The Gardiner is thrilled to announce the launch of CLAY, an original in-house restaurant offering seasonal menus of fresh, local fare in collaboration with The Food Dudes.
Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most influential artists and human rights activists, and one of China’s most formidable critics. Ai Weiwei: Unbroken features a selection of the artist's most iconic ceramics, and marks the international debut of new work. Opens February 28!
Get creative as a family with clay activities on February 17 and 18, including a fun mosaic-making workshop led by a local artist. Admission for visitors 18 and under is free everyday!
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.
Audrey Mah is a contemporary ceramist. She graduated from the University of Waterloo where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She continued her studies in ceramic design at the Ontario College of Art where she received a scholarship.
Her work has been sold in Canada, USA, and Mexico, and has been exhibited at the George Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Audrey has received numerous awards from the Ontario Arts Council, and has taught the sculpture program at the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as the children and adult pottery classes at the Royal Ontario Museum. Currently, she instructs and develops programs at the Gardiner Museum and workshops at various Toronto District schools.
Audrey works regularly with children to create murals through VIBE Arts, an award-winning charitable organization committed to providing children and youth in under resourced communities. She has also been teaching adult and children classes at the Avenue Road Arts School since 2005.
This wheel throwing camp will teach kids how to center, open and pull up the walls to create bowls, vases, goblets, and glazing application techniques. Suitable for ages 9 - 16.
This wheel throwing camp will teach kids how to center, open and pull up the walls to create bowls, vases, goblets, and glazing application techniques. Suitable for ages 9 - 16....
Instructor: Audrey Mah
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Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces with hand building and wheel throwing techniques.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces with hand building and wheel throwing techniques....
Kids can get their hand dirty in our Saturday Morning Kids Class! Working with a professional ceramic artist, they'll make and decorate their own unique clay projects.
Kids can get their hand dirty in our Saturday Morning Kids Class! Working with a professional ceramic artist, they'll make and decorate their own unique clay projects....
This course is an introduction to various hand building and wheel throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting and press moulding using existing moulds, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay.
This course is an introduction to various hand building and wheel throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting and press moulding using existing moulds, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay....
Make a handmade textured cup for Mother's Day!
Make a handmade textured cup for Mother's Day!...