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.
This intimate lobby display explores how the artists of Rankin Inlet draw upon tradition to create new works that embody the attributes of the Inuit people: interconnectedness, resilience, strength, and creativity.
Join us on July 6 from 5 to 8 pm for an evening of art, music, poetry, and food as we celebrate some of Toronto's most innovative emerging artists, curators, and architects. 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.
Registration can be done online any time or in person or by phone daily from 10 am to 5 pm. Subscribe to the Gardiner Museum e-newsletter for updates on programming.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques in this semi-private class.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques in this semi-private class....
Instructor: Thomas Suh
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Learn the art of the potter’s wheel in this new semi-private class. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes.
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel in this new semi-private class. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes....
Instructor: Annika Hoefs
An introductory level course on how to make a bowl using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Learn about clay, its process, and infinite possibilities.
An introductory level course on how to make a bowl using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Learn about clay, its process, and infinite possibilities....
Instructor: Audrey Mah
Explore the world of planters, making pieces such as cacti planters, succulent logs, orchid pots, or herb planters. Create a planter inspired by a Pop Art image such as a Rubik’s Cube, or use your green thumb to make the ideal container to cultivate your favorite plants.
Explore the world of planters, making pieces such as cacti planters, succulent logs, orchid pots, or herb planters. Create a planter inspired by a Pop Art image such as a Rubik’s Cube, or use your green thumb to make the...
This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired, non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces.
This combination class will use stoneware clay, a high-fired, non-porous clay durable for all kinds of uses, to create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces....
Instructor: Lynn Fisher
This course is an introduction to various clay hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting, press molding using existing moulds, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay.
This course is an introduction to various clay hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Students will also explore slip casting, press molding using existing moulds, and new glazing techniques using earthenware clay....
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces using hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. ...
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes.
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes....
Instructor: Marc Egan
Instructor: Michelle Mendlowitz
Attend a masterclass with artist Andrea Vuletin and learn the decorative technique of mishima, which is applied to pieces before firing when they are in a leather-hard state.
Attend a masterclass with artist Andrea Vuletin and learn the decorative technique of mishima, which is applied to pieces before firing when they are in a leather-hard state....
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore clay as a medium for deepening our experience of the present moment. The emphasis will be on the process of working with clay while not being attached the product we create.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore clay as a medium for deepening our experience of the present moment. The emphasis will be on the process of working with clay while not being attached the product we create....
Instructor: Suzanne Thomson
Using mainly hand-building techniques, but also some wheel-throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware.
Using mainly hand-building techniques, but also some wheel-throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware....
Instructor: Karin Pavey