Foundation News


Posted: May 6, 2015

NISO Webinar with 2015 Arts Writing Awards Recipient, Jon Ippolito

2015 Arts Writing Awards recipient Jon Ippolito will give a presentation for the NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Webinar, Software Preservation and Use: I Saved the Files But Can I Run Them? Ippolito’s ...

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Posted: April 21, 2015

Announcing The Inaugural Digital Arts Writing Awards Recipients

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation announces the recipients and the selection committee for its inaugural Arts Writing Fellowship Awards in the digital arts. The fellowships are no-strings-attached, merit-based awards recognizing ...

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Posted: April 8, 2015

Jim Campbell Solo Exhibition in Madrid, Hosted by Telefonica Foundation

The Telefonica Foundation in Madrid has announced Jim Campbell’s first solo exhibition to be held in Spain. Campbell, whose work has been collected by Carl & Marilynn Thoma, is an innovative digital ...

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Posted: March 27, 2015

SITE Santa Fe Scholars visit “Luminous Flux” at Art House

The SITE Santa Fe Scholars and interns visited the Luminous Flux exhibition at Art House, our exhibition space in Santa Fe. Following a tour of the exhibition, we held a discussion about the Foundation, collecting ...

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Posted: March 19, 2015

Announcing the 2015 Arts Writing Fellowship Awards, Digital Arts

This week the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation announced its inaugural awards program recognizing arts writers exploring the digital arts. The Arts Writing Fellowship Awards serve to reward and promote writers ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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