Join à la Carte Kitchen Inc. at the Gardiner Bistro for lunch from Sunday to Friday in the third-floor Terrace Room with stunning views overlooking the city.
Join us for a full summer of free community arts programming in our Exhibition Hall and on the plaza, featuring work by emerging artists, curators, and architects inspired by the theme "Art is Change".
Queer video and performance artist Mikiki, who identifies as a mixed White/Indigenous person of Mi’kmaq, Acadian, and Irish heritage, will address issues of identity and colonization through original choreography performed on a bed of wet clay. Performances are FREE with registration!
The Gardiner Museum is among the few museums in the world focused on ceramics, and is one of the most important specialty museums internationally. It houses approximately 4,000 objects, including European porcelain, ceramics from the Ancient Americas, Chinese porcelain, Japanese porcelain, and contemporary ceramics. Search the collection online!
Everyone can love clay! Become a Friend at one of the world’s great specialty museums and enjoy the benefits, including unlimited admission, invitations to exhibition previews and special events, discounts on lectures and clay classes, and more.
Carved in Stone
Learn about what life was like in the Middle Ages in Europe through a video presentation and class discussion. “Carved in Stone”, a video created for the Gardiner Museum, introduces students to various themes used in the adornment of medieval European cathedrals and in local Toronto architecture built in a medieval revival style.
Students will have a discussion and view the movie "Carved in Stone" as inpiration for the hands-on clay experience.
Bring your students for a morning with talented musicologist Michael Franklin. After an introduction and discussion, Michael will conduct a music demonstration and a walking tour of the nearby architecture at the University of Toronto ( weather permitting). Students will have the opportunity to sketch gargoyles and find inspiration for their hands-on studio project.
Program Details
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1. Demo pieces from the Studio