Artspace Peterborough has launched an art and craft supply drive in October for its new maker space, scheduled to open early next year.
Funded through an Ontario Trillium Foundation Resilient Communities grant, the maker space will expand Artspace’s existing media lab into a welcoming and comfortable place where community members can access a broad range of equipment, tools, and materials for art-making and creative exploration.
Since becoming Artspace’s maker space coordinator in July, Jillian Ackert has been consulting with community members about what they want and need in a maker space. Art supplies, workshops, a zine library, and accessible lighting…