Foundation News


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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Posted: August 10, 2022

Thoma Foundation Supports Judd Foundation’s Library Project

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation has made a $60,000 grant to Judd Foundation in support of the Donald Judd Library Project, a digital preservation initiative that weds the deliberate categorization and ...

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Posted: August 8, 2022

Thoma Foundation Support for Education and the Arts in Southern NM Starts with $600,000

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, a private family foundation with offices in Santa Fe and Chicago, has made its first grants to support educational and arts nonprofit organizations in southern New ...

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Posted: July 18, 2022

Thoma Foundation Awards $145,000 to Scholars of the Art of the Spanish Americas

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation will award nearly $145,000 in fellowships and grants to support scholarship on the art of the Spanish Americas. This year, the Foundation is pleased to name ...

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Posted: June 23, 2022

NYU: Topics in Time-based Media Art Conservation, A Conversation with The Thoma Foundation Team

Perspectives from a Private Collection: How the Thoma Foundation Collects and Conserves Digital, Video and Media Art The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, founded in 2014, confronts conservation and display challenges by ...

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