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2020 Annual Report Table of Contents 2020 Annual Report Table of Contents p3 Director’s Message: Keeping connected through clay p4 Our supporters stepped up p6 Chief Curator’s Message: Reimaging collections and clay content p7 The RAW power of art p10 Showcasing the next generation p11 Building community in a pandemic p12 Innovating online p14 Activating the Gardiner Shop p15 Financial Summary p17 Board of Trustees p18 Donor List COVER: Cassils, Up To and Including Their Limits (Gardiner Museum, Toronto), 2020. Photo: Cassils with Alejandro Santiago ON THIS PAGE: RAW exhibition. Photo: Natalie Logan IMAGE: Community Building Weekends. Photo: Natalie Logan emphasized the dedication and creativity Family Foundation and the Gardiner of our staff and the resiliency of the Volunteer Committee, these Community Keeping organization. Building Weekends offered people an opportunity to reconnect safely. The Gardiner We quickly came to realize that the best way became an oasis of art and community connected to stay connected to our Gardiner Friends, during a difficult and uncertain time. supporters, visitors, artists, partners, and others in the ceramics community, was We also began work on a new three-year to focus our activities online. This meant strategic plan for 2021 - 2023. Many staff through weekly e-newsletters, online lectures and and board members participated in this artist interviews, digital exhibitions, virtual process, holding consultations with a wide clay workshops, live social media events, range of stakeholders, including community clay staff videos, and even an online fundraiser partners and local organizations. Central to featuring a clay demonstration. The success the plan is a commitment to instilling of these initiatives opened our eyes to how principles of anti-racism and anti-oppression There were challenges in 2020 as a result meaningful digital engagement can increase in everything we do as a Museum. of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there were our accessibility and reach, something also successes and learnings that we will we will continue to prioritize beyond the The events of this past year have reinforced carry forward with us. When the Gardiner pandemic. the urgency of this work and the necessity Museum closed in March, it prompted us to for museums, including the Gardiner, to be creative and find new ways to serve our When the physical Museum did reopen from transform in ways that serve the needs of communities beyond the Museum walls. July to November, we offered free admission all of our communities. We look forward The result was greater accessibility and as well as a series of Community Building to meeting this challenge with excitement, diversity in how we engage with our publics. Weekends that included free family-friendly creativity, and hope for the future. clay activities on the Linda Frum and What the Gardiner was able to accomplish Howard Sokolowski Plaza. Made possible under difficult circumstances and with the by the generosity of the Citrine Foundation Kelvin Browne physical Museum closed for five months of Canada, with support from the Weston Executive Director and CEO 3 IMAGE: Community Building Weekends. Photo: Natalie Logan Our supporters stepped Community up Building Weekends While the COVID-19 pandemic resulted online formats that reached a wider, more When the Museum did reopen briefly in in the cancellation, postponement, or diverse audience. Emergency funds came the summer, our free Community Building reimagining of all major fundraising events, from The Hal Jackman Foundation, Pierre Weekends were sponsored by the Citrine the Gardiner received tremendous support Karch & Mariel O’Neill-Karch, Brian Wilks, Foundation of Canada, with support from from our membership, particularly at the and the Peter and Melanie Munk Foundation, the Weston Family Foundation and the highest levels, with seventy percent of our as well as numerous others. Gardiner Volunteer Committee. The goal was Patron-level Friends maintaining their active to encourage our diverse communities, member status. particularly first-time visitors, to explore the Museum, participate in hands-on making, Similarly, our community of donors provided and experience clay and ceramics in vital support for the Museum’s ongoing inspiring and unexpected ways. operations and made it possible for our team to adapt our programming for new 4 IMAGE: Community Building Weekends. Photo: Natalie Logan Clay Date Gardiner Gardiner In August, the Gardiner Museum’s Young Volunteer Benefactor Award Patron Circle hosted Clay Date, an innovative online fundraising event. Clay Committee One of our most generous and dedicated Date united a new generation of cultural supporters, Raphael Yu, was the recipient philanthropists virtually for an evening of Despite the suspension of our onsite of the 2020 Gardiner Benefactor Award in socializing and experimenting with raw clay volunteer program during the pandemic, the recognition of his tremendous contributions under the guidance of Toronto-based artist Gardiner Volunteer Committee continued to the Museum’s collection and the Habiba El-Sayed. to support the Museum with fundraising as establishment of the Raphael Yu Centre of well as by sharing their time and expertise Canadian Ceramics. with us. We look forward to welcoming them back to the Gardiner as soon as possible. The incredible support of our Gardiner Friends and Patrons, volunteers, and donors allowed us not only to continue to operate throughout the pandemic, but to innovate and build new models for the future that will increase both our international reach and impact within our local community. 5 IMAGE: Curatorial Installations Manager, Micah Donovan. Photo: Gardiner Museum Despite the lockdowns in March and again in perspectives to the collection. This includes November, we were able to run free onsite works by Chris Antemann; Canadian artists Reimagining clay workshops when the Gardiner was Eddy Firmin, Linda Sikora, and Nurielle open, as well as sessional clay classes in Stern; and the Harmsen Collection of East collections October. It was wonderful to see people in African pottery. the studios again, even briefly, and we look forward to welcoming students back as soon We also loaned works to the Art Gallery and clay as possible. of Nova Scotia, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Bata Shoe Museum, Royal Ontario The Gardiner published two books that Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and content promoted the Museum’s collection and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. represented important scholarly The Curatorial, Education, and Programs contributions in the fields of European and The challenges we faced as a result of the departments worked nimbly and innovatively Japanese ceramics respectively: A Passion pandemic encouraged us to work together to rearrange schedules, move content for Porcelain: Essays in Honour of Meredith creatively and to imagine alternative online, and devise new ways of showcasing Chilton and Ko-Kutani + Nabeshima: methods for sharing our collections, our collections and other contemporary Japanese Porcelain from the Macdonald exhibitions, classes, and programs with both ceramics. This involved digital exhibitions, Collection. new and established audiences. We will online artist talks, virtual field trips, regular continue to experiment with and leverage social media engagement, blog posts and While acquisitions were suspended for digital platforms to increase accessibility videos highlighting the permanent most of the year, we engaged in important and champion the Gardiner in Canada and collection. Our staff even participated by conversations about diversifying the abroad, while prioritizing hands-on filming themselves discussing their favourite permanent collection that informed the experiences when the Museum reopens. ceramic objects at home. It was a true team works we did acquire. Of the 88 pieces effort that taught us a lot about how we can donated and three purchased, 73 are Sequoia Miller, Ph.D. make our collection more accessible. contemporary works, bringing new Chief Curator ANATOMY OF AN OBJECT: ANATOMY OF AN OBJECT: GARDINER STAFF SHOW PLAY VIDEO MANGA ORMOLU VER. 4.0-O PLAY VIDEO EWER WITH SILVER MOUNTS PLAY VIDEO YOU THEIR MUGS 6 The RAW power of art Up To and Including Their Limits On February 20, the Gardiner hosted the international debut of a new performance work titled Up To and Including Their Limits by acclaimed artist Cassils. Known for testing the limits of their physical endurance, Cassils’ provocative and often startling work centres narratives of trans and non-binary visibility and presence. The performance, commissioned by the Gardiner, was presented in partnership with the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives. Tickets, which included an accessible artist price, sold out within minutes. A captivated audience of local artists, culture seekers, Gardiner supporters, and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community watched as Cassils—suspended from a harness in a Plexiglas box with walls covered in thick, raw clay—launched themselves back and forth, clawing, swinging at the walls, and hurling chunks of clay to the floor. The event was unlike anything to be presented at the Gardiner before, drawing in new audiences and generating media coverage in The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, and Xtra. CASSILS ON UP TO AND PLAY VIDEO INCLUDING THEIR LIMITS 7 RAW The remnants of Cassils’ performance, including video footage, were on display in the ground- breaking exhibition RAW, which opened to the public on March 5. Co-presented by Kim Spencer McPhee
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