Bachelor of Arts | Academy Awards | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | Master of Arts | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Institute of Contemporary Arts | École des Beaux-Arts | California Institute of the Arts | British Academy of Film and Television Arts | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts | University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | martial arts | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Academy of Fine Arts | Beaux-Arts architecture | Mixed martial arts | Museum of Fine Arts | Arts and Crafts movement | New York Foundation for the Arts | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Herb Alpert | Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
Thornton has received many awards in the field: the Maya Deren Award, the first Alpert Award in the Arts for media, a nomination for the Hugo Boss Award, two Rockefeller Fellowships, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation and, Art Matters, and, most recently, a Guggenheim Fellowship.