Join us for a delicious three-course lunch while enjoying one of the best views in the city. Try our famous CLAY burger, ricotta gnudi, and more inspired local fare.
Join us for a full summer of free community programming inspired by the transformative power of clay. Four public projects explore how justice and pleasure can co-exist as counterpoints to calling out, gaslighting, and exhaustion. Register for free talks, clay workshops, and more!
There's still time to register for our popular clay camps, now with earlier start times, art-filled field trips, and fresh new themes. Sign up now for a week of hands-on creativity!
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.
For the last ten years, the Gardiner Museum and the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic have partnered to offer an engaging series of art therapy groups for women who have experienced violence. Since 2003, clients of the Schlifer Clinic have worked with a professional artist (Susan Low-Beer) and an art therapist (Suzanne Thomson) in the Museum’s clay studios to sculpt their trauma narratives in clay, transforming their pain and reconnecting with their resilience and strength.
This partnership was established by former Director of Education, Diane Wolfe. In 2013, these art therapy groups have culminated in a landmark exhibition, Transformation by Fire, designed to raise public awareness about violence against women in a sensitive, informed, and compelling way, and to provide accessible and inspiring real life role models for anyone who has either experienced or witnessed violence.
Thanks to the generosity of our patrons and members of the community, the Museum has raised the funds needed to offer free admission to the public for the duration of Transformation by Fire. Please take advantage by bringing your friends and family to explore this compelling exhibition.
Learn more about Barbara Schlifer and The Barbara Schlifer Commemorative Clinic.
Assaulted Women’s Helpline: 1.866.863.0511 or awhl.org
Exhibition Programs & Events
Tuesday February 5, 5:30 – 7 pm Patron Circle Preview
Wednesday February 6, 9 – 10:30 am Members Morning Talk And Tea
Wednesday February 6, 9 am – 8 pm Members Preview Day
Saturday February 9, 1 – 4 pm Hands On Workshop
Tuesday February 26, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Lecture: Susan Low-Beer
Friday March 8, 6:30 – 8:30 pm International Women’s Day Dance Performance by Julie Lassonde
Friday April 12, 7 – 9 pm Girl Rising
Thursday April 11, 6:30 – 8 pm Lecture: Body/Mind Expressive Arts
Thursday April 18, 12 – 1:30pm Lecture: Humans Rights Watch