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!
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Registration for fall classes will open online on Tuesday July 30 at 9 am. Please read the registration instructions prior to registering.
Please note: There will be no in-person registration available on July 30.
To be added to the waitlist for a sold-out summer class, please email mail@gardinermuseum.com
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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
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Students have the option of exploring the techniques directly on pieces of pottery or working on experimental tiles, leading to surface treatments on future pieces.
Students have the option of exploring the techniques directly on pieces of pottery or working on experimental tiles, leading to surface treatments on future pieces....
Instructor: Ian Symons
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces through hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Learn about clay, its process, its infinitive possibilities, and some of its history.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces through hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques. Learn about clay, its process, its infinitive possibilities, and some of its history....
Instructor: Dianne Lee
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: Hannun Lyn
Using mainly hand-building techniques, but also some wheel-throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware. Suitable for beginner and intermediate students.
Using mainly hand-building techniques, but also some wheel-throwing, this course will focus on creating unique tableware. Suitable for beginner and intermediate students....
Instructor: Karin Pavey
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces with hand building and wheel throwing techniques. Learn about clay, its process, its infinitive possibilities, and some of its history.
Create decorative, functional, or sculptural pieces with hand building and wheel throwing techniques. Learn about clay, its process, its infinitive possibilities, and some of its history....
Instructor: Michelle Mendlowitz
Learn the art of the potter’s wheel. Create functional and sculptural pieces with earthenware clay and glazes. ...
Instructor: Danica Drago
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore clay as a medium for deepening our experience of the present moment.
In this two-hour workshop, we will explore clay as a medium for deepening our experience of the present moment....
Instructor: Suzanne Thomson
This four-week workshop will focus on making bowls: serving bowls, wobbly bowls, nesting bowls, soup bowls, or any other type of bowl that you can think of!
This four-week workshop will focus on making bowls: serving bowls, wobbly bowls, nesting bowls, soup bowls, or any other type of bowl that you can think of! ...
Instructor: Audrey Mah