Make Your Mark

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Why Give?

Your tax-deductible gift to the Tampa Museum of Art’s Make Your Mark campaign helps us preserve antiquities, modern and contemporary art, provides visitor experiences, shapes the future and shares this legacy with the public.

  • Art Therapy Inspires Well-Being
  • School Tours Inspire Learning
  • Art Inspires Culture
  • Unrestricted Funds Inspire Community

Each year, the Tampa Museum of Art gives away over 33,000 philanthropy-discounted admission passes.

People viewing artwork from the Tampa Museum of Art's permanent collection in the "Prelude" exhibition.

Art Therapy Inspires Well-Being

The Tampa Museum of Art offers a variety of free art therapy-informed programs to promote creativity and engagement while providing a positive experience with art-making and museums. Connections and Art Space help create a non-threatening environment for self-expression and self-reflection.

Students participate in a Connections session at the Tampa Museum of Art.

Connections

  • Focused on wellness and social interactions
  • Offered to seniors receiving memory care and assisted living, individuals diagnosed with Parkinson’s, military families, and adults in substance use recovery

Sponsor one Connections session: $700

Connections: Community Partners

Allegro Senior Living • Arbor Terrace • Blue StarFamilies • Cove Behavioral Health: Men’s Residential & Women’s Residential • Inspired Living • Kaiser University • Magnolia Manor • Market Street Memory Care • Pelican Landing • Phillip Shayman Parkinson’s Program • The Phoenix • Promise Pointe • White Sands Treatment

Students show their artwork created during an Art Space session with the Tampa Museum of Art

Art Space

  • Art therapy-informed program
  • Works with underserved populations
  • Art-making and gallery discussions promote creativity, self-expression, and self-reflection

Sponsor one Art Space session: $625

Art Space: Community Partners

Brandon Park and Rec • Clean Recovery • Creative Clay • Florida Institute for Community Studies • Focus Academy • Glazer Children’s Museum • King’s Kids • McDonald Training Center • Pepin Academies • Prodigy • Quality Early Education System at HCC • Redefining Refuge • RCMA Wimauma • Tampa Preparatory School

School Tours Inspire Learning

Your gifts help educate, inspire and cultivate the young minds of our community. The Tampa Museum of Art offers educational school tours that focus on connecting students with the Museum’s collections and special exhibitions. Help support these students and art accessibility today with year-end giving.

Teacher guides students through the antiquities exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art

School Tours

  • 2,800 waived admissions during the 2022-2023 school year
  • Bus scholarships provided by ArtLine Transportation Grant
  • Tours included with the cost of Museum admission

Sponsor one tour: $500

Student answers a question during a docent-led school tour at the Tampa Museum of Art

Docent Training

  • Volunteers who learn about the artwork on view
  • Serve as tour guides for school groups

Sponsor one training: $1,000

Art Inspires Culture

Your generosity helps support curatorial initiatives such as artist and scholar talks, research travel for our curators, and the care and conservation of TMA’s growing collection. Donations also help fund exhibition programming that supports the educational curriculum.

Guests visit the "Frontiers of Impressionism" exhibition at the Tampa Museum of Art

Bringing Art to TMA

  • Curators travel to expand TMA initiatives
  • Reaches new audiences
  • Provides curriculum and program materials

Sponsor one Exhibition Lecture: $2,500

The collections management team work on yearly sculpture maintenance for "Laura with Bun" by artist Jaume Plensa, outside the Tampa Museum of Art

Art Conservation

  • Yearly sculpture maintenance
  • Proper art handling
  • Monitoring and controlling environmental conditions
  • Maintains collection for future exhibition programming

Sponsor one day of conservation: $1,500

Unrestricted Funds Inspire Community

Art+ Membership: Individual & Family provides free admission programs

Operations

Education: Free Programs connect us to community partners

Art teacher and student participate in an art-making activity during a Tampa Museum of Art Family Day
Innovation
Families visit the exhibition "Purvis Young: Redux" at the Tampa Museum of Art

Permanent Collection
inspires course curriculum

Education: Studio Art Classes
fund scholarships for those in need

Exhibitions: General Admission
allows for a greater variety of artist representation

Education: Tours
support grade school student transportation

Visitors tour the Lemonopolous Gallery at the Tampa Museum of Art
Education
Art teachers work with families on an art-making activity during a Tampa Museum of Art Family Day

Exhibitions: Discounted Admission
creates accessibility for the community

Conservation

Private Events
sustain expandable programming

When can you
Make Your Mark?

For more information, contact: Development@TampaMuseum.org | 813.421.8370