Toronto 
Events Description
This Labour Day Weekend, the Gardiner Museum is offering free admission to the full collection and special exhibitions, as well as family activities, including clay making and chalk drawing, on the outdoor plaza, weather permitting. Kids can take home a free art kit—while they last—with clay, sculpting tools, and colouring pages featuring beloved objects from the collection.
Visitors can explore the permanent collection, including pottery representing 47 cultures from the modern day geographical areas of the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America; a world-renowned collection of porcelain from Europe, China, and Japan; and contemporary ceramics byCanadian and international artists like Roger Aksadjuak, Shary Boyle, Kent Monkman, Virgil Ortiz, Fujikasa Satoko, Brendan Tang, and Annie Turner.
Visitors can also access the Museum’s temporary exhibitions including Fable, a fantastical installation of clay and stained glass creatures by Toronto-based artist Nurielle Stern that spans the Gardiner’s soaring
stairwell; and the major special exhibition RAW. RAW features new work by four artists—Cassils, Magdolene Dykstra, Azza El Siddique, and Linda Swanson—who are pushing boundaries with raw clay.
The show’s open layout offers ample space to explore and reflect, and its themes, which range from trans visibility to the sustainability of human population growth, are particularly timely. Magdolene Dykstra’s work Polyanthroponemia imagines humanity as a virus infecting the planet, and visualizes the Earth’s immune system pushing into the galleries.
Join us for clay making and chalk drawing from 11 am – 3 pm, and take home a free kids art kit (while they last!) complete with clay, sculpting tools, and colouring sheets featuring beloved objects from the collection.
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $0
Free admission and family activities
How to get tickets?
At the door: Register at the Front Desk.
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Saturday September 5, 2020 to Monday September 7, 2020
Saturday September 5: 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday September 6: 10 am – 5 pm
Monday September 7: 10 am – 5 pm
Pottery on the Plaza from 11 am – 3 pm, weather permitting.
Venue & Address
Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park, Toronto
Wheelchair accessible
No parking
Accessible by Public Transport
