The Gardiner Museum is open seven days a week! Explore our permanent collection, discover special exhibitions, and get hands-on with clay in our studios. We look forward to welcoming you.
Discover an installation of works by American artist Sharif Bey on now in our lobby. Bey's practice is influenced by African and Afro-diasporic aesthetic traditions, as well as ancient Andean ceramics and contemporary popular culture.
Summer will be here before you know it! Don't wait to sign up for the Gardiner's popular summer camps. New this year, all our week-long sessions are full-day multimedia camps, so kids can draw, paint, sculpt, and more.
Every object in our permanent collection can be accessed through our eMuseum portal. Learn about individual collecting areas, like Italian Maiolica or Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, or search the full collection by keyword. You'll be amazed by what you discover!
Help us continue to offer innovative and engaging exhibitions, programs, and community projects in person and online, as well as plan for the future. Please consider making a donation today.
The Gardiner Museum thanks the generous individuals, corporations, foundations, and government funders who make it possible for the Gardiner to celebrate the art of clay.
The Gardiner Benefactor Award
The Gardiner Benefactor Award is given to a donor or donors who have sustained the Museum over an extended period through donation of objects, financial support, or both.
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
Exhibition Sponsors
Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me
Exhibition Partners Hal Jackman Foundation Michelle Koerner
Contributing Sponsors The Hon. Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Rosamond Ivey Partners in Art Rosemary Phelan Diana Reitberger & Harry Beck The Michael Young Family Foundation
Exhibition Touring Partner Canada Council for the Arts
Thanks to The Raphael Yu Centre for Canadian Ceramics
Renaissance Venice: Life & Luxury at the Crossroads (2021)
Co-Presenting Sponsors Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans David Staines & Noreen Taylor
Supporting Sponsor The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Presenting Programs Sponsor The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Publication Sponsor Gesellschaft der Keramikfreunde
Official Paint Sponsor Farrow & Ball
Education & Programs Sponsors
Community Access Fund 2022 The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation
Community Arts Space 2021: Knowing Histories, Building Futures Lead Sponsor TD Bank Group
Supported by
Susan Crocker & John Hunkin
Acquisitions Fund
Esther Sarick
Event Sponsors
Gardiner Goes Outside 2021
Presenting Sponsors: David Staines & Noreen Taylor Kim Spencer McPhee Barristers PC Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans
Supporting Partners: Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Weston Family Foundation
Thanks to The Citrine Foundation HUB International Margaret McCain Andre Morriseau Rosemary Phelan Diana Reitberger
Government Partners
Canada Council for the Arts City of Toronto Government of Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage Ontario Arts Council Ontario Arts Foundation Government of Ontario
Collections & Library Donors
The Museum is grateful to the following people for their recent gifts to our collections and archives:
Len Dutton Doreen Gryfe David Houlton William Johnston Aleck Zhang
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+ Andrew Sheiner & Liza Mauer Barry & Debra Campbell Bill Macdonald Bruce Kuwabara David & Yvonne Fleck Diana Reitberger & Harry Beck Eleanor & Francis Shen Emmanuelle Gattuso Esther Sarick Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Isadore & Rosalie Sharp Jay Smith & Laura Rapp The Koolum Foundation The Hon. Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Lorna Marsden The Hon. Margaret McCain The Michael Young Family Foundation Michelle Koerner Nancy McCain & Bill Morneau Noreen Taylor & David Staines Rebanks-Appleyard Family Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney Rosemary Phelan John Hunkin & Susan Crocker Victoria Jackman
CURATOR’S CIRCLE $5,000 – $9,999 Anne & Tony Arrell Brian Wilks Catherine Bratty Cecily & Robert Bradshaw Clare Gaudet & Mitch Wigdor Ira Gluskin & Maxine Granovsky Gluskin Jennifer Bratty Maria Martin-Stanley Mary Janigan & Tom Kierans Nicole C. Eaton Rosamond Ivey The William & Nona Heaslip Foundation
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE $2,500 – $4,999 Daniel Bain David W. Binet Jim Andersen & Michelle Marion McClure Family Fund Minhas Mohamed The Murray Frum Foundation Norma Croxon Pamela Goodwin Scott Lauder Victoria Stuart
PATRON CIRCLE $1,500 – $2,499 Adele & Norman Shamie Anthony & Helen Graham The Blakely Family Bonnie Zelman & Philip Plotnick Botho & Susan von Bose Brian & Ellen Carr Brian Greenspan & Marla Berger Carolyn & Neil Turnbull Colleen & Larry Kurtz David & Ilze Wright Elizabeth Hartley Ellen Roland & Philip Lind Frances A. Shepherd Gail & Ian Brooker Grace Westcott & Peter Grant Greg Louden Godyne Sibay Heather & Michael Gardiner Howard Barton & Sally Hannon Joan Hewitt Judy & Phelps Bell Lynda Hamilton Margaret Bangia The Peter & Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation Ronald Haynes Susanne Boyce Thomas P. Kelley Walter Pridham William E. Hewitt William J. Wyatt
YOUNG PATRONS CIRCLE $300+ Anjali Hospattankar Anjli Patel Azadeh Houshmand Bingbin Cheng Brianne Cullen Sherk Chris Lewarne Connie Xi Flora Do Isha Damania Jigen Shah Julia Campbell Kulin Matchhar Liam Randhawa Lisa Cheng Marina Krtinic Michael Lockhart Netila Demneri Sadhisha Ambagahawita
NAMED ENDOWMENT FUNDS
Named Funds are established to provide a lasting legacy at the Gardiner Museum. We are proud to celebrate the following donors in perpetuity and to thank all those who contributed funds in support of our Endowment.
Ann Walker Bell Fund Brian Wilks Fund Courtois Fund Diane Wolfe Fund Donner Canadian Foundation Fund Helen E. Gardiner Fund Karen & Stephen Sheriff Fund Kent & Douglas Farndale Fund Meredith Chilton Curatorial Endowment Fund Philip Smith Foundation Raphael Yu Centre of Canadian Ceramics Robert & Marian Cumming Fund Waltraud Hentschel Ellis Fund
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.
Alexandra Montgomery Alison* & David Appleyard Amoryn Engel Ann Walker Bell* Bette Ounjian Brian Wilks Dennis Weiss Diana Reitberger & Harry Beck Diane Dyer Douglas G. Gardner* Ellen & Brian Carr Isabella Smejda & Ambrose Roche Jean* & Kenneth Laundy Joy Tyndall & Michael Pearson* Judy & Phelps Bell Julia Bass Hamilton Kelvin Browne & Michael Allen Kent & Douglas* Farndale Lorna Marsden & Edward Harvey Margaret Blackwood Mark Winter Maurice & Sheila Snelgrove Meredith Chilton Patricia Bartlett-Richards* Peggy Lau Raphael Yu Robert* & Marian Cumming Russell David Smith & Carl Lee Shain Shirley Wigmore* Theresa & Philip Day
DOUGLAS G. GARDNER OUTSTANDING VOLUNTEER AWARD
This award is presented annually to a volunteer who exemplifies a passion for ceramics, a welcoming attitude, and a love of knowledge-sharing.
Adele Shamie, 2020 Bette Ounjian, 2021
Donation information a/o January 2022.
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