Imagining a Better World: The Artwork of Nelly Toll

The Massillon Museum initiated a partnership with Nelly Toll in 2012 to help share her story through a traveling exhibition, which was produced with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Toll had already been working for many years prior with filmmaker Diane Estelle Vicari on interpreting her childhood experience and the powerful messaging of hope present in her paintings through a documentary film vehicle. The Museum and Vicari continue to work together to ensure that, in the absence of Toll’s voice, her story continues to resonate.