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
Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Nora Khan, Emerging Digital Arts Writer

Nora Khan received the $20,000 award ($15,000 award plus the opportunity for a $5,000 project grant) for an emerging arts writer in the U.S. who demonstrates great promise in writing about digital art. Nora ...

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Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Becky Bevins, 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellow

Becky Bevins is the Thoma Foundation’s 2017 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellow. Read Bevins’ abstract below: “1960s critics writing about Post Painterly abstraction often discussed it in terms of feeling or emotion. ...

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Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Jon Ippolito, Established Digital Arts Writer

Jon Ippolito received the $30,000 award for an established arts writer in the U.S. who has made significant contributions to writing in the digital arts. Jon Ippolito is Professor of New Media ...

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Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art Recipients
Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Joanne McNeil, Emerging Digital Arts Writer

Joanne McNeil received the $15,000 award for an emerging arts writer in the U.S. who demonstrates great potential in writing in the digital arts. Joanne McNeil is a New York based writer ...

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Education
Publication Recipients

Net Art Anthology

Funded by a grant from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Net Art Anthology is Rhizome’s ambitious project to retell the history of a field of artistic practice in which even ...

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Exhibitions
Nonprofit Organization Grantees

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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Awards & Fellowship Recipients

Jennifer Cohen, 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellow

Jennifer Cohen is the Thoma Foundation’s inaugural Fellow for the 20th Century Abstract Painting Research Fellowship. The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation Research Fellowship in Twentieth-Century Abstract Painting will provide an ...

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Exhibitions
Nonprofit Organization Grantees
Publication Recipients

Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West

Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and The West is a traveling exhibition organized by the Harwood Museum of Art that focuses on the life and times of one of the ...

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Education
Nonprofit Organization Grantees

Carl & Marilynn Thoma Associate Curatorship of Spanish Colonial Art

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin and The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation announce the establishment of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Associate Curatorship of Spanish Colonial ...

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