Nonprofit Organization Grantees

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation provides grants to 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations whose innovative projects and original ideas will advance scholarship, education, and public engagement in the arts. Learn more about our previous nonprofit grantees below.

Interested in applying on behalf of a nonprofit organization? Inquiries about our grant opportunities should be sent to grants@thomafoundation.org. All grant requests must be submitted online through our online grants portal.

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists

Women have long been the creative force behind Native art. Presented in close cooperation with top Native women artists and scholars, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, the first major exhibition ...

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Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern takes a new look at how the renowned modernist artist proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona—including her clothing and the way she posed for ...

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I Was Raised on the Internet

I Was Raised on the Internet focuses on how the internet has changed the way we experience the world. Due to new types of gaming and entertainment and the rise of social ...

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Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965

Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965 edited by Meredith Malone accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at the Washington University in ...

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Pat Passlof: The Brush is the Finger of the Brain

Pat Passlof: The Brush Is the Finger of the Brain is a survey exhibition of the paintings of Pat Passlof (1928-2011), featuring an accompanying catalogue supported by the Thoma Foundation. Spanning a period ...

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Bold Abstractions: Paintings from the Thoma Collection

This major exhibition explores new forms of abstract painting from the 1960s, following the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. Highlighting color-based, geometric, and perceptual experiments, this selection of works from the Carl & ...

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Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI

In today’s AI-driven world, increasingly organized and shaped by algorithms that track, collect, and evaluate our data, the question of what it means to be human has shifted. Uncanny Valley is the ...

Education

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College Art Association’s Annual Conference Pay-as-you-Wish Program

The Thoma Foundation is proud to support College Art Association (CAA)’s Annual Conference in Chicago by providing a Pay-as-You-Wish day on Friday, February 14. Pay-as-You-Wish day enables the general public to pay a suggested ...

Awards & Fellowship Recipients

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Chicago Artist Coalition ENVISION Grant

Launched in 2020, the new ENVISION Grant program is an unrestricted award opportunity for Chicago-based new media artists making time-based work in the fields of digital, electronic, computer, internet, virtual reality, and ...

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Currents New Media Festival 2016

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA provides the community with opportunities to experience New Media Arts in traditional venues, public and outdoor spaces. Over 9,000 visitors attended festival events in 2019. The Festival is enjoyed ...

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