The fifteen Kinship Photography Collective artists featured in this pop-up exhibition, alongside twenty-six community collaborators, were asked to consider the question: “In what ways is William Bartram’s life, art, writings or philosophy relevant to your creative practice or process?” Each artist was encouraged to go wherever their inquiry took them. Bartram himself might say their encounters were “infinitely varied and without bound.” These installations are best viewed not as answers but as emerging maps of inquiry that offer an interior look into how contemporary artists are encountering Bartram.

Kinship community member Rita Kovtun is hosting another community photo walk for photographers in and around Asheville, NC on Wednesday, May 22 at 5pm - around 7pm at the Asheville Botanical Gardens. All photographers welcome! Rita is asking participants to RSVP via the below linked Facebook event or to contact her directly.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1581748282610399/

For more information, read the original Circle Post: https://kinship-photo.circle.so/c/announcements-opportunities/community-photo-walk

This event is free and open to all, but your donations are welcome.

This week on Lenscratch, Beate Sass and Ruth Steinberg will be sharing a collaboration with Lenscratch that focuses on aging. Both Beate and Ruth have their own featured projects that will be shared as well as three additional photographers, including Kinship member Sarah Barker, from the US, Canada, and Australia that will be presenting work throughout the week.

Deep Ruts, a triple entendre alluding to the deep roots of religion, a deer in rut, the ruts of the mind in which our ways of thinking and values carve into our daily lives, is a collection of photographs from Queer Appalachian photographer Julie Rae Powers who uses still images to represent their feeling of outsider status within their family and their own culture. A combination of portraits and landscapes set an isolating, longing stage using Appalachian iconography and self portraits to queer the standard notion of what being Appalachian is.

Estimated shipping date is March/April 2024. Pre-orders help support the printing of the book.

Issue #6 of Point A to B includes artists Morganna Magee, who was a featured Kinship artist, Susan Patrice, who is a co-founder of Kinship, Nettie Edwards, Judyta Grudzien, and Brent Mathison.

In Conversation features the work of Leah Frances (US/CAN) and Octavia Sharp (US), whose color images of retro architecture - diners and funeral homes, respectively - address deeper societal issues such as the political divide and the disappearance of family-run businesses.

Obtain a copy of Point A to B on their website.

The inaugural art exhibition - VIRAL INTEGRATION - in the new Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences Building, on UCI's campus (856 Health Sciences Road) - is on view now until December, 2024. There will be an opening reception February 1, 6-8pm, in the 3rd floor lobby. elin o’Hara slavick curated this show of over 40 artists from across the U.S. and Canada. The show addresses a wide variety of health - from AIDS, COVID, mental health and surgery to cancer, birth, midwifery and medicine.

Kinship member Frances Bukovsky is included in this exhibition.

Common Ground is an annual publication by Borderline Press dedicated to featuring female and non-binary artists in all career stages. Issue 02 was co-curated by Melissa Grace Kreider. Kinship members Morgain Bailey and Frances Bukovsky were selected as a part of this issue. Orders are available through Borderline Press’ website.

Join for a community photo walk this Sunday, 2:30-4:30ish, at Riverside Cemetery in Asheville. We will gather to take photos of each other and our surroundings. A photo walk is a great way to build community, make new friends, and create together, and the cemetery is a beautiful place to take a stroll and make photos. Feel free to wear something fun that you want to be photographed in. Folks of all skill levels welcome!

April McNiff’s solo exhibition, “Capturing Nature’s Essence: A Tribute to Native Flora in Western NC,” will have an opening on November 16th, 5-6pm, at the Macon County Public Library.

On Tuesday, October 24th at 7pm EDT, join Juno Rosenhaus for the launch of the Sinister Wisdom 2024 Calendar "Radical Creativity". Juno has contributed one of her images from the NYC Dyke March to the calendar and will be talking about her work at this event.

Launching our new Call for Celebration! Read news from Jackie Neale and Chel Delaney, a show at Duke University recommended by Morgain Bailey, and a project from Glenn DeRosa.