The New Jersey State Council on the Arts has awarded Jim Toia a Fellowship in Sculpture for 2025.

The Bradbury Art Museum in Jonesboro, Arkansas, has purchased Angels, Devils, Idiots and Sages, a 2024 12.5×19-inch spore drawing, for its permanent collection.

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has acquired Where Darkness Retreats, a 19×26-inch spore drawing produced in Alaska in 2004. This acquisition comes as a result of Toia’s recent exhibition, Notes on Threatened Landscapes, at the museum from September 2023 through June 2024.

Rutgers University Press and the Zimmerli Museum will publish a catalog of Toia’s Notes on Threatened Landscapes exhibition. This book includes images of works from the exhibition, an introduction and overview by Zimmerli Museum Chief Curator Donna Gustafson, along with essays from four authors:

•  Artist and writer Taney Roniger writes on the Joshua Tree boulder project.
• Brad Evans, English professor at Rutgers University, writes about the Florida
  Keys tree rubbings.
• Carrie Rohman, professor of English at Lafayette College, writes about the Rio
  Grande Valley ant colony casts.
• Ross Gay, poet and National Book Award finalist, writes about the mushroom
  spore drawings.

The book will be completed by May 2025 and available for purchase shortly thereafter. Stay tuned for information on how to purchase the book through jimtoia.com or Rutgers University Press.

Finally, Toia is collaborating with poet Lee Upton on a project for the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey. Their exhibition, The Never Lost Forest, will be on view in September 2025. This is Upton and Toia’s second collaboration and will focus on Upton’s poems and thoughts on forests and trees, which are interpreted, articulated, manufactured and presented by Toia in the Hunterdon Art Museum’s River Gallery.

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts has awarded Jim Toia a Fellowship in Sculpture for 2025.

The Bradbury Art Museum in Jonesboro, Arkansas, has purchased Angels, Devils, Idiots and Sages, a 2024 12.5×19-inch spore drawing, for its permanent collection.

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, has acquired Where Darkness Retreats, a 19×26-inch spore drawing produced in Alaska in 2004. This acquisition comes as a result of Toia’s recent exhibition, Notes on Threatened Landscapes, at the museum from September 2023 through June 2024.

Rutgers University Press and the Zimmerli Museum will publish a catalog of Toia’s Notes on Threatened Landscapes exhibition. This book includes images of works from the exhibition, an introduction and overview by Zimmerli Museum Chief Curator Donna Gustafson, along with essays from four authors:

•  Artist and writer Taney Roniger writes on the Joshua Tree boulder project.
• Brad Evans, English professor at Rutgers University, writes about the Florida
  Keys tree rubbings.
• Carrie Rohman, professor of English at Lafayette College, writes about the Rio
  Grande Valley ant colony casts.
• Ross Gay, poet and National Book Award finalist, writes about the mushroom
  spore drawings.

The book will be completed by May 2025 and available for purchase shortly thereafter. Stay tuned for information on how to purchase the book through jimtoia.com or Rutgers University Press.

Finally, Toia is collaborating with poet Lee Upton on a project for the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey. Their exhibition, The Never Lost Forest, will be on view in September 2025. This is Upton and Toia’s second collaboration and will focus on Upton’s poems and thoughts on forests and trees, which are interpreted, articulated, manufactured and presented by Toia in the Hunterdon Art Museum’s River Gallery.