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SPARK Photo Festival 2022
2022-04-01 - 2022-04-30
SPARK Photo Festival is a month-long celebration of photography and the artists, dreamers, innovators, storytellers, professionals and enthusiasts behind the camera lens.
The 2022 Festival brings 26 new exhibits in 22 venues and the art of more than 100 photographers to the City of Peterborough, Peterborough County, Lindsay and Fenelon Falls. Photography exhibits are installed in public venues, and are all free to visit.
The exhibits feature different photography styles and subjects , captured by students, amateurs, hobbyists and professionals – some exhibiting for the very first time with others as seasoned professionals who have exhibited in every Festival since 2013.
Visit individual exhibits, group and community organization exhibits and the SPARK exhibits. The SPARK Showcase: Peterborough Then & Now is a collection historical images from around Peterborough County from our museum partners matched with current captures of those very same locations by local photographers. The Monochrome Themed Juried Exhibit features the Top 25 monochrome images as selected by our professional jury from the submissions from photographers across Ontario.
Whether it’s in a shop, library, office window or a restaurant, the SPARK photography exhibits are brightening up Peterborough and the Kawarthas for the month of April.

Ghost Seamstress | Michèle Karch-Ackerman
2022-04-14 11:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Art Gallery of Peterborough, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2G1, Canada
The act of making garments by hand, one by one, each time with a wearer in mind, is an act of devotion. When the intended is no longer living, this may seem an impractical gift. What it does, is hold space for their imagined lives, a place in which to put the energies of grief and hope. Each stitch is a reverential gesture; an offering; a product of care. The threads of Ghost Seamstress wind through histories, literature, domesticity, nostalgia, and labour to consider the lives of women and girls.
Michèle Karch-Ackerman is a nationally recognized contemporary artist whose installations are known for inspiring viewers with their provocative and touching subject matter. For over thirty years her artistic practice has involved the devotional act of sewing clothing. Karch-Ackerman is an installation artist drawn to domestic, traditionally feminine, work: embroidery, needlepoint, knitting, dress and doll-making. Her work considers the dead, the forgotten, and the hurting.
