CSDA Exclusive Members Tour: The Gardiner Transformed

CSDA/CCAD In-Person Special Event:

CSDA EXCLUSIVE MEMBERS TOUR: THE GARDINER TRANSFORMED with Sequoia Miller

DESCRIPTION

This tour will introduce visitors the Gardiner's transformed ground floor, focusing on the newly conceived and installed collection galleries. Chief Curator and Deputy Director Dr. Sequoia Miller will highlight the themes, goals, and new approaches taken across the four collection galleries: Indigenous Immemorial, ceramics from the Great Lakes Region; Modern & Contemporary; Connected Worlds, tin-glazed earthenware 1400-1700; and Ancestral Abiayala, ceramics from Indigenous Latin America. The tour will also include the ground-floor temporary exhibition Femme Fatale: The Art of Jeannot Blackburn, as well as open collection vitrines and community spaces.

BIOGRAPHY:

Sequoia Miller is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. He holds a PhD in the History of Art from Yale University; an MA in Design History from the Bard Graduate Center; and a BA in Cultural Studies from Brandeis University. Recent curatorial projects include Linda Rotua Sormin: Uncertain Ground and Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects. He has published widely on ceramics, including Ceramic Art (Princeton University Press, 2023). Prior to hisacademic and curatorial work, Sequoia was a full time studio potter.

Images: (1)Installation view, credit Toni Hafkenscheid.

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Host or Publisher Canadian Society of Decorative Arts/Cercle canadien des arts décoratifs