Chris Campbell on wed 24 mar 99
Hi all -
I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of contemporary
pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
transit line.
Thank you all !
Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the good
food capital of the world
Percy Skuy on fri 26 mar 99
Chris Campbell wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi all -
>
> I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
> two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
> ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of contemporary
> pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
> to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
> transit line.
>
> Thank you all !
>
> Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the good
> food capital of the world
You are probably talking about the Gardiner Museum which is directly across the
road from the Royal Ontario Museum. Worth a visit. It's a Museum for Ceramics.
Elsa in Toronto--which maybe spring will arrive in the next few days....!
Gavin Stairs on fri 26 mar 99
At 04:45 PM 24/03/99 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi all -
>
>I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
>two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
>ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of
contemporary
>pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
>to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
>transit line.
>
>Thank you all !
>
>Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the good
>food capital of the world
Yup, it is on the TTC subway, just opposite the ROM. It's the The Gardiner
Museum of Ceramic Art. I don't think they have a web site, but there are
numerous citations that you can find on other sites. Search for it (full
name) in Yahoo or Lycos, and get a list. There's a local area map at
ion.html>.
Royal Ontario Museum. Anthopology, archaeology,
history, eclectic. Pottery.
Art Gallery of Ontario. A large, comprehensive art
museum, some three dimensional, not much ceramics. Good collection of
canadian art, though.
Slate. The Toronto/Ontario gallery
listing magazine.
There are numerous commercial galleries which carry pottery, some good,
some bad.
Gavin
linda rosen on fri 26 mar 99
Chris ,
You probably are thinking of the Gardiner Museum which is located directly
across the street from the ROM. You will also find the shop of the Ontario
Crafts Council in the same neighborhood.. just a block or two north at 118
Cumberland . It is called the Guildshop. Contact Fusion the Ontario Assoc.
of Clay and Glass too and they can update on ceramic event that may be on
during your visit. Welcome.
Linda
-----Original Message-----
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Chris Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 4:46 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Trip to Hamilton & Toronto
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Hi all -
I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of
contemporary
pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
transit line.
Thank you all !
Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the
good
food capital of the world
Liz Willoughby on sat 27 mar 99
Hello Chris,
Right across from the ROM is the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. It's a
small museum with a collection of South American Pottery, and fine
Porcelain Pottery, British, French, and German. There is a shop with
contemporary pottery, and they have gallery shows of contemporary pottery
in the foyer. Don't know what is on now. But definitely worth a visit.
Prime Gallery close to the Ontario Art Gallery is a must. Some of the best
contemporary ceramic artists are there. The Ont.Art Gallery also has a
shop where there is a lot of contemporary pottery.
The Guild Shop in the Yorkville area on Cumberland is also a must.
Harbourfront by Lake Ontario. They have a shop, and working craft studios.
Clay Design on Harbord, small, but a very good selection of contemporary
pottery.
You can get to all of these by the Toronto Transit System.
Have a good trip.
Liz
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi all -
>
>I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
>two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
>ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of contemporary
>pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
>to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
>transit line.
>
>Thank you all !
>
>Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the good
>food capital of the world
Liz Willoughby
R.R.# 1
2903 Shelter Valley Rd.
Grafton, Ontario
Canada
e-mail, lizwill@phc.igs.net
Gail Pasternack & Marty Cugelman on sun 28 mar 99
Hi Chris,
You mentioned that you will be visiting the Toronto area soon but you didn't giv
an exact date. If you happen to be in Toronto over the next week, you should
definitely visit the One-of-a-Kind Show--March 31- April 4th. There are probabl
over 500 craftspeople with about 50 potters. The show is one of the best shows
Canada. If you need more information about this show and perhaps a free ticket
get in, please e-mail me directly.
Gail Pasternack
Ballantrae, Ontario
Chris Campbell wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi all -
>
> I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
> two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
> ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of contemporary
> pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
> to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
> transit line.
>
> Thank you all !
>
> Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the good
> food capital of the world
Evan Dresel on fri 2 apr 99
This question got me thinking in all sorts of tangential ways. I wasn't
going to reply because the Gardiner has already been mentioned and my
museum suggestion meets *none* of your criteria.
Last fall I went to a conference in Toronto, where I had lived very
briefly in a different geological era (professionally speaking). Saved
the company money by staying over Saturday night so I had the weekend to
myself. I have a faded catalogue from the McMichael Collection and
decided that it was worth a visit. Thus began a marathon to rival
getting to the Getty museum in LA during the Christmas week a month
after it opened.
Took the subway to the 2nd last stop west. That was the southern
terminus for a bus heading north which I took to the northern end of the
line. No bus further on weekends so wimping out on past trips
hitchhiking and bicycling in & out of TO I took a taxi. $16 later I
arrived at one of the great places in the world to see art. Small
intimate, like its Group of Seven "oil sketches" which are the
archetypical Canadian Art (Learned that was exactly what they set out to
define). I was reminded a bit of the Kroller-Muller museum in Holland
which has some of the finest Van Goghs & much more located in the middle
of a national park.
Ok maybe it was the expat in me getting teary eyed, or the beautiful
autumn day, or just the lack of nourishment (they could use a better
cafe), but I was blown away. Frustrated only by the knowledge that only
a miniscule part of their Inuit collection was on display. The special
exhibit on the canoe in Canadian art was as serious as it was humorous.
The moral:
Don't forget that there's more to art (and craft) than pots.
Art is worth the effort, whether you are creating or receiving it.
Art knows no boundaries but there are national treasures.
That being said, if you want to stay in town but want to branch out from
pots, try the Thompson Gallery, found, of all places, on the top floor
of Hudsons Bay Company store, just south of the Eaton Centre. Finding
the right escalator to take you up is sufficient challenge to make you
feel worthy.
-- Evan in West Richland WA who sees the geese and ducks flying mainly
west, a couple of white blobs in the distance on the Columbia River
which had to be pelicans (apparently at least some do winter over) and 3
mule deer who looked rather content in their nuke-preserve.
Chris Campbell wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi all -
>
> I will soon be visiting relatives in Southern Ontario and have given myself
> two days on my own to see pots and more pots. I am taking a full day at the
> ROM in Toronto but I heard there was another museum with a lot of contemporary
> pottery. Is this correct and if so where is it? Also, where else should I go
> to see mud and such??? I will not be renting a car so please make it on a
> transit line.
>
> Thank you all !
>
> Chris - in Carolina - who is already planning her first ten meals in the good
> food capital of the world
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