

Posted: September 20, 2014

Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary

Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America, an exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, features eight paintings on loan from one of the country’s most distinguished collections ...

Posted: September 19, 2014

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present

Gladys Nilsson’s painting, Phantom Plus, from the Carl and Marilynn Thoma collection, was included in the exhibition What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art from 1960 to the Present at the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode ...