4. January
A series of community issue-based thematic
exhibitions begins.
The Chemo Paintings with ArtReach Expressions
January 18–March 21, 2013
in the Community Gallery
6. January
Six museums worked together on innovation practices:
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
• Carnegie Museum of Art
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Toledo Museum of Art
• High Museum of Art
• The Andy Warhol Museum
10. 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.
11. March
Jaume Plensa’s work, Spiegel, is
installed on the TMA campus and
he gives a lecture in the Peristyle
theater.
Masters Series is sponsored by the
TMA Ambassadors
Jaume Plensa
12. March
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.
13. April
Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner
Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art
at the Hood Museum of Art, opens to
acclaim at TMA.
The Museum hosts a series of events,
including lectures and a symposium.
15. April
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.
17. May
Frank Stella sculpture acquired by TMA
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.
18. May
Museum 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.
20. June
Wally Caruana
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
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. July
Baby Tours at the Toledo Museum of Art were highlighted by
The Toledo Blade and in national media.
27. August
The anniversary of The Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 was marked by a popular
exhibition at TMA.
28. August
Halona Norton-Westbrook
Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook of the San Francisco Bay Area was named the
third post-doctoral Mellon Fellow at the Toledo Museum of Art.
29. September
Erwin 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.
30. September
Trombone Shorty enthralled an
audience and involved students
from the Toledo School for the Arts
in an exciting performance in the
Peristyle theater.
31. October
Fresh Impressions, a major exhibition of nearly 400 shin hanga or “new
prints,” opened at TMA, accompanied by a magnificent catalogue.
32. October
Ebb & Flow: Cross-Cultural Prints
The Art of Japanese Fashion
October 11, 2013-January 5, 2014
August 23–December 27, 2013
Works on Paper Gallery
Community Gallery
Ebb & Flow explores the global influence of
Japanese printmaking in the 20th century.
The Art of Japanese Fashion is the first “fashion as art”
exhibition to appear in the Community Gallery.
Accompanying exhibitions for Fresh Impressions created a Japanese season at TMA.
33. October
Robert Edsel
Best selling author
Robert Edsel’s talk attracted 1,200 people to the Peristyle theater.
Masters Series is sponsored by the TMA Ambassadors
35. 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.
36. November
www.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.
37. December
Paul Timman
Hollywood tattoo artist
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
Notes de l'éditeur
On Aug. 29thDelfeayo Marsalis Jazz musician and author of No Cell Phone Day signed copies of his book at the Museum. The book tells what happens when Marsalis and his daughter put down their cell phones and explore their hometown of New Orleans.
