Our Grants

 

Learn more about our recent grants…

As of 2020, our grantmaking priorities have expanded to include a focus on education. If you’re mostly familiar with the Thoma Foundation for our work in the arts, our recent work in rural education across the Southwest may be new to you. We invite you to explore our recent grants by clicking here to focus in on 2022! 

Have questions about our grantmaking? Email grants@thomafoundation.org to learn more. 

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2022
Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Art of the Spanish Americas Nonprofit Grants
Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients
Awards & Fellowship Recipients
Bold Initiatives Grantees
Building Capacity: Arts & Community
Digital Changemaker Grant
Education
Entrepreneurship
Exhibitions
Nonprofit Organization Grantees
Publication Recipients
Rural
Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Yessica Porras, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

Yessica Porras, PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, has received the Thoma Foundation Research and Travel Award in the amount of $24,333 to complete collections and archival research for her ...

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Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Vanina Scocchera, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

Dr. Vanina Scocchera, postdoctoral fellow at the National Research Council of Argentina and Assistant Professor of Spanish American Art History at the University of Buenos Aires, was awarded a 2021–22 Thoma Foundation ...

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Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Laura Vargas Murcia, Post-Doctoral Marilynn Thoma Fellow

In 2021, Dr. Laura Vargas Murcia, independent scholar of Colombian art history, was awarded a two-year Marilynn Thoma Postdoctoral Fellowship in the amount of $120,000 to complete a book manuscript on the cajones(portable altarpieces) of Colombia ...

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Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Aaron M. Hyman, Post-Doctoral Marilynn Thoma Fellow

The 2020–21 Marilynn Thoma post-doctoral fellowship of $60,000 is awarded to Dr. Aaron M. Hyman (Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University), who will produce ...

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Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Katherine Mills, Marilynn Thoma Pre-Doctoral Fellow

2020–21 Marilynn Thoma pre-doctoral fellow Katherine Mills (PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University) will receive $45,000 to work on her dissertation Unlocking the Cloister through Prayer: ...

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Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Ninel Valderrama Negrón, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

Ninel Valderrama Negrón (PhD Candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University) is awarded a 2020–21 Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award in the amount of $17,534 to conduct research towards her dissertation ...

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Art of the Spanish Americas Awards Winners
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Lucila Iglesias, Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award Winner

2020–21 Thoma Foundation Research & Travel Award winner Dr. Lucila Iglesias (post-doctoral fellow at the National Research Council in Argentina and Assistant Professor of Spanish American Art History and Renaissance at the ...

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Awards & Fellowship Recipients
Nonprofit Organization Grantees

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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Exhibitions
Nonprofit Organization Grantees

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 ...

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Education
Nonprofit Organization Grantees

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 ...

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