tma 2013 year in review

Toledo Museum of Art2013 in Review

January

Re-installation of Wolfe Gallery, a major gallery space dedicated to contemporary art, opens to the public.

New acquisitions for Wolfe Gallery, among them Petah Coyne, Untitled #1176 (Elisabeth, Elizabeth).

January

The Chemo Paintings with ArtReach ExpressionsJanuary 18–March 21, 2013

in the Community Gallery

January

A series of community issue-based thematic exhibitions begins.

January

Dr. Adam Levine became the second Mellon Fellow at the Toledo Museum of Art.

January

• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art• Carnegie Museum of Art• Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Six museums worked together on innovation practices:

• Toledo Museum of Art• High Museum of Art • The Andy Warhol Museum

February

February

Leslie Adams, Drawn from Life, an exhibition of the drawings of the prize winner of the Toledo Area

Artists Exhibition.

February

First awards of the year.

March

Reinstallation of Galleries 4, 5, and 9 open to the public.Thematic approaches to sculpture and the experimental integration of library

materials within the galleries.

Masters Series is sponsored by the TMA Ambassadors

March

Jaume Plensa

Jaume Plensa’s work, Spiegel, is installed on the TMA campus and he gives a lecture in the Peristyle

theater.

Director of Collections and Curator of Asian Art Carolyn Putney was the recipient of the 2013 Milestones Award, Woman of Achievement in the art

category by the YWCA of Toledo.

March

Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art

at the Hood Museum of Art, opens to acclaim at TMA.

April

The Museum hosts a series of events, including lectures and a symposium.

April

Crossing Cultures

The Toledo Museum of Art won three prestigious awards at the April 21, 2013 Ohio Museums Association Awards dinner.

• Manet: Portraying Life was named Best Exhibition in the large museum category

• Girl Scout Night at the Museum won the Best Community Partnership Award.

• The Museum’s 2012 Annual Report received a gold award in the large museum category for visual communications.

April

May

The Museum’s Circle 2445 group hosts the Kentucky Derby party in the Peristyle.

May

La penna di hu (1987–2009) by American artist Frank Stella (b. 1936) was purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art and is on view in Gallery 1.

Frank Stella sculpture acquired by TMA

MayMuseum goes off the grid.

The Museum’s 3000 solar panels on the roof and parking

lot canopy take us “off the grid.” The electricity bill for May

1992 at TMA was $52,000 (at 1992 prices); in May 2013 it

was $5,000.

May

TMA Ambassadors take a trip to New York for a visit to Frank Stella’s studio.

June

Wally Caruana was senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra from 1984 to 2001 and has written widely about Aboriginal art. He discussed the emergence of

the Aboriginal art movement and its significance today in his June Master Series appearance.

Masters Series is sponsored by the TMA Ambassadors

Wally Caruana

June

TMA is a 2013 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence winner!

The Museum’s 2012 Annual Report received second prize in the American Alliance of Museums’ 2013 Museum Publications Design Competition.

July

As of July 1, the number of school aged children on organized visits to TMA from July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012 was 33,798.

Baby Tours at the Toledo Museum of Art were highlighted by The Toledo Blade and in national media.

July

July

The Museum changed its hours and is now open late on Thursday as well as Friday.

July

The Apollo Society’s acquisitions of contemporary art on display in Gallery 18

AugustDelfeayo Marsalis

Delfeayo Marsalis visitedTMA for No Cell Phone Day and performed for many young children.

August

The anniversary of The Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 was marked by a popular exhibition at TMA.

Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook of the San Francisco Bay Area was named the third post-doctoral Mellon Fellow at the Toledo Museum of Art.

August

Halona Norton-Westbrook

SeptemberErwin Redl

GAPP artist

Erwin Redl was part of the Glass Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) for 2013 and created a specially commissioned work for the Glass Pavilion oculus.

September

Trombone Shorty enthralled an audience and involved students

from the Toledo School for the Arts in an exciting performance in the

Peristyle theater.

October

Fresh Impressions, a major exhibition of nearly 400 shin hanga or “new prints,” opened at TMA, accompanied by a magnificent catalogue.

The Art of Japanese FashionAugust 23–December 27, 2013

Community Gallery

The Art of Japanese Fashion is the first “fashion as art” exhibition to appear in the Community Gallery.

October

Ebb & Flow: Cross-Cultural PrintsOctober 11, 2013-January 5, 2014

Works on Paper Gallery

Ebb & Flow explores the global influence of Japanese printmaking in the 20th century.

Accompanying exhibitions for Fresh Impressions created a Japanese season at TMA.

October

Robert Edsel’s talk attracted 1,200 people to the Peristyle theater.Masters Series is sponsored by the TMA Ambassadors

Robert EdselBest selling author

October

The Museum’s Circle 2445 group held Artoberfest, an evening of glassblowing and festivities.

November

The TMA’s The Art of Seeing Art: A, B & See book is published as part of the Museum’s efforts to promote visual literacy.

Novemberwww.VisLit.org

A new website promoting visual literacy and TMA’s November 5-8, 2014 hosting of the International Visual Literacy Association conference was

launched.

December

Native Toledoan Paul Timman gave a brilliant lecture on the relationship between Japanese prints and his art of creating human body tattoos.

Masters Series is sponsored by the TMA Ambassadors

Paul TimmanHollywood tattoo artist