Art, community, learning, and shopping all come together at Peel Gallery in Carrboro.

So you can explore the exhibits and shop for handcrafted gifts during the day or attend a workshop and listen to live music at night.

Let's see how a group of women are shining a light on underrepresented artists.

- There's something for everyone in here and that was the point.

The Peel Gallery is a photo lab gallery, an event space.

We host workshops and lectures and collage nights.

We have a monthly collage night.

And we're also a full service digital photography lab.

My name is Lindsay Metivier.

I own Peel Gallery and Photo Lab in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Our goal is to show work by emerging and underrepresented artists.

There's a kind of a hurdle in the art world where you, to be able to show your work, you need to show that you've shown your work.

Being accessible and approachable is a goal of mine.

- Lindsay, really, I feel like inspires people to feel confident about their work.

Well, she opened the door for me to show in a sort of way that I feel comfortable.

My name is Soleil Konkel.

I'm a photographer and artist.

I make these photo collages, and then I kind of mixed it with sort of older photos that I've taken throughout the years.

They're part of a larger series that I'm working on.

Lindsay helped me to get it out in the world, which I honestly don't think I would if it wasn't for Peel Gallery.

Plus, she printed my stuff for me, and the printing here is absolutely fabulous.

- We do printing and scanning, a lot of digitizing of artworks for artists, and a lot of the artists that we show here use our lab to make their work.

If people want to use the space, I will show them how to use every piece of equipment in here.

We'll do an orientation, and then people can come and use the lab whenever they want to.

We have a wide offering of literally every kind of medium.

And if you were coming in here looking for something for somebody, you'll find it.

We have framed artworks on the wall, but we also have stacks of flat files that have prints that artists have made, and bins, so you can flip through them like you would records at a record store.

- I bring art here.

I have a file of of screen printing and other kinds of printmaking.

I'm Bob Goldstein.

I'm a scientist and an artist.

I teach at UNC Chapel Hill, both in the biology department the art department.

Science sort of creeps into the art both in the processes I use and in the topics I choose.

I've been doing a lot of work of the paths that birds create when flying across the sky.

- In addition to the art on the walls, we also offer a wide selection of other kinds of art.

We've got ceramics and earrings, key chains, lots of art books, comics and zines, and hair clips, stationary magnets.

We do get new things in every week, and the artists who have work on consignment here change things out every 90 days or so.

So you'll see some of the newer work they're making.

December's our fourth birthday.

Every December we have a community group show, and the theme is peel.

It's a great party and a really good representation of work that's happening throughout the Triangle.

If you look around the space, you'll see dried orange peels everywhere, and we have a peel mailbox out front for people to put their orange peels while they're walking around Carrboro.

And it just was a coincidence that we exist in Orange County.

People love Peel.

We didn't realize really how much there was a need for a space like this until we opened and got flooded with emails.

There's so many artists and so much art in the community that we have already outgrown the space.

- There would be a lot of artists working alone in their homes or studios who wouldn't know each other if not for a place like this.

Just about every time I walk in here I meet someone new through Lindsay who does something really interesting and creative.

Lindsay's a hero to me for gathering community here.

- Peel Gallery and Photo Lab is at 708 West Rosemary Street in Carrboro, and they're open Wednesday through Sunday.

For more information, visit their website at peel.gallery.