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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