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Our Supporters


The Gardiner Museum thanks the generous individuals, corporations, foundations, and government funders who make it possible for the Gardiner to build community with clay.

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Exhibition Sponsors

Linda Rotua Sormin: Uncertain Ground (2025-2026)

Presenting Sponsors
Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans
Noreen Taylor & David Staines

Official Paint Sponsor
Farrow & Ball

Thanks To
Renette and David Berman Family Foundation
Anjli Patel & Parambir Singh Keila

Education & Program Sponsors

Community Access Fund 2025

The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation
CIBC Charity Golf Tournament
The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation
Koolum Foundation
Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation
The Langar Foundation
Trish McCain

Community Arts Space 2025

Lead Sponsor
TD Ready Commitment

Thanks To
K.M. Hunter Foundation

Next Generation Program

RBC Foundation

Acquisitions Fund

Esther Sarick

Event Sponsors

SMASH: In Flux (2025)

Event Partners
Bondi Produce
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
Torys LLP

Program Sponsors

Gardiner Museum Artist Residency
Generously supported by Dr. Pamela Goodwin

Gardiner Museum Curatorial Residency
Generously supported by the Rebanks Family

Government Partners

Canada Council for the Arts
Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage
Government of Ontario
Ontario Arts Council
Ontario Arts Foundation
Toronto Arts Council

Collections, Library, & Archives Donors

The Museum is grateful to the following people for their recent gifts to our collections and archives in 2025:

Marian Cumming
Margaret & Jim Fleck
Lorna Marsden

The Gardiner Benefactor Award

Bill & Molly Anne* Macdonald, 2014
In Memory of R. Murray Bell & Ann Walker Bell, 2015
Robert* & Marian Cumming, 2016
Dr. Pierre Karch & Dr. Mariel O’Neill-Karch, 2017
Jean & Kenneth Laundy, 2018
Diana Reitberger, 2019
Raphael Yu, 2020
Lorna Marsden, 2021
Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans and David Staines & Noreen Taylor, 2022
Wendy Rebanks, 2023
Tamara Rebanks & James Appleyard, 2024
William B.G. Humphries*, 2025

Gardiner Friends

Thank you to the many individuals who demonstrate their commitment to the Gardiner by making financial gifts in support of our mission.

Founder’s Circle
$10,000+
Susan Crocker
Pamela Goodwin
Tom Kierans & Mary Janigan
The Koolum Foundation
Bill Macdonald
Lorna Marsden, C. M.
The Hon. Margaret McCain
Trish McCain
Rosemary Phelan
Rebanks-Appleyard Family
Diana Reitberger
Paul Sabourin
Esther Sarick
Frances A. Shepherd
Noreen Taylor, C.M. & David Staines, C.M., O.Ont
Brian Wilks*
Anonymous (1)

Curator’s Circle
$5,000 – $9,999
Tony & Anne Arrell
Yvonne & David Fleck
The Hon. William* & Catherine Graham
McClure Family Fund

Director’s Circle
$2,500 – $4,999
Jim Andersen & Michelle Marion
Daniel Bain
Howard Barton & Sally Hannon
Norma Croxon
Neil Guthrie
Scott Lauder
Minhas Mohamed
Victoria Stuart

Patron Circle
$1,500 – $2,499
Cindy & Robert Blakely
Ellen & Murray Blankstein
Carol Bloom Koffler
Walter S. Bloom
Judy & Alan Broadbent
Gerry Conway & K. V. Srinivasan
The Hon. Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski
Michael & Heather Gardiner
Clare Gaudet & Mitch Wigdor
Susan Gerhard
Peter Goring & Suzann Greenaway
Lynda Hamilton
Elizabeth Hartley
Ronald M. Haynes
Joan Hewitt
William E. Hewitt
Jennifer Hood
Jennifer Kerbel Poirier
Kathryn E. Langley Hope
Greg Louden
Rhonda McEwen
The Ouellette Family
Burke Paterson & Jacqui Allard
Gabrielle Peacock & Stephen Ranger
Walter* & Nancy Pridham*
Alison N. Reeve
Adele & Norman* Shamie
Botho & Susan von Bose
Jonathan & Katya Weisz
Anthony Wu
William J. Wyatt
Bonnie Zelman & Philip Plotnick
Anonymous (3)

Young Patron Circle
$300+

E. J. Abano
Gurpreet Ahluwalia
Victoria Alves
Nina Boccia
Christopher Bozek
Alexa Breininger
Peony Y. Cen
Ryan Chang
Bingbin Cheng
Emily Cornelius
Anastasiia Danylova
Jessica Delfino
Derek DeNure
Lori Goldberg
Vikram Handa
Elsa Hannaford
Klevis Haxhiaj
Azadeh Houshmand
Luke Jeagal
Adam Komorowski
Marina Krtinic
Rachel Lee
Sally Leung
Michael Lockhart
Romana Lyon
Kokulan Mahendiran
Kulin Matchhar
Kevonn Morgan
Jessica Newman
Curren Pangler
Elizabeth Pyvovarov
Liam Randhawa
Maxine Schnepf
Jigen Shah
Arati Sharma
Jennifer Stack
Mun Yee Tan
John Tessari
Yanique Williams
Audrey Zhang
Amelia Zhu

Porcelain Society

Members of the Porcelain Society have made an enduring gift to the Gardiner by including the Museum as a charitable bequest in their will. The Gardiner is deeply grateful to all members of the Porcelain Society for including the Museum in their legacy plans.

Alison* & David Appleyard
Patricia Bartlett-Richards*
James A. (Jay) & Birute Bilkstys-Richardson
Julia Bass Hamilton
Judy & Phelps* Bell
Ann Walker Bell*
Sampa Bhadra & John Martin
Margaret Blackwood
Kelvin Browne & Michael Allen
Ellen & Brian Carr
Meredith Chilton
Robert* & Marian Cumming
Theresa & Philip Day
Diane Dyer
Amoryn Engel
Kent & Douglas* Farndale
Douglas G. Gardner*
Ronald M. Haynes
Peggy Lau
Jean* & Kenneth Laundy
Lorna Marsden & Edward Harvey*
Alexandra Montgomery
Bette Ounjian
Diana Reitberger
Eddy Reitberger
Alison N. Reeve
Isabella Smejda & Ambrose Roche
Russell David Smith & Carl Lee Shain*
Maurice & Sheila Snelgrove
Joy Tyndall & Michael Pearson*
Dennis Weiss
Shirley Wigmore*
Brian Wilks*
Mark Winter
Raphael Yu

Named Funds

Alison N. Reeve Endowment Fund
Ann Walker Bell Fund
Brian Wilks Fund
Courtois Fund
Diane Wolfe Fund
Donner Canadian Foundation Fund
Edmund & Renate Reitberger Exhibition Fund
Helen E. Gardiner Fund
Karen & Stephen Sheriff Fund
Kent & Douglas Farndale Fund
Meredith Chilton Curatorial Endowment Fund
Raphael Yu Centre of Canadian Ceramics
Robert & Marian Cumming Fund
Ronald M. Haynes Fund
Waltraud Hentschel Ellis Fund

Donation information as of October 2025.

The Museum makes every effort to accurately publish our donor listings. If there is an error please call us at 416.408.5051.

*Fondly Remembered

Explore the Gardiner’s capital projects and the generous donors who made them possible.

Learn more

If you are considering supporting the Gardiner, please contact Miranda Disney, Chief Development Officer:

416.408.5051

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The Gardiner Museum will close at 6 pm on Wednesday May 22 for the International Ceramic Art Fair Preview Gala.