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Free Summer Programming Returns to the Gardiner with Community Arts Space: Art is Change
For the second time, the Gardiner Museum will open its doors to six community partners who will hold two months of free programming including hands-on workshops led by local artists, and original performances.
From hybrid animals to human hearts, this artist is using ceramics to question our ideas of Canada
Read the full article and watch the video at CBC Arts.
Ceramics whiz brings unlimited imagination to Gardiner exhibit
Read the full article in The Globe and Mail.
Gardiner Celebrates Canada 150 with Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary
To commemorate Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Gardiner Museum has commissioned a multimedia exhibition by one of the country’s most exciting young ceramic artists that both celebrates and questions notions of Canadian identity.
Expressive Arts Therapy Group launches #WeBelieveSurvivors
The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and the Gardiner Museum have partnered for more than a decade to offer an Expressive Arts Therapy Group to women who have survived all forms of violence. Led by art therapist Suzanne Thomson and ceramic artist Jess Riva Cooper, the group’s participants will share their work and raise public awareness about violence against women in a sensitive, informed, and compelling art exhibit.
New art exhibition explores Muslim women’s experiences living in Toronto
Read the full article on the Torontoist.
Pokémon Go is invading Canadian museums, so how are they responding?
Read the full article on CBC Arts.
$25,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant Allows Museum to Make All Summer Programming Free to the Public
At the launch on the new Community Arts Space, the Gardiner announced that the Museum would begin offering free admission to visitors 18 and under, a major step toward increasing the accessibility of its world-renowned ceramic collection.
Gardiner Celebrates International Women’s Day
In honour of International Women’s Day, the Gardiner Museum will be showcasing and selling unique handmade crafts and items, including jewellery, in partnership with Far & Wide Collective, an organization that empowers artisans, many who are women, from post-conflict and emerging economies such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Swaziland.