Milestones & New Beginnings is a group exhibition, marking the Peake Street Collective’s 20th anniversary and This Town Is Small’s first year in its dedicated exhibition space. Artists were challenged to explore and interpret the theme “Milestones and New Beginnings” in ways that resonate with their lived experiences, evolving artistic practices as members of Peake Street Collective, or through broader interpretations. The exhibition also celebrates several memorable submissions from the collective’s two-decade-long run, including twenty-four group exhibitions and artist challenges.

Collective/Collection: Twenty Years of Peake Street is an installation of archival documents celebrating Peake Street’s twenty year history presented by Donnalee Downe. In the winter of 2005, 10 artists exhibited in a former garage space attached to the Charlottetown home of Donnalee Downe (founder and current project coordinator of Peake Street Collective). Since that time, the Collective has grown to more than two hundred members. Peake Street Collective now operates under the umbrella of This Town Is Small, with a focus on low-barrier exhibition opportunities, community programming, one-on-one mentorships and instructive workshops for new artists and first-time exhibitors. This timeline of Peake Street’s history is mounted alongside Peake Street’s latest group exhibition, Milestones & New Beginnings.