The Toledo Museum of Art had a productive year in 2014, with the launch of their visual literacy website vislit.org, new educational programs like toddler tours, and exhibitions that brought the art of the Louvre's gardens and Japanese prints to Toledo. The Museum was recognized with several awards for their annual report, marketing spots, and exhibition catalog. Planning began for their 2020 strategic plan with identification of objectives, activities, and budget needs. It was another successful year of providing art and education to the Toledo community.

1. Toledo Museum of Art
2014 in Review

2. www.vislit.org
January
The Toledo Museum of Art’s Visual
Literacy website, vislit.org, goes live.

3. January
A conversation with artist Varujan Boghosian

4. Toddler Time Tours
Toddlers now
experience Docent-led
multi-sensory tours
designed specifically
for them.
February

5. February
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden opens in
Canaday Gallery. The exhibition brought romantic Paris to
the Midwest.

6. Art After School students working with artist Varujan Boghosian
February

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. March
Masters Series with Francophile Dr. Eric Haskell

11. 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.

12. April
Visual Literacy classes for Staff, Docents,
Volunteers, and Ambassadors began.

13. April
Visual Literacy activities created

14. 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.

15. April
Masters Series with abstract artist Sean Scully

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. Highlights from Art in Bloom

19. 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

20. 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.

21. June
Observe
See Describe
Analyze
Interpret
Writing
Action
The Art of Seeing: Connecting to Action
Core Curriculum for Visual Literacy Training
Look

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

23. June
Highlights from The Art of Video Games opening party and
The Old West End Parade.

24. 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.

25. 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

26. Play Space: Texture Wall
Multi-sensory experiences encourage learning through hands-on exploration

27. August
Pre-K Research Study with Toledo Public Schools is launched
to measure outcomes of imaged based vocabulary instruction
for pre-schoolers.

28. August
Apollo Society acquired
a contemporary Indian
work of art.

29. September
Masters Series with
filmmaker and
Toledo Native Brett
Leonard

30. September
Docents used Visual Literacy to engage school tour audiences

31. 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

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. Highlights from the International Visual Literacy Conference

35. November
Contemporary artist Pinaree Sanpitak overseeing the installation of her Glass Artist Pavilion
Project (GAPP) work, The Hammock.

36. 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.

37. 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.
ak’s Anything Can Break is
ed in Canaday Gallery as
the exhibtion InSight:
mporary Sensory Works.

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

39. 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

40. November
The 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.

41. 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

42. December
The 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.