The Gardiner Museum is open seven days a week. Explore our permanent collection, discover special exhibitions, get hands-on with clay in our studios, dine, shop, and more.
Enter an immersive world created by Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo, brought to life by over 500 miniature polymer clay figures that tell stories about our most urgent social issues, from the pandemic to the climate crisis. It will delight visitors of all ages!
Registration for our popular March Break camps opens to Gardiner Friends on January 23 and to the general public on January 25. From March 13 - 17, kids and teens can explore the Museum and get creative with clay in our pottery studios!
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In this two-hour workshop, participants will explore simple physical practices with clay, using our sense of touch and breath exercises to bring us into the present moment while simultaneously deepening and expanding our awareness that we are all related.
In this two-hour workshop, participants will explore simple physical practices with clay, using our sense of touch and breath exercises to bring us into the present moment while simultaneously deepening and expanding our awareness that we are all related....
Instructor: Suzanne Thomson
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Inspired by our major fall exhibition, Karine Giboulo: Housewarming, students will engage with the themes of the exhibition and learn new hand-building techniques.
Inspired by our major fall exhibition, Karine Giboulo: Housewarming, students will engage with the themes of the exhibition and learn new hand-building techniques....
Instructor: Hatice Erdogan
By physically sculpting plates and bowls, participants will be invited to explore concepts of boundaries, recognize the need to rest, and interrogate tendencies to over-identify with helper and caregiving roles. Participants will leave the series with greater insight into themselves and how to prevent their own paths to burnout.
By physically sculpting plates and bowls, participants will be invited to explore concepts of boundaries, recognize the need to rest, and interrogate tendencies to over-identify with helper and caregiving roles. Participants will leave the series with greater insight into themselves...
In this two-hour workshop, participants will engage is clay exercises designed to call attention to habits of believe, judgments, and the stories we tell ourselves. With self-compassion, we will create possibilities to loosen their hold on us by working with the malleability of clay.
In this two-hour workshop, participants will engage is clay exercises designed to call attention to habits of believe, judgments, and the stories we tell ourselves. With self-compassion, we will create possibilities to loosen their hold on us by working with...
Our miniature figure making workshops with artist Karine Giboulo are back by popular demand! Discover the versatility of working with polymer clay and express your own creativity in response to the themes in the special exhibition "Karine Giboulo: Housewarming."
Our miniature figure making workshops with artist Karine Giboulo are back by popular demand! Discover the versatility of working with polymer clay and express your own creativity in response to the themes in the special exhibition "Karine Giboulo: Housewarming."...
Join Roxanne Brathwaite, Toronto-based miniaturist and contestant from Season 1 of CBC Gem's “Best In Miniature", for a series of three workshops in which participants will progressively develop skills and techniques to build their own miniature suite by repurposing everyday objects.
Join Roxanne Brathwaite, Toronto-based miniaturist and contestant from Season 1 of CBC Gem's “Best In Miniature", for a series of three workshops in which participants will progressively develop skills and techniques to build their own miniature suite by repurposing everyday...