Toledo Museum of Art

2014 in Review

www.vislit.org

January The Toledo Museum of Art’s Visual

Literacy website, vislit.org, goes live.

January

A conversation with artist Varujan Boghosian

Toddler Time Tours

Toddlers now

experience Docent-led

multi-sensory tours

designed specifically

for them.

February

February

The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden opens in

Canaday Gallery. The exhibition brought romantic Paris to

the Midwest.

Art After School students working with artist Varujan Boghosian

February

February

The Museum was chosen

by Toledo City Paper's

annual Best of Toledo as

the best institution in

Toledo to show off, the best

wedding venue and the

best gallery for art.

February

The Toledo Museum of Art’s 2012 Annual Report received a Bronze

Addy Award in the Collateral, Annual Report category and an

Honorable Mention in the 2014 Museum Publications Design

Competition organized by the American Alliance of Museums.

February

Television spots for Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints

and Perry’s Victory: The Battle of Lake Erie were awarded

Gold and Silver Addy Awards, respectively.

March

Masters Series with Francophile Dr. Eric Haskell

March

This small exhibition of elegant, blown glass birds recently created by the

distinguished Venetian Maestro Lino Tagliapietra celebrated the annual

songbird migration through the marshes along the southern shore of Lake Erie.

April

Visual Literacy classes for Staff, Docents,

Volunteers, and Ambassadors began.

April

Visual Literacy activities created

April

Crossing Cultures

Coinciding with “The Biggest Week in American Birding,” In Fine

Feather highlighted the intersection of natural science and art in the

pursuit of describing and identifying birds.

April

Masters Series with abstract artist Sean Scully

April

TMA receives three 2013 Ohio Museum Association Awards of Achievement.

• Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints was named Best Exhibition

Catalog

• TMA’s baby tours were recognized as Best Education/Outreach.

• TMA’s visual literacy website, vislit.org, received an Honorable Mention in the

2013 OMA Visual Communications Awards.

May

Organized by the Museum’s Ambassadors volunteer group, Art in

Bloom is a four-day fundraising event featuring an exhibition of floral

arrangements inspired by the Museum’s collection. Proceeds from the

event support TMA art education programs.

Highlights from Art in Bloom

Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints exhibition catalog won the

Outstanding Catalog award from the Midwest Art History Society as well

as the Bronze in the Fine Art, National Category at the 18th annual

Independent Publishers Book Awards.

May

May

The Museum is once again the number one rated attraction in the Toledo area

for the sixth year running on TripAdvisor. The review website also awarded the

Toledo Museum of Art with a Certificate of Excellence for 2014.

June

Observe

See Describe

Analyze

InterpretWriting

Action

The Art of Seeing: Connecting to Action

Core Curriculum for Visual Literacy Training

Look

June

The Art of Video Games opened at the Toledo Museum of Art.

June

Highlights from The Art of Video Games opening party and

The Old West End Parade.

July

To commemorate the 50th

anniversary of the signing of

the Civil Rights Act, the Toledo

Museum of Art presented

People Get Ready: 50 Years of

Civil Rights, a selection of

works on paper from the TMA’s

collection.

August

Interactive Play Space in TMA’s Family Center

Encourages families to be creative together with games, puzzles, and

interactive wall features promoting Visual Literacy

Play Space: Texture Wall

Multi-sensory experiences encourage learning through hands-on exploration

August

Pre-K Research Study with Toledo Public Schools is launched

to measure outcomes of imaged based vocabulary instruction

for pre-schoolers.

August

Apollo Society acquired

a contemporary Indian

work of art.

September

Masters Series with

filmmaker and

Toledo Native Brett

Leonard

September

Docents used Visual Literacy to engage school tour audiences

TMA Docents: A Snapshot

In the past 12 months, 115 volunteer

docents led more than 1,000 tours for

approximately 11,500 K-12 students

October

An evening inspired by Andy Warhol's studio and

legendary party spot, The Factory, hosted by the

Museum’s young patron’s group Circle 2445.

November

The Toledo Museum of Art hosts

the 47th International Visual

Literacy Association conference.

Called “The Art of Seeing: From

Ordinary to Extraordinary,” the

three-day conference featured

eight keynote speakers and over

50 presentations.

TMA was the first art museum to

host the conference.

Highlights from the International Visual Literacy Conference

November

Contemporary artist Pinaree Sanpitak overseeing the installation of her Glass Artist Pavilion

Project (GAPP) work, The Hammock.

Pinaree Sanpitak (Thai, born 1961), The Hammock. Blown glass and

steel, 2014. Temporary installation. Produced as part of Pinaree

Sanpitak’s Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) artist residency at the

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, 2014.

Pinaree Sanpitak (Thai, born 1961), Anything Can Break (detail).

Installation: handmade glass, paper, specially composed music, motion

sensors, sound system, 2011. Seen here at The Art Center,

Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, August 2011.

Sanpitak’s Anything Can Break is

installed in Canaday Gallery as

part of the exhibtion InSight:

Contemporary Sensory Works.

Museum acquires the painting by Luca Giordano, The Liberation of St. Peter.

November

Pictured with Luca Giordano’s The Liberation of St. Peter are Lawrence

W. Nichols, the William Hutton senior curator of European and American

painting and sculpture before 1900; the Most Reverend Daniel E.

Thomas, the new Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo; and

Toledo Museum of Art Director Brian Kennedy

NovemberThe 95th Toledo Area Artists

Exhibition opens. The

exhibition celebrates the best

work being done by artists

living within a 150-mile radius

of the Museum and features

over 70 works by 28 artists.

Gathering Feedback on Strategic Direction

Synthesis of brainstorming into

final objective/s

Identification of major activities and

initiatives

Analysis of current budgeting process and

needs

ET members begin to attach $ to major

activities

HR/Finance meet with ET members to identify

budget metrics

2020 Strategic Planning Process Begins

Fall 2014 Winter 2015

November

DecemberThe Museum is one of several

community partners for Toledo

Walleye Winterfest, presented

by ProMedica.

Toledo Walleye Winterfest is a

community event benefitting the

entire Toledo Region that will

take place December 26 through

January 4.