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 options are some examples of what community members said they would like to see.
If you have new or gently used art and craft supplies you no longer need, Artspace is accepting donations of the following materials and supplies:
- Magazines (for collage)
- Art and/or craft books, patterns, magazines, etc.
- Glue guns, glue gun sticks, and glue
- Markers, drawing pencils, watercolour pencils, pencil crayons, crayons, and pastels
- New or gently used paintbrushes and paint (acrylic, watercolour, gouache, etc.)
- New or unused paper pads, sketchbooks, and canvases
- Scissors and rulers
- Fabric and yarn
- Knitting supplies (needles, crochet needles, stitch markers, knitting looms, cable needles, etc.)
- Embroidery hoops and thread
- Bins
You can email Ackert at programming@artspaceptbo.ca to arrange for a drop-off or a pick-up (Artspace is offering pick-ups every Monday morning during October). All donated supplies will be used in Artspace programs and offered for free community use.
Over the next couple of months, Ackert and Artspace interim director Leslie Menagh will be preparing the maker space, including building furniture, painting walls, installing equipment, and planning the 2023 maker space workshop series.
For updates on the Artspace maker space, visit artspaceptbo.ca/maker-space.
