If you didn’t explore the painted paddle exhibit in downtown Peterborough during March, you’ll have one last chance to see it during the First Friday Peterborough art crawl on April 1.
The collection of 34 hand-painted paddles, which were on display in store windows across the downtown as part of a month-long interactive self-guided art tour and online auction, will be exhibited from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the Jason Wilkins Factory (7-188 Hunter St. W.) in downtown Peterborough.
The paddles were contributed by individual artists and organizations including Beth LeBlonc, Jason Wilkins, Miguel Hernandez Autorino, Kelly Albin, Rachel Dyck, Kate Irwin, Brianna Gosselin, Trent Gzowski College, Princess Gardens Retirement Residence, Empress Gardens Retirement Residence, and more.
The online auction for the paddles raised $6,000 to support the Downtown Green Team, a partnership between the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area (DBIA) and the One City Employment Program for a horticultural maintenance crew in the downtown comprising people who experience barriers to traditional employment.
Auction winners can pick up their paddles from the Jason Wilkins Factory between 8 and 10 p.m. after the public exhibit ends.
Along with the painted paddle exhibit, the Jason Wilkins Factory will also be hosting a group show on First Friday featuring the work of 15 artists of the Peterborough Arts Collective.
Other exhibits on display during First Friday Peterborough, with most running from 6 to 10 p.m., include:
- Paintings by Poor Margo at ACME Art and Sailboat Company (129-1/2 Hunter St. W., 3rd floor) with new copper tree drawings by Joe Stable in The Copper Closet.
- José Andrés Mora: The Mornings in Reverse at Artspace (378 Aylmer St) from 3 to 8 p.m. Note: masks are required.
- Hannah Spinney: Solicitude at Atelier Ludmila (129-1/2 Hunter St., #1)
- SPARK Photo Festival: Loretta Meyer Photography at Black Honey(221 Hunter St. W.) from 5 to 8 p.m.
- Flowers in the Attic at Blue Frogs Legs Studio (393 Water Street, 3rd floor, Studio 7).
- SPARK Photo Festival: Rose Katarina Fortin’s “Nostalgia: Memories of an Earthen Existence” at Dreams of Beans Café (138 Hunter St. W.) until 8 p.m.
- Film Photography by Alex Pendergast at Francey Studio (129-1/2 Hunter St. W., 2nd floor, #3).
- Big Yellow Taxi, a collaboration between photographer Heather Doughty and dancer Madison Sheward, at Heather Doughty Photography (129-1/2 Hunter St. W., #4).
- Poetry and art journal at Paddler Press (129-1/2 Hunter St. W.).
