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Education Policy:
The objective of education programs at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery is to offer the visiting public a rewarding and meaningful experience of the silica arts. Through various initiatives we:
- demonstrate physical and intellectual care of silica-based artifacts through collection, conservation, presentation and interpretation.
- explore the historical and cultural resonance of the silica arts, their traditions and innovations.
- increase familiarity with the terms of processes, materials and forms related to silica-based arts, expanding the visitor's interpretive facility and visual acuity.
- increase understanding through studio-based programming and direct hands-on experience when feasible.
- promote expression, both individual and collective, through the exploration of visual ideas, endorsing the power of artifacts to contain and communicate complex, non-verbal ideas.
- foster dialogue and debate as caring contexts for the art objects and their creators.
- recognize and embrace diversity in both creative origin and audience constituencies.
- develop new audiences.
- provide leadership through excellence and innovation in education research, programming, publication, teacher and docent training, outreach, and museum studies.
We achieve our educational purposes through program activities such as exhibition interpretation, publications, guided tours, courses, workshops, lectures, demonstrations, symposia, conferences, etc. As a public institution, we uphold the principle of equity in access.
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