The Gardiner is now open from Thursday - Sunday, including free weekend admission! There's plenty of space to reconnect and amazing art to discover in all corners of the Museum. Clay Restaurant is still open Tuesday - Sunday. Reservations fill up fast, so book your table early. Please read our new health and safety policies before you visit.
From sticky to crusty, pliable to powdery, and shaped to shapeless, clay’s ability to transform in real time is prompting a new generation of artists to explore the possibilities of this ancient material. RAW features new work by four artists who are pushing boundaries with unfired clay: Cassils, Magdolene Dykstra, Azza El Siddique, and Linda Swanson. See it now!
We're firing up the kilns again! Join us on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 - 3 pm for drop in clay classes in our pottery studios. We've reduced our class sizes to allow for safe physical distancing, and instituted new health and safety protocols. Registration opens online at 10 am on the morning of the class. We can't wait to see you back in the studios!
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Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture, taking place annually at the end of September. New in 2020, Culture Days has been extended beyond one weekend to a 4-week run: September 25th - October 25th! As a special Culture Days event, we're sharing a recent online artist talk with Dame Magdalene Odundo DBE, part of our "3 Works" digital series hosted by Chief Curator Sequoia Miller.
Culture Days is a national celebration of arts and culture, taking place annually at the end of September. New in 2020, Culture Days has been extended beyond one weekend to a 4-week run: September 25th - October 25th! As a...
In this free online event hosted by Chief Curator Sequoia Miller, artist Linda Swanson will discuss three of her artworks in connection to the theme "Substance." Swanson is an artist and professor at Concordia University in Montreal whose interests are grounded in the metamorphic nature of ceramic materials and processes. Her work is currently on display at the Gardiner in the special exhibition RAW.
In this free online event hosted by Chief Curator Sequoia Miller, artist Linda Swanson will discuss three of her artworks in connection to the theme "Substance." Swanson is an artist and professor at Concordia University in Montreal whose interests are...
As part of the Gardiner’s free online series 3 Works, guest artist Cassils speaks to Chief Curator Sequoia Miller about three of their artworks in relation to the theme “Spaces.” In connection to Nuit Blanche’s curatorial theme “The Space Between Us,” the conversation between Cassils and Sequoia speaks to the ways that Cassils' work and activism highlight and problematize physical and social spaces that separate us from one another.
As part of the Gardiner’s free online series 3 Works, guest artist Cassils speaks to Chief Curator Sequoia Miller about three of their artworks in relation to the theme “Spaces.” In connection to Nuit Blanche’s curatorial theme “The Space Between...