Gardiner Museum Programs

School Programs at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (Currently right across the street from the ROM-Royal Ontario Museum and down the street from the Bata Shoe Museum. In January we will relocate to McCaul, down the street from the AGO-Art Gallery of Ontario, while renovations take place to expand the Museum's Queen's Park location.) Bring your classes to the Gardiner Museum and have them participate in one of our many programs. Our curriculum matched education programs are available to students from senior kindergarten through the University level. Each class visit includes the opportunity to create wonderful works of art in hands-on clay workshops. Half-day programs, offered in the morning or afternoon, include 30 minutes with a museum educator, and 1_ hours with a professional potter. Full day programs include approximately 1 _ hours with a museum educator and 1_ hours with a professional potter. (Offered for grades 3 and up) School curriculum links include: Programs are explored through - Art Audio Visual presentations - Social Studies Gallery tours - Native Studies Work sheets - Animals Hands on activities - Environment - Language As well, you may want to book a morning visit with The Bata Shoe Museum followed by an afternoon clay workshop with The Gardiner Museum to make fantasy clay shoes. For inquiries please call 416-408-5064 Cost: unguided tour $4 per student guided tour $5 per student _ day program $7 per student full day program $12 per student Please bring boxes to transport your creations back to school, or you may wish to leave the work to be fired in the museum’s kiln for later pick-up. The cost is an additional $2 per student. Firing take 10 days to 2 weeks. Starting in January 2004 The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art will be offering New Programs for your students! We are moving to a temporary new location beginning in January 2004. 60 McCaul Street, just around the corner from the AGO. Here we will continue to run all of our Education programs, including our Sunday Clay Pit drop in. New Programs Offered ß If you are doing a self-guided tour of the AGO in the morning we can offer you a clay workshop with a similar theme in the afternoon. or ß Join us for a full day program and learn about Chinese culture and Exploration. Take a walking tour of Chinatown in the morning and create clay Cargo Ships filled with trade materials such as porcelain and produce and out of clay in the afternoon. or ß Take a guided walking tour and view local important outdoor sculpture. Return to our clay studio in the afternoon and create your own 3-dimentional artworks based on the morning tour. or ß Attend an education program at the Textile Museum of Canada in the morning and in the afternoon make a similarly themed creation out of clay with our artists in the afternoon. ß Don’t forget our Feats of Clay program in conjunction with the Bata Shoe Museum will still occur even after our move as with all our other school offerings! Call to make a reservation at 416-408-5064. Below is the detailed information regarding their programs: Zotz, Batz, Balam! Ancient Americas Program Animal Safari Carved in Stone: Medieval Gargoyles Feats of Clay Custom Made School Programs Dragons and Fantastic Beasts Explorers Maiolica New Programs ----------------- Zotz, Batz, Balam! Ancient Americas Program The Gardiner Museum has wonderful collections of Ancient American Art from Mexico, Central and South America. The animals, human figures and vessels in our gallery demonstrate the ingenuity and skill of ancient potters working with earthenware clay. This program is designed to offer students exciting evidence of early civilizations in the Americas, providing curriculum links with Art, Social Studies, Native Studies, Animals, the Environment and Languages. Your students will have an opportunity to learn about the accomplishments of the Maya, the Inca and many other early and established civilizations before the arrival of Europeans. Learn how life might have been experienced by a Maya or Inca child living at the time these outstanding ceramics were made. The Ancient American cultures are explored through viewing slide presentations, handling objects, a gallery talk, and discussion with a Maya archaeologist. Very importantly, students will work with ceramic artists to make clay figures, vessels or masks in a hands-on workshop session. The students can return to school with their clay work or leave it to be fired in our kilns for later pick-up. This program is available as a half or full day option. This program is recommended for students grade 4-6, those studying ancient civilizations or Spanish language classes at any level. However it can be adapted to a variety of age levels including university anthropology and archaeology courses. Visual arts classes at all levels will find these collections a rich resource for their work in clay. If you are studying an alternate ancient civilization (eg. Egypt) we can adapt our program so that your students create canopic jars or small sarcophagi out of clay, as themes such as “The Afterlife” are common throughout many ancient civilizations. (Zotz means bat, Batz means monkey and Balam means Jaguar in some Mayan languages.) Link to Cloth and Clay website. ------------------------- Animal Safari Bring your students to the Gardiner Museum and travel around the world on our animal safari! Explore our many different galleries and view clay versions of animals from the jungle, forest, sky and sea. At the same time learn the differences among clay, sand and soil. Each safari is followed by a hands on clay workshop with a professional ceramic artist. Students will create their own three dimensional animals and think about their habitats, their food and their young. Students can return to school with their clay animals or leave them to be fired in our kiln for later pick-up. Each class will have an opportunity to visit the Gardiner’s famous ceramic monkey orchestra before they leave. Available as a half-day program only. This program is recommended for students from Kindergarten through grade 3 but can be adapted for older students as well. --------------- Carved in Stone: Medieval Gargoyles Bring your students to the Gardiner Museum and explore life and architecture of the Middle Ages through a video presentation and class discussion. “Carved in Stone”, a video created for the Gardiner Museum, introduces students to medieval themes used in European cathedrals and in local Toronto architecture built in a revival of medieval style. Student discussion will then be followed by a hands on clay workshop conducted by professional ceramic artists where students will create amazing gargoyles out of clay. The gargoyles can be fired in our kilns for later pick-up or can be transported back to school by the students on the day of the museum visit. A full day program is an exciting option for this theme. A full day, 2 hours in the morning and 1 _ hours in the afternoon will include a talk and medieval music demonstration by Mike Franklin, a talented musicologist, who will also conduct a walking tour of the nearby architecture of the University of Toronto (weather permitting). Students will also have the opportunity to sketch some of the gargoyles they see for inspiration during their afternoon clay workshop. This program is recommended for those studying Medieval history, grades 4-6 but is often adapted for older grades and university students. ---------------------- Custom Designed School Programs If you have a special project in mind or a theme you would like to pursue, please let us know and together we can design a museum visit just for you and your class. Here is a list of some of the styles of ceramic art that we have at The Gardiner Museum ß Ancient American Pottery – Olmec, Village cultures, West Mexican, Teotihuacan, Veracruz, Zapotec, Intermediate area (Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, Columbia, Ecuador), Maya, Moche, Chimu, Chavin, Chancay, Tiahuanaco, Huari, Nazca, and Inca. Culture, art, life-ways of ancient and contemporary peoples of Mexico, Central and South America. ß Italian Renaissance Maiolica – 15th and 16th century, tin glazed earthenware, representing classical mythology, perspective, family life and other great themes of an extremely important moment in the history of the west. ß English Delftware- 17th and 18th century, tin glazed earthenware. Themes include early medicine, family life, history of the kings and queens. The Great Fire of London and the plague years. ß Chinese Export Porcelain – 18th century. The history of porcelain as it developed in Asia and its remarkable influence on the culture and art of the west. Includes important pieces made for scholars’ use in China itself. ß German Meissen Porcelain – 18th century. The European response to the importation of Asian porcelain. Early scientific experiments, alchemy, the Enlightenment, centralism, baroque and rococo. ß Viennese Porcelain- 18th century. Trade, industrial secrets and the influence of the world of Islam on the styles and culture of Western Europe. ß French Porcelain and scent bottles – 18th century. A wonderful collection of tiny perfect receptacles for scent leads to a discussion of their themes, owners, makers and collectors. ß English Porcelain –18th century. England and the continent. The influence of France and French style. The importance of nature and the observation and categorization of natural phenomena and its influence on tablewares. ß Commedia dell’Arte – Character figures from the popular 16th century Italian theatrical productions featuring Harlequin, Columbine, and Pierrot to name a few. Theatre, dining, politics and dance. Great themes of entertainment portrayed in lively poses captured forever in porcelain. ß Hanz Syz Collection – 18th century European Porcelain.

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